Eleanor Widmer and the Reader
Willie Shoemaker, Carl Rogers, John Vietor, Michael Copley, Tropic of Cancer
Eleanor Widmer 8:30 a.m., March 23
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If Lana Del Rey had been born a guy
Young Jesus, Connan Mockasin, CJ Ramone, Carlos Rivera
L.A.-based art rock quartet Young Jesus (not to be confused with the Logic song by that name) sounds kind of like if Lana Del Rey had been born a guy (which some online commentators who ...
Technicolor western Chaps! features tunes by Sons of the Pioneers and Will Rogers
British accents delivered in a cowboy twang. Hilarious.
Playing at Lamb’s Player’s Theatre until April 20, the musical comedy Chaps! mines most of its humor from a goofy, fish-out-of-water premise. Specifically, an American troupe of singing cowboys has failed to show up for ...
Hot Club of Cowtown, Scholars’ Symposium, Walk among the butterflies, 1000 singing voices of San Diego, Jake’s Women
Events March 21-March 27, 2019
Thursday | 21 Dustbowl revival and Hot Club of Cowtown Former San Diegans Elana Fremerman and Whit Smith return to town with their famed country swing-hot jazz trio, Hot Club of Cowtown, which just released ...
Denk Mountain: Carlsbad’s highest mountain for hikers and bikers
The name honors the Denk family, who once owned much of the land that is now the Rancho La Costa Preserve
Denk Mountain is the unofficial name of the highest point in the City of Carlsbad. It may be a little presumptuous to call it a mountain, but at 1041 feet of elevation, it is high ...
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society and Gabriel struggle against Nazi reductionism
A story about WWII: the good, the bad, and the weak
Over the last several weeks I’ve read a novel, watched a film, and attended a play all set in WWII — specifically, the Nazi occupation of Guernsey and Normandy. Given that Schindler’s List and Life ...
Aerosmithian rock balladry
Deaf Havana, Jamila Woods, Aly & AJ, Smashing Pumpkins
It sometimes seems as if British alt-rockers Deaf Havana are embarrassed by the top-five chart success of their biggest release, 2017’s All These Countless Nights. Formed in 2005, their fifth album from last year, Rituals, ...
Charles and Diana: the difference between Mstislav Rostropovich and Duran Duran
Like speed reading a tabloid
Editor: This week marks Jeff Smith’s last as the Reader’s theater critic. Smith is the longest-standing writer at the paper, having started in 1980. Before joining us, he got his Ph.D. in literature and critical ...
Bono and the Edge Waiting for Godomino’s, Yuseff Cherney, Holi Festival, Mission Hills in roaring 20s, Il Divo
Events March 14-March 20, 2019
Friday | 15 Bono and the Edge Waiting for Godomino’s Addicted to celebrity culture, two self-imposed elitists have holed up in a castle, wanting to simplify their lives and achieve pure art. They have long ...
Hike to the Audubon Nature Center and Buena Vista Lagoon in Carlsbad
This freshwater lagoon is a great place to observe a variety of birds.
In 1969, the Buena Vista Lagoon was set aside as California’s first ecological reserve. It continues to be a refuge for birds and other wildlife and can be a great place to observe migrating waterfowl, ...
Effortless proficiency on Dobro, mandolin, acoustic bass, piano, sax, and even the clarinet and bassoon
John Jorgenson, Damned Things, Supersuckers, Citizen
John Jorgenson is one of the first and few guitarists since the late Dick Dale or Stanley Jordan to so quickly establish an instantly recognizable signature sound. His playing can easily be picked out from ...
Listen to The Witch
A person who is dangerous and aggressive but chooses to temper her aggression is a moral person
I’d never seen Into The Woods live, so I took a chance and went up to Torrey Pines to see Steven Sondheim’s fractured fairytale. The production was impressive but more importantly, the emotional content of ...
Meandering must-see
“One almost wants to believe Von Pfunz is the ultimate oxymoron: a nice Nazi.”
Did the angel Gabriel flutter down from heaven to save Guernsey islanders from German occupation in 1943? Or did another Gabriel wash ashore, naked, from a shipwreck? He doesn’t know. He has amnesia, and Gabriel ...
Everybody Black, Rocket Con, San Diego Music Awards, San Diego in World War II, Hear the latest fish studies
Events March 7-March 13, 2019
Friday | 8 Everybody Black Rich, white historians want a definitive statement on the Black Experience. And they won’t just publish it; they’ll stuff it in a time capsule and shoot it into space, so ...
Coyote Canyon and Rockhouse Canyon, once home to Coyote people, traveled to the territory of cat people to find marriage partners
Discover a hidden playa filled with landslide alluvium
Coyote Mountain is sandwiched between the Coyote Creek fault and the Coyote Mountain/Clark Lake fault within the San Jacinto Fault Zone. Pressure from these right-lateral faults has caused the uplift creating Coyote Mountain and the ...
Hand-stamped authentic via Woody Guthrie
Ellis Paul, Gary Clark Jr., Jenny & the Mexicats, O.A.R.
There’s an art to telling stories through music that has nearly been lost since the advent of multitracking. It takes a fierce kind of bravery to face an audience armed only with a guitar, mic, ...
