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FASHION
’Tis the season
Do you feel it? The warm air, the longer days, the chirping birds—spring is just around the river bend, and aside from planning barbecues and camping trips, you should be thinking about what the heck you’re gonna wear. From noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 9, independent designers, including JP Monkey, Little Capers, Vintage Vantage and more, will help ease the temperature transition at Appel & Frank’s Spring into Style, a one-stop shopping event that cuts out the middleman. Fifty designers will sell clothing, jewelry and accessories straight to you, and there’ll be a special section for new and expecting moms upstairs. Spring into Style will be held at The Abbey, 2825 Fifth Ave. in Bankers Hill. $5-$10. www.appelandfrank.com.
Get dressed: Did you notice how purty this week’s edition of CityBeat is? Our annual spring fashion issue comes but once a year, and here it is. To celebrate our place in the fashion world, we’re throwing a party at Exy Chic Greek Restaurant, 789 Sixth Ave., Downtown, at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 6. If you have dreams of looking as good as the local bandsters we put in our publication, try out for our second annual Women’s Makeover contest and win a new look with the help of local boutiques and spas. Free. RSVP to promotions@sdcitybeat.com or call 619-281-7526 with questions.
SPORTS
Totally radical
Dude! Do you like watching skateboarders totally rip on the vert ramp? Seriously, bro—do you like watching BMXers doing extremely dangerous tricks that could, like, sever their spines? If you do, you should totally cruise down to the second annual Clash at Clairemont vert demonstration and watch gnarly pro skaters and BMX dudes do crazy stuff. I mean, these guys are, like, totally talented. Tony Hawk, Andy MacDonald, Bucky Lasek, Jamie Bestwick and Kevin Robinson are gonna be there. Uh-huh, that’s awesome! Plus, the event helps Grind for Life, a charity for, like, cancer patients, and some proceeds go to the Mission Valley YMCA. That would totally help out the community. Anyway, dude, you should go—it’s gonna be killer. It’s happening 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 8, at the Mission Valley YMCA Skate & Bike Park, 3401 Clairemont Drive in Clairemont. $10. www.clash2.com.
BALBOA PARK
Socializing
The work in Inside the Wave: Six San Diego/Tijuana Artists Construct Social Art, will make even the most apolitical, apathetic art viewer think, even if just for a moment, about things outside of themselves. The Tijuana collective Bulbo, for instance, actually rented a space in downtown Tijuana, recreated the 12-step program used by Alcoholics Anonymous and invited concerned community members to come by and tell their own tales of Tijuana, a city that’s seen a big jump in violence and a decrease in tourism in recent months. See the findings of Bulbo’s artistic intervention and experience the social-minded art of Brian Dick, Adriene Jenik, particle group, Zlatan Vukosavljevic and Allison Wiese when Inside the Wave opens at San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park Saturday, March 8. www.sdmart.org, 619-232-7931.
NIGHTLIFE
Party pop
Tact. Class. Shame. These are traits Tijuana/San Diego electro-pop DJ MONO MONO (aka Jeffrey Beringer) doesn’t appear to have any interest in. For proof, just take a look at some of the performer’s song titles—“Party Penis,” “Pansexual” and “Blow Me Til I POP” are a few shining examples. Referring to himself as “the original Mexigringo,” one look at his MySpace page suggests that the man could be completely out of his mind, but that hardly matters if he’s having as much fun as it seems. After all, he is playing with a band called Shitting Glitter, and if that doesn’t put a smile on your face, then nothing will. Openers Vinylsoul and Dropjoy might be more traditional, but they should be no less entertaining. Doors open at 8 p.m. on Saturday, March 8, at Static Lounge, 634 Broadway, Downtown. $12. www.staticloungesd.com.
ART
In a name
Sometimes, a name says it all. Artist Marianela de la Hoz’s new exhibition, Mundos Intimos/Intimate Worlds, depicts precisely what the name of the show suggests—her miniature tempera and pencil drawings tell stories about strange and engaging characters in surreal scenes. Everything—the objects the characters are holding, the symbols around them and the subtle looks on their faces—is a piece of a larger world, and the amazing part is that Hoz manages to jam all of this painstaking detail onto a board just a few inches big. Intimate Worlds opens Little Italy’s newest art spot, Noel-Baza Fine Art (2165 India St.), a gallery co-owned by Tom Noel and Larry Baza, two names the local art scene will surely begin to recognize if they keep hosting shows as keen as this. The show opens from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday, March 8. www.noel-bazafineart.com or 619-876-4160.
BOOKS
Inspiration dies
Famed crime novelist Raymond Chandler married a woman 18 years his elder. Cissy Pascal lied about her age, and it’s still not clear whether Chandler ever figured out how old she was. But, frankly, Chandler didn’t care. He worshiped Pascal and called her “irresistible without even knowing it or caring much about it.” When Pascal died, Chandler drowned his loss in alcohol and died five years later. Author Judith Freeman begins her new book, The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved, with these juicy little tidbits, then draws readers in by providing an intimate profile of Chandler as told through perhaps his greatest inspiration—his wife. Freeman will read and discuss her book at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 8, at D.G. Wills Books, 7461 Girard Ave. in La Jolla. 858-456-1800, www.dgwillsbooks.com.
Race relations: Growing up in Boston as the child of biracial activist couple Carl Senna and Fanny Howe, novelist Danzy Senna cultivated a unique view of racism. In addition to being consistently mistaken as white while identifying herself as black, Senna was raised in a city not exactly known for its racial tolerance. Her reflections on her heritage and insightful explorations of what it means to be “mixed” in America were the basis for her debut novel, Caucasia, as well as her third book, Symptomatic. She’ll read from both at 7 p.m. Friday, March 7, at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice on the University of San Diego campus, 5998 Alcala Park in Linda Vista. 619-260-7721.
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