Things To Do In San Diego: Thursday, November 5-Wednesday, November 11, 2026: Supertaste | Alex Cameron | DICE | John Legend | Born Without Bones | Dia De Los Deftones | Dave Hause | Stephen Day | Holy Wave | Psychedelic Furs | Bebe Stockwell | Sun Room | Oh He Dead | Todd Day Wait |

Woo. Fucking. Hoo. 

This website/blog is now 20 years old. TWENTY YEARS OLD. To be fair, I had other sites before it, but it was November 6, 2006 when I wrote my first post here. So much has changed about the way we get information, the way we communicate, how we experience shows and life in general. Everyone has a camera at all times. Setlists are published on archival websites. I don't need to write reviews about shows because you can literally go online and see if anything special, terrible, wonderful, or worthy of mentioning happened. I went from party girl, dive bar chick, who was out at least 5 nights a week to a partner and stepmom of a kid that was 4 when I immersed into his life who is now a sophomore in college, on a full ride, I might add, because we did that. 

I was feeling like shit this week...there is just general pain that you get when you're 50 that you don't ever imagine when you're 30, I had a stye in my eye which was making it painful to even be online and try to read a screen, and when I spiral out and don't go to the zoo for a day or two, it's really easy to just not leave the house and feel even worse for not getting the fresh air and exercise. So I was thinking maybe 20 years is a good run. I should just wrap it up and send you off to ListenSD or DoSD to find your shows and just let this place languish. And then I met someone, Derek, I think, while working merch on Tuesday, and he told me how he loves the site and depends on it and how glad he was that I still do it. 

So yeah. Here I am. A creature of habit. I guess I'm not quitting yet. It won't be another 20 years, I can guarantee that, but for now, here I am. Maybe after 20 years, it's time to monetize this bitch. 

Stay safe out there. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. 

Things To Do In San Diego: Thursday, October 29-Wednesday, November 4, 2026: Failure | Agriculture | Theo Katzman | The B-52s | Moenia | The Creepy Creeps | The Black Angels | Clay Street Unit | Fitz & The Tantrums

Silly Labu turns 16 on Halloween. 

I think I've overextended myself yet again and now I'm having a little regret that I'm gonna miss the final two nights of HalGLOWeen at the San Diego Zoo. I'll be working Friday and Saturday nights, so I guess I'm glad that on Sunday I made the extra effort to watch a final performance from the mariachis, who finally played my favorite song to hear them do. I suppose I could've requested it before, but I'd rather just hear their mix of inspiration. If you haven't seen them and you're a pass-member, I highly recommend you take advantage when they play every hour on the hour for a half hour starting at 6pm on Friday and Saturday night. Easy to catch a set before your big Halloween plans flesh out. I've never been super big on Halloween, but I'll try not to yuck anyone else's yum. You should bear in mind, however, that there are only like a dozen tickets left for the Casbah's Halloween extravaganza, so get those before they're gone. 

More important than all the Halloween and Día De Los Muertos weekend planning, however, is that this is the final weekend before election day. Make sure you're filling out your ballot and returning it to an OFFICIAL BALLOT DROP-OFF site and NOT dropping it in the mail. Early voting sites are also open that make it super easy to drop-off and grab extra "I Voted" stickers in a plethora of languages. Besides all that, have a fun and safe Halloween weekend, drive safely and cautiously as the streets will be full of pedestrians, and save me a Snickers. 

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. 

Things To Do In San Diego: Thursday, October 22-Wednesday, October 28, 2026: Hovvdy | zzzahara | Juanes | She Wants Revenge | Kishi Bashi | matt pond PA | beabadoobee |

After a long night of merch with Peter, Bjorn, and John at Music Box (10.16.26)

It's been busy around here. I'm finding that there just aren't enough hours in a day to do everything I wanna do and also get the 10-12 hours of sleep my body is suddenly demanding as I age. It's discombobulating to say the least. It's also hard to then match my timeline with Darren's, who wakes up at 4:15 everyday and is home from work by 3pm, when I'm about wrapping up the bulk of my work and ready to set out on the day's adventures. We make it work, but I know he misses me. I worked for PB&J on Friday, but Saturday we made it out to HazPaca and had tacos in Jamul before I carried on to the zoo for a quick hour at the end of the night. Drinking just isn't the same as it used to be either. When I got home, we had adult cocktails which made Sunday a worthless wasted day, making this whole week feel like I've been treading water, with a whole bunch of things on my to-do list while also working the Protomartyr show, and Hovvdy on Thursday. But slowly but surely I'm catching up with things and was at least able to do some stuff I wanted to accomplish before the rain came. And so here we are. Listings done. See you at Hovvdy. Stay safe out there. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Only two weekends left of nighttime Zoo for HalGLOWeen. Find me at the hippos or watching the mariachis. xx

Rosey's Diary & Newsy Things: Committee Moves To Cancel Flock | Rescued Beluga Dies at Seaworld | Manchester Pitches Data Center | ICE Infiltrates San Diego |

Not gonna lie, trying to capture important news right now is like drinking water from a firehose, so while I've been keeping up with all of the madness, I wasn't keeping track of a lot of links, but I will say that if you wanna protest the proposed AI Data Center, there's a planned rally at the City Hall/Civic Center breezeway on Thursday at 4-4:45pm. Fuck "Papa Doug" and fuck his enablers and allies and fuck the stupid fucking piece of shit occupying the white house and if you don't vote this election, I really have no time for you. kthxbai. And now I'll refocus my anger and ire at Massachusetts as I continue watching coverage of the trial of Matthew Farwell as it feels somehow less frustrating if I focus my energy on somewhere else. 

Stay safe out there. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Vote like our lives depend on it. Because they do.

Things To Do In San Diego: Thursday, October 15-Wednesday, October 21, 2026: Peter Bjorn & John | Shakey Graves | Untamed Youth | Juice | Bonnie Raitt | Bayfest | Bella Vita Fest | High Vis | Julia Jacklin | Melvins | Protomartyr |

Over the weekend, Darren and I finally gave in and bought a new America The Beautiful National Parks Pass. If you don't know, TFG put his stupid face on it, so we were reluctant, but decided that I miss Cabrillo Monument enough and because we're hoping to spend some time in Big Bear soon that we should have a pass. Over the weekend, I also worked at the Rocky Horror Picture Show, which was a whole bunch of fun. 

This weekend is supposedly gonna be back to hot af again, and I'm pretty over it, but it sure has been nice this week actually getting to wear a hoodie at night. I am *so ready* for sweater season. It was also rad to get so much rain, it was a good preview and warning of what exactly we need to do before supposed big winter rains, like doing a better job of maintaining our backyard things so they don't collect water and resealing the roof of my van in some older rusty spots. That's what happens when your van is over 25 years old, but I sure do love having it. 

There is so much happening this week in San Diego so I'll just leave it for you to explore. I will be working the PB&J show on Friday, hopefully getting enough sleep to do Turtle Yoga on Saturday, and spending some time at HazPaca and the Zoo. There are a zillion tours coming through, so hopefully there's something awesome on your radar. Also, San Diego County Parks has a whole bunch of family fall stuff that you might consider, though I didn't add them to the listings. 

Stay safe out there, vote early and take your ballot to a dropbox NOT THE MAIL. Let's put an end to the cruelty and ridiculousness of all of this nonsense around us. 

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. 

Things To Do In San Diego: Thursday, October 8-Wednesday, October 14, 2026: Evening Elephants | Blonde Redhead | Punch Brothers | AJ Lee & Blue Summit | MANÁ | Dillinger Four | Dinosaur Jr | Y La Bamba | Deer Tick | LP | Charli XCX

Mariachis at San Diego Zoo HalGLOWeen perform 30 minute sets F/Sa/Sun at 5/6/7/8pm

Because nobody asked, my way of dealing with the crazy heat (when I can) is to run all my errands, work, and explore San Diego at night, answer all my morning emails, then sleep all day, until it's cooler enough to do it all over again. I worked at Bread & Salt on Friday and Quartyard on Saturday, but I had enough time after QY to visit the hippos at the Zoo since they're now open late on weekend for HalGLOWeeen. On Sunday I was able to sleep way way in and pretty much spooned my wall unit air conditioner until I went to the zoo in the late afternoon until closing. Not quite satisfied, I went to La Jolla Cove to finish cleaning up my van for my job this week, then visited the sea lions for awhile. When you're up late, you learn the late spots to eat, to shop, to fill up gas, so I did a little run of my favorite spots, gassed up, then decided to see the Mexican tall ship Cuauatemoc that was set to leave in the morning. The Port was an embarrassing mess of plastic cup and cans and food containers spilling out from every trash can, but I guess those guys work late, too, because while I there, a cleanup crew came to bag up and haul the trash...didn't sweep up or deal with the DIRTY DIAPERS I saw in gutters, but it helped some. (People are the worst.) 

Anyway, I had to do listings early this week, so I knocked them out on Sunday night and proceeded to sleep all Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday should be fun, interesting work days for me and then hopefully back to life's normal rhythms and weather.

Stay safe out there. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. FUCK TFG. San Diego and Los Angeles would be galaxies better if we didn't have that motherfucker and his mess dragging our shit down. 

Things To Do In San Diego: Thursday, October 1-Wednesday, October 7, 2026: Author & Punisher | Acid Mothers Temple | Federico Aubele | Laundry Day | OKTOBERFEST | Brian Fallon | L7 |

Hal-GLOW-een Starts This Weekend at San Diego Zoo. Don't forget to visit Ama!

Alrighty, kids. Padres win the wildcard and move on in the playoffs. Their next games are Saturday at 5pm and Sunday at 1pm against the Brewers, so you will have plenty of time to watch the games and still enjoy your San Diego weekend with Oktoberfests, Beachfest, and tons of shows all over the place as well as the kickoff of HalGLOWeen at San Diego Zoo, when it will be open until 9pm on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays and it's also Kids Free month. The Safari Park has a different celebration with Autumn Festival where they'll be open until 7pm on Saturdays and Sundays (October 3–4, 10–11, 17–18, and 24–25), and kids are free there, too, but note that in the past, the lower areas of the park are closed before dark and festivities are relegated to the main entry plazas and the lagoon area of the park. With Elephant Valley finally open, I don't know if that area will be accessible late, but I sure hope it is. This weekend I'll be working at Bread and Salt on Friday and at Quartyard on Saturday and then for L7 on Tuesday and Wednesday, so I'm gonna do my best to get next week's listings done by Monday...gimme grace if they're late. 

Have fun this weekend, stay safe out there. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.  

Rosey's Diary & Newsy Things: Padres Advance to NLDS Against Brewers | Fall Arts | San Diegans Outraged About...Everything | Mumps Outbreak at State |

  

Squirrel Monkey Rocket and her new baby born 8.25.26

Not gonna lie, I've been caught up with murder trials (Clancy, Kosowski, and Flynn) plus we had a whole plumbing situation at home last week and then it was my birthday, so this post is light on national and international politics links, which is probably appreciated anyway. It's pretty repetitive as long as TFG is around, with one more fucking stupid gaffe after another and utterly terrifying with a new SCOTUS session kicking off, purveyors of s.a. just constantly getting away with it, from high school reality tv offsprint to the Cornell 7,  all learning from POTUS himself, and all we can hope for is a blue wave in midterms. 

In spite of the expected heat wave about to hit, there's a lot of good stuff happening in San Diego this month, so I hope everyone has a great October as we sprint toward the end of the year. Thanks to everyone who sent me birthday messages, donated to the site, and everyone who said hey in person. It always means a lot. 

Stay safe out there. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. 

Things To Do In San Diego: Thursday, September 24-Wednesday, September 30: San Diego Yarn Crawl | Slow Magic | Vieux Farka Touré | Melt Banana | Fu Manchu | Oktoberfest | CRSSD | Chasing Abbey | Teenage Burritos | Mavis Staples | Dogstar | DeVotchka | Jack White |

Fuck it, I'm 50! Stay Pesky, My Friends!!

Let's just talk for a minute about my week. I agreed to work for an event that turned out to be a MAGA comedy show (an oxymoron if ever there was one), then we did a little birthday party for my mom, my niece, and myself, but my mom was sick so it was a little bit of a bummer. After, while Darren and Toby packed stuff up for him to move back to campus, I went to the zoo for a little bit, and then finished the night at Adams Avenue Street Fair. But when I got home, there was mystery water all around my studio and the side of the house. Come Sunday, we were in a full on plumbing emergency, people were called, things were inspected, and I about had a nervous breakdown with the prognosis. I'll spare you the disgusting details, but I left to the zoo to be away from the situation and went straight from there to work the Temples show at Casbah that night. I honestly considered just sleeping in my van on Kettner Boulevard because I didn't want to deal. Instead I went home and drank too much hard cider and then slept through the bulk of the major work being done on the property. It was resolved (mostly, though there's cleanup still happening around the property) but I've been trying to be busy elsewhere. 

On Tuesday, I literally covered all corners of the county trying to find a certain thing at several Costcos before I gave up and went to the Safari Park for the afternoon. It was kind of a mistake though, because when I should've been doing these very listings, I was shopping, so then when I did get them going, I only got halfway through and then got an email to work for J Roddy on Wednesday, so now it's 4am and I'm still wrapping them up. And while I was doing them, I realized that the San Diego Yarn Crawl starts ON THURSDAY, which means my alpaca ranch is OPEN TO THE PUBLIC for four straight days in a row!! So all this week, I've been trying to think if I want to commit to something for my 50th birthday and realized that I am really only creating anxiety for myself...so no party, no meetup. I'll be going where I want, when I want, and doing whatever I want in between, without committing to anything else except my merch night with Fu Manchu, and hoping to get some time in at the zoo, at SeaWorld, and at the alpaca ranch. And that will be the best gift I could give to myself. 

Stay safe out there. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Also, if you live in a 100 year old building, you should maybe check those pipes BEFORE  El Niño hits. At least we got this fortified now for that possibility, painful as the process was. 

Things To Do In San Diego: Thursday, September 17-Wednesday, September 23, 2026: Clorox Girls | Talib Kweli | Peter Hook | Adams Avenue Street Fair!! | Artwalk Carlsbad | Friko | José González | Temples | Be Your Own Pet | Cowboy Junkies | Brandi Carlile |

Birthday Girls - Me and My Mama Before Beluga Yoga (9.13.26)

We're all ready halfway through September and it always seems like the busiest time of the year as San Diego becomes a city for locals. There is so very much happening, particularly because of Adams Avenue Street Fair this weekend, but it's always a busy one in my family since a bunch of us are Virgos and Libras. So I don't really know how the weekend will land...I'm working at the Civic Theatre on Friday and Casbah on Sunday, and we'll have a family cluster birthday celebration on Saturday before hopefully getting in some time at Adams Ave. And Toby moves back on campus this weekend, too. Things are good. At least if you can block out the $8 gas, $9 eggs, and the whole shitstorm happening with TFG hell bent on ruining life for all of us. 

Stay safe out there. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.  

Rosey's Diary and Newsy Things: KITOKO IS HERE!! | LN Downtown: Nuisance or Good Neighbor | El Niño Coming In Hot (literally) | Council Wants Waymo Control | Push To Protect Sea Lions Gains Steam | Kitok

Kitoko at San Diego Zoo (Taken 9.13.26)

Okay, it's been a minute since a diary post. I'm still in the process of posting my travel posts to Instagram, and then there's a whole bunch of madness happening in San Diego, like certain music venues just being allowed to flout noise ordinances and rules about the number of outdoor events per year, and then a whole new slew of people getting on board with better protections for the sea lions at La Jolla Cove and Boomer Beach, and then the City with a too-little-too-late attempt to rein in autonomous vehicles, and then SDZWA went and brought a new silverback to the Safari Park and a 6-year-old to the the Zoo and HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO STAY FOCUSED?!? Not to mention I did Yoga with Belugas at Seaworld on Sunday but still haven't seen Oliver in a few weeks and have no idea if/when the three new belugas will be introduced to the pod. And it's my mom's birthday this weekend, Adams Avenue Street Fair is also this weekend, I'm working my ass off to make back all the money I spent on my California roadtrip, and I'm gonna turn 50 with no actual plan to celebrate except to hit the San Diego Yarn Crawl at Hazpaca. So yeah. I have a lot in my brain at the moment, trying to get it all under control. 

Stay safe out there. Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.