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CicloSDias Minis May 19, 2013 CicloSDias hosts a car-free event with street closures from Balboa Drive to 8th Drive in an effort to open the park to bicycles and pedestrians. 37 other Outdoors events on Sunday, May 19
 
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Wednesday, May 15,2013
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‘Warehouse 1425’ art show: creativity and controversy

Organizer of May 17 exhibition in East Village fends off criticism

By Alex Zaragoza
If the event sounds familiar, there’s a reason. Unsolicited emails from people in the local art community have been sent to CityBeat blasting the show as a rip-off of Parachute Factory.
Wednesday, May 1,2013
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‘Coffee Shop Chronicles’ is short and sweet

New Play Café’s site-specific dessert theater is the start of something good

By Kinsee Morlan
New Play Café’s production of The Coffee Shop Chronicles, a collection of seven site-specific plays written by up-and-coming local playwrights, continues with a sold-out show at 7:30 p.m. Friday May 3, and another on Friday, May 10
Tuesday, April 23,2013
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‘Visible Bodies’ puts it out there

Photography project lets transgender folks share their personal experiences

By Alex Zaragoza
A photography project called Visible Bodies aims to tell the diverse stories of transgender San Diegans in order to empower those in the community and educate those who aren't on the misconceptions surrounding trans people.
Tuesday, April 16,2013
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Frank Bill’s bare-knuckle writing

The Book Catapult brings Midwest author and his violent, meth-centric ‘Donnybrook’ to San Diego

By Ryan Bradford
When it comes to art—and especially literature—it takes a lot to make me squirm. Yet, Frank Bill's novel Donnybrook made me cringe. Many times.
Wednesday, April 10,2013
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A sea change in Oceanside’s art scene

The Hill Street Country Club is building the city’s creative community

By Alex Zaragoza
Oceanside isn’t exactly world famous for its art scene. The Hill Street Country Club wants to change that.
Tuesday, March 26,2013
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FIGMENT San Diego’s palette of people

Event will showcase the growing trend of participatory art

By Kinsee Morlan
Inside Little Fish Studios, a new home for comic-book classes and workshops in Ocean Beach, co-owner and comic artist Alonso Nuñez is fighting the urge to finish his superheroes.
Wednesday, March 20,2013
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Words on the street

Graffiti’s made it on gallery walls, but for artists Neko and Persue, nothing beats the real thing

By Seth Combs
Neko grew up around that scene and has been participating in it since 1991, after he was initially inspired by the Old English graffiti lettering he saw at Grant Hill Park. He points out the Golden Hill mural at the beginning of a nearly two-hour tour of some of his favorite street art around San Diego.
Wednesday, March 13,2013
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Frequency Film Festival is bringing movies back to Ocean Beach

Impressive, eclectic collection will be screened March 21 through April 6

By Anders Wright
The thought of starting a new film fest from scratch is certainly daunting, but Paul Parietti is giving it a shot. The first iteration of his Frequency Film Festival kicks off on Thursday, March 21, and runs on and off through April 6.
Tuesday, February 26,2013
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The mad scientists of sound art

Meet some of San Diego’s experimental noise-makers

By Alex Zaragoza
Sitting on the patio of Krakatoa, the Golden Hill coffeehouse, you'll eventually hear the sound of an airplane ripping through the sky or a shopping cart full of clanking glass bottles being pushed down the alleyway by a homeless person.
Wednesday, February 20,2013
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In painter Kelly Vivanco’s work, the eyes have it

The stories behind the artist’s characters can be found in their peepers

By Seth Combs

There’s just something about Kelly Vivanco’s eyes. Well, not so much her eyes, although they are a striking bluish-gray. Rather, it’s the eyes in her signature mix of pop-surrealism and Renaissance portraiture. 

 
 
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