Music From San Diego Tweet Reported by Katherine Sweetman Author & Punisher Announces New West Coast Tour Dates San Diego artist/ musician, Tristan Shone, is the man behind the madness. He will be flying solo, tearing through California, Washington, and Oregon in support of his forthcoming Seventh Rule Recordings debut, “Ursus Americanus” (due out in digital and digipak CD on […]
Author & Punisher Announces New West Coast Tour Dates
Sharpen your Conceptual Claws, World: UCSD Open Studios
A simple subjective experience By Katherine Sweetman “The Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego encourages experimentation, innovation and risk-taking in scholarly and artistic production. We provide a unique environment for learning and research that crosses the boundaries between history, theory, and practice in the visual arts.” – from Vis Arts website Last Saturday the top graduate art program […]
Spotlight Chicago, IL: Tom Torluemke, “Ring around the Rosie”
An Essay on Artist Tom Torluemke Tweet By Kevin Freitas Ring-a-ring-a-roses, A pocket full of posies; Hush! hush! hush! hush! We’re all tumbled down. “Though it seems at times as if nothing could rout him out of the inertia in which he is entrenched, it is quite possible that he may one day be shocked into a greater state of […]
Strip Club Owner Dressed like The Pope, Weds Couple in Strip Club
Vows And A Kiss Tweet Reported by Katherine Sweetman Exposé — Strip Club, San Diego, California April 1, 2012 Although this wedding happened to fall on April Fools Day, it was no joke — at least not to the participants. The strip club owner was ordained online and led an official, yet very unofficial looking, wedding at the strip club […]
Create at Will: An Interview with Adam Murillo
By Katherine Sweetman Tweet Two life-like dinosaur heads were sticking out of the walls at an art opening at 57 degrees. It was as if someone had hunted them for sport and mounted their heads as trophies — this was the first work I saw by artist Adam Murillo. The curator of the event, Guy Lombardo, introduced me to the […]
A Sculptural Lighting Collection: Interview with artists Rachel Eva and Shawn Michael
By Katherine Sweetman Tweet Interview with artists Rachel Eva and Shawn Michael: K.S. Tell me about this new collection of work– your “Sculptural Lighting” collection. What brought the both of you, who are artists in many different mediums, to focus your energy toward this very specific kind of work? R.E. I think we both have always been fascinated by light. […]
THE BOX – the SWEAT box, that is…
Tweet Living in “the Box” A Brief History and Overview of El Cajon, CA By Kent Manthie Living in El Cajon is very different from living in San Diego, that’s for sure. Anyone who’s familiar with the various parts of San Diego County knows that out here, in the east part of the county, down in the valley, so to […]
The RAW-ist of the RAW: Interview with Erleen Nada
Interview with Erleen Nada Tweet By Katherine Sweetman It was a Thursday night, and I went downtown to see a “show” at 4th & B put on by a national “independent arts organization, for artists, by artists” called RAW. I went especially to see one particular artist/musician, Erleen Nada, because I’d seen a music video created by my friends at […]