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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...

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Gems 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: •...

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Arts 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...

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Balboa 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...

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Arts 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....

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Rebel 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...

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A 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...

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Arts 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...

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Morning 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...

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Arts 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...

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Putting 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...

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Arts 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...

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It’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...

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Arts 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...

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Culture 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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