333's Jazz at the Museum
Jun 20, 2013
Experience American Jazz classics from the 20s, 30s and 40s as performed by The Mulligan Stew.
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In this, the 2011 edition of our annual Bars & Clubs issue, we salute the wizards of the watering holes, the stars of the saloons, the conquerors of the canteens, the tops of the taverns.
In this, the 2011 edition of our annual Bars & Clubs issue, we salute the wizards of the watering holes, the stars of the saloons, the conquerors of the canteens, the tops of the taverns.
By Carissa Casares
Eddie “KON” Castro is crazy about pinball, and he’s not afraid to show it.
By D.A. Kolodenko
When the final secret ingredient of the night was revealed to the last two survivors, Anthony Schmidt knew immediately what cocktail he’d make.
By Dave Maass
John Evans will tell you he’s a piano technician. Do not believe him. He is a British MI6 super-agent who’s been sent to San Diego to slowly undermine our social infrastructure—one quiz night at a time.
By Peter Holslin
At first glance, you wouldn’t guess that Todd Cutler is dangerous with a joystick.
From the beaches to the Mesas, CityBeat staff and freelancers set out to write one sentence about hundreds of bars. The result is this seriously long-but-useful list of bars and clubs across San Diego County.
By Alex Zaragoza
As much as natural ability has been key to his success, Kreutzer says that practice has indeed made perfect.
By Kinsee Morlan
The jockeys line up and, one by one, carefully choose their fish from a tank of about two dozen. This one small choice will ultimately decide the outcome of the night.
By Kinsee Morlan
The best thing about a hotel bar is the bathroom. Elaborately folded-over toilette paper ensures freshness. Polished marble. Automated everything. Yeah, hotel-bar bathrooms are the best, I decide as I walk through the lobby of the Sofia Hotel back toward Currant, the Downtown restaurant that boasts a bar shaped like a rounded diamond (or a pointy oblong, depending on how you look at it).
By D.A. Kolodenko
I didn’t want to tell Ora the name of the bar.
“Odysea, a Liquid Adventure” wouldn’t sound cool to a chick who, last time I saw her, was cleaning up a spilled tube of cadmium red oil paint from the dirty floor of her City Heights shack by smearing it onto her hands and slapping bloody prints all over the walls.
We played Mr. Potato-head, trying one sensory organ at a time and following each to the best things about San Diego.
We played Mr. Potato-head, trying one sensory organ at a time and following each to the best things about San Diego.
Have you ever purchased a candle that was so beautiful you didn’t want to light it because it would melt away? If so, Seaport Village’s California Candle Gallery has the perfect solution for your finicky design needs.
So, what is that smell, exactly? I haven’t been able to find a proper answer, but, according to a few librarian blogs, it’s the pungent aroma of books essentially rotting away very slowly.
Who gets all the glory at the San Diego Zoo? Pandas. Everybody wants to hug a cute and cuddly looking panda—but they’ll rip your face off!
I love goat meat—not only is it delicious; it’s also one of the healthiest meats in the world. I prefer it in big chunks, right off the bone, served atop a heaping pile of spiced rice.
You can’t miss Smilin’ Jack—he’s the skinny guy with the big, toothy grin and an accordion strapped to his chest.
Massage Envy, in a way, is the massage industry’s answer to Starbucks: No matter what part of the county you’re in, you’re never too far away from one of this chain’s clinics.
By Dave Maass
The Supreme Leader
doesn’t believe in evaluating news, mostly because he’s insulated
himself completely from current events. That leaves those who have gone
underground to provide their own list of subversive 2010 bests. This one
was left for us in a bicycle locker at the Fashion Valley bus stop.
When we started planning this year’s edition of our annual Fall Arts issue, we began with a straightforward arts-and-education theme. Where our public schools are lacking, local arts organizations are filling in, so why not feature the excellent educational programming they do? Some of our writers took the task to heart and focused on nonprofits with good youth-outreach programs, but others begged to be freed from the constraints and allowed to simply write about the coolest stuff coming up this season.
When we started planning this year’s edition of our annual Fall Arts issue, we began with a straightforward arts-and-education theme. Where our public schools are lacking, local arts organizations are filling in, so why not feature the excellent educational programming they do? Some of our writers took the task to heart and focused on nonprofits with good youth-outreach programs, but others begged to be freed from the constraints and allowed to simply write about the coolest stuff coming up this season.
By Peter Holslin
If there’s any lesson to learn from Art of Élan, the local chamber-music organization, it’s that classical concerts don’t have to be boring.
By Kinsee Morlan
Curator Robin Clark holds her hand out and traces the wall as she makes her way through the pitch-black hallway leading to artist James Turrell’s “Wedgework V” installation, on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s Downtown gallery.
By Jim Ruland
Typically, when you go looking for the cutting edge of an art movement, it takes a little searching. This fall, the avant-garde is coming to San Diego.
By Jill Holslin
Contemporary architecture tends to get a bad rap in San Diego. The city lost another piece of contemporary architecture just last month when one of San Diego State University’s most iconic buildings—the historic Aztec Center designed in 1964 by Mosher & Drew Architects—was leveled.
By David L. Coddon
At Young Actors’ Theatre, parental involvement isn’t meddling; it’s volunteering.
By Anders Wright
San Diego is a town of film festivals. Five different festivals will grace our theaters this fall alone. One of them is a newbie, while another is hitting a milestone.
By Alex Zaragoza
The distance between San Diego and India’s capital city, New Delhi, is about 8,109 miles. Gloria Lanuza is doing her best to close that gap—at least culturally.
The long wait is over—behold the winners of our 10th annual story-story contest
The long wait is over—behold the winners of our 10th annual story-story contest
The bartendress, Shirley, ruled with an iron fist and a lifelong smoker’s hack. When she and Jack split, she took the truck and left him the house, unbolting the camper from the truck bed and driving away while Jack slept inside.
The winners of our seventh annual super-short-story contest
Our Fiction 101 contest gets revived and made into a live spoken-word show
The winners of our fifth annual super-short-story contest
Shocking Tales of Life, Death and Brave Men in Purple Bunny Suits
By CityBeat Staff
We got a lot of demos for this year's Great Demo Review. No, seriously. We got a lot—way more than we usually do. We got 223, to be exact.
By CityBeat Staff
We got a lot of demos for this year's Great Demo Review. No, seriously. We got a lot—way more than we usually do. We got 223, to be exact.
By Peter Holslin
Aki Kharmicel can’t stop. A local rapper and self-described “beat head,” he keeps his two Akai MPC beat machines on 24/7, and brings them along whenever he travels.
By Peter Holslin
It used to be that music snobs would turn up their noses at genres like pop-punk or soft-rock. These days, though, even the most uncool sounds are cool again, as we’ve seen with the rise of sentimental soft-rockers like Bon Iver and M83.
By Seth Combs
Dustin Illingworth has always been a scrupulous songwriter. He has an innate, some would say God-given talent for pop hooks and composition, but it doesn't always come easy to him.
By Peter Holslin
Tim Lowman has big plans for Low Volts, his one-man band. Think bottom-heavy riffs tearing out of a stack of amplifiers. Pounding drums with the power to crack sternums. An enormous structure of two lightning bolts positioned in a “V” shape, their lights pulsating to the rhythm.
By Quan Vu
Orko Eloheim is one of San Diego’s most influential and prolific hip-hop artists, but he remains an enigma.
By Peter Holslin
Ask anyone who pays attention to local music and they’ll tell you that the scene is getting bigger each year. Nowadays, San Diego has more buzz-worthy acts, a wider array of live-music venues and a growing population of bar-goers who seem just as interested in checking out live music as they do in getting drunk and laid.
We don’t put together the Great Demo Review to pick on the music scene. We want to discover new sounds, highlight great artists and clue you in to music that might’ve otherwise been over looked.
By Peter Holslin
If you follow music trends, chances are you’ve heard of Art Fag Recordings, the record label that Mario Orduno runs out of his two-bedroom house in North Park.
By Seth Combs
I’ve just made Gayle Skidmore cry. “Stop the tape,” she requests, pointing to my voice recorder.
It’s been too long since we’ve had a bawling baby on the cover of CityBeat. It’s been nine years, in fact—we put a crying infant on the cover for our second annual photo contest, on April 28, 2004.
It’s been too long since we’ve had a bawling baby on the cover of CityBeat. It’s been nine years, in fact—we put a crying infant on the cover for our second annual photo contest, on April 28, 2004.
For the second straight year, a whimsical photo captured the collective fancy of CityBeat’s panel of judges and took first place in our annual contest.
Here, we present those three winners, along with nine runners-up that we thought were the best of the entries—one of which won our first-ever readers poll.
By Nobody
Egads! Last year, we received 185 submissions to our seventh photo contest. Damn! We thought. That’s pretty good. Um, yeah. This year, we got 905 entries. 905!
Of course, many of us are also nostalgic because we romanticize times gone by; we’re drawn, perhaps, to what we perceive as a more innocent and simpler era.
Of course, many of us are also nostalgic because we romanticize times gone by; we’re drawn, perhaps, to what we perceive as a more innocent and simpler era.
By Jim Ruland
Imagine it’s 1899 and you want to know what’s going on in the world. You really only have two options: buy a newspaper or head to the barber shop.
By Alex Zaragoza
“I look like this every single day. It’s mostly about feeling classy and good about yourself,” says Mia Alvarado-Ruffier, a 32-year-old Chicana sitting at South Park’s Whistle Stop Bar for “Sleepwalking,” a lowrider oldies night.
By Peter Holslin
Stephen Rey's house looks like something out of a Wild West movie. Fronted by a bulky wooden gate, it's 102 years old and designed like an old saloon, with sun-bleached blue paint on the exterior and hand-crafted woodwork inside.
By Dave Maass
Traversing the doorway of Fred Longworth's Classic Audio Repair is like entering the Lost World. A Balinese mask hangs on the wall next to a display case where two dead lizards—one fully skeletal—are displayed beside an assortment of turntable cartridges.
By Kelly Davis
Living in Boston for three years, I learned about "spring coats"—those that are perfect for temperatures in the 50s and 60s. In other words, Boston's spring coats are San Diego's winter coats.
By D.A. Kolodenko
One weekend last fall, I took the woman for whom I'd fallen to visit two of my favorite places in San Diego, Kitchen Creek and The Whaling Bar: wilderness and civilization.
By Amy T. Granite
There isn't anywhere to sit at Stardust Donut Shop in Imperial Beach. From inside, 69-year-old Cliff Arnold waits on customers as they walk up to the little stand's window and choose what they want from the modest selection of cult favorites like cinnamon rolls topped with peanuts.
2007 SDMA Lifetime Achievement Award winner Nick Reynolds of The Kingston Trio never wanted to be political. He just wanted to be an entertainer.
2007 SDMA Lifetime Achievement Award winner Nick Reynolds of The Kingston Trio never wanted to be political. He just wanted to be an entertainer.
Welcome Message from the President!
12 years and counting...
Jack Tempchin
No Knife, Jason Mraz, Jack Tempchin, Robert Walter, Black Heart Procession, Berkly Hart, Agua Dulce, Troy Sisters
By Alex Zaragoza
When it came time to getting busy, Cleopatra and her lover Casanova famously slid raw oysters down their throat, earning the seafood the reputation of being a natural love drug.
By Alex Zaragoza
When it came time to getting busy, Cleopatra and her lover Casanova famously slid raw oysters down their throat, earning the seafood the reputation of being a natural love drug.
By Alex Zaragoza
When opening a utensil drawer, one doesn't usually think, That fork looks sexy. I should bring it into the bedroom and have some fun with it.
By Jeff Terich
Nobody reads Playboy for the articles. Nobody goes to Vegas for the local color. And nobody visits strip clubs for the food—not until now, anyway. Consider me the first.
By Ryan Bradford
A Mormon walks into a sex shop. It sounds like the set-up to a bawdy comedy, or a joke where the punch line is inevitably "The Missionary Position!" Ha. Ha.
By Dave Maass
Andrew Armacost makes one request before the interview begins: He doesn't mind if this piece makes him seem evil; he just doesn't want to look stupid.
By Peter Holslin
As music editor at CityBeat, I sometimes feel like the belle of the ball in the San Diego music scene. Every band wants my number, it seems. Every band wants me to go to their show.
By David Rolland
Where's the love?
By Kinsee Morlan
A day at work can mean Skyping with a 36-year-old virgin who has problems getting an erection, or heading into a bedroom with a couple whose sex life is lukewarm.
By Alex Zaragoza
This isn’t a sex party—no nudity and no sexual acts. But that doesn’t mean there’s no sexual charge in the room. Perhaps that’s why my palms are sweaty and I keep shuddering. What a prude.
By Alex Zaragoza, Dave Maass
Jane’s sex life fits with trends researchers have documented while studying the consequences of long-term unemployment.
By CityBeat Staff
On Sunday, Aug. 11, cyclists and pedestrians will have complete control of 30th through Golden Hill and South Park and into North Park.
By CityBeat Staff
On Sunday, Aug. 11, cyclists and pedestrians will have complete control of 30th through Golden Hill and South Park and into North Park.
By Chris O'Brien
San Diego has perfect cycling weather and bicycle routes throughout the county. Just getting on your bike and out of the house is great, but as your skill level progresses, you’ll be looking for some more diverse riding experiences.
By David Taube
Compared with Spandex-wearing, sponsored-jersey-donning cyclist teams, social bike groups are more casual endeavors. The groups range from those that go to Padres games or coffeehouses to those populated by beer drinkers who pedal around to parks and pubs.
By Jeff Terich
In San Diego, cyclist commuters have the added privilege of being able to take advantage of discounts at a long list of businesses throughout the city.
Hey, we know a juggernaut when we see one. That’s why, when we were brainstorming themes for this year’s Summer Guide, we chose bicycling.
By Kinsee Morlan
When Vicki and Rich Walsh lived in Pacific Beach, theyd be awakened in the middle of the night by drunken idiots. These days, its coyotes they hear when the moon is high.
By Michael A. Gardiner
The "Generation 6" cars that race on the high-banked ovals of NASCAR's short tracks have brakes. The bicycles that race on the high-banked track of the San Diego Velodrome do not.
By Jeff Terich
Friday-afternoon happy hour is one of the greatest of America's traditions. There's little more satisfying than crossing the finish line of a long work week, loosening the necktie and having a round of beers with friends, colleagues or fellow local barflies.
By Marie Tran-McCaslin
I was laying on the beach in Coronado on a gorgeous summer's day. The ocean was calm, the sand was warm and life was good. I was close to the water's edge, and the tide was slowly receding. I awoke
By Peter Holslin
Bikes & Beyond is more special than you might think. For the employees, it offers a glimpse into the strange workings of humankind.
By Dave Maass
In 2011, the bill passed again and Gov. Jerry Brown signed it more quickly than it would take to ink an anarchy symbol on a punk rocker’s calf.
By Dave Maass
In 2011, the bill passed again and Gov. Jerry Brown signed it more quickly than it would take to ink an anarchy symbol on a punk rocker’s calf.
By Kinsee Morlan
When you sit down to get tattooed by Hoag-Corio you will hear plenty of stories, but two are at the top of the list.
By Ryan Bradford
I hail from the Tribe of Being 18, easily recognized by our butterfly tramp stamps, our Chinese symbols and tribal tattoos.
By Dave Maass
How did a young, black-metal fan with stretched ear lobes and a fascination with corpse-simulating face paint score the prestigious “Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship for Academic Diversity” at UCSD?
By Anders Wright
Tattoos in films are nothing new, but in those listed below, they go further than just making a character look badass.
By Kinsee Morlan
Gracia rolls up his right pant leg to show his prosthetic leg. Then he rolls up his left pant leg to reveal a tribal tattoo.
By AnnaMaria Stephens
Justin Hudnall had just driven 18 straight hours to the South by Southwest music festival to write about local label Volar Records when he passed the sign. “I recognized this fishhook
By Alex Zaragoza
For the most part, tattoos fall into one of two categories: beautiful pieces of body art depicting something a person is passionate about or terrible ideas brought on by drunkenness or poor deci
When TotalBeauty.com released its list of the country's most tattooed cities and San Diego wasn't on it, but Kansas City, Mo., and Flint, Mich., were, we nearly ran out and got WTF tattooed on our foreheads. That way, Total Beauty's editors would have a little clue as to the nature of our hostility when we walk up and head-butt them on the street.
Seriously, though, San Diego is one tatted-up-and-pierced city, and we thought it was time to give body art the attention it deserves. In this issue, you'll find out how San Diego artists passed landmark body-art legislation, why a UCSD scholar is interested in tattoo culture and what to do if you find yourself stuck with a regrettable tribal tattoo. We also profile a few tattoos that grabbed our interest and examine movies where tattoos play a starring role.
Mad props go to Rob Benavides of Flying Panther Tattoo, the cover artist who imagined
what CityBeat would look like inked on someone's back. Click here to visit the Body Art homepage or click on the individual stories below:
By Peter Holslin
“and then I realize that I already have a skull with an eyeball in its mouth on my stomach. So, I got the same tattoo twice!”
