Things To Do In San Diego: Thursday, October 29-Wednesday, November 4, 2026: Failure | Agriculture | Theo Katzman | The B-52s | Moenia | The Creepy Creeps | The Black Angels | Clay Street Unit | Fitz & The Tantrums

Silly Labu turns 16 on Halloween. 

I think I've overextended myself yet again and now I'm having a little regret that I'm gonna miss the final two nights of HalGLOWeen at the San Diego Zoo. I'll be working Friday and Saturday nights, so I guess I'm glad that on Sunday I made the extra effort to watch a final performance from the mariachis, who finally played my favorite song to hear them do. I suppose I could've requested it before, but I'd rather just hear their mix of inspiration. If you haven't seen them and you're a pass-member, I highly recommend you take advantage when they play every hour on the hour for a half hour starting at 6pm on Friday and Saturday night. Easy to catch a set before your big Halloween plans flesh out. I've never been super big on Halloween, but I'll try not to yuck anyone else's yum. You should bear in mind, however, that there are only like a dozen tickets left for the Casbah's Halloween extravaganza, so get those before they're gone. 

More important than all the Halloween and Día De Los Muertos weekend planning, however, is that this is the final weekend before election day. Make sure you're filling out your ballot and returning it to an OFFICIAL BALLOT DROP-OFF site and NOT dropping it in the mail. Early voting sites are also open that make it super easy to drop-off and grab extra "I Voted" stickers in a plethora of languages. Besides all that, have a fun and safe Halloween weekend, drive safely and cautiously as the streets will be full of pedestrians, and save me a Snickers. 

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. 

Things To Do In San Diego: Thursday, October 22-Wednesday, October 28, 2026: Hovvdy | zzzahara | Juanes | She Wants Revenge | Kishi Bashi | matt pond PA | beabadoobee |

After a long night of merch with Peter, Bjorn, and John at Music Box (10.16.26)

It's been busy around here. I'm finding that there just aren't enough hours in a day to do everything I wanna do and also get the 10-12 hours of sleep my body is suddenly demanding as I age. It's discombobulating to say the least. It's also hard to then match my timeline with Darren's, who wakes up at 4:15 everyday and is home from work by 3pm, when I'm about wrapping up the bulk of my work and ready to set out on the day's adventures. We make it work, but I know he misses me. I worked for PB&J on Friday, but Saturday we made it out to HazPaca and had tacos in Jamul before I carried on to the zoo for a quick hour at the end of the night. Drinking just isn't the same as it used to be either. When I got home, we had adult cocktails which made Sunday a worthless wasted day, making this whole week feel like I've been treading water, with a whole bunch of things on my to-do list while also working the Protomartyr show, and Hovvdy on Thursday. But slowly but surely I'm catching up with things and was at least able to do some stuff I wanted to accomplish before the rain came. And so here we are. Listings done. See you at Hovvdy. Stay safe out there. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Only two weekends left of nighttime Zoo for HalGLOWeen. Find me at the hippos or watching the mariachis. xx

Rosey's Diary & Newsy Things: Committee Moves To Cancel Flock | Rescued Beluga Dies at Seaworld | Manchester Pitches Data Center | ICE Infiltrates San Diego |

Not gonna lie, trying to capture important news right now is like drinking water from a firehose, so while I've been keeping up with all of the madness, I wasn't keeping track of a lot of links, but I will say that if you wanna protest the proposed AI Data Center, there's a planned rally at the City Hall/Civic Center breezeway on Thursday at 4-4:45pm. Fuck "Papa Doug" and fuck his enablers and allies and fuck the stupid fucking piece of shit occupying the white house and if you don't vote this election, I really have no time for you. kthxbai. And now I'll refocus my anger and ire at Massachusetts as I continue watching coverage of the trial of Matthew Farwell as it feels somehow less frustrating if I focus my energy on somewhere else. 

Stay safe out there. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Vote like our lives depend on it. Because they do.

Things To Do In San Diego: Thursday, October 15-Wednesday, October 21, 2026: Peter Bjorn & John | Shakey Graves | Untamed Youth | Juice | Bonnie Raitt | Bayfest | Bella Vita Fest | High Vis | Julia Jacklin | Melvins | Protomartyr |

Over the weekend, Darren and I finally gave in and bought a new America The Beautiful National Parks Pass. If you don't know, TFG put his stupid face on it, so we were reluctant, but decided that I miss Cabrillo Monument enough and because we're hoping to spend some time in Big Bear soon that we should have a pass. Over the weekend, I also worked at the Rocky Horror Picture Show, which was a whole bunch of fun. 

This weekend is supposedly gonna be back to hot af again, and I'm pretty over it, but it sure has been nice this week actually getting to wear a hoodie at night. I am *so ready* for sweater season. It was also rad to get so much rain, it was a good preview and warning of what exactly we need to do before supposed big winter rains, like doing a better job of maintaining our backyard things so they don't collect water and resealing the roof of my van in some older rusty spots. That's what happens when your van is over 25 years old, but I sure do love having it. 

There is so much happening this week in San Diego so I'll just leave it for you to explore. I will be working the PB&J show on Friday, hopefully getting enough sleep to do Turtle Yoga on Saturday, and spending some time at HazPaca and the Zoo. There are a zillion tours coming through, so hopefully there's something awesome on your radar. Also, San Diego County Parks has a whole bunch of family fall stuff that you might consider, though I didn't add them to the listings. 

Stay safe out there, vote early and take your ballot to a dropbox NOT THE MAIL. Let's put an end to the cruelty and ridiculousness of all of this nonsense around us. 

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. 

Things To Do In San Diego: Thursday, October 8-Wednesday, October 14, 2026: Evening Elephants | Blonde Redhead | Punch Brothers | AJ Lee & Blue Summit | MANÁ | Dillinger Four | Dinosaur Jr | Y La Bamba | Deer Tick | LP | Charli XCX

Mariachis at San Diego Zoo HalGLOWeen perform 30 minute sets F/Sa/Sun at 5/6/7/8pm

Because nobody asked, my way of dealing with the crazy heat (when I can) is to run all my errands, work, and explore San Diego at night, answer all my morning emails, then sleep all day, until it's cooler enough to do it all over again. I worked at Bread & Salt on Friday and Quartyard on Saturday, but I had enough time after QY to visit the hippos at the Zoo since they're now open late on weekend for HalGLOWeeen. On Sunday I was able to sleep way way in and pretty much spooned my wall unit air conditioner until I went to the zoo in the late afternoon until closing. Not quite satisfied, I went to La Jolla Cove to finish cleaning up my van for my job this week, then visited the sea lions for awhile. When you're up late, you learn the late spots to eat, to shop, to fill up gas, so I did a little run of my favorite spots, gassed up, then decided to see the Mexican tall ship Cuauatemoc that was set to leave in the morning. The Port was an embarrassing mess of plastic cup and cans and food containers spilling out from every trash can, but I guess those guys work late, too, because while I there, a cleanup crew came to bag up and haul the trash...didn't sweep up or deal with the DIRTY DIAPERS I saw in gutters, but it helped some. (People are the worst.) 

Anyway, I had to do listings early this week, so I knocked them out on Sunday night and proceeded to sleep all Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday should be fun, interesting work days for me and then hopefully back to life's normal rhythms and weather.

Stay safe out there. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. FUCK TFG. San Diego and Los Angeles would be galaxies better if we didn't have that motherfucker and his mess dragging our shit down. 

Things To Do In San Diego: Thursday, October 1-Wednesday, October 7, 2026: Author & Punisher | Acid Mothers Temple | Federico Aubele | Laundry Day | OKTOBERFEST | Brian Fallon | L7 |

Hal-GLOW-een Starts This Weekend at San Diego Zoo. Don't forget to visit Ama!

Alrighty, kids. Padres win the wildcard and move on in the playoffs. Their next games are Saturday at 5pm and Sunday at 1pm against the Brewers, so you will have plenty of time to watch the games and still enjoy your San Diego weekend with Oktoberfests, Beachfest, and tons of shows all over the place as well as the kickoff of HalGLOWeen at San Diego Zoo, when it will be open until 9pm on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays and it's also Kids Free month. The Safari Park has a different celebration with Autumn Festival where they'll be open until 7pm on Saturdays and Sundays (October 3–4, 10–11, 17–18, and 24–25), and kids are free there, too, but note that in the past, the lower areas of the park are closed before dark and festivities are relegated to the main entry plazas and the lagoon area of the park. With Elephant Valley finally open, I don't know if that area will be accessible late, but I sure hope it is. This weekend I'll be working at Bread and Salt on Friday and at Quartyard on Saturday and then for L7 on Tuesday and Wednesday, so I'm gonna do my best to get next week's listings done by Monday...gimme grace if they're late. 

Have fun this weekend, stay safe out there. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.