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Sam Lopez Keeps San Diego Strange

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Having just curated the third annual San Diego Experimental Guitar Show at Soda Bar, promoter and noise musician Sam Lopez (aka Zsa Zsa Gabor) will continue to provide a forum for San Diego weirdlings with the monthly Stay Strange night. …

Dinner at the Range

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A few months ago, Barbarella gave the lowdown on breakfast at the Range in Hillcrest at that all windows spot in front of the Ruby Room. She covered the barbed wire and dairy crate ambiance and even captured the sideways …

Get Faded, Go Shopping — Village Hat Shop Warehouse Clearance

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Pretty much anybody who’s had more than two beers with me has heard about my hair lady. I was initially drawn into her City Heights shop while bicycling down the Boulevard one hot summer day about two years ago. Large …

Liquid Geometry's Save the State Parks Benefit

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“We grew up in East County, so we were always chillin’ in Mission Trails,” says Theo Adams of the Liquid Geometry electronic music collective. “Parks are a special place for us and we think for a lot of other people, …

Burrito Barato

Taco Tuesdays at Bravo's in Ocean Beach

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In a city where burritos and Tecate are our bread and wine, taco Tuesdays are the Holy Sabbath, and there’s no better place to elude entirely the prospect of toil than Bravo’s Mexican Restaurant Y Cantina in Ocean Beach. Kitty-corner …

Occupy San Diego Voices Complaints Against SDPD

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Members of Occupy San Diego will be attending tonight’s Citizens Review Board of Police Practices to voice complaints regarding the way the San Diego Police Department has handled the ongoing protest which began in early October. “We are going there …

Groovetube - 3rd Annual San Diego Experimental Guitar Show

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Sonny Romeri of local beat soundscape outfit Illuminauts played an experimental guitar set dedicated to his brother (who recently took up the instrument) at Park Gallery on Saturday evening. His setup included a hollow body guitar, a sampler, effects pedals, …

Glitch Slap Lays Smack Down with Sugarpill and jOBOT

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Saying that Burning Man will change your life forever in ways you could never possibly imagine is about as cliché as harping on how poorly San Diegans handle rainy-ish weather like today's. Incidentally, it’s also just as true (these Uptown …

Gonjasufi Extended Interview

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I know many of you are interested in reading Gonjasufi's words that didn't end up in print, so here ya go: San Diego, being that it’s a border town and shit, and the military - it’s just a weird city …

Things for Doing: Kaminanda, gEars, Lucent Dossier

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It’s the third Thursday and you know what that means. Tonight’s Liquid Geometry monthly forward-thinking electronic music showcase at the Kava Lounge features local luminaries Kaminanda, Sponge, Holden, and Mastah Syphe. Read more here. Conscious Droplets with / Yogi Prateado …

Shit Memes Say

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The “Shit (any classification of people you can think of)s Say” internet meme recently went crayzar with the viral popularity of the “Shit Girls Say” series, which features celebrity appearances and a dude in drag reciting lines that (some) girls …

Burning of Rome Toast to New Album

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Hyperactive Oceanside rockers Burning of Rome have an eponymous India Pale Ale in the works by Pizza Port Ocean Beach’s head brewmaster Yiga Miyashiro. “It’s to support our new record out in the spring,” says guitarist Joe Aguilar. “When you …

Basshenge Brings World Wonder to Burning Man

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Burning Man is all about building rad things in the middle of nowhere, partying in them, and then deconstructing or, better yet, blowing them up at the end of the week. Last year, a team of about 20 volunteers built …

Kaminanda at Liquid Geometry

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“We've been working really hard since November to make sure this is an incredible night,” says Liquid Geometry promoter Theo Adams. “Not only will Thursday night be Kaminanda's album release, but it's his birthday as well. He will be gracing …

Drinking. Drawing. Space Babes.

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Air Condition Composition, a weekly costumed figure drawing class with a twist, moved from Mondays to Sundays a while back at the AC Lounge. Steady your drawing hand with $5 you-call-its while sketching models in motifs such as zombie, clown, …

Hills Like Elephants Find Honesty in the Endless Charade

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“I think Hemmingway and maybe Bukowski are the only writers who I’ve read all of their books,” says keyboard crooner Sean Davenport, whose new Hills Like Elephants (the name is a Hemingway reference) project is preparing to release their debut …

Dilettante Room E Births Penguin Child

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The year is 2012 and everything is awesome. There’s a taco shop on every street corner. Indian summers have been enhanced with Yankee summers, which peak in January and run through May, thanks to global warming (finally). Televisions have ten …

Second Liquid Blue Occu-party Featuring Mark Boyce of G. Love and the Special Sauce

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“We believe in the Occupy movement and others like it,” Scott Stephens, manager and vocalist of local pop rock entourage Liquid Blue, told the Reader last month. “We’ve been an activist group for many years. We’re really hyped to support …

RealEyes Events Debuts Resonance

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Last November, musician/promoter Michael Mannino and friend Arian Banki threw a party called Inner Vibration at a private residence near Vista in celebration of an electronic musician and close friend, Preston Grover, who passed away in June. Golden Vortex // …

Groovetube - Innerds, WITT, xbxrx, and HEALTH at the Che Cafe Benefit

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The Ché Café threw a three day benefit festival over the weekend to raise money for a new insurance policy. The event touted one of the best line ups I’ve seen at the venue in about a decade including notables …

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