NEWS & OPINION

Editorial

GOP, don't accept Zapf's apology

Sanders and DeMaio were too quick to downplay candidate's anti-gay statements

News

Lost and found

Meet the U.S. Postal Service’s own Sherlock Holmes

News

House of ill repute

Abandoned Golden Hill property is in need of salvation

Turds & Blossoms

Grading the campaign trail

How the local Republicans, Francine Busby and the District 6 candidates fared this week

Sordid Tales

'Sticks and Stones'

Why the world's most renowned children's rhyme is still the shit

Backwards & in High Heels

Love games

A radio prank makes a sympathizer out of me

Letters

This week's feedback

Our readers give us a piece of their mind

FOOD & DRINK

City Eat

Spice summit

Mira Mesa's Annapurna provides a tasty challenge for adventurous food trekkers

Nibbles

Foodie news

SOHO opens in North Park—and other dispatches from the land of eat and drink

Wine on a Dime

What's in a name?

2009 Chardonnay from Chile's Vina la Fortuna recalls—Malibu?

MUSIC & NIGHTLIFE

Music

It came from the sky

Bear in Heaven sounds like nothing else—except maybe Bear in Heaven

Everybody's Happy Nowadays

Walking contradiction

A brief tutorial in picking apart the patterns of pop-music writers

If I Were U

In the clubs

Local punk return at the Whistle Stop, Japanese psychedelia at The Casbah and tons of bands coming from or going to South by Southwest make a San Diego stop

Soundwaves

CD reviews

Our takes on new records by Freelance Whales, Gonjasufi and Xiu Xiu

Nightgeist

Reports from the scene

The M-Theory dude's gonna book bands at Fluxx, Enrique asks a Mexican and we chronicle the new 'dive' bar, Quality Social

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Art & Culture

Scanners

Balboa Park's museums warm up the lamps for mass digitization

City Week

The to-do list

Your agenda includes beer-soaked benefits for art education and third-world literacy, dance in the buff, a day of civil rights, chamber music in an art museum and more awesomeness

Film

Whistle blower

Daniel Ellsberg’s story is just as relevant today as it was 40 years ago

On Screen

Obi-what-now?

'Turkish Star Wars' in a strip club—plus, all the other movies showing around town

Theater

Picture it

Downtown’s The Theatre, Inc. figures prominently in a Werner Herzog film

On Stage

Curtain call

A rundown of the plays in local production

Cover artist

Joshua Krause

The guy behind the mysterious layered art on the front page of this week's CityBeat

MONTHLY VIEW>>

The best things to do in San Diego Sunday March 21

HEART STRINGS

This one-of-a-kind performance features spoken-word artist April Mahoney, drummer Nana Yaw Aseidu, and saxophonist Earl Vaults. Ticket price includes appetizers and wine tastings. $20 in advance, $25 at the door.

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16 other things to do in San Diego Sunday

The best things to do in San Diego Monday March 22

$9.99

A stop-motion animated film about a book that promises to reveal the meaning of life and only costs as much as the film's title. Geoffrey Rush, Barry Otto and Anthony La Paglia provide some of the voices. Free.

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4 other things to do in San Diego Monday

The best things to do in San Diego Tuesday March 23

MY FATHER'S GARDEN

This documentary about the state of farming in America will make you want to start eating organic. Free.

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9 other things to do in San Diego Tuesday

The best things to do in San Diego Wednesday March 24

THE LATENT PRINT

This party hosted by the online art mag features live music from The Greg Gibson Band and Brenda Xu, live readings by Tria Andrews, Liz Huerta and Joseph Voth and the premiere of Tape Deck Mountain's and Rodney Hubbard's music videos.

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19 other things to do in San Diego Wednesday

Spice summit

Mira Mesa's Annapurna provides a tasty challenge for adventurous food trekkers

For the greener good

Claire's on Cedros serves tasty food in an eco-minded environment

Still shining

Starlite's attention to craft illuminates both food and drink

In the clubs

Local punk return at the Whistle Stop, Japanese psychedelia at The Casbah and tons of bands coming from or going to South by Southwest make a San Diego stop

In the clubs

Sleepy Sun, The Ruby Suns and A Sunny Day in Glasgow are all on our radar this week—plus, 45 other musical acts that have nothing to do with G2V yellow dwarf stars

In the clubs

Grand Tarantula and True Widow, plus Birds & Batteries and The Wooden Birds—oh, and 44 other bands that won't conjure fears of insects and winged creatures



Obi-what-now?

'Turkish Star Wars' in a strip club—plus, all the other movies showing around town

¡Viva SDLFF!

The Latino Film Fest is back—plus, our weekly rundown of all the movies showing around town


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