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| This week in San Diego |
RuPaul, Sammy Virji and a secret warehouse |
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Sat, Oct 17 · 5pm · Ingram Plaza, Liberty Station
Insomniac presents RuPaul + Bambii B2B LSDXOXO
RuPaul DJing outdoors at Liberty Station is the kind of thing we will be talking about for a while, but the real reason to go is Bambii back to back with LSDXOXO, which is the best club pairing on any flyer this month. Chippy Nonstop and Alex Chapman open. It ends at 11pm, so you can still make the warehouse after.
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Sat, Oct 17 · 10pm · Secret location, San Diego · $20
Particle FM presents Kiernan Laveaux, Malzof and Aloe F
Particle FM books the stuff the big promoters skip. Kiernan Laveaux plays strange, fast, emotional techno and this will be the loudest small room of the weekend. Address goes out to ticket holders.
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Sat, Oct 17 · 5pm · Gallagher Square at Petco Park, East Village
LED presents Sammy Virji with Joy Anonymous
UK garage in a ballpark at sunset. Sammy Virji is a crowd pleaser in the best way, and Joy Anonymous on the same bill makes this worth the ticket if the Liberty Station lineup is not your thing. Pick one, both end before 11pm.
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Fri, Oct 16 · 9pm · Spin, Midway · from $20
SD Union 16 Year Anniversary: London Elektricity, Dirtyphonics
Sixteen years of drum and bass in San Diego and they are bringing London Elektricity (the man behind Hospital Records) to celebrate. Dirtyphonics is the heavier half. Goes until 4am.
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Sun, Oct 18 · 4pm · Beach House, Mission Beach
FNGRS CRSSD Palms Beach Club with Prospa
Sunday day party on the sand with Prospa, who make rave music that actually works at 5pm in daylight. Bring a towel, a cooler with a few SUNGODs for the beach beforehand, and leave your Saturday on Saturday.
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Fri, Oct 16 · 10pm · 3oz Dive Club, Pacific Beach · $10
Baltra
Baltra makes melancholy lo-fi house and 3oz is a small dive, so this is the intimate option on Friday if Spin feels like too much. Ten bucks.
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Thu, Oct 15 · 7:30pm · Casbah, Middletown
Shiner and Fotocrime
Shiner are a 90s Kansas City band that got loud and precise and never got the credit. Fotocrime is Ryan Patterson from Coliseum doing dark post-punk. Best rock bill of the week, and it is at the Casbah, which is where it belongs.
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Thu, Oct 15 · 7:30pm · Balboa Theatre, Downtown
Daniel Sloss: Bitter
The Scottish comic whose specials have reportedly ended thousands of relationships. He is dark and smart and the Balboa is a good room for comedy. Go with someone you are sure about.
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Thu, Oct 15 · 6pm · Lou Lou's Jungle Room, North Park
Gilbert Castellanos and The New Latin Jazz Sextet
Castellanos is the best trumpet player in the city and this is his Latin jazz group in one of the best rooms to hear it. Early start, so you can do this and still make the Casbah.
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Thu, Oct 15 · 7:30pm · Petco Park, East Village
Turnpike Troubadours, Steve Earle and Reckless Kelly
If you like country that is not made for a truck commercial, this is the one. Steve Earle alone is worth the ticket and Turnpike are as good live as anyone in that lane right now.
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Thu, Oct 15 · 7:30pm · Belly Up, Solana Beach
Easy Star All-Stars: Dub Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd done as dub, start to finish. It sounds like a gimmick and it is not, the record has held up for twenty years. Good North County option on Thursday.
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Fri, Oct 16 · 12pm (through Sunday) · Mariner's Point, Mission Bay
Mission Bayfest
Three days of reggae on the bay with Rebelution, Steel Pulse, SOJA and, somehow, The Offspring. Steel Pulse is the set we would plan around. The $1.50 tacos are real and the view across the water is the point.
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Fri, Oct 16 · 6pm · Villa Montezuma Museum, Sherman Heights
Poefest
Edgar Allan Poe stories performed inside a genuinely creepy Victorian mansion that most people in San Diego have never been inside. This is the Halloween thing to do that does not involve a bar crawl.
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Thu, Oct 15 · 12pm · Central Library, East Village
Becoming Heirlooms: A Craft Desert Exhibition
A craft and art show about objects that get passed down, put together for the Handwork 2026 initiative. Worth an hour downtown before dinner, and the library building itself is still underrated.
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Thu, Oct 15 · 7pm · Spin, Midway · Free
Headroom Listening Sessions
Free, early, and on a proper sound system. Headroom is a listening session, not a club night, so you can actually hear the music and talk to people. Done by 9pm.
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Sat, Oct 17 · 9pm · Breakpoint, Pacific Beach · Free
Weee're Ghosts with QNTMZ
Free house and tech house in PB on Saturday night. Not a destination, but if you are already out that side of town after the beach it beats whatever is on Garnet.
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Thu, Oct 15 · 7:30pm · Warwick's, La Jolla · Free
Donna Miscolta: Ofelia and Norma
Miscolta is a San Diego native and this novel about two sisters is getting real attention. Warwick's readings are free and small, which is the right way to see an author.
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Fri, Oct 16 · 5pm · 37ECB, City Heights · Free
Fright for Future
A free haunted maze on El Cajon Boulevard where the scares are climate and animal issues. Weird idea, independently run, and it is free, so go in with an open mind.
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| 🌮 Food |
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Sat, Oct 17 · check the link · 4007 Euclid Avenue, City Heights
Taste of City Heights
City Heights has the best cheap food in the city and this is the easiest way to try a lot of it in one afternoon. Go hungry and skip lunch.
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Wed, Oct 14 · 5:30pm · Mission Hills
Taste of Mission Hills
Tonight. Twenty five restaurants in a walkable neighborhood, which is more useful than it sounds because Mission Hills has a few places you have been meaning to try and never do.
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Thu, Oct 15 · 3:30pm · North Park Way at 30th, North Park
North Park Thursday Market
Still the best weekday farmers market in the city. Get there before 5 for the good bread and stay for a taco on the way to Lou Lou's.
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| This week's plate and pour |
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🍽️ Dish of the week
Miso black cod
Zuma · The Guild Hotel, Downtown
Troy Johnson just reviewed the first California Zuma and it is a big, expensive show. If you go, skip half the menu and get the miso marinated black cod, which is the dish that built the brand and the reason to be there.
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🍹 Drink of the week
A daiquiri
Lou Lou's Jungle Room · Lafayette Hotel, North Park
Order a daiquiri, nothing fancy, and sit with it while Castellanos plays on Thursday. The room does the rest.
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| ☀️ From SUNGOD |
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New places carrying SUNGOD: Dick's Liquor in La Jolla, Party Time Liquor #3 in San Diego, and The Havens Country Club in Vista. New on the Bulletin: what a hardwater actually is, and our guide to a perfect beach day in Encinitas. Also on the Bulletin: the green flash in San Diego, and how to see one.
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Cheers,
the SUNGOD Team |
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