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What: 2013 San Diego Film Festival

When: Friday October 4, 2013

Where: ArcLight La Jolla & Reading Gaslamp Downtown San Diego

Description: Sun, sand and cinema hits the Gaslamp Quarter and ArcLight La Jolla for the 12th annual San Diego Film Festival. The region’s preeminent event features a spectacular mix of independent films from the US and around the globe showcasing emerging and veteran filmmakers in feature, documentary and short film categories.

For five days the Festival is the annual destination for a red-carpet cinematic immersion where thousands of Hollywood insiders, filmmakers, celebrities, film enthusiasts, journalists and business executives gather to connect, convene and converse over the latest exciting film offerings.

Produced by the educational nonprofit San Diego Film Foundation, the Festival is the signature fundraising event, and as well, is one of region’s fastest growing cultural experiences. The annual festival provides critical financial support for the Foundation’s efforts that benefits the operations and growth, enriches the arts community, supports educational outreach to students, showcases San Diego as an ideal film location, and as well, brings growing economic vitality to San Diego County.

Enjoy the rare privilege of meeting filmmakers after screenings, attend parties and events all celebrating the art of film here in beautiful San Diego and just 90 miles from Hollywood. Be the first to see early award season contenders at Opening and Closing Night premieres — 2012 premiered Silver Linings Playbook, Quartet, The Sapphires, and Seven Psychopaths. See and be seen at swank after parties, help shine the spotlight at the Awards Night celebration, hit the star-studded red carpet at the Celebrity Tribute and much more.

Get your 2013 San Diego Film Festival Tickets now!

What: San Diego Comic Fest

When: Friday October 4, 2013

Where: Town and Country Resort, San Diego

Description: San Diego Comic Fest Schedule:

10/4 Fri. hours: dealers room 10am – 5pm, programs/panels 10am – 11pm

10/5 Sat. hours: dealers room 10am – 5pm, programs/panels 10am – 11pm

10/6 Sun. hours: dealers room 10am – 4pm, programs/panels 10am – 5pm

The second annual San Diego Comic Fest will be a friendly, uncrowded comic-convention experience where you can relax and hang out with writers, artists, filmmakers, and fellow fans. Special guests include Phil Tippett (special effects master, winner of Academy Awards for Jurassic Park and The Empire Strikes Back), David Lloyd (U.K. comic artist and co-creator of V for Vendetta), Disney Legend Floyd Norman, Marv Wolfman (writer of best-selling New Teen Titans), and Jeremy Shada (young actor and voice of Finn the Human on Cartoon Network’s wildly popular Adventure Time). Special all-ages crafts workshops and programming including “Make your own My Little Pony Cutie Mark” and “Make your own Warehouse 13 Artifact.” Enjoy programs and presentations, dealers room, live art demonstrations, and much more in a fun, casual setting.

Cost: 3-Day Pass: $50 General, $25 Student & Ages 13-17, Free Ages 0-12 with paid adult 1-Day (Fri or Sat): $25 General, $12.50 Student & Ages 13-17, Free Ages 0-12 with paid adult 1-Day (Sun): $15 General, $7.50 Student & Ages 13-17, Free Ages 0-12 with paid adult

What: La Mesa Oktoberfest 2013

When: Friday October 4, 2013

Where: La Mesa Blvd. between Acacia and 4th Avenue, San Diego

Description: The La Mesa Chamber has partnered with the La Mesa Village Merchants Association to host this three-day festival with 400 vendors offering goods and services, food, children’s activities, entertainment, and German brats and cold beer. Beer garden location: the Allison St. parking lot between Pine and Palm.

Cost: Free

What: Oktoberfest at Tesoro Winery

When: Friday October 4, 2013

Where: Tesoro Winery Old Town San Diego

Description: It’s a BIG Event! Roll out the barrel… and we’ll have a BIG barrel of fun! Head on over to our Urban Barrel Room for some BIG fun… we’ll roll out the barrels (for wine tasting) and BIG TRUTH will bring on the tunes.

Wear your dancin’ shoes — It’s Oktoberfest, Tesoro Winery style.

Happy Barrel Hour: 6-7 p.m. Barrel Tasting with Buzz

OktoberFEAST: 7 p.m.

BIG TRUTH 7:30 – 10:30 p.m.

With Treat Breaks — when the band takes a break we bring out another treat.

Advanced Tickets required by end of the day October 1st

Cost: $20

What: Halloween Spooktacular

When: Friday October 4, 2013

Where: San Diego History Center

Description: You are invited to our Halloween Bash, so be sure to wear your Halloween Costume for a Spook-tacular parade and gather up treats around the museum. Hear a ghost story or two about San Diego. Read the Halloween Night storybook by Arden Druce, sing some spook-tacular halloween songs, and create a creepy craft to take home.

Cost: $5

What: Yellowcard Concert

When: Friday October 4, 2013

Where: House of Blues San Diego

Description: Yellowcard is an American pop punk/alternative rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida in 1997, and based in Los Angeles, California since 2000. Their music features the use of a violin, unusual for the genre. They are probably best known for their song “Ocean Avenue”, which peaked at #37 on the Billboard Hot 100. The band went on to a two-year hiatus then announced their return in August 2010 and released their seventh studio album, When You’re Through Thinking, Say Yes, in March 2011. Their latest album, Southern Air, was released on August 14, 2012.

Cost: $26+

What: The Scream Zone

When: Friday October 4, 2013

Where: Del Mar Fairgrounds, San Diego

Description: The Scream Zone is one of San Diego’s largest and scariest haunted attraction. Open on select dates in September, October, and November it features a huge House of Horror with rooms filled with terrifying scenes and scares lurking at every turn, a one-of-a-kind Haunted Hayride through the haunted barns on the world-famous Del Mar Race Track and The Chamber with the largest spinning tunnel in San Diego.

Cost: $15-$30

What: The Haunted Trail

When: Friday October 4, 2013

Where: Balboa Park, San Diego

Description: The Haunted Trail is a stroll through the park you will never forget. Enter the mile long Trail through the twisted grove of pines and gnarled oaks. Visitors watch your back, you’ll never know which way the terror will hit you. True to form, the Trail is not for children under 10 or the faint of heart. Experience an outdoor terror that is simply too big to house indoors. This year The Haunted Trail features an additional maze called “The eXperiment”. For five extra bones you can find out what happens when Mother Nature takes her eye off the ball for even just a second.

What: Without Walls Festival

When: Friday October 4, 2013

Where: La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego

Description: Building on the excitement and success of our past WoW productions – Susurrus, The Car Plays: San Diego and Sam Bendrix at the Bon Soir – the Playhouse is thrilled to announce the projects for its inaugural WoW Festival to take place October 3-6, 2013. This one-of-a-kind Festival will showcase events occurring simultaneously in and around the Playhouse Theatre District, presented by the Playhouse as well Festival partner institutions: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) and UC San Diego.

Cost: $10+

What: 5th Annual Taste of North Park, San Diego

When: Saturday October 5, 2013

Where: North Park San Diego

Description: Sample, sip, and shop at the 5th Annual Taste of North Park. On Saturday October 5th, 2013 from 11AM-4PM the hip neighborhood of North Park welcomes food, beverage, and shopping enthusiasts to stroll the neighborhood or ride the trolley at The Taste of North Park.

Cost: $30-$40

What: World Music Concert featuring Besos de Coco

When: Saturday October 5, 2013

Where: Oceanside Public Library, San Diego

Description: The Oceanside Public Library is pleased to host Besos de Coco, which translates from Spanish as “Coconut Kisses.” The merging of talents and influences from each of these women results in a seductively delicious sound that maintains its roots in the romantic music of the old-world Mediterranean, Latin American, and Jazz traditions. This free concert is suitable for all ages.

Cost: Free

What: Fisher-Price Little People Live Show

When: Saturday October 5, 2013

Where: San Diego Zoo

Description: The Fisher-Price Little People return to the San Diego Zoo with a new musical stage show, Live from Little People Place!™ Little People friends are all new, and they can’t wait to meet you! Eddie, Tessa, Sofie, Koby, Mia, and their teacher, Miss Hugg, invite you to join them for a brand-new live and interactive show set at Little People® Place, a wonderful place where friends come to learn and play and sing and dance and discover! Learn about each new friend and what they like to do: you might even discover that one of them is just like you!

Cost: Free

What: Hugh Cornwell and Brothers of Brazil – Live Performance

When: Saturday October 5, 2013

Where: Soda Bar, El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego

Description: Hugh Cornwell is one of the UK’s finest songwriting talents and accomplished live performers. The original guitarist, singer and main songwriter in the British rock band The Stranglers, he’s enjoyed massive UK and European success with 10 hit albums and 21 Top Forty singles, etching himself into the UK and Europe’s musical psyche with classic songs, including Peaches, No More Heroes, Golden Brown, Always the Sun, Grip, Nice N Sleazy, Duchess and Skin Deep.

What: Travis – In Concert

When: Sunday October 6, 2013

Where: House of Blues San Diego

Description: Travis is a post-Britpopband from Scotland comprising Fran Healy (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Dougie Payne (bass guitar, backing vocals), Andy Dunlop (lead guitar, banjo, backing vocals) and Neil Primrose (drums, percussion). The band has released 6 studio albums: Good Feeling (1997), The Man Who (1999), The Invisible Band (2001), 12 Memories (2003), The Boy With No Name (2007) and Ode To J. Smith (2008).

What: San Diego Central Library Concert Series

When: Every Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Programs usually last one hour

Where: Central Library Auditorium

Description: San Diego Public Library is pleased to announce the schedule for its special inaugural Fall season of the annual concert series in the new Central Library auditorium. The series, which includes performers from some of the finest ensembles in San Diego, is made possible by the Friends of Central Library, the San Diego Public Library matching fund program, and public and private donations.

-Ann Moss, soprano

-Hausmann Quartet

Isaac Allen, violin

Eric Chin, violin

Angela Choong, viola

Jeremiah Shaw, cello

Program

Selections from the forthcoming CD Currents, for soprano with string quartet

Arnold Schoenberg, String Quartet No. 2

Vartan Aghababian, Seven Songs

Liam Wade, Joni Mitchell Suite



Featuring Ann Moss, piano

Weslie Brown, Practice Your Flamenco