http://www.sdcitybeat.com/sandiego/articles.sec-37-1-art-culture.html Kramer shares his hope that his show is giving locals a much-needed sense of pride. “You go down to a Chargers game,” he says, “and the crowd is all cheering for the other team. You ask them why and they say, ‘Because I’m from Pittsburgh; I’ve only been here for 23 years.’” ]]> 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.]]> Meet five locals who’ve built upon mid-century-modern ideals to come up with something new....]]> Kearney has been keeping bees for two years, which makes her operation all the more renegade; for the majority of its existence, it’s technically been illegal.]]> Inside a timeworn Hillcrest home, Rachel Eva and Shawn Michael have been busy collecting discarded, dilapidated scraps of various sorts and storing the finds in their narrow side yard. They’re starting to look like hoarders.
]]> Perhaps it was the border region’s ubiquitous Bart Simpson coin banks or the plaster surfing monkeys that gave Muñoz the idea.]]> She makes blankets; he builds skateboards. They are Melissa and Thane Magee, a husband-and-wife entrepreneurial team with two entirely different products working out of the same spot—MakerPlace.]]> Ghahremani’s book is a solid member of a rising subset of literature—the novel / memoir written by Middle eastern-American authors set largely in their native countries.]]> “La Mano de la Paz", a giant hand making a peace sign—that’s what the park needed. Nothing too kitschy or corny. Something elegant that could replace the silly dolphins. ]]> It was about 15 years ago, not long after his father’s death, that Persky had an epiphany. He was at his first woodcarving class, really enjoying it, and he thought to himself, Why not try new things more often? Why not do things that make him happy and others smile, no matter how odd?]]> Dustyn Peterman, the local artist who goes by Dusty Dirtweed, wants his posters to stand out, and his hard work is paying off.]]> Unlike her earlier work, Born, Not Raised is less photojournalism and more ethnography, using unconventional means to root out the problems and personalities in the San Diego juvenile-justice system. ]]> De Salvo’s trees will eventually be sanded, treated and mounted with the exposed grain face down in a hanging trellis-like sculpture at Ruocco Park.]]> How do you express the claustrophobia of life aboard a whaling ship and the limitless expanse of the ocean? How do you convey howling winds and towering swells? And how do you do it with more than 100,000 pounds of gear on the stage?]]> 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.]]> 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. ]]> 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.]]> 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.]]> 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.]]> 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.]]>