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 […]
Spotlight Chicago, IL: Tom Torluemke, “Ring around the Rosie”
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 […]
Saigon Cool: Posters, Tattoos and “Chicken Girls” + Interview with Punk Rocker and Bar Owner Ben Burns
Saigon Cool: Posters, Tattoos and “Chicken Girls” + Interview with Punk Rocker and Bar Owner Ben Burns Reviewer Goes Abroad Tweet By Katherine Sweetman Should you ever find yourself in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (aka Saigon), I have four recommendations: 1) Shop at Lotus for vintage propaganda posters where you can get the originals and/or smaller prints of real Vietnamese agitprop […]
Art Fair Vital Necessity and Dirty Whore
Miami Art Scene Tweet Art Fair Vital Necessity and Dirty Whore By Katherine Sweetman Each year thousands of patrons (65,000+ this year) make the pilgrimage to Art Basel Miami Beach and/or the countless other happenings, satellite fairs and parties that intentionally overlap this weekend of art-flavored events. This was the 10th year for the Miami fair that’s billed as “the […]
San Diego and America’s Royal Fondness
[Opinion] Feeling The Love In San Diego Tweet Prince Harry’s Military Helicopter Training in SD might have other motives, so says one British citizen. by Tash Jones It seems our very own Prince of the British Monarchy has headed out to California. Prince Harry is spending the next two months with his army unit in the Naval Air Facility in […]
Seasonally Appropriate
Seasonally appropriate, regionally specific photo gallery: Tweet Punkins
intimate moments
[Poetry] It’s all I wanted. by Brittany Vipond from Sunday, July 3, 2011 at 10:32pm Tweet I wanted intimate moments, I wanted them to burn the edge of every photograph the way memories remained distorted in her only right eye, I wanted the sacrifice of my only left over breathing triangular abstract animal, and it wouldn’t mean anything to you, […]
San Diego Surf (1968) by Andy Warhol
[Film and the Arts] Andy Warhol’s film San Diego Surf (1968, unreleased) and the La Jolla connection At right: Carl Ekstrom talking in a Reviewer video interview at Richard Kenvin’s 50th birthday party about his Andy Warhol surfing film connection. by Reviewer Rob The 1960’s brought some fame to La Jolla when Tom Wolfe’s novel The Pumphouse Gang highlighted Windansea’s […]