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Greater San Diego Business Asso- ciation small business workshop: 9 to 11 a.m., presented by Ann Ma- rie Houghtailing of The Hough- tailing Group at the Balboa Park Club, Santa Fe room, 2150 Pan American Rd., 296-4543, gsdba. org, members $10, guests $25. “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” screening: 7 p.m., Birch North Park Theatre, 2891 Univer- sity Ave., to purchase tickets visit filmoutsandiego.com, $10, tickets available at box office the day of at 6:30 p.m. Open Mic Night: 9 p.m. every Wednesday, the South Park Abbey, 1946 Fern St., 696-0096, wildandtame@gmail.com, free.


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Jan. 20 “Earth Exposed:” Monday to Thursday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Fri- day til 8 p.m., Saturday til 7 p.m.


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and Sunday til 6 p.m. through Mar. 31, an exhibit at the Reu- ben H. Fleet Center, 238-1233 ext. 806, rhfleet.org, adults $10, children and senior $8.75. Greater Golden Hill CDC monthly meeting: 6:30 p.m., GGHCDC Office, 1235 28th St., golden- hillcdc.org, free.


San Diego Professional Editors Network meeting: 6:30 p.m., Joyce Beers Community Center, 4065 Vermont St., 368-2715, sdpen. com, free. Winter lecture series: 7 to 9 p.m., tips on furniture consignment and restoration at Gledhill’s Vintage Furniture, 2610 Adams Ave., 296-8772, ron@gledhillsre- store.com, free.


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Preschool storytime: 10:30 to 11 a.m., Mission Hills Library, 925 West Washington St., 692-4910, tinyurl.com/missionhills, free. North Park Main Street Promo- tion Committee meeting: 1 p.m., Heaven Sent Desserts, 3001 University Ave., 294-2501, npbid@northparkmainstreet. com, free.u


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The Snodgrass family home at 4224 St. James Place (shown above) tied for Best Overall for Second Annual Mission Hills Holiday Lights Contest.


Lighting up Mission Hills


The Second Annual Mission Hills Holiday Lights Contest held on Dec. 17, and sponsored by Ascent Real Estate, showcased homes in North and South Mission Hills vying to be the contest winner in three categories: Best Green Display, Best Seen from Outer Space Display, and Best Overall. The judges were comprised of Ascent real estate agents who


traveled from one house to the next sizing up the displays as well as singing Christmas carols. Best Green Display was awarded to the Fay Family at 1417 Sut- ter St., Best Seen from


Outer Space Display went to the Greenberg Family at 1895 Altamira Pl., and there was a tie for Best Overall between the Snodgrass fam- ily at 4224 St. James Pl. and the Bohannan family at 2440 Pine St. The Bohannan family, who have been Mission Hills’ residents for 36 years, won for the second year in a row with their “classy dis- plays” that according to Keith Overland, the estate manager, played up and enhanced the features of the property. “The reason we put up all the lights was simply to offer some beauty to the estate and give back to our neighbors, and just feel like we are in the holiday spirit,” said Overland. “We didn’t particu- larly push to enter ourselves, we were entered by other people.” The winners each received a $100 cash prize that Overland said would go towards taking the family all out to lunch to celebrate.


BOOGIE Chor Boogie


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cisco, Boogie is working hard to dispel the myth that graffiti isn’t real art, and painting on the unlikely canvas of the Berlin Wall might just do the trick.


San Diego Uptown News: How did the opportunity to paint a mural on the Berlin Wall come about?


Chor Boogie: There’s this collective out in Los Angeles called L.A. Art Machine that I’m involved in and they invited me to paint at an arts fair in Berlin called Stroke Art Fair. I had a booth set up and was creating some pieces out there to. As I was doing this, I noticed that this guy was watching me for about 10 days, just watching how I was painting, observing the tech- niques and the style. I guess some- thing tipped him over to the point where he finally came up to me, asking me if I would like to paint on a section of the Berlin Wall. Apparently he owns 300 sections of the Berlin Wall and he’s getting rid of 50 of them around the world. He brought me back there because I didn’t believe him at first and (then he) shows me this wall and says, ‘This is your wall, you can go ahead and paint it, do anything you want to it.’ He actually had the wall craned out to the front of the art fair and I started painting it live. It’s just been an honor to be a part of history, bringing American art history to East German history.


SDUN: Was there an idea behind what you chose to paint?


Boogie: It’s a series that I’ve been painting called ‘Purgatory,’ and it’s like a balance between heaven and hell, good and bad. And the reason that I painted that on there is because there’s a lot of turmoil in this world and a lot of people I felt were stuck in purgatory on both sides of the wall because they either had family on one or the other side, and they couldn’t really have any commu- nication or contact with them. A lot of people died going over the wall just by trying to reach the other side. Basically I believe that the wall was borderline purgatory, so I showed a lot of the pain that was involved. But I’m bringing the balance in with the colors, with my whole color therapy aspect, showing the good side of the art on the wall. People had this bland wall blocking their communication and in order to overcome the wall they had a bunch of artists paint it to take the negative perspective out of the equation and cover up the pain. So there’s been nothing but amazing artwork painted on these walls.


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