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Film’s Cool
Movies and cocktails—that’s the ticketThe adults-only theaters at Cinépolis lavish customers with plush reclining lounge chairs and in-seat cocktail and food service. Stefanie Holmes sees a piece of the action. She also sees the tear-jerkers, chick flicks and comedies.
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Branch Manager
Historic horticulturist plants one on San DiegoTo new transplants, Kate Sessions’ name is most associated with the Pacific Beach park that bears her name, but this pioneering horticulturalist’s legacy is much more fertile.
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Frozen In Time
The history of the blended margaritaOne of the nation’s most popular drinks, the frozen margarita, was invented right here in San Diego. Cheers to Albert Hernandez, who created the gringo favorite in 1947, at La Plaza restaurant in La Jolla.
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Big Breaks
Surfing on the big screen in a quonset hutWriting a new chapter in surfing history, the inaugural San Diego Surf Film Festival takes place May 11 to 13 at Bird’s Surf Shed, a Quonset hut in Bay Park stuffed with historically significant surfboards and artifacts. Nearly 15 features and 30 shorts will be screened during the three-day festival.
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French Connection
Picasso’s link to San DiegoFrancoise Gilot’s name might not ring a bell to San Diegans, but the 90-year-old artist, who lived in La Jolla from 1970 to 1995 and had a gallery in Sorrento Valley, has been the subject of many international exhibitions.
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Wooden You Know It
Local folk artist finds inspiration in grain and garbageEric Swesey specializes in pyrography, or wood burning, using a pointed heating element to etch everything from pin-up girls to imaginary nautical creatures into old furniture, blank skateboard decks and other wooden treasures.
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New Wave
Surfing historian provides alternative vision of his sport’s originRaised in La Jolla, filmmaker and writer Richard Kenvin—a 1980s surf-pro-turned-surf-culture-intellectual who has spent the last 10 years tracing the history of surfboards—credits San Diego-based surfboard shaper Bob Simmons with laying the foundation for the modern surfboard.
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Now Sea This
Enter an underwater world without leaving shoreSee some of Lee Peterson’s images at “Liquid Capture: Masters of Underwater Photography,” on display at the Oceanside Museum of Art, April 28 through June 17. The juried exhibition includes some of the world’s best underwater photographic art.
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Where the Sidewalk Blends
A mix of art, dance and food make Little Italy a sweet spotEach year, Little Italy gathers up the region’s artistic talent to showcase their masterpieces along India Street. Drawing a crowd of more than 100,000, ArtWalk has become as synonymous with the neighborhood as pizza and spaghetti.
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Going Overborder
The melodrama of Mexican telenovelas hits the big screen in a new Spanish-language comedyArmando Alvarez (Will Ferrell) habla español in this tamale-western about the son of a Mexican ranchero who battles a drug lord to keep his father’s struggling farm afloat, all while falling in love with his brother Raul’s fiancée
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Olmos Famous
Film festival features Edward James Olmos and other prominent Latino actorsLatino culture returns to the silver screen March 8 to 18, as the 19th annual San Diego Latino Film Festival (SDLFF) arrives at Ultra Star Cinemas in Hazard Center.
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Too Cool for School
An abandoned Baja bus inspired cross-border creative driveMost kids dread the sight of a yellow bus. But for Akash Patel and Ian Torbett, high school juniors at Carlsbad’s Pacific Ridge School, one such transport stranded in a remote Mexican fishing village is a vehicle of promise.
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Made in the Fade
Sun-baked characters grit and bare it in an artist's desert gazeGerman photographer Stefanie Schneider pursued the American Dream through 1970s road movies and Golden State roadmaps—finally gathering her camera, a bag of expired Polaroid film and some daring Los Angeles friends to seek splendid desolation in Southern California’s high desert.
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Good to Glow
Lighten up at MCASD's luminous exhibitThe psychological and physiological influence of light energizes “Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface,” exhibiting at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego through January 22.
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Thrash Recycling
Local filmmaker waxes ecological on toxic surfboardsGiven the closeness surfers enjoy with the sea, it’s unfortunate their boards are made from water-poisoning petroleum-based materials, as La Jolla native Pierce Michael Kavanagh explores in his documentary Manufacturing Stoke.
