Alice Hoffman
1. Guess Who’s Coming to Lunch?
Practical Magic author Alice Hoffman is the guest of honor at the 10th Annual Authors’ Luncheon, the fundraiser for reading advocacy org Words Alive. Five hundred book lovers attend every year. November 12 at the Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines
2. Bigshots!
Ah, San Diego through the eyes of K–12th graders. My City, Your City, a student exhibition at the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA), showcases top video and photographic work from talented young San Diegans. Below is G.P.S., a digital photograph by tenth-grader Emily Bergersen. See the visual pieces at MOPA now through February 2 of next year, with additional works on display at Chula Vista Public Library (Civic Center branch) and US Bank (downtown Kettner branch). —Bill Presant
G.P.S., by tenth-grader Emily Bergersen
G.P.S., by tenth-grader Emily Bergersen
Side Show costumes sketch
3. Cut From the Same Cloth
Costume design for conjoined twins? Designer Paul Tazewell had his work cut out for him. In La Jolla Playhouse’s revival of the 1997 Broadway musical Side Show, Daisy and Violet Hilton search for love and a normal life outside of vaudeville. Mandell Weiss Theatre, November 5–December 15
4. Guys on Film
“When we started Qualcomm,” says Irwin Jacobs in the documentary VentureTown USA, “We didn’t have a business plan, we didn’t have an Excel spreadsheet, and we didn’t have a particular product in mind.” So go the revelations, secrets, and advice in the film created by Carmel Valley hedge funder David Marchesani. In addition to interviewing the likes of Ralph Rubio and Gene Ray, he follows entrepreneurs and startups entering a local competition. “It’s fascinating to find out why certain businesses succeed and others fail,” says Marchesani, who earned his MS in entrepreneurship at San Diego State. After the movie’s debut at the Bel-Air Film Festival in October, Marchesani hopes to one day host a showing and fundraiser at La Jolla Playhouse.
Art San Diego
Franz Krachtus
5. The Word is Out
Art San Diego is taking off! In just five years of this contemporary art fair’s short existence, attendance has grown by 30 to 50 percent every year. About 13,000 visitors will converge on the Balboa Park Activity Center to view paintings, sculptures, furniture, and more, as well as eight different art labs, in which art is created before our very eyes. Cool. November 7–10, 2145 Park Boulevard
Ballet on the Edge
QUOTABLE
“A ballet like this doesn’t have the boundaries that classical ballet has. I can be free to push the dance envelope and explore new ways of moving and dancing.”
—Elizabeth Wistrich, choreographer of Leave the Light On
Leave the Light On is part of City Ballet’s Ballet on the Edge program, November 8–10 at the Civic Theatre.
