PhotosParadise Point/Tidal’s potentially therapeutic cocktail, the Black & White
A study in ultimate contrasts
Joseph O'Brien 3 p.m., June 28
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Infantile America
Sexy Baby Voice under fire
Early on in O.B. Playhouse’s production of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, Tara Sampson, playing one of many, interchangeable female characters in this musical revue of love and dating, leans heavy on the ...
Taco secrets waiting to be whispered
Darker and steamier than a midsummer Mexico City night
TJ Oyster Bar It’s hard to put my finger on exactly what makes the TJ Oyster Bar fish taco superlative, but I think it comes down to the batter. It always manages to remain light ...
UCSD students achieve something important in Spring Awakening
Who says kids are too checked out to sit through an entire play without Snapchatting something?
In no particular order, here are five things that struck me at closing night of UCSD’s 2017 Muir Musical, Spring Awakening: One, I didn’t see a lot of cell phones flashing in the darkness, which ...
Hottentot Venus
Taken from South Africa to be displayed as a human freak show in England
It’s not every day you get an off-the-cuff reference to the Hottentot Venus, but there it is, casually worked into the dialogue during the first-half of Red Velvet at the Old Globe. One of the ...
The other shoe never dropped
A true artist at the heart of every hack
I cynically spent the entirety of Laura Eason’s Sex with Strangers, which played last month at San Diego Rep, awaiting the other shoe. It never dropped. Ethan (Connor Sullivan) blogged about picking up girls in ...
Plays — like Abundance — can take you to weird places
Badass as Cincinnatiworld might be...
At some point, while I’m sitting there immersed in Backyard Renaissance’s production of Abundance, I start thinking about Westworld. I know it’s wrong of me to be distracted from this harrowing, heartbreaking tale; but I ...
Don’t be like me, people. Make good choices. Attend the theater.
Shows I meant to see
Till last Saturday, I had never seen Eve Ensler’s famous play, The Vagina Monologues. Since last Saturday, I have still not seen it. I began le weekend with America’s Finest Intentions. A friend would score ...
Find the Easter egg hidden in Urinetown
Hint: Don't be the bunny
Following O.B. Playhouse’s production of Urinetown: The Musical (directed by Jennie Gray Connard), I could ramble about the ins and outs of the real-life Malthusian trap on the edge of which we, the global population, ...
Margie's plight
It breaks my heart and fills me with acute dread at the prospect of walking a mile in Margie’s shoes...
One of my biggest fears in life is to wake up someday in more or less the same circumstances as Margie Walsh from David Lindsay-Abaire’s Good People (now playing at Scripps Ranch Theatre through February ...
