40 San Diego Reader July 21, 2016
BOOK LOCAL EVENTS
will be playing a mix of rockabilly and blues. Sunday, July 24, 5pm; free. House of Blues, 1055 Fifth Avenue. (DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO)
Munky King Party Back for its ninth year, imbibers are invited to join Munky King as these Comic Con veterans deck the walls with speciality toys, unique graphics, and live art for a night of flow- ing drinks, hot pies, and banging tunes. L.A.-based Munky King is a unique toy store that creates designer toys from collaborations between designers and artists. Thursday, July 21, 9pm; free. Basic Urban Kitchen and Bar, 410 Tenth Avenue. (EAST VILLAGE)
Suds Social with Benchmark Brewing Co. West Coaster San Diego and The Lafayette Hotel present Suds Social, Comic Con Edition. Who doesn’t love beer and prizes? We will also be having a best costume competition — win- ner receives a year-long swim club membership. Music by the Broken Stems Saturday, July 23, 12pm; $15. Lafayette Hotel, Swim Club & Bun- galows, 2223 El Cajon Boulevard. (UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS)
Tijuana Hop Tour A showcase of the amazing new beers being brewed in Tijuana. Your tour guide is knowledgeable about craft beer, the craft beer scene in Tijuana, and the city itself. We use public transportation to move around which will keep our costs low — most rides are relatively short (5-10 minutes). We will start by visiting two breweries and enjoying a flight at each one of them. A flight is a set of four beers, 5 oz each. After, we sedate our appetites with tacos. We finish off at Plaza Fiesta, which currently holds 13 tasting rooms from local and regional microbrew- eries. We will stop at one tasting room to enjoy our last flight. We will have some extra time to allow everyone to explore different tast- ing rooms in this local beer mecca. We finally return to the border at 9 pm where we say our farewells. Saturdays, 4pm; through Saturday, July 30, $30. 18 and up. San Ysidro Trolley Station, 700 E. San Ysidro Boulevard. (SAN YSIDRO)
SIGNINGS
Bob Proehl: A Hundred Thou- sand Worlds Warwick’s and the La Jolla/Riford Library pres- ent a novelist with a debut for the Comic-Con Age: Bob Proehl, author of A Hundred Thousand Worlds. Reserved seating available. Check in and doors open at 3:15pm. Seating is first-come first-served. Saturday, July 23, 4pm; free. La Jolla Library, 7555 Draper Avenue. (LA JOLLA)
Deamer Dunn: Omar T In the tradition of a light-hearted con- temporary mystery novel, enter the son of a restaurateur and an artist, Mr. Omar T Black. He is a jack-of- all-trades, master-of-none, with passions for women, food, adult beverages, art, and adventure. Part travel book, part mystery, part liter- ary reference, Chef Omar enlight- ens readers to local cuisine with detailed descriptions and recipes. Art and literature aficionado Omar is drawn to the mysteries of creativ- ity and thought. Readers are Omar’s canvas as he takes us along on his San Diego and Tijuana adventures, which are fed by the insights of Dr. Seuss, the regions craft beer, and food culture as well as its unique history. Thursday, July 21, 7pm; free. Upstart Crow Bookshop and Coffee House, 835 W. Harbor Drive. (DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO)
Kenneth Zak: The Poet’s Secret Debut novelist Kenneth Zak tells the story of a young woman who goes searching for a reclusive poet, certain that the man behind the words that have moved her deeply can somehow unlock the mysteries of enduring love. Zak is an attorney in San Diego who took an unusual route to finding his creative voice. Sunday, July 24, 1pm; free. Central Library, 330 Park Boulevard. (EAST VILLAGE)
Marlene Wagman-Geller: Behind Every Great Man Author and Sweetwater High School teacher Marlene Wagman-Geller will visit the National City Library to discuss her books, including Behind Every Great Man: The Forgotten Women Behind the World’s Famous and Infamous. With a raffle to win the works of some of the local artists. This program is part of the summer arts festival The Face Behind the Art:
Rhyme & Verse Three poems by Casey Cromwell
The First Spark
One girl and one boy: just talking, then falling.
Suddenly, her dorm room feels too small, two souls peeled clean and raw, like copper wires stripped, electricity whipping
silent sparks, dancing and daring, as faces flush and legs brush, spellbinding and scaring,
Until the skin becomes trained to crave those shocks like the flame that keeps a hearth cozy and warm even during the coldest of storms.
Crash and Burn
I stare down at blistered skin now branded by the oven days after he cremated my heart. Both accidents, I suppose,
from heat, hypnotic as fireflies: the smell of baked cinnamon hugging my nostrils or sparks from a stray thumb tracing my thigh.
At age eight, I dreamed of soaring into space but I didn’t spy stars in his eyes — I found the sun, so bright it stings, scorching my wings. Until I fall.
Like the tray of cookies, when hot steel kisses flesh. The tray doesn’t shatter at impact. I do.
Celebrating National City Artists. Info:
mervin.jensen@nationalcity-
library.org or nationalcitylibrary. org. Thursday, July 21, 6pm; free. National City Library, 1401 National City Boulevard. (NATIONAL CITY)
Meet & Greet Science Fiction Authors Chuck Wendig, Kevin Hearne, Richard Kadrey, Victoria Schwab, and Chloe Neill. Saturday, July 23, 9am; free. Upstart Crow
Bookshop and Coffee House, 835 W. Harbor Drive. (DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO)
Roxanne Cai: How to Be a Real-Life Superhero Roxanne Cai will sign her book, A True Origin Story: How to Be a Real- Life Superhero in 12 Steps, a how- to manual for anyone wants to change the world, one good deed at a time. Covers how to begin your superhero journey with little or no money and no super powers, how
WHO AM I?
If my soles rooted into the ground, I’d reign over ’Carolina hills without a sound
’til the night it/I screamed, struck — by lightning now bound with bark in a splintered scar — but not struck down.
Under lights of the city, I am a telephone pole tailored in the skin of that tree/me. It/I always buzz, so busy recording strangers’ lives with ink or electricity because stolen words sound less wooden
than my choppy journal entries.
Dancing along both trunks, another it/me I’d find: a squirrel hoarding dreams like domes of pine. Most seeds strangle on dirt and die while a few bloom and multiply (much like one simple question planted this poem of mine).
Perhaps if nature acts as my mirror, even once my s oul withers, in an it, I can reappear.
Casey Cromwell has published poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction in Point Loma Nazarene University’s literary magazine, winning third place for poetry during her sophomore year. She also writes a successful blog (caseythecollegece-
liac.blogspot.com) and has written for Further Food, Beyond Celiac, and San Diego Writers, Ink. She is currently a senior writing major at PLNU.
Find more poetry online at
SDreader.com/poetry
to determine your mission, how to choose your superhero persona and gimmick, how to network with the RLSH community, what gear to carry, how to work with your local law enforcement, and more. Friday, July 22, 7pm; free. Upstart Crow Bookshop and Coffee House, 835 W. Harbor Drive. (DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO)
Siclian Dinner with Delia Eph- ron Delia Ephron is the author and screenwriter of film classics such
as You’ve Got Mail and The Sister- hood of the Traveling Pants. Her latest novel, Siracusa, follows two couples on vacation on the coast of Sicily, where the secrets they have kept from each other are exposed and relationships unraveled. With authentic Sicilian dishes created by the kitchen of executive chef Balis- treri, book discussion, and Q&A. Sunday, July 24, 5pm; $40. Godfa- ther Restaurant, 7878 Clairemont Mesa Boulevard. (CLAIREMONT)
CLASSES & WORKSHOPS
Comics Conference for Educa- tors and Librarians Comic-Con International has teamed up with the San Diego Public Library to host a free four-day Comics Conference for educators and librarians. This first-of-its-kind educational confer- ence will take place during Comic- Con and will explore the role comics play in promoting education and literacy for all ages. Library profes- sionals and educators are invited to this free event to learn creative and exciting ways to incorporate comics and graphic novels into their work. 619-236-5831 or emagbanua@sand-
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