If a show is only as good as its villain, then Amadeus is a great show. The title might refer to Mozart, but the show opens and closes with Salieri, the villain. The play, by …
September 19, 2019
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Amadeus: The victor is Mozart’s music
Jim Carroll: the American Arthur Rimbaud
Love Story The penalty for desertion is death by a firing squad. I’m saving you this trouble enclosed is a pistol. loaded with only one bullet. squeeze the trigger once. perhaps nothing will happen. but …
September 19, 2019
Blue Jay Lodge: right out of Davy Crockett!
These places! They all look right out of Davy Crockett! Where we’re heading is this 1919 lodge 6000 feet up on Mount Laguna, 100 years old this year, actually serving nosh and hauling grog up …
September 19, 2019
The Barbra Streisand of rock
It can be hard to take Lenny Kravitz seriously. It didn’t help that, straight out of the gate, the first thing most of us heard about him in the late ‘80s (when he was still …
September 19, 2019
The Sound of Silence “muted” by Peter Sarsgaard’s strained expression
Director and co-writer Michael Tyburski’s The Sound of Silence is, fittingly enough, a quiet film. In telling the story of a room tuner — a man who solves his clients’ problems by identifying dissonant sounds …
September 19, 2019
Titus Andronicus enlist Hüsker Dü’s Bob Mould as producer of An Obelisk
Titus Andronicus is in the midst of a 63-date North American tour that has brought the band to cities that don’t often fall in the path of traveling rock acts. Besides the usual stops such …
September 19, 2019
Mr. Oro’s and Zebra Knight’s rap battle collaboration
Mr. Oro sells his El Sacrificio De Oro CDs and Oro Wear brand clothing to Americans at the Tijuana/San Ysidro Port of Entry as they return to the U.S. “Here in Tijuana it’s a lot …
September 19, 2019
Starting R and B soul group singing the Dramatics and Temptations songs
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September 18, 2019
Doug Manchester 's PR disaster tour
Former Union-Tribune owner Douglas Manchester, his appointment by Republican President Donald Trump to be ambassador to the Bahamas stalled for over two years in a GOP Senate, has been promoting his charitable good work on …
September 18, 2019
Psychologist Pat Deasy Spinetta saves Mount Laguna from wildfires
“What was that?” says my friend Mary. She’s looking up. A golden bird with huge wings cruises over us. It finally settles in a Jeffrey Pine tree down in the gully. “Chicken Hawk? Red Tail?” …
September 18, 2019
Foxfire: Appalachian lore
The title, Foxfire, refers to a project started in 1966 by an English teacher in Appalachia who encouraged his students to hone their writing skills by documenting their family histories and Appalachian lore. They christened …
September 18, 2019
Still no replacement for San Diego auditor Eduardo Luna
The auditors are still out San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconer, a veteran of the public relations business, put a few good ones over on out-of-town media members covering the California Republican Party’s annual convention in …
September 18, 2019
Adams Avenue gone funky
I had intended to arrive at Rosie O’ Grady’s well before the music started. Like most of life’s good intentions, that plan was thwarted by a personal inertia more powerful than wishful thinking. As I …
September 18, 2019
Who are the drag queens at Chula Vista library?
On September 10, Francisco Soto and Xaime Aceves Equihua (stage names “Barbie-Q” and “Raquelita”) presented Drag Queen Story Time to a reported 300 adults and children at the Civic Center Chula Vista Public Library on …
September 18, 2019
Captain Pete Bethune: transforming an ex-Navy WW2 tugboat
Getting aboard is an act of recklessness in itself. The bouncy gangplank is not attached to anything. You edge your way over like a tightrope walker. Men and women crisscross with paint brushes, drills, mysterious …
September 18, 2019