For his third outing as a director, Ralph Fiennes gives the title, star billing, and great majority of screen time to Oleg Ivenko in his turn as famed Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev, who also …
May 2, 2019
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The White Crow: Art is a wart
Sandi King and Joshua Taylor tie the knot with King Taylor Project
“King Taylor Project is soul, funk, blues, and jazz,” says singer-percussionist Sandi King. “We improvise and have a blast playing off of each other and like to incorporate everyone’s musical style into the band and …
May 2, 2019
New records by Neurotic Mirage, Missy Alcazar, Secret Fun Club, Tori Roze & the Hot Mess, Robin Henkel, The High Gallery, and Jacob Turnbloom
Rancho Peñasquitos punk metalheads Neurotic Mirage will premier Psycho Carnival at Navajo Live on May 5. “We're going to be performing the new album in its entirety,” says singer-guitarist Nathan Mansi. “Most of the songs …
May 2, 2019
Pharlee melds Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and others for their brand of psychedelic speed rock
You summon that heavy-metal-but-high-ballin’ sound of Deep Purple circa Machine Head, cover it with sweet thick-fug mysterioso, swell up the organ, and top off with a commanding female wailing through astral planes and supreme beings …
May 2, 2019
Instagram cat influencer or guest spot on Ellen as a parrot who can sing renditions of Beyoncé songs in Spanglish?
Hey Hipster: Would it be better to get reincarnated as a cat who’s famous on Instagram or a parrot who gets to be on Ellen (but only for one day) because it learns how to …
May 1, 2019
Sweat: There are no successful victims
Sweat is a great example of a play written for people who go to the theater but about people who would never go to the theater. In other words, this is a “blue-state” playwright writing …
May 1, 2019
Melissa and Jon Block welcome you to the first Tiny House village in San Diego
Right next to the harpists’ colony, you spot an odd sight. At first, among the trees, it looks like an RV park. But then you realize: there’s no RV in here. It’s all houses. Lilliputian …
May 1, 2019
A lot of speechifying in Lynn Nottage’s Sweat
This should have been a good story. Writer Lynn Nottage went to Reading, Pennsylvania — one of the poorest cities in the country — to talk to people about the effects of de-industrialization on the …
May 1, 2019
San Diego political ethics fines down in 2018, but why?
Black box for corruption Political ethics are improving at San Diego’s city hall — if last year’s drastic drop in financial penalties meted out by the city ethics commission is an accurate gauge. There could …
May 1, 2019
Some bad news for the Vista Home Boys
San Diego County law enforcement invaded the apartment of known gangster Jose Antonio Sorto, Jr. in April of 2018. They believed that the man, better known as Stomps, controlled most of the meth flowing into …
May 1, 2019
Why so many pedestrian accidents in San Diego?
A week doesn’t go by without news of a hit-and-run or a near miss caused by a speeding driver. Residents on the Mount Streets in Clairemont have reported parked cars in front of homes getting …
May 1, 2019
Phyllis and Robbie Robinson’s harp heaven
I’m halfway up Mount Laguna, walking off the Sunrise Highway into a little house on the edge of the forest. Through the gate, up redwood steps, through another gate. An elderly lady appears at the …
May 1, 2019
Why the Uber-Lyft confusion at airport
Spotty holiday FYI, The staff of [San Diego County Regional Airport Authority] were off in honor of Cesar Chavez holiday thus reason nobody answered the phone (“Message at airport on Uber-Lyft staging area a joke?” …
May 1, 2019
Monica’s black bangs and bell sleeves ensemble from Forever 21, Aldo, Topshop and Target
Edgy in East VillagePhotograph by Veronica GarciaOne sunny Friday morning on the way to work, I decided to stop and get an iced latte from one of my favorite coffee shops, Copa Vida in East …
May 1, 2019
Dredging large dirt parking lot opened up the tidal flow for San Dieguito Lagoon
San Dieguito Lagoon is the largest of San Diego County’s six lagoons and is part of the 92,000-acre San Dieguito River Park. The park contains the Coast to Crest Trail, which will eventually run from …
May 1, 2019