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San Diego's Top Weekend Arts Events: J-Lo, Avocados And BunnyKitty

By Jade Hindmon / KPBS Midday Edition Co-Host,  Nina Garin / Arts Calendar Editor and Producer
Published June 7, 2019 at 9:26 AM PDT
This story was published more than 4 years ago.
A 2019 promotional poster for Jennifer Lopez: It's My Party tour.
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A 2019 promotional poster for Jennifer Lopez: It's My Party tour.
San Diego's Top Weekend Arts Events: J-Lo, Avocados And BunnyKitty
We love avocados here in San Diego, so much that there’s an entire festival devoted to the green fruit. Plus Jennifer Lopez celebrates a milestone birthday, and the San Diego Festival of the Arts returns.
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We love avocados here in San Diego, so much that there’s an entire festival devoted to the green fruit. Plus Jennifer Lopez celebrates a milestone birthday, and the San Diego Festival of the Arts returns.

Jennifer Lopez

Music

Jennifer Lopez's celebrates her 50th birthday in true J-Lo style: a glitzy, party-themed tour that stops in San Diego on Monday.

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This is Lopez’s first tour in six years, so expect everything to be over-the-top, from costumes covered in sequins and feathers to cutting-edge choreography.

As for the concert, it will focus on her hits from the last 20 years like "On The Floor" and "Jenny from the Block," and it will also feature performances by stars from her reality TV show, "World of Dance."

Details: 8 p.m. Monday. Pechanga Arena San Diego, 3500 Sports Arena Blvd., Midway District. $64.95 to $504.95; find tickets to Jennifer Lopez.

A promotional poster for Avolution Fest 2019
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A promotional poster for Avolution Fest 2019

Avolution Fest

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Avolution Fest is the quintessential Southern California experience. It's a sunset festival featuring live music, art installations and ... avocados.

Listen to bands like St. Lucia and Lost Kings as you sample avocado-themed treats and cocktails prepared by local food trucks.

Make sure to bring your camera because the place will be peppered with enough avocado art and murals to make your photos the envy of all your Instagram friends.

Details: 4 to 10 p.m. Saturday. Broadway Pier, 1000 North Harbor Drive, Embarcadero. $20 to $25; find tickets to Avolution Fest.

A 2018 photo from the San Diego Festival of the Arts.
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A 2018 photo from the San Diego Festival of the Arts.

San Diego Festival of the Arts

Visual Arts, Music

There are plenty of outdoor arts festivals, but the San Diego Festival of Arts has earned a reputation for being a more elegant and refined affair. The event returns for its 33rd year featuring two days of curated art, food, live music and more.

This year, graffiti and skateboard artist Dave Ross, also known as Persue, will be a spotlight artist, showcasing his popular superhero character BunnyKitty. Ross was raised in San Diego but moved to Brooklyn in 2014.

Performing will be a lineup of popular local musicians including Nina Francis, Tom Griesgraber, Peter Sprague and more.

Details: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Waterfront Park, 1600 Pacific Highway, Embarcadero. $12 to $16; find tickets to the San Diego Festival of the Arts.

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Jade Hindmon
Jade Hindmon is KPBS Midday Edition co-host. Prior to making San Diego home, Jade worked in markets across the Southeast and Midwest, building a network of sources to tell the stories of people in each community. She worked as a multimedia journalist and anchor at WRTV in Indianapolis. While there, she launched “The Weekend Edition of Good Morning Indiana” and generated breaking news content for both broadcast and digital platforms. Prior to Indianapolis, she was an anchor and multimedia journalist at FOX Carolina in Greenville, SC. As part of that Emmy Award winning team, she covered elections, landed exclusive interviews, and interviewed presidential candidates. Jade also had the opportunity to cover international news and was able to travel to South Africa during the 2010 World Cup. Jade is a three-time Emmy nominee, a National Association of Black Journalists Salute to Excellence Finalist, and the recipient of a South Carolina Associated Press Award. She is a proud graduate of Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University.
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Nina Garin
Nina Garin previously produced and edited the KPBS/Arts calendar. She also wrotes the weekly KPBS/Arts Newsletter and produced arts segments for Midday Edition. Before joining KPBS, Nina worked for nearly 20 years as an arts and entertainment reporter at The San Diego Union-Tribune. Along with covering the local arts community, she created the "Top Weekend Events" online calendar, profiled influential San Diegans for the "One-on-One" series, and reported live from Comic-Con, New York Fashion Week, and the Academy Awards. Nina is a native San Diegan, raised in Chula Vista and Tijuana, who was exposed to local arts at an early age. As a child, she tagged along to her mother's photography classes, taught by the late Michael Schnorr. She went to elementary school blocks away from Balboa Park and visited all the museums at least twice. While earning her English degree at San Diego State University, she participated in poetry readings and covered local music for The Daily Aztec. Nina has two daughters who study ballet, piano, and musical theater. She spends her free time pinning hair buns and perfecting stage makeup. Her husband, Matthew, is also a writer.
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