Paradise, the new album from identical twin psych-jazz duo Mattson 2, drops June 7, with three mildly surfy singles so far preceding the release; “Essence,” “Naima’s Dream,” and “Wavelength.” The video for “Essence” is a …
May 30, 2019
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Psych-jazz duo Mattson 2 drops new album Paradise June 7
Camille Vidal-Naquet’s Sauvage: Not just a gigolo?
What’s the old saw about war? That it’s long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror? Tweaked a little, the line serves pretty well as a description of writer-director Camille Vidal-Naquet’s Sauvage, the …
May 30, 2019
Hocus frontman Lando Martinez: a self-described “Mexican from Texas”
Celebrating their tenth year, Hocus is fronted by Lando Martinez (aka Fat Lando), a self-described “Mexican from Texas” who retired from the U.S. Navy in 2008 after serving 20 years. Their debut album Better Than …
May 30, 2019
DJ Roob’s Not So Serious Radio calls it quits?
Rob Blackwell discovered KEXP about twenty years ago. He was visiting a friend in Seattle and was blown away by the radio station they were listening to in his car. When he returned home, he …
May 30, 2019
Duncan Hunter aide junkets free on U.N. Foundation tab
The theme of the day at House member Duncan Hunter's Ramona town hall meeting Sunday was supposed to be "The Border, Then and Now," though the indicted ex-Marine GOP congressman's off-topic discussion of his selfie …
May 30, 2019
San Diego Symphony's Rachmaninoff: the heavens opened
The San Diego Symphony concluded its Jacobs Masterworks Series with a weekend of Rachmaninoff and Beethoven. I attended the Saturday, May 25 concert. This was the third time I’d heard the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. …
May 29, 2019
There’s no subsitute for good writing in Cygnet Theatre’s version of Jane Austin’s Pride & Prejudice
Jane Austen published Pride & Prejudice in 1813, and two centuries hence, its story of sisters seeking eligible husbands in the genteel English countryside has been retold ad nauseum. Many plays, movies, and television series …
May 29, 2019
Wounded Warrior Wolfpack whizz
It seems like a set-piece charity event. Wounded veterans playing wheelchair basketball against a team of Coronado City employees, and another crew from Loews’ Coronado Hotel staff. The mayor has turned up, the ex-mayor has …
May 29, 2019
SDSU's Campanile Foundation dinged by auditors
Campanile delinquents Money-handling by San Diego State University’s non-profit Campanile Foundation, which features a glittering array of local movers and shakers on its board, has once again run afoul of auditors for the California State …
May 29, 2019
San Diego cool coworking spots – do they work?
“Being in our little silos of sole proprietorships is very isolating,” Stacy Keck (left) says. “We both felt drawn to having a place where we could openly share without being competitive and proprietary.”Photograph by Matthew …
May 29, 2019
UCSD Extension starts income share agreements with web design, digital marketing
Aside from home mortgages, student loans are the most pervasive form of debt in the United States today, surpassing even credit card and auto loan borrowing. In 2018, roughly 44 million borrowers collectively owed more …
May 29, 2019
Lisa was not with the Xterminators
Rocker recall Hello this is D. T. Black of the Xterminators. I’m calling in regards to a column called Live Five by Jay Allen Sanford. It was in your May 16 issue on the Dinettes. …
May 29, 2019
Jonathan Antonio Martínez Machain’s full-on didgeridoo
You can hear him long before you see him, the low honking sounds, a block away. This is Sunday night, Avenida Revolución, TJ, crowded. Jonathan Antonio Martínez Machain sits cross-legged on the sidewalk with a …
May 29, 2019
Enthusiastically endorsing Drumstick ice cream breakfast cereal
Dear Hipster: I get how things normally work. Hipsters are into hipster stuff before it’s cool, then, after the hipster stuff attains mainstream popularity, hipsters are “over it” because it’s too mainstream. That’s old news …
May 29, 2019
Enjoy lunch at Agua Caliente Creek on the Pacific Crest Trail
The Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) is a well-traveled 2,650-mile trail from the Mexican border to the Canadian border. Along this trail are many day-hike or overnight backpacking possibilities. Here in San Diego County, we have …
May 29, 2019