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Taste of Little Italy Jun 19, 2013 Enjoy live music while dining at 28 restaurants in one of San Diego's most historic communities. 38 other events on Wednesday, June 19
 
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Taste of Little Italy Jun 19, 2013 Enjoy live music while dining at 28 restaurants in one of San Diego's most historic communities. 38 other events on Wednesday, June 19
 
Last Blog on Earth | News
Council president denies pressuring CDBG-allocation chairman
News
Environmental-justice leader is finally being heard
There She Goz
The day I faced my demons and modeled for a nude-drawing class
Check 1, Check 2 | Music & nightlife
Sensori Collective modeled on Kava Lounge's popular 'Family Matters' showcase
News
Diabetic and cancer sufferer’s journey from the Sydney waterfront to basketball greatness to the front lines in San Diego’s medical-marijuana wars
 
Wednesday, April 10,2013
Film

Danny Boyle’s new film, ‘Trance,’ is a hypno-thriller

You’ll start to wonder just who’s head you’re in

By Anders Wright
At the end of Trance, director Danny Boyle’s new movie, you may feel inclined to dismiss it as a neatly packaged thriller whose twists and turns are all straightened out in the final moments.
Wednesday, April 10,2013
Film

‘Room 237’ geeks out on ‘The Shining’

Documentary on Kubrick’s classic horror film leads our coverage of movies screening around town

By Anders Wright
There are plenty of cinephiles, me included, who revere Stanley Kubrick as a visionary director whose body of work is unique and can’t be equaled. He’s made several masterpieces, including 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange.
Wednesday, April 3,2013
Film

Chris O’Dowd is the key to ‘The Sapphires’

San Diego Film Festival opening-night movie lands in theaters

By Anders Wright
The Irish comic actor Chris O’Dowd, who became known to American audiences when he played the love interest opposite Kristen Wiig in Bridesmaids, had quite a showing at last year’s San Diego Film Festival.
Wednesday, April 3,2013
Film

Digital Gym takes in a ‘Hipster’

Destin Daniel Cretton’s feature leads our rundown of movies screening around town

By Anders Wright
Cretton’s movie I Am Not a Hipster will open at Digital Gym on Friday, April 5. The film, shot in and around San Diego, has screened here several times, but I think this is its first theatrical run.
Wednesday, March 27,2013
Film

Child soldiers are at the heart of Oscar-nominated ‘War Witch’

Canadian movie features a gripping performance from a non-professional actor

By Anders Wright

There is a message of hope in War Witch, but it comes at a terrible cost. It's challenging for us viewers to watch as a child is destroyed by grown men. This is not a film about politics, however.

Wednesday, March 27,2013
Film

Media Arts Center’s Digital Gym Cinema opens

New 99-seat theater in North Park leads our coverage of movies screening around town

By Anders Wright
Digital Gym Cinema will screen movies regularly, bringing in independents, foreign films and documentaries; it’s essentially a completely new space, programmed by SDLFF artistic director Lisa Franek.
Tuesday, March 19,2013
Film

‘Spring Breakers’ tries to bring meaning to our violent, sexualized culture

Harmony Korine always has something to say, but it’s the way he says it that counts

By Anders Wright
Korine's never been afraid to push buttons or envelopes. This is the guy who wrote Kids and directed Julien Donkey-Boy and Trash Humpers.
Tuesday, March 19,2013
Film

Destin Daniel Cretton is riding high

Local director’s SXSW win leads our rundown of all the movies screening around town

By Anders Wright
South by Southwest was the first time the new movie played to a large crowd, and watching it in a packed theater was an entirely new thing for Cretton.
Wednesday, March 13,2013
Film

Korean auteur Park Chan-wook talks about ‘Stoker’

Director of ‘Oldboy’ crosses the ocean to make his first English-language movie

By Anders Wright
The films of Korean auteur Park Chan-wook all have elements in common: They’re exquisitely photographed and the attention to detail is immaculate; they’re dark and make the viewer feel awkward.
Wednesday, March 13,2013
Film

Get thee to ArcLight La Jolla

Classics in UTC lead our rundown of all the movies screening around town

By Anders Wright
In March, they’ve already shown Raging Bull, and down the road there’s The African Queen, Gone with the Wind and A Clockwork Orange. At 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 14, you can see Sylvester Stallone get hit in the face repeatedly in Rocky.
Film

‘The Bling Ring’ examines America’s currency of glam

Sofia Coppola’s latest is a sobering but ultimately thin satire of our pop-culture times

Based on Nancy Jo Sales’ Vanity Fair article “The Suspect Wore Louboutins,” The Bling Ring—opening on Friday, June 21—dramatizes the actual events surrounding a string of Beverly Hills home invasions in 2008 and 2009. 

By Glenn Heath Jr.
Urban Scout

A stroll down Ocean Beach’s main drag

Scoping out clothes, antiques and beads on Newport Avenue

Ocean Beach is a brilliant place to help get you in the mood for summer; it's casual, funky and colorful. I find shopping amid salty ocean breezes and hazy, early-summer sunshine to be the perfect antidote for June gloom.

By Katrina Dodson

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Port of San Diego slashes art budget

Artist Margaret Noble reacts to her project’s cancellation

While the fate of every public-art project under proposal is in limbo, Castaneda confirmed the cancellation of two pieces that were in the planning stages: Margaret Noble’s “Tideland Sessions” and Randy Walker’s “WRAP Project,” about which we wrote in March.

By Alex Zaragoza

Seen Local Bradford Lynn explains “Celeste” JUN 19 | By Alex Zaragoza The story behind the art
Arts & Culture Features Sci-fi’s final frontier: the art museum JUN 12 | By Kinsee Morlan A preview of MCASD’s ‘Approximately Infinite Universe’
Film Zach Snyder’s ‘Man of Steel’ is lifeless and inane JUN 12 | By Glenn Heath Jr. Superman reboot is thin on character, heavy on destruction
The Floating Library Celebrating short-story month JUN 10 | By Jim Ruland A review of collections by George Saunders, Sam Lipsyte, Marie Calloway, Roy Kesey and Yoko Ogawa
Seen Local East Village mural’s in jeopardy JUN 11 | By Alex Zaragoza A commissioned work of art will most likely be shut down
Cover artist Meet our cover artist, Bat-Brain JUN 11 | By Alex Zaragoza He actually is kind of batty
Photo contest The winners of CityBeat’s annual photo contest JUN 05 | Caterwauling babies, caterwauling singers and gargoyles who aren’t caterwauling impress the judges
No Life Offline Don’t split the fandoms JUN 03 | By Dave Maass Why won’t you overseas media companies take my money?

The Short List Village Walk, Horrible Monster Summer, and Ocean Beach Street Fair and Chili Cook-Off The name that caught our eye when we perused the lineup for the Carlsbad Music Festival’s Village Walk was Freako Suave.
Theater Mo’olelo’s ‘Extraordinary Chambers’ explores the darkness Playwright David Wiener’s Extraordinary Chambers may not be altogether extraordinary (it’s a bit overwrought in places), but it is a tense, contemplative work composed of moments that chill you to the marrow.
Film ‘Dirty Wars’ shines a light on U.S. deception abroad By taking a baseball bat to Obama-era foreign policy instead of using a scalpel, Scahill sensationalizes the government's lies regarding secret night raids that have left hundreds of civilians dead.
 

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Digable weinersOh my god! It’s a sausage fest! And beer! Sausage and beer! It’s a sausage-and-beer fest! From 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, June 19, Jsix restaurant will host San Diego’s annual Sausage Fest at LOUNGEsix, the rooftop terrace atop Hotel Solamar (616 J St., Downtown). Ten chefs—from Carnitas Snack Shack, Cowboy Star, Whisknladle, Burlap, Urban Solace, Saltbox, Europa Sausage, The Linkery, Jsix and last year’s winner, Coronado Brewing Company—will present sausages made from their own recipes, and attendees will choose the champion wiener. Lost Abbey brewing company will also be on hand to unveil a new German lager, dubbed The Road to Helles. The Tighten Ups will provide the live soundtrack. For $10, you get tastes of all the sausages, and, if you like, you can take home a 1-liter stein full of The Road to Helles for $20. If you want to go all-out, you can rent a cabana, which comes with a private sausage server. ...
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Fiddling around on a June afternoon

Theater classic proves diverting in Coronado

There's nothing like a matinee at Lamb's Players Theatre to make one feel young, especially if you're not. But that wasn't the reason I devoted an afternoon the other day to a 2 p.m. performance of Fiddler on the Roof in Coronado. The production, directed by Robert Smyth and Deborah Gilmour Smyth is proving so popular that it's already been extended all the way to July 28. That's a long run. ...
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Allied Craftsmen Today Jun 19, 2013 Art View work by the 68 current members of the arts group founded more than seven decades ago in San Diego. Read more 38 other events on Wednesday, June 19
 
Intersections: Charles Arnoldi Jun 19, 2013 Art See contemporary abstract paintings, sculptures and prints from an artist directly influenced by the colorful Los Angeles art scene of the 1970's. On view through Aug. 25. Read more 38 other events on Wednesday, June 19
 
Looking for Things Jun 19, 2013 Art Jay Johnson displays work created from found and reclaimed objects, wood, metal, clay and paper that reflect his dry humor and perception of the world around him. On display through Sept. 15. Read more 38 other events on Wednesday, June 19
 
 
 
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