Coming of Age Film Festival
Feb 09, 2012
By Kinsee Morlan
That Robertson has the guts to tame a wild animal shouldn’t come as a surprise. The man’s got a reputation for being a ballsy rabble-rouser, unafraid of going head-to-head with big media companies, whose lawsuits have already cost him millions.
By Kinsee Morlan
That Robertson has the guts to tame a wild animal shouldn’t come as a surprise. The man’s got a reputation for being a ballsy rabble-rouser, unafraid of going head-to-head with big media companies, whose lawsuits have already cost him millions.
By Kinsee Morlan
James H. Fowler is used to the limelight. But whether he’s basking in the warm glow or squinting against the harsh glare depends on the day.
By Anders Wright
Next week, Cretton will return to Park City, Utah, with a new feature, I Am Not a Hipster, shot primarily in San Diego and set amid the city’s music and art scene.
By Kinsee Morlan
Sculpting, Covey explains, is a natural extension of his photography. When he’s shooting the human form, he’s careful to find the perfect balance of light and shadow and capture that one, right moment. For his sculpture, Covey uses a process called life casting, and his objective is, again, to freeze the perfect moment.
By Alex Zaragoza, Dave Maass, Peter Holslin, Kelly Davis, Kinsee Morlan
Sure, self-loathing is kind of cool, and labeling things other than jars is lame. But hipsters need to get over being called hipsters.People finally came up with a way to describe someone who likes indie rock, drinks cheap beer, rides a bike and wears skinny jeans and Ray-Bans.
By Kinsee Morlan
Made of a block of polished marble, Monument 258 was a hotspot for tourists on their way to or back from Tijuana. Some visitors would even chip off a piece of the marble and take it with them as a souvenir.
By Rebecca Romani
Going to a Dornob concert is like being dropped into the Putumayo World Music record label’s territory. Persian tuning, syncopation and time signatures are unique, and the music sounds very different from Western music. Remember Sting and Cheb Mami on the song “Desert Rose”? Hold that in your mind for a moment and you’ll start to get the idea.
By Kinsee Morlan
They’re part of the YouTube generation— young, tech-savvy people who figure things out through online research and watching how-to videos—and they specialize in the type of tricky design details most architects don’t.
Our roundup of apps, books, music and DVDs worth packing into your cranial cavity. We've got a Moog synth app that doesn't suck, a booty-shaking digital dancehall compilation and more.
By Seth Combs
It’s just another day at Game Empire, the Kearny Mesa store where people with a predilection for roleplaying and fantasy-style games have been congregating for more than a decade.
By CityBeat Staff
Opening with a reception from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday, Aug. 13, Subtext Gallery’s Release the Kraken asked 30 artists to paint over vintage aquatic-themed works—those idyllic scenes of lakes, rivers and oceans that are ubiquitous at garage and estate sales—adding all manner of monsters and mythical sea-creatures.
By CityBeat Staff
Opening with a reception from 6 to 10 p.m. Friday, Aug. 13, Subtext Gallery’s Release the Kraken asked 30 artists to paint over vintage aquatic-themed works—those idyllic scenes of lakes, rivers and oceans that are ubiquitous at garage and estate sales—adding all manner of monsters and mythical sea-creatures.
By CityBeat Staff
Our picks of San Diego events this week include MCASD's art party, a Brothers Grimm-inspired exhibition and more
By CityBeat Staff
Our picks of San Diego events this week's events includes a sensitive project that's giving faces and names to San Diego's homeless population and more
By CityBeat Staff
Our picks of San Diego events this week
By CityBeat Staff
Our picks of San Diego events this week include the annual pride parade and festival, opening day at Del Mar and more
By CityBeat Staff
Our picks of San Diego events this week include the annual OTL games, an interesting art show at Noel-Baza Fine Art and more
By CityBeat Staff
Our picks of San Diego events this week include a Nola-infused brass band, a Cuban-themed party and more
By CityBeat Staff
Our picks of San Diego events this week include a mystical show at Subtext, the annual OB Street Fair and more
By CityBeat Staff
Our picks of this week's events include an art show in Barrio Logan and a new event celebrating refugees
By CityBeat Staff
Our picks of this week's events include a music fest in Sherman Heights, a feminist-led march and more
By Kinsee Morlan
On the surface, Vicki Walsh’s portraits look like masterful paintings depicting mostly older subjects whose myriad emotional states are profound and palpable.
By Kinsee Morlan
On the surface, Vicki Walsh’s portraits look like masterful paintings depicting mostly older subjects whose myriad emotional states are profound and palpable.
By Kinsee Morlan
Comic-Con is in the air and, if you’re like San Diegan Rebecca Hicks, it’s time to let your geek-flag fly.
By Kinsee Morlan
Janine Wareham’s work is whimsical, comical, often cheery and always delightfully weird. “Yes,” the piece on CityBeat’s cover this week, is a simple sketch that’s part of a larger project.
By Kinsee Morlan
Bryan Snyder’s “Cardiff Kook Van Gogh,” the art on the cover of CityBeat this week, was a temporary installation on the famous surfing sculpture that stands about 16 feet tall just off Highway 101 in Cardiff-by-the-Sea
By Kinsee Morlan
You might not recognize the bathroom on the cover of CityBeat this week (unless you’ve had to pee while checking out art at Alexander Salazar’s Fine Art Auction House).
By Kinsee Morlan
Like most of Cantor’s work, “Beauty’s Privilege,” the piece on CityBeat’s cover this week, has a detailed emotional story behind it.
By Kinsee Morlan
Three years ago, there’s no way Edwards would have guessed he’d end up in the scrapbooking aisle at Michaels.
By Kinsee Morlan
In the winter of 2008, Roy Kerckhoffs took his Nikon to an out-of-service steel production plant in Germany. It was cold and foggy, and Kerckhoffs spent the day climbing up old blast furnaces and exploring the industrial plant.
By Kinsee Morlan
For his upcoming solo show opening at Escondido’s Distinction Gallery (317 E. Grand Ave.) at 6 p.m. Saturday, April 9, artist Shay Davis has painted his modernized take on the seven deadly sins and the seven virtues.
By Kinsee Morlan
When artist Mike Calway-Fagen set out to build “The Progression of Regression,” the work of art on this week’s cover of CityBeat, the first challenge was finding a stuffed dog.
By Anders Wright
With the Oscars less than three weeks away, lots of folks are scrambling to see every nominated film before the big day. Newsflash: It just isn’t possible.
By Anders Wright
With the Oscars less than three weeks away, lots of folks are scrambling to see every nominated film before the big day. Newsflash: It just isn’t possible.
By Anders Wright
The movie includes interviews with Spector, as well as trial footage. He’s a fascinating character who never fit in, and his descriptions of his childhood and his outsider status give a unique insight into a man who was responsible for turning music production into an art
By Anders Wright
A woman who’s down on her luck and desperate for money discovers that there’s a market for an unusual quality she has—enthusiastic crying.
By Anders Wright
Let’s clarify a few things: That’s a lousy title for this movie, but it’s an understandable one, because when people are faced with crises such as these, they feel like they’re gearing up for battle—with insurance companies, hospitals, doctors and their kid’s ill health
By Anders Wright
Sometimes it’s subtle; sometimes there’s a marked gap between who we pretend to be and who we actually are. This is the central theme in Rodrigo Garcia’s new film, Albert Nobbs, which stars Glenn Close as a 19th-century Irishwoman who’s served for three decades as a butler while pretending to be a man.
By Anders Wright
This year, the festival will screen a collection of more than 100 shorts, documentaries and foreign and animated movies, focusing on the African-American experience and the African Diaspora
By Anders Wright
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is precisely the sort of movie I usually dislike. But I let myself be taken on the film’s emotional journey, and while I understand charges of exploitation, I didn’t experience that at all.
By Anders Wright
The Dead, helmed by British commercial directors Howard and Jon Ford, was shot in 35-millimeter film in Ghana and Burkina Faso and adheres strictly to George Romero’s rules of zombies.
By Anders Wright
No one can hurt someone more than the people they love, and that’s what’s at the heart of Roman Polanski’s new film, Carnage.
By Anders Wright
Satire aside, The Onion pretty much nailed it recently when it summed up Meryl Streep with the one-line caption “Court Rules Meryl Streep Unable to be Tried by Jury as She Has No Peers.”
Maruyama worked alongside internees from the camps to hand-write tags symbolizing each of an estimated 120,000 Japanese Americans.
Maruyama worked alongside internees from the camps to hand-write tags symbolizing each of an estimated 120,000 Japanese Americans.
At 7 p.m., before the screening, art curators Ariel Plotek and John Marciari will discuss A Harmony of Line: Selections from the School of Paris, the current exhibition that inspired the film choice
If your idea of the opera is a fat woman in a Viking helmet belting out glass-breaking notes, Salome will blow your mind.
In exposing the brutality of war, exploitation and repression, sometimes journalistic dispatches and United Nations reports aren’t enough.
First up is Ian Ross, a muralist whose works range from street art to a commissioned piece at the Facebook headquarters’ cafe that he installed over six days, using the sound and energy of the place for inspiration
When San Diego City College labor-studies professor Jim Miller spoke to San Diego Occupy demonstrators last fall, he told them that, in terms of the police response to their movement, they had it relatively easy.
Some of you may have already gone through the handy list and picked your countdown destination, but we’re sure a few of you lazy bastards are still twiddling your thumbs.
About 50 people participated in the first Unsilent Night event in New York. These days, thousands of folks in dozens of cities around the world can be seen carrying boomboxes over their heads as the atmospheric sounds of Kline’s composition fill the air.
Despite the play’s somewhat serious comment on materialism run amok, as well as an exploration of the conflicts between religion and science, it finishes on a high note
Art has the ability to touch people’s lives— that’s what artsy people say, anyway. One of those artsy people is really putting truth to that idealistic saying.
By David L. Coddon
American Night: The Ballad of Juan José, now at La Jolla Playhouse, is a madcap and frequently potent lesson in U.S. history.
By David L. Coddon
American Night: The Ballad of Juan José, now at La Jolla Playhouse, is a madcap and frequently potent lesson in U.S. history.
By David L. Coddon
Aaron and Izzy’s friendship, during and beyond college, is the foundation of Jonathan Caren’s new play, The Recommendation,
By David L. Coddon
The Old Globe’s West Coast premiere of the 1989 Foote play, staged on a sumptuous ground-floor-mansion set, becomes rather claustrophobic, mostly when there’s too much dead space between laughs.
By David L. Coddon
The singing coming from the general direction of Horton Plaza isn’t that of some leftover holiday carolers.
The ostensible chief conflict of The Lion in Winter is how uneasy lies the head of Henry, which wears the crown of England.
By David L. Coddon
Two women, two shows. Make that two very different shows, yet each a story of survival.
By David L. Coddon
So, with all due respect to the stellar 2011 productions that preceded the beginning of my tenure, here’s a look back at some of the memorable offerings on stage from August on:
By David L. Coddon
As always, it’s a festive cartoon-come-to-life, with imaginative sets by John Lee Beatty, Seussian costumes by Robert Morgan and very merry dancing and singing.
By David L. Coddon
Some Lovers, which runs through Dec. 31 on The Old Globe’s Sheryl and Harvey White stage, is also Bacharach’s first full-length musical score in nearly five years. It’s about love past and present, and in this one-act holiday nibble, the two are intertwined.
By David L. Coddon
To revisit Jesus Christ Superstar now, 40 years later at La Jolla Playhouse, is to be reminded of the ferocity, cleverness and occasional beauty of its music.
By Clea Hantman
Because a truly lousy condom can ruin a perfectly lovely encounter.
By Clea Hantman
Because a truly lousy condom can ruin a perfectly lovely encounter.
By Clea Hantman
If ever there were a day to revive the lost art of the handwritten note, Feb. 14 is it. No eCards of love, please. Actual folded, creased-paper, handscribed with words of love (or lust, or like) in genuine ink are mandatory. Anything less than that is a bloody crime.
By Clea Hantman
Near the tops of many lists, behind quitting smoking and ahead of drinking less, is the quest to learn something new. Here are some suggestions for where to find such instruction in San Diego.
By Clea Hantman
If sequins are what you want, then sequins you should have. And no one does them more tastefully in town than Little Italy’s Vocabulary.
By Clea Hantman
Here’s my short list of what not to buy this holiday season: whipped-creme-flavored vodka. And now here’s my list of brilliant gifts to buy this December:
By Clea Hantman
Think of this shopping journey as a giant board game. The “Go” square is on the popular intersection of 30th Street and University Avenue. Ready? Roll the dice and move three blocks east.shoppin
By Clea Hantman
It seems just downright wrong that Thanksgiving is but a week away. So much stuff to nab, so little time. Let’s get started.
By Clea Hantman
We’re going to begin the consumer odyssey by highlighting the handmade, by showcasing the small, championing the crafty. That’s right, it’s not just Holiday Season—it’s Craft Fair Season.
By Clea Hantman
It’s that time of year again when everyone scrambles last-minute to find a makeshift costume because they’ve decided, What the hell, let’s dress up this year. So, where to go? I have ideas:
By Clea Hantman
It’s a Westfield, the monolith that’s taken over malls on both coasts, yet it still feels a little like things haven’t changed much since Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Westfield clearly hasn’t put Plaza Bonita at the top of its priority list, and that’s precisely why it’s the only mall I go to.
