Wine + Canvas
Today (September 24) Wine and Canvas San Diego will host an art event at Taste and Thirst on Fourth (715 Fourth Ave). "Enjoy cocktails and a painting class led by a local artist. Leave with a 16x20 masterpiece. Painting materials …
Volunteer for your party
The elections are nearing, and with about six weeks left, there's still a chance to get involved. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/sep/22/31986/ The San Diego County Democratic Party is looking for volunteers to make phone calls, contact local voters, register voters, enter data, and …
Three talks on Monday
On Monday, September 24, three lectures will be held in San Diego on fertility, immigration rights, and editing. Tri-City Wellness Center (6250 El Camino Real) hosts Fertility 101. Dr. Mickey Coffler, MD, FACOG, will "discuss the most effective treatments available...how …
The Laughing Alligator
The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego is featuring Juan Downey's The Laughing Alligator in the downtown building (1001 Kettner Blvd.). The 28-minute film uses black and white as well as color film. Downey's film is an autobiographical and ethnographic …
Monster dolls
Home ec. studio (2225 30th St.) is teaching a kids' class called Monster Jr. High Voodoo Dolls on Mondays from 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm. This 5-class series runs from October 1 - October 29 and is suitable for children …
Balboa Park on Sunday
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/sep/22/31981/ Balboa Park will offer a host of activities tomorrow, September 23. The San Diego Bromeliad Society Show will take place in the Botanical Garden from 12-4 p.m. The 55th Annual Folk Dance Oktoberfest will take place from 12:30-5 p.m. …
KinderNights at the zoo
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/sep/22/31979/ On Friday, September 28, The San Diego Zoo offers a night for children ages 3-6 to explore Wild Voices: The Better to Sing With!, a "trek into the Zoo after dark to meet a keeper and the New Guinea …
Fink@ UCSD
Fink, British musician, producer, songwriter Fin Greenall, will play at UC-San Diego's The Loft space (9500 Gilman Dr) on Sunday, October 14 at 9 p.m. Fink's music has been featured on television and film including Lie to Me, Pretty Little …
Horrible Imaginings
The two-day Horrible Imaginings Film Festival will take place on Monday and Tuesday, October 1-2 at 8:00 p.m. with a pre-lecture at 7:30 p.m. at UC-San Diego's Price Center (Gilman Dr in La Jolla). http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/sep/21/31954/ "On the first day of …
Volunteer in San Diego
There are many ways to volunteer in San Diego, and whether you are want to connect with your community, give back because you've benefitted in the past, or use your skills and time in a way that will help others, …
Entre Les Bras (Step Up to the Plate)
The Loft at UC-San Diego (911 Lyman Lane, Price Center East) will be screening Entre Les Bras (Step Up to the Plate) on Thursday, October 4. A dinner will be served at 7 p.m. and the film will begin at …
Sculpted sights
The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (1100 & 1001 Kettner Blvd.) is currently displaying three large sculptures downtown. Sol Lewitt's Six-Part Modular Cube is on exhibit in the downtown Jacobs Building. The Cube "presents the geometric forms typical of …
Wine for you, art for your kid
The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library (1008 Wall St.) in La Jolla is offering two days of children's art classes (ages 7-12) during the La Jolla Art and Wine Festival on Saturday and Sunday, October 13-14. Creative Collages with Ellen …
Cooking mole
HipCooks (4048 30th St.) in North Park is offering a class called Holy Mole! on Thursday, September 27 from 6-9 p.m. This wheat-free menu will include albondigas soup, nontraditional chili relleno with traditional red salsa, coconut chicken with rice and …
First Friday Films: The Maltese Falcon
On Friday, October 5 the The San Diego Museum of Art (1450 El Prado) will screen The Maltese Falcon at 8 p.m. with a pre-film lecture at 7:00 p.m. by Eddie Muller who will "touch on the role of cinematic …
Fall writing conference
San Diego Writers, Ink celebrates Fall for the Arts 2012 by offering a series of workshops and panels from October 11-14 at the Ink Spot (710 13th St) downtown. http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/sep/16/31570/ "Fall for Writing, suitable for all levels, will explore a …
Rear Window
Cinema Under the Stars will screen Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1954 film Rear Window from Thursday to Saturday, September 27-29. "Delicious terror from master Hitchcock and a spine-tingling excursion into voyeurism. A wheel-chair bound photographer (Jimmy Stewart) amuses himself by spying …
Literary event at Mingei
Grant Barrett, co-host of NPR's A Way with Words, American lexicographer, and editor of dictionaries including the Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang, will be hosting Blueprint Special Event at Mingei International Museum (1439 El Prado) on Friday, September 28. …
Sew a baby layette
Home ec studio (2225 30th St.) will be teaching a baby layettes sewing class on Saturday, September 22 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Students will create personalized terry bibs and burp cloths, "perfect for the new mother who wants to express …
Poetry for kids
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/sep/16/31581/ Malcolm X Library (5148 Market St.) is hosting a free one-hour poetry workshop for students grades 5-12 today at 3:30 p.m. with Jim Moreno, "emeritus member of the Langston Hughes Poetry Circle, author of Dancing in Dissent: Poetry For …