November 16, 2016 Issue
Warpaint get their groove back
Warpaint doesn't care what you think. Over the course of 12-plus years, the Los Angeles quartet has worked to refine their genre-busting brand of moody, atmospheric rock without a care for much outside of their own creative impulses. more
Letters: Dia de los baseball
An all-American child of a mixed marriage that ended in divorce, I grew up one of six children in a single-mother household. My mother happened to be a baseball fanatic—a lifelong, diehard Mets fan. Every October we watched the World Series... more
Photo by Jim Carmody
Mother and child reunion
Sixteen-year-old Olivia, an emotionally damaged girl, resides in an imaginary world in which she communicates her alienation via a blog—her inveterate readers are her “castaways.” more
‘Elle’ provides a safe place for a “nasty” woman to be herself
Common human decency suggests that you shouldn’t kick someone when they’re down. Elle takes place in an alternate reality where the opposite is true. more
‘Tampopo’ is an affectionate ode to food and cinema
When truck drivers Gorô (Tsutomu Yamazaki) and Gun (Ken Watanabe) get hungry on their way to Tokyo, they stop for a warm meal at a roadside ramen joint run by Tampopo (Nobuko Miyamoto). They are met with a ramshackle interior, imposing thug... more
Photo illustration by John R. Lamb
Post-election postmortem
OK, OK, so the orange-tinted name salesman with straw mane bagged the most-challenging, bigliest job on the planet last week. Big deal. What about Mayor Kevin Faulconer’s “dimming star,” according to the typically cordial San Diego Union-Tr... more
Photo courtesy of Mission Focused
Homeless deaths skyrocket in San Diego
More than twice as many homeless people died alone on San Diego streets this year as compared to two years ago. more
Musicians react to the 2016 election
A lot of us are still in a state of shock after Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election, but that doesn't mean that people are remaining silent about it. more
Vektor, Colleen Green and more San Diego concerts
Vektor Wednesday, November 16PLAN A: Colleen Green, Mannequin Pussy @ The Hideout. Colleen Green's music is simple, yet easy to like. Short, jangly indie pop songs about youthful angst and, in t more
Adam Powers shares moments from Trump’s new America
Like many others facing the reality of a Trump presidency, Adam Powers is afraid. She's afraid for herself, friends in the LGBTQ community and other minorities. more
Fine Lines: Sunny Rey
Sunny Rey isn't interested in being a stereotypical poet. The subtitle of her second collection of poetry pretty much says it all: Poetry and Advice from a Nobody . more
Photo by Torrey Bailey
Tracking down the stories behind a mysterious series of lowrider oldies records
Melissa Dueñas realizes she's a little obsessive. The local DJ and self-proclaimed "vinyl junkie" becomes visibly emphatic when she starts to talk about her love of "lowrider oldies more
Photo courtesy of Let’s Frolic Together
Local holiday shopping events, San Diego Jazz Fest and Movember Poker Tournament
Halloween is over and the election is done, which can only mean that (oh, dear God!) it's time for the holiday season and all the soul-sucking, spirit-crushing materialism that comes with it. more
An anthology of horror by Edward Gorey
What makes The Haunted Looking Glass, originally published in 1959, unique is that Gorey not only chose the stories but also provided a black-and-white illustration for each selection. more
Singing the praises of Smoking Hot Divorce Sex
I am so mad at my ex-wife. It has been about two years since we split and for all my efforts she refuses to have post-breakup sex with me. more
Photo by Michael A. Gardiner
The spirit of tapas at Cueva Bar
While we don't have many good tapas bars in San Diego, certainly not enough for a classic Spanish "tapas crawl," perhaps the one that best exemplifies the tapas spirit is Cueva Bar (2123 Adams Ave.) in University Heights. more
Best new brews of Beer Week
The San Diego Brewers Guild launched the eighth annual San Diego Beer Week on the Broadway Pier with its two-day Guildfest beer festival. more
Photo courtesy of Suzies farm / Flickr
Reasons to be thankful
San Diego's food scene is like a young teenager: It still needs to mature, but has lots of promise and hope. Still there are many reasons to be thankful for the San Diego food scene. more
Neighborhood Watch: La Jolla
La Jolla hosts the northernmost coastline of the city of San Diego with stereotypes of golden sands, tanned skins and stuffed wallets. more
Next up after Measure C
This past spring-like Sunday a friend dropped a free ticket to the Chargers-Titans game in my lap. So I attended an NFL football game at Qualcomm Stadium for the first time in about three years. more