San Diego Entertainment

The madness has begun, the dates for this year's Coachella Music and Arts Festival are Saturday April 30th and Sunday May 1st. Reserve your rooms here. Thanks to the ambitious outsiders we have info on some acts playing Coachella. Radio ...

Tonight from 8pm-Midnight, the San Diego Asian Film Foundation is hosting a fundraiser for victims of the tsunami disaster at Thin Room (852 Fifth Avenue, Gaslamp Quarter). Join them for a night of films from Thailand and India, along with local news ...

David Moye sent us: www.shemmfanclub.com Shemm will be performing on the Jimmy Kimmell Show Monday Night (Jan 4). tell a friend. hat tip Shemm must be seen to be believed. We've talked about Shemm before. Thanks David!

San Diego is home to a thriving design scene, and Wearhaus is at the center of it all. Its purpose is to bring like-minded people together to network, share ideas (sound familiar?) and show their wares at the monthly showcase at the San Diego Martini Ranch ...

Looks like a neat event on Wednesday ... Film School Confidential 2004: A Showcase of San Diego Student Films Date: Wednesday December 8, 2004 Time: 7:00 PM Location: The Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park, 1649 El Prado General admission $10; students, seniors and MoPA members $8

The tournament is free and open to the public. Matches begin most days at 1 p.m. at the Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines. There's a Chess Blog. Maybe I'll dust off my Ruy Lopez opening.

TRADING SPACES SEEKS HOMEOWNERS THE SAN DIEGO AREA! WHAT: TLC’s hit series TRADING SPACES, where two sets of neighbors swap homes for two days to redesign one room in each other’s house, is looking for San Diego area residents to participate in episode tapings. WHEN: TRADING SPACES will film in the San Diego, CA AREA from Jan 28th to Feb 10th.

Several months ago now I picked up a flyer to something called the Hot Monkey Love Cafe, a cafe and music/entertainment venue located at 5960 El Cajon Blvd in the College area. I have been meaning to check it out. They appear to do a fair amount of music ...

You've probably seen his artwork - especially if you frequent the Belly Up in Solana Beach. His name is Scrojo - and he's been designing concert posters for about two decades now. I found his website at ...

Fantasy Showgirls - A Reality in Encinitas

Add this to the list of things I didn't know San Diego had: San Diego Film Festival. It's from September 29 to October 3, 2004 and in the Gaslamp Quarter. At least one movie Never Been Done has a filmmaker based in San Diego. Apparently it's about ...

According to the SDUT, a replacement has been found for Charles Harrington Elster: Beginning early next month, Martha Barnette is the new co-host of KPBS/FM 89.5's "A Way With Words," the weekly radio program devoted to exploring English. She joins author and linguist Richard Lederer. "A ...

In our latest San Diego Blog Interview, we talk with Bobby Rubio, cartoonist and animator. We came across his work at this years Comic Con, which we covered (search for comic con). Bobby comes from San Diego, and went to Morse High School. He counts San Diego as a big influence on his work. The bio from his websites says: Bobby Rubio was born and raised in San Diego, California, and has been drawing since he was a child. While attending Morse High School, Bobby won a cartoon contest with the San Diego Union newspaper (now known as the Union-Tribune.) For college, Bobby attended the California Institute of the Arts, which is an art school founded by Walt Disney. While in college, he freelanced as a comic book artist for Dark Horse Comics. After earning his Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts, Bobby entered an internship with Jim Lee at Homage Studios (Image Comics.) After completing his internship, he entered an animation internship with Walt Disney Feature Animation in Orlando, Florida. After completing that program, he was hired on to work for Walt Disney Feature Animation in Burbank, California, where, in the course of 9 years, he completed several films as a traditional animator and as a storyboard artist. Bobby is currently working at Nickelodeon Studios as an assistant director on a new TV show scheduled to debut November 2004. San Diego Blog: You work in Comics and in Animation. Which do you prefer, and why?

Vince Outlaw of New Jazz Thing, and a DJ from KSDS who has been using blogs for a while on his show, has started a weblog for Street Scene, happening (duh) this weekend! Hey Joe! I've added the SD Blogger badge to my new site, The Street Scene ...

Man, Brian Dear does nice work over on Brianstorms. His latest bit of entertaining reportage is Wil Wheaton's Big San Diego Bookstore Bash. Get over there and read it now! Had you been keeping up with San Diego Blog you'd have known about this ...

Mei Sheng, a Panda born in captivy at The San Diego Zoo last year has just turned 1 year old. This post is blatant pandering to those people who just love those cute widdle pandas. San Diego Blog aims to please. Here's the Panda Cam. ...

This is a neat idea associated with AIDSWalk San Diego -- RockTheWalk.org. It'll take place on September 24th at The Casbah: Rock the Walk is a benefit concert for AIDSWalk San Diego 2004 and will be hosted by Joelle Reeder and Allison Gill to raise ...

via fark, this story in The Oregonian: Oh, the sentence he will serve Steen's attempts to squeeze money out of Dr. Seuss' 82-year-old widow, Audrey Geisel, is among the most bizarre cases they have investigated. ... He painted a picture, unseemly and lewd, of famous characters in poses no child should view. Horton, Sam, and the Cat in the Hat. And, yes, even little Cindy-Lou Who. Working with a San Diego high-tech crimes unit, Portland police arrested Steen, 33, last fall at his Northwest Portland apartment. Steen recently pleaded guilty in a San Diego County courtroom to sending written threats of extortion to Geisel over the Internet. A judge sentenced him to three years' probation and anger-management counseling. The plea deal also orders him to stop trying to contact the San Diego woman, her attorneys and Dr. Seuss' enterprises. In a barrage of e-mails late last year, Steen demanded "$2.5 million after taxes" from Geisel, said San Diego police Detective Skip Stephenson. If she refused, according to police records, Steen said he would "go public" with a painting depicting Dr. Seuss characters engaged in sexual acts.

Van Halen plays Coors Amphitheatre

Anya Marina, SD radio personality, tours her