Things To Do In San Diego: Thursday, June 27-Thursday July 4, 2024: Cosmo's Midnight | DIIV | Chicano Batman | Mistress 77 | Blink-182 | Iron & Wine | Mountain Grass Unit | Redd Kross |

Being that Independence Day is just a week away, I decided to run these listings through Thursday. I'm looking forward to seeing The Color Purple at New Village Arts on Thursday night, and I always love working for Mistress 77, which I'll be doing on Saturday night. In between, you know I'll be at the zoo and also planned a Sea World trip before my pass expires. Beyond that, I'm so exhausted, I would really, really enjoy some sleep. Catch ya on the flip. 

Rosey's Diary & Newsy Things: Animal Shelters Need Your Help | Panda Fever | Rescued Baby Dolphin At Sea World | Coastal Commission NIMBYs? | Where Did Your Stolen Bike Go?

The Fools & Fables Crew at Casbah (6.20.24)

I don't have a ton of links this week because the news has been a lot of the same as usual stuff as always...campaign bullshit and NIMBY nonsense and a whole lot of bloviating by old white guys in Washington who get nothing done but slowly suck away our rights, so I'm just going to go ahead and publish what I do have so we have a clean slate going into the next week. 

I will say it was a pretty good week, albeit with full on summer heat. Besides my daily zoo trips, my sister and a couple friends and I went to the Fools & Fables show at the Casbah on Thursday night and afterwards I caught up with my pal, Tim Fears. Keep an eye out, because he's gonna be shooting a lot of shows and sharing his photos right here on sddialedin.com. On Saturday, Toby's rock camp played a concert at Music Box in the daytime. You can watch Toby's band's performance here. That night I worked for Dead Man's Party, also at Music Box, so it was a fun double-header. 

The C is going back around with new variants, so stay safe out there. 

Things To Do In San Diego: Thursday, June 20-Wednesday, June 26, 2023: Fools & Fables | Melt Banana | Kate Yeager | Hot Water Music | Heavy Hawaii | Third Eye Blind | REIK | OB Street Fair | The Dollyrots | Sparta |

This has been a rough week. For many years, I've been a stay-up-late/sleep-in girl and that has been just fine for me. I'm used to sitting on my laptop and working until 4am and then sleeping until whenever I slept enough to do it all over again. But with Darren's new job, this week I was designated driver to get Toby to Rock n Roll Camp For (Teens) every day by 9am. That means up at 7am. That is EARLY for an insomniac like me. But he has been so stoked all week long and immediately formed a band and will be one of ten groups playing on Saturday morning at Music Box. While it is called Camp For Girls, there are a lot of LGBTQIA+ kids, so he has really found teens he can connect with. 

These early mornings mean I've been at the zoo extra early, but honestly today, I feel like my eyes are sunburned. It's only going to get hotter as we bust into summer, so I may have to adjust my days and activities accordingly. I'm hoping to make it to Fools & Fables tonight, but we'll see if I can make it work. In the meantime, I hope everyone has a really great weekend and gets out to some live music because I don't know if you've heard, but all that post-pandemic revenge concert attendance and advanced ticket buying has plummeted. Of course, it depends on the shows and venue and cost, but oversaturation and everything being so damn expensive means you really have to think about where you're spending your money. Try supporting local when you can. 

Stay safe out there. Happy Summer 2024. 

Photos: The Raveonettes @ Music Box (Casbah Presents)

 

Photos by Tim Fears

Seeing the Raveonettes live was a long-time coming as I've never crossed paths with them but have always wanted to see live. My good friend Daanon from AZ had seen them at a festival the week prior in northern NV and said it's time for me to see them... sold! It was much better than I ever expected, and bonus points for having killer but incredibly simple lighting; it goes a long way for making great photos!

Things To Do In San Diego: Thursday, June 13-Wednesday, June 19, 2024: Tyler Halverson | W.I.T.C.H. | French Cassettes | Dent May | The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band | Daryl Hall & Elvis Costello | Chest Fever | Cowboy Junkies | Noah Kahan | KALEO |

It's Father's Day Weekend and the weather seems to be doing somersaults as it tries to figure out where exactly it will all land, but it sounds like it could be a hot one this weekend, so find your way to a beach or a pool by day and then find yourself some entertainment at night. I've got some family things this week but I'm also very much looking forward to working for Celeste Barber on Sunday night. I gotta say, too, that I worked for W.I.T.C.H. the last time they were in town, so if you're looking for my overall pick for the week, it would be that show on Friday night, though obviously there are ton of great things rolling through town. The San Diego County Fair also kicked off on Wednesday, and since there are so many side stages and musical acts every day, besides the big Grandstand or Paddock shows, I included a link to "Daily Music" where you can just look up the date and it should show you all the things. The fair always has so much going on, I've always found their site impossible to navigate, but that link should at least make the music part a little easier. 

Have a great week. Stay safe out there. Happy Father's Day for all the dads out there. 

Rosey's Diary and Newsy Things: Pride Month Resources | Transpo Projects | Baby Sea Lions | Panda Plans | Budget Revised to Cover Fatal 15 | Bird Flu News |

Baby Baird's Tapir Born 6.2.24 (Taken 6.11.24)

I guess it's been a minute since I've posted a diary. So let's see, we went to the North Park Music Fest on the first and then last week Darren started his new job. On Tuesday we went to La Jolla Cove to see the Sea Lion rookery before going to La Jolla Playhouse to see The Ballad of Johnny and June, on Saturday we did a kayak cleanup of the National City tidelands, and on Sunday I went to the Celebration of Life for my friend Mike Down, and then Monday we saw Vampire Weekend at Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre. In between I've been working my butt off, going to the zoo, and I had to run the kid around to some appointments before he finished school on Thursday and kicked off summer break. I've been fully engrossed in watching the Karen Read trial via Emily D Baker on YouTube so I've been missing out on all my usual trash TV, which I can say is just fine by me. I've really been enjoying my zoo days and evenings, though I know it will get a whole lot busier and hotter and I might have to incorporate other places to work that aren't so bananas, but I'll get there when I get there. I hope pre-summer is treating everyone well thus far. 

Stay safe out there. 

Things To Do In San Diego: Thursday, June 6-Wednesday, June 12, 2024: The Coronas | Janet Jackson | JJUUJJUU | Xana | Chris Thile | The Raveonettes | Kacy Hill | Vampire Weekend | Frank Turner |

Let's see...since last post, we had North Park Music Fest, which Darren and I went to on Saturday night for a couple hours. Make sure to see Tim Fears' photos in the last post. It was super fun, and for a long time we stopped taking advantage of living in walking distance from the heart of North Park, so we definitely need to get out more. He started a new job this week, so he'll have weekends off, mostly, so I'm pretty excited about that. There's a ton of stuff this next week, and I'm feeling like I saved some events online but can't seem to find them, so if I find things I missed here, I will definitely update. 

Nothing really else major to report at the moment, but stay safe out there and enjoy all the good stuff happening in this rad city. 

Photos: North Park Music Fest - Louis XIV, Transfer, Ten Bulls

 

Photos by Tim Fears

This years' North Park Music Festival was a huge success by most indices: talent, turnout, and a great time. While getting over a cold prevented me from being there all day, shooting 3 bands and hanging with some of my favorite SD music fam, it was a stellar time.