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I’m David L. Coddon, and here’s your guide to all things essential in San Diego’s arts and culture this week. If you need a lift during these troubled times, take four and a half minutes out of your day and experience San Diego IndieFest founder Danielle LoPresti’s video performance of “22 Mountains.” The re-recording of the title track from a 2003 album by LoPresti and her band, The Masses, is a passionate exhortation of hope and courage, slightly reworded from the original composition by LoPresti and Matthew Stewart. The message — to parents, to teachers, to artists, to act...

The interactive theater project is a trio of encounters between strangers that take place over several months. Part 1, which will begin Thursday, is a scheduled phone call in which two audience members will be paired together to create a shared fiction through a series of prompts. Part 2 will take place in a few months, when two audience members will sit at a table, separated by a pane of glass, to create another story using a stack of index cards, a handful of objects and a set of instructions. Part 3 will take place when the pandemic ends. All artists and audience members will gather toget...

Jan 13, 2021 SPONSOR NTWRK, North America’s leading live video commerce platform, announced today the appointment of  Colby Black, former Executive Director of Buying and Marketplace at Urban Outfitters, as Chief Merchandising Officer. Colby Black Black joins NTWRK after eight years in leadership roles at Urban Outfitters and over 16 years of experience in global merchandising, brand development and digital commerce. At Urban Outfitters, Black helmed global partnership initiatives, including the introduction of several international brands to North America, the expansion of Urban Outfitter...

When San Diego theaters abruptly shut down March 12 due to the pandemic, nobody expected they would stay dark for the rest of the year. And yet, out of the darkness, local artists began producing hundreds of online productions, play readings, cabarets and concerts, audio-casts, podcasts, interviews and education programs to stay connected to their art and their audiences. For this year’s look back at the 2020 year in theater, I found it impossible to choose a top 10, since there’s no way to compare the work produced onstage before a live audience with shows presented on Zoom and Facebook ...

I’m David L. Coddon, and here’s your guide to all things essential in San Diego’s arts and culture this week. Society, indeed a world, cannot be understood in only 10 minutes. But it can, with all its crises and complexities, be placed in powerful perspective. In Alyce Smith Cooper’s and Shammy Dee’s “Spittin’ Truth to Power While Light Leaping for the People,” three short videos composed of storytelling, poetry and music coalesce to make an urgent intergenerational statement about where we are, where we’ve been and where we’re headed. The three-part video experience i...