Arts Report: Ixnaying Tax, Peeking at Opera
At least one nonprofit group renting space in the former Naval Training Center is refusing to pay extra rent to cover the tax surprise we wrote about last month. Jan Giacinti, CEO of the group Kids...
View ArticleGems in the City Organist Dustup
I’ve been finding some real gems amid the current dustup over how to pay the city’s organist. I didn’t even know the city had a civic organist before. Here are a few details that caught my eye: •...
View ArticleArts Report: Sitting in Silence
Internationally acclaimed Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s recent arrest prompted a local museum to stand up by sitting down. The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego last week had two people at a time sit...
View ArticleBalboa Park’s Pipe Fest: Behind the Scene TV
Trumpeters blew, bagpipes gusted, kilts whirled and the largest outdoor pipe organ in the world blasted last Monday night for the first concert in the Summer International Organ Festival, a San Diego...
View ArticleArts Report: Starlight Theatre’s Money Trouble
Its perch under the flight path means directors at Starlight Theatre had to get creative. They adopted the freeze technique: whatever was happening onstage stopped while planes thundered overhead....
View ArticleRebel with a Pipe Organ in Balboa Park
Carol Williams’ feet have a following. A rapt community of viewers on the organist’s YouTube channel rave about her pedaling prowess. And from under the brims of brightly hued umbrellas on sunny...
View ArticleA Sunday at Spreckels: Photos of the Day
Shooting stories in partnership with San Diego Magazine has really been a huge win for this one-man photo department. Of course, it’s been great to see my photos laid out across a couple of pages in...
View ArticleArts Report: Piping Up in the Park
Every few nights, Ben Diskant practices walking on 35-inch stilts before getting slathered with blue body paint, donning a sarong and topping the whole look with a white-and-blue wig made of human...
View ArticleMorning Report: Truth Patrol
Yes, Virginia, politicians don’t always tell the truth. But how often do they say things that aren’t accurate? We took a look at the recent archives of San Diego Fact Check to see how well the four...
View ArticleArts Report: Singin’ the News
Recaps of the year’s headlines abound in our pages and elsewhere, but I bet you’ve not heard such a mellifluous version as the one the San Diego Master Chorale crooned for us. They, like this news...
View ArticlePutting Poe to Music: Shades of Poe
The Big Read: Shades of Poe is a month-long celebration inspiring San Diegans to read Edgar Allan Poe through visual art, performances, music, exhibits, and celebrity appearances. Here’s a full...
View ArticleArts Report: The Humanity of Men in Drag, Onstage
A young playwright named Katherine Harroff uses a journalism-like approach to finding stories for the stage. She aims to use San Diegans’ stories to create a deeper understanding of human...
View ArticleIt’s A Wrap: Shades of Poe
The Big Read: Shades of Poe is a month-long celebration inspiring San Diegans to read Edgar Allan Poe through visual art, performances, music, exhibits, and celebrity appearances. Here’s a full...
View ArticleArts Report: Be In the Local Arts Loop
Margaret Noble’s a teacher at High Tech High Media Arts, so she’s used to figuring out what learning outcomes she should expect from her students’ projects. But when it was time for Noble, also an...
View ArticleCulture Report: The Power of ‘a Black Dad Being a Black Dad’
Complaints about the lack of diverse depictions of black people – especially black men – in the media is nothing new. But Beleaf Melanin decided to do something about it. Melanin is a hip-hop artist,...
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