Things To Do In San Diego: Thursday, November 13-Wednesday, November 19, 2025: Author & Punisher | Mating Ritual | SCOTS | Judy Collins | Off With Their Heads | Surf Hat | The Surfrajettes |

Literally two weeks after I decided that I would cancel my ACA (because Sharp kept charging me even though they threatened cancellation for two months), I have another ear infection. I'm gonna just ride it out and hope it passes, but in the meantime, I'm very very tired and don't have much else to say. Good stuff coming up. 

I will say one quick thing...someone commented on a Casbah Instagram post that "$60 for a Casbah show is insane" in reference to the three nights with Pinback. While I'm poor and cheap and $60 for anything is a lot of money, I don't see how someone can pay $47.50 plus service fees for a show at Humphrey's among 2000 people, but then quibble about $60 for a show in a room with only 200+ people. You seriously need to check yourself if you think this way. 

Listings for the week are after the jump. 

Things To Do In San Diego: Thursday, November 6-Wednesday, November 12, 2025: Stop Light Observations | Fu Manchu | miniaturized | Neko Case | Moon Panda | Born Ruffians | Tame Impala | Lovejoy | Purity Ring |

I like to get listings done on Tuesdays and spend just a little time on Wednesdays to polish them up, add random events at venues not usually included in the weekly roundup. But I've just not been very motivated. I have a whole lot of theoretical posts in my brain but lose the motivation when it comes to putting my fingers to the keyboard. We never found my cat, and there's this horrible feeling like we didn't do enough to look for her in the first 48 hours. I live across the street from a dive bar, and the women cackling during karaoke always makes me turn down my TV in case I'm hearing a cat's meow. My sleep is all off, even more than usual. I've gone on more 3am walks than I did in my 20s when I was bouncing from after party to after party. I've been going to the zoo every day, but because I'm up late, I sleep late, then get a late jump on work, so by the time I get there, I only have an hour or two to get in my zen mindset. I'm really looking forward to Sea World's Christmas Celebration, because they're open much later than the zoo for a longer period of time starting on November 14. The San Diego Zoo still has Jungle Bells, but this year they've cut it to just a couple weeks in December, from the 19th to January 4th. 

The election was a bright spot this week for sure, so I'm trying to look on the bright side. Maybe I just need to catch up on sleep with a full on pajama day to click me back to normal. With that in mind, I'm going to sleep now. 

Stay safe out there. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. 

Things To Do In San Diego: Thursday, October 30-Wednesday, November 5, 2025: Tamar Berk | Jason Mraz | Creepy Creeps | Geese | Dia De Los Deftones | Rufus Wainwright | OSLO | Ben Nichols | Doechii | AFI |

I did listings on Tuesday because I had to work our Casbah show with Pixel Grip at Quartyard on Wednesday, and Darren surprised me by showing up so I could use all my Quartyard Drink Tickets!!! and drive us safely home. (Also, to the Quartyard bartender lady that I had a brief conversation with about all things Bravo, you are my new bestie. Let's hang out and get drunk and talk about all the "Real" Housewives!!!) 

So these aren't gonna be the best orderly listings, but they're done, and I love you and I'm gonna go drink my dranks! Yay me. I haven't given up on my kitty, so it's kinda fun to be up and out on my balcony super late and imagine I'm hearing my Strawberry's phantom meows. I don't need you to tell me she's dead or bait for coyotes, I'd just like to think that my little girl is just out exploring her mousing golden years. 

Anyhow, lots of rad stuff, including lots of Halloween and Día de los Muertos activities, especially great because of how it falls on the calendar. Also, if you're out, while drivers drive too fast and super crazy, they also CAN'T SEE YOU. Get some cheap glowstick necklaces and bracelets at Dollar Tree and stop trusting traffic. 

Stay safe out there. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. 

Things To Do In San Diego: Thursday, October 23-Wednesday, October 29, 2025: NIght Moves | Sons of the East | Boris | Mo Lowda | BirdStock | Earthless | Dia De Los Muertos | Water From Your Eyes | Gayle Skidmore | Max Diaz | Jason Mraz | Pixel Grip |

It's a busy week of shows and I'm so super tired and have to be up around the time these listings will be posting, so I'm gonna just post them and say goodnight. 

Stay safe out there. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. 

Things To Do In San Diego: Thursday, October 16-Wednesday, October 22, 2025: DLG. | AJ Lee & Blue Summit | Pool Kids | Rhett Miller | Bill Murray | Nation of Language | EMO NITE | Pinback | Rilo Kiley | Alejandro Escovedo | Pete Yorn | Jade Bird | Durry |

There are a LOT of shows this week, so I hope that everyone can find something to love. I think I'll be working at the Haley Reinhart show at Lou Lou's and then Durry at Quartyard, but not quite sure if I have anything in between. As I've mentioned in my other posts, my cat is missing so I've been a bit preoccupied with that, and heartbroken that this is the week we've finally gotten rain and super chilly mornings. I'm just hoping with all hope that she's inside somewhere with access to food and will eventually find her way back home. 

But that's not what you're here for. Listings are long. No Kings rallies are on Saturday morning, so be peaceful and be smart, and don't put yourself in danger. I'm hearing the I-5 in Camp Pendleton will be closed so our POS VP can vanity fuck a missile or some shit, so check the news reports on that if you were trying to get to or from LA for any reason, and pay attention to your shows if there are cancelations or postponements because bands couldn't get down from LA in time. 

Stay safe (and warm) out there, and hug your fur babies. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Listings through Wednesday are after the jump. 

Rosey's Diary & Newsy Things: September 2025: Trip Through California | Election Ballot Information | Tikka Is Missing! | West Nile Present | San Diego Remains Exorbitantly Expensive |

Please keep an eye out for Strawberry, aka Tikka,
missing from Normal Heights since Saturday, 10/11/25

I got back from my trip on Wednesday, and went straight to Adams Avenue Theatre to see CityNerd. My trip was great. I stayed with my cousin in LA the first and last nights, camped 3 nights at 3 different camps (Gaviota near Santa Barbara, Morro Bay, and Monterey) then stayed 4 nights with Darren's nephew in Hercules for the memorial for Evelyn in Lake Merritt and other Bay Area activities (like me driving around San Pablo Reservoir aimlessly and doing a big shopping trip to Ace Hardware to do some house upkeep.) We got in a visit with Darren's mom, and after Toby and Darren flew home, I got to visit with my niece at USF. All told, I was able to do LA Zoo on the way up, Oakland Zoo, San Francisco Zoo, and Fresno Zoo and then LA Zoo again. I saw otters and sea lions in Morro Bay and Moss Landing, stopped at a few state parks with the pass I checked out from the library, and particularly enjoyed the sunset at Seacliff, near Santa Cruz. The weather was perfect the entire trip, even with brief overnight rain in Monterey. I was lucky at the LA Zoo to see the debut of the two female chimpanzee babies on their first day on habitat, and I feel like that set the tone for the whole trip being full of surprises, like getting basically a private tour of the Fresno Zoo by a girl in the education department just by asking a couple questions. I have a lot of photos to share over time, but gotta get to listings for this week first. I definitely wanna do it again; driving California was spectacular. When I do it all again, I would make sure to also catch the Santa Barbara Zoo, which I missed when my whole trip was delayed a day for some necessary auto repairs, and Sacramento Zoo, which would just make sense for the route that I traveled. 

The whole thing was great, though now it's been dampened by the fact that my cat slipped off our balcony on Saturday night and we haven't found any sign of her. I've walked my neighborhood for hours on end, at different times of day, and nothing. Today I found out that her microchip was done before she was at the Humane Society, so I have to track down which of several companies could have done it, and it really only benefits if someone actually catches her and gets her scanned. I'm not quite ready to think of the alternatives, but let me tell you how shitty people are who post comments on PawBoost posts. I don't need your stupid advice on what I should have done. Anyway, this post had enough links built up that I'm just gonna post so I can get on with my other work. I'm not even gonna get into my whole thing with paid parking at Balboa Park and the Zoo, since the former seems to be on ice for the time being and the latter seems resolved to be free parking for members if and when paid parking is implemented. I also am aware of the government shutdown and lots of other stuff that went down while I was gone. The good thing about driving up the state, is you can't doomscroll social media while driving, so I listened to my True Crime podcasts and YouTube programs and turned my brain mostly off to the news. 

Stay safe out there. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.  

Things To Do In San Diego: Thursday, October 9-Wednesday, October 15, 2025: Patrick Wolf | Ty Segall | Nourished By Time | Frankie Cosmos | Los Straitjackets | The Budos Band | Jembaa Groove | Macario Martinez | 81355 | Juan Wauters | Shonen Knife | The Beaches | Isabella Lovestory |

I'm back and listings are late, and there are probably things in my calendar that I will have to add later, but I wanted you to have the general list for this week. 
Stay safe out there. 

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. 

Things To Do In San Diego: Will Have To Wait

I thought I had prepared by doing listings for the upcoming week, but they're not quite done, but I sure am. I got back from my trip at 6pm on Wednesday and went straight to Adams Avenue Theatre to the BikeSD event with City Nerd, Ray Delahanty. Then I had to gas up and take Toby back to UCSD. That means I wasn't home until 9:30, ate some dinner Darren prepared, and then unpacked some of the essentials from my trip. 

I had an amazing, albeit exhausting week and a half, and I have to go to bed. Listings will come at some point on Thursday, just not the usual 6am. 

Love you all. 

Things To Do In San Diego: Thursday, September 25-Wednesday, October 8, 2025: Rev Horton Heat | Lucinda Williams | Band of Horses | Stereophonics | Ice Cube | Big Thief | The Head & The Heart | PUP |

San Diego Skyline Taken From Admiral Hornblower

Oh, boy. It is not easy to try to compile two weeks of listings without some well-programmed scrapers like other sites have, especially as September ends and October is still a week out. But I've got things to do and places to go. I'm going on a trip and I'll talk all about it when I'm back, but I don't know what my internet access will be like for the next couple weeks and I would prefer not to touch my laptop at all, so I just want to let you know that I don't have first week of October listings for Aquarius, Black Cat, Til-Two, Panama 66, Blind Lady, Seven Grand, Sycuan Live & Local and a couple others. If I get a chance to update, I will, but if not, know that those venues typically have live music on weekends and you can use my venue page to check them if you're so inclined. I will try to cut the listings and break them out by week, but again, we'll see if I find a library or a place to do such things. Plus, I have so much other stuff to talk about...I got to go on the renovated Admiral Hornblower last week, checked out Samia at Music Box, and loved getting to see Suzzallo at Soda Bar on Tuesday. And going into my birthday weekend, HazPaca is open for four days!, I think I get to see and shoot Stereophonics on Saturday, and my birthday will start with Seaworld Yoga, this time in Turtle Reef, and close with Big Thief at the Shell, with a whole bunch of other stuff in between. So yay. I'm old. Happy birthday to me. Feels like a good time for a vacay. 

I'm beat. Stay safe out there. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. 

Things To Do In San Diego: Thursday, September 18-Wednesday, September 24, 2025: TOPS | Kyle Mooney Birdtalker | Jon Batiste | Adams Avenue Street Fair | Howard Jones | The Hives | Suzzallo | Reverend Horton Heat |

I decided to do most of my listings on Monday this week, but then it made me stay up all night so Tuesday was kind of a shitshow, but I hung out with my mom at the zoo and went to Darren's softball practice on Tuesday and hope to get it all back together because I have a thing to go to on Wednesday. I realized that if I'm hoping to do my full travel itinerary, I might actually try to get next week's listings also done this week and my birthday week done next week, so then I really don't have to worry about laptop time (or finding power) while I'm running around. 

Now, I know I haven't done any sort of show previews in a very, very long time, but there are a ton of rad shows this week -- too many all at once if you ask me--slamming against the Adams Avenue Street Fair, my mom's birthday, Toby's "family day" at UCSD and then moving him in to his dorm...it's all a lot. But I wanted to draw your attention (those of you who still read, anyway) to the Suzzallo show on Tuesday at Soda Bar. Suzzallo is fronted by Rocky Votolato and harkens back to his early days in Waxwing and let's him completely scream it all out in a much different way than his self-titled records. Rocky has been very public about the tragic loss of his 22-year-old, Kienan, in a horrific automobile collision a few years back, and it seems working through the grief of losing them brought this project together. (If you'd like to read more, few people write as rawly and beautifully as Rocky himself.) They're playing at Soda Bar on Tuesday, and while I love a show in an empty room with lots of elbow room and having the band all to myself, I know it would mean a lot to show support to an artist who's been coming to San Diego reliably for over 20 years. You can listen to the whole Suzzallo album on YouTube here and see their entire KEXP performance here.