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'Dead Man's Cell Phone' by Sarah Ruhl Directed by Phil Johnson Featuring Sandy Campbell, Jason Maddy, Thomas Edward Daugherty, Vicky Dawson, Leigh Akin, Yolanda Franklin & Mikaela Macias About the play: An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café, a stranger at the next table who has had enough, and a dead man with a lot of loose ends…so begins Dead Man’s Cell Phone. A wildly imaginative new comedy by Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl. A work about how we memorialize the dead and how that remembering changes us. It is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a tech-obsessed world. Monday, May 29, 2023 7:30 PM San Diego Musical Theatre 4650 Mercury Street, San Diego, CA 92111 'Dead Man's Cell Phone' tickets here. 'Enter Laughing' By Joseph Stein Directed by Phil Johnson Featuring Scott Striegel, Alex Guzman, Durwood Murray, Rin Ehlers Sheldon, Phil Johnson, Daren Scott, Jessica John, D. Candis Paule, Eliott Goretsky, Leigh Akin, Scott Striegel & Jason Heil About the play: A sidesplitting adaptation of the semi-autobiographical Carl Reiner novel. David Kolowitz (Reiner) is a sewing machine delivery boy who has his eyes set on theatrical stardom. His parents want him to become a druggist, but he defies them and leaves their dreams behind to be cast as the leading man in a third-rate theater company’s production. Culminating in a hilarious first performance where everything that can go wrong, does! This uproarious show is brought to life as only The Roustabouts can! Sunday, June 11, 2023 7:00 p.m. Jewish Community Center "Enter Laughing" tickets here. 'True West' By Sam Shepard Directed by Phil Johnson Featuring David McBean & Jason Maddy About the play: Austin is an intelligent, ivy-league screenwriter – his unpredictable brother Lee is a con artist and petty thief. Austin is battling writer’s block when these two estranged brothers meet in their mother’s desert home. The pressure rises as the brothers slowly draw closer, as if being sucked into an inevitable black hole. The past is recalled, old grudges recounted, and typewriters are smashed right on stage. A wild, funny, and brooding classic story of conflict, True West has been called Sam Shephard’s “masterwork” and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1983. Monday, July 10, 2023 7:30 p.m. Scripps Ranch Theatre "True West" tickets here. Related links: The Roustabouts Theatre Co. on Instagram | Facebook

Join us for an evening of art & wine! What does art have to tell us about wine and food pairing? Still life paintings often show wine-- red, white, and sparkling -- with items of food that range from cheese and fruit to fish and meat. Paintings of meals --from humble peasants' dinners to opulent feasts of the aristocracy -- show tables where wine and food share space. Are these paintings guides to the way wines and foods were paired in the time of the Masters? Or did aesthetics dictate the color of the wines and the textures and shapes of the food? In this illustrated talk, Rod Phillips will tease wine and food connections from these works of art and draw parallels to the way today's sommeliers pair wine and food. The talk will be followed by a wine tasting. Cocktail Attire Ticket Coming Soon! About the Speaker: Rod Phillips is a professor of history at Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada. He is the author of many books and articles on the history of wine, including "Wine: A Social and Cultural History of the Drink that Changed our Lives" (paperback, 2018), "French Wine: A History" (paperback, 2020), and "Alcohol: A History" (paperback, 2019). He is also an international wine judge, wine critic, and wine writer. Stay Connected on Social Media! Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

Join us for a thoughtful and engaging introduction to the art of collecting, including looking at, examining and assessing art from a collector's point of view. Mr. Stern will share his experience as well as the basics of art collection that can turn an art aficionado into a Connoisseur. A Connoisseur is defined as a person who is especially competent to pass critical judgments in art, particularly the visual arts. Jean Stern is Director Emeritus, The Irvine Museum, and a nationally recognized authority on California Impressionism. In his career, Mr. Stern has presented over 250 lectures and judged and juried more than 100 local, national, and international art competitions. in 2017, Mr. Stern received the prestigious Chavalier of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French Ministry of Culture. Cocktail attire Wine and Charcuterie served Stay Connected on Social Media! Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

Water for People San Diego Committee along with Avista and KSDS Jazz 88.3 are proud to present Jazz on Tap 2023, a charity Jazz concert to support Water For People, a global nonprofit promoting the development of high-quality drinking water and sanitation services. The jazz festival will be held on Saturday, June 24, 2023 at the Quartyard. Doors open at 2:15 p.m., with live music starting at 3 p.m. grooving away until 9:40 p.m. There will be food, drinks and live high-energy jazz music, highlighting local artists in a fun outdoor setting. Any remaining tickets will be sold at the door. MUSIC LINEUP Steely Damned 2 Monette Marino World Jazz Ensemble Euphoria Brass Band Sure Fire Soul Ensemble Gilbert Castellanos Food and beverages will be available for purchase at the venue. All ages; a beer garden is 21+ only. Because of a Padres game at 5:40 p.m., public transportation and ridesharing are encouraged, as parking prices will be high and limited close to game time. The venue is easily accessible via the blue or orange trolley line. The closest trolley stop is one block away at Park and Market Station. Thank you from all of us at Water For People and the communities we serve in India, Bolivia, Peru, Uganda, Rwanda, Malawi, Tanzania, Honduras and Guatemala. The San Diego Committee supports the international efforts of Water For People by conducting public awareness and fundraising events in the San Diego area. Stay Connected on Social Media! Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

A "number" of U.S. personnel are being evaluated for traumatic brain injuries, the U.S. military said, after barrage of missiles and rockets targeted the Ain al-Asad base on Saturday evening.

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UC San Diego is pleased to sponsor the renowned concert pianist Gustavo Romero for a special one-hour concert featuring two piano sonatas by the Austrian composer Franz Schubert (1797-1828). The concert will be followed by a reception with light refreshments.

ARTIST | Michelle Branch WHEN | Wednesday, October 18, 2023, at 8 p.m. - Doors at 7 p.m. VENUE | Belly Up Travern ADMISSION | General admission - $37 - Ticket Price: $37 advanced / $40 day of show / $65 reserved loft seating (available over the phone 858-481-8140 or in person at our box office) Stay Connected on Social Media! Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

WHEN | Wednesday, August 23, 2023, at 8 p.m. - Doors at 7 p.m. VENUE | Belly Up Travern ADMISSION | General admission - $35 - Ticket Price: $35 advanced / $38 day of show / $62 reserved loft seating (available over the phone 858-481-8140 or in person at our box office) Stay Connected on Social Media! Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

WHEN | Tuesday, June 13, 2023, at 7:30 p.m. - Doors at 7 p.m. VENUE | Belly Up Travern ADMISSION | General admission is $12 - Ticket Price: $12 advanced / $15 day of show / $21 reserved loft seating (available over the phone 858-481-8140 or in person at our box office) Stay Connected on Social media! Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

STEPH RICHARDS, TRUMPET with MAX JAFFE, drums JOSHUA WHITE, piano STOMU TAKEISHI, electric bass Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater Event description: “A rising force in avant-garde jazz…a virtuoso of otherworldy sound” (Jazz Times) Trumpeter and composer Steph Richards has steadily established herself in as an engaging experimentalist on the jazz and creative music scenes, working with pioneering artists ranging Henry Threadgill and Anthony Braxton to Laurie Anderson and David Byrne. Her work is driven by a curiosity of what sensory variables are open to experimentation— often resulting in interdisciplinary works that include scent, dance, and performed in unexpected spaces such as carousels or underwater. Her works have been featured stages as iconic and varied as Carnegie Hall, the Blue-note and Lincoln Center. Originally from Canada, Richards has spent much of her career in Brooklyn, NY. Dedicated to experimental music without regard to genre, she is fluid in the contemporary music scene (she has performed alongside the Kronos Quartet and the International Contemporary Ensemble) as well as in the jazz and creative scenes, working with the many musicians such as Jason Moran, Ravi Coltrane and Sylvie Courvoisier. As a soloist, Richards’ solo records explore improvisation, spectral experimentation, groove and, in her more recent release, scent. Supersense (Northern Spy Records, 2020), is an inter-sensorial body of works by Steph Richards in collaboration with scent artist Sean Raspet. It is an exploration of the emotional dialogue between sound and scent, which evokes sensations that linger in the wordless space of sonic vibration and chemical reaction. "Supersense makes for high-grade experimental avant-garde and then some" (All About Jazz ****1/2). Her debut record Fullmoon (Relative Pitch Records) was hailed as a “bold pronouncement” by the New York Times and voted on multiple “Best of 2018” year end lists, including as the #1 Record of the Year by Free Jazz Collective. An electronic exploration of trumpet/resonating percussion and sampler, the record featured the work of pioneering electronic artist J.A. Dino Deane. Steph immediately followed up with her 2019 release Take The Neon Lights, a quartet situated between experimental jazz, free funk and avant rock, It also received high praise from critics, with Downbeat calling Steph “a virtuoso of nonlinear trumpet playing". For years she co-produced the NYC-based FONT Music festival alongside trumpeter Dave Douglas and now produces FONT West on the West Coast. She is on faculty at the experimentally driven University of California San Diego and is a Yamaha artist. Related links: Free. RSVP: http://music.ucsd.edu/tickets Streaming LIVE for FREE at http://music.ucsd.edu/live