Bluegrass and brews in Santee
BNS has hosted country, bluegrass and other affiliated groups at their Santee brewing and distilling facility for years.
View ArticleHaute cuisine, Tecate-style at Restaurante Amores
There was a time, not so long ago, when few San Diego foodies would have expected to find the best “fine dining” restaurant in our region south of the border. Was it prejudice? Jingoism? Or was it just...
View ArticleA boob when it comes to breasts
I read an interesting article in Men’s Health called, “6 Things Men Get Wrong about Boobs.” The article, written by Lauren Larson, focused on how to improve the various, not-so-eloquent ways men touch...
View Article‘Hershey Felder, Beethoven’ transcends impersonation
Hershey Felder’s one-man play with music (and what music!) is much more than a kind of “Beethoven 101.” Rather, Hershey Felder, Beethoven is a thoughtfully immersive dramatization of the life of one of...
View ArticleLove and the border crisis in ‘Lost Children Archive’
As long as we see things as American problems or Mexican problems or Central American problems, and so forth, we make ourselves blind to a humanitarian crisis that isn’t going away, yet cries out for a...
View ArticleBlack Midi, Empress Of and more San Diego concerts
We can’t readily tell you to check out Black Midi’s music online because, well, there isn’t any.
View ArticleAstrologically Unsound: It could be a great time to declare bankruptcy
Pisces (February 19 - March 20): Everyone has interior lives just like you. Well, not just like you. Not everybody is thinking about you all day long. That’s not what I meant. Don’t read it that way.
View ArticleWomen's History Month events, March for Black Women and Mallory O'Meara
March is Women’s History Month, and March 8 is International Women’s Day. And while there are certainly plenty of events over the next month for women to celebrate.
View ArticleState senate takes on cannabis banking
Banking remains one of the greatest challenges when it comes to owning a cannabis business.
View ArticleThis was the place
It’s been 20 years since I graduated. I still have no idea when the hell that happened. On the one hand, it may explain why I’m swiftly turning into a snarkier version of my mama.
View Article‘Birds of Passage’ is a brutal tale of destructive ambition
Most gangster films follow the same rise-and-fall arc: young enterprising criminals make a name for themselves by killing their way to the top.
View Article‘Captain Marvel’ carves out some space in the Marvel boy’s club
As the first film centered on a female superhero in this epically never-ending series, Captain Marvel thankfully refuses to align itself with Marvel’s corporatized brand of patriarchy.
View ArticleThe Local Music Review 2019
We only received 77 submissions last year, which was a little scary, but I’m happy to report we received nearly 120 this year (almost a new record). As has always been the case with this issue, the...
View ArticleRafter returns with 12 new albums
Rhythm Box is the second of 12(!) full-length albums that Rafter (who performs under his first name) plans to release over the next 12 months.
View ArticleThe cult of Tulengua
The “cult” in this instance is Tulengua, the bi-national, cross-border, bilingual and multi-racial hip-hop trio made up of Jordan (aka La Reina Negra), Lilienthal (aka alan lili) and Jaime Mora (aka...
View ArticleJim Machacek plays in the ‘Key of Blue’
Machacek spent a good part of the past three years in his studio. During that time, he has married paper with ink, paint and a myriad of other media to give life to his upcoming exhibition, Music in...
View Article“Unacceptable” bullying
I’ve been thinking a lot about my dad’s advice while watching both Democratic and Republican members of Congress come after Rep. Ilhan Omar for her supposedly anti-Semitic remarks on Twitter a few...
View ArticleLocal Native American tribes fight for the coast
In the last couple of years, Native American communities are becoming increasingly outspoken about environmental threats, one of those being the Trump administration’s interest in opening California’s...
View ArticleLetters: I’m glad I’m not young anymore
My experiences in school were bad. I was bullied, beaten up, stalked, assaulted and harassed from my first day of preschool to my last day of high school.
View ArticleThe Spotlight: Blaqk Audio
AFI frontman Davey Havok has always felt like something of a trend-chaser—an artist who never seems to be satisfied in the genre he’s in.
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