Roadies Hideaway: bed, breakfast and bikes

San Diego couple creates a North County inn for cyclists

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.

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Wednesday, May 1,2013
Arts & Culture Features

‘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

Wednesday, April 3,2013
Food Issue

Sittin’ on the dock of the bay

Fathom Bistro Bait & Tackle is a great place to waste time

By Kinsee Morlan

There are two methods of obtaining food at Fathom Bistro Bait & Tackle. One is pretty straightforward. Owner Dennis Borlek demonstrates the other by jumping over the counter of the bait shop, chopping up a frozen shrimp and pushing chunks of the flesh onto several hooks on a line dangling from a fishing pole.

Tuesday, March 26,2013
Arts & Culture Features

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, January 9,2013
Arts & Culture Features

Illnesses helped shape Rob Morey's new passion

His new work is careful choreography between artist and dripping glass

By Kinsee Morlan

Rob Morey’s glass bowls and other decorative pieces are lovely, but the artist considers that side of his work his living, not his love. Lately, Morey’s passion comes when he’s working on his new body of work—extremely delicate strings of glass he weaves into chaotic yet controlled abstract compositions of color and form.

Wednesday, November 14,2012
Arts & Culture Features

‘Yet another Martin Luther King Jr. mural’

Artists remain unhappy about a public-art project that was supposed to be so much different

By Kinsee Morlan

Blink or change lanes while driving east or westbound on State Route 94—the Martin Luther King Jr. Freeway—and you might miss a glimpse of a new mural depicting King that adorns a large retaining wall between Home and Euclid avenues.

Tuesday, October 16,2012
Best of 2012

Calm before the storm

The perfect day: Gelato Vero, Balboa Park Carousel, Chollas Lake, Coronado Dog Beach, Clayton’s Coffee Shop, La Jolla art galleries, Buddha for You and Lips

By Kinsee Morlan

Should the world deteriorate into chaos due to the inevitable end of days, I fancy myself tying on a bandana, arming myself with automatic weaponry and galvanizing the charge to do whatever it takes to live right up until the very last possible breath.

Wednesday, September 19,2012
Arts & Culture Features

‘Behold, America!’ commands respect for U.S.-made visual art

San Diego Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and the Timken Museum of Art combine forces

By Kinsee Morlan

When it comes to visual art, San Diego has long suffered from an inferiority complex. New York, Paris and Mexico City are the giants in the art world, overshadowing other cities.

Wednesday, August 22,2012
Seen Local

The pop surrealists

10 artists whose work has helped define the local lowbrow movement

By Kinsee Morlan

Wednesday, May 16,2012
Seen Local

San Diego Michael Jackson impersonator bares it all

Devra Gregory’s one-woman show opens Friday, May 18, at 10th Avenue Theatre

By Kinsee Morlan

It takes almost two hours for Devra Gregory to become Michael Jackson. The makeup’s first. She starts with a brown cover-up base and then blends in lots of white. She’s the ’90s Jackson—pale with a long Jheri curl.