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The 2010 Fall Arts issue
A look at upcoming arts and culture events in San Diego Perfect harmony
Two world-music institutions team up for a concert series Learning to love modernism
Lecture series fosters a dialogue between architects, historians and the public Do something
The return of Periscope Project is an open invitation Brain food
UCSD’s Kasimir and Karoline has a scientist for a director Art in unexpected places
Alana Sills maximizes mixed-use MCASD’s Phenomenal exhibition entertains, educates and subtly blows your mind
Shedding some light on an important piece of west coast art history Where classical meets cool
Art of Élan’s fifth anniversary season explores San Diego culture The 2011 Fall Arts issue
No matter what your cultural interests are, our annual issue has a tool for you Slow food for thought
Poet Rae Armantrout wants you to think about the words around you

Wednesday, September 21,2011
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The Germans join the local film-fest brigade as the big one turns 10

San Diego's film-festival craze continues

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.

Wednesday, September 21,2011
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New Divine Desi Dance closes the cultural divide

A new dance company brings the far east a little closer

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.

Wednesday, September 21,2011
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Learning to love modernism

Lecture series fosters a dialogue between architects, historians and the public

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.

Wednesday, September 21,2011
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Young Actors' Theatre gives kids confidence

Local youth theater is optimistic about the future

By David L. Coddon

At Young Actors’ Theatre, parental involvement isn’t meddling; it’s volunteering.

Wednesday, September 21,2011
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MCASD’s Phenomenal exhibition entertains, educates and subtly blows your mind

Shedding some light on an important piece of west coast art history

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.

Wednesday, September 21,2011
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The &NOW Festival of New Writing is coming to UCSD

Forget Comic-Con—the real literary underground is heading this way

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.

Wednesday, September 21,2011
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Where classical meets cool

Art of Élan’s fifth anniversary season explores San Diego culture

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.

Wednesday, September 21,2011
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The 2011 Fall Arts issue

No matter what your cultural interests are, our annual issue has a tool for you

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.

Wednesday, September 22,2010
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From the fringe

Fashion designer Zandra Rhodes’ once-controversial designs are now fit for a museum

By Carissa Casares

Standing inside Zandra Rhodes’ studio, it’s easy to see she’s got a flair for the dramatic. The small space inside a modern office building in Solana Beach’s Cedros Design District is flamboyantly decorated.

Wednesday, September 22,2010
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Slow food for thought

Poet Rae Armantrout wants you to think about the words around you

By Kinsee Morlan

“I speak in splashes,” a line from one of the poems in Rae Armantrout’s collection, Versed, captures well the style of her work.