Roots rock, a ’60s star, San Diego super band and more: Top shows this week
Bands returning to the scene, sons following in their fathers’ footsteps and a classic pop star all hit San Diego venues starting Friday. Here’s a look at what’s coming up. The Styletones Back after a lengthy hiatus, funk and soul big band The Styletones play two sets at Lou Lou’s on Friday. Deliver
Review: Standing ovation for Payare and orchestra after Mahler’s feverish 7th
Rafael Payare conducts the San Diego Symphony Orchestra. (File photo by Todd Rosenberg/San Diego Symphony) One thing is true about Gustav Mahler’s Seventh Symphony, given an appropriately dizzying performance Saturday by Rafael Payare and the San Diego Symphony Orchestra in Jacobs Music Center: It d
Flashback: Feb. 3, 1938 — Bam! Wham! A San Diego native becomes a ‘Batman’ icon
Bam! Wham! Pow! Those comic-book sound effects are forever linked with the 1960s Batman TV show, and one of the faces behind that pop-culture era was born right here in San Diego. On Feb. 3, 1938, Victor Charles Buono was born in San Diego, decades before he would bring larger-than-life villainy and
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