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10th Annual San Diego Spirits


Festival “Everything in


moderation... including modera- tion.” – Oscar Wilde. In the mood for some sumptuous, carefully-crafted cocktails, wine and beer along with incredibly edible food and delectably delicious nibbles to pair with them? Well you’re in luck, because San Diego’s biggest and brightest chefs, as well as the city’s most marvelous mixologists, will be plying their wares at the Broadway Pier’s Port Pavilion overlooking the stunning San Diego Bay during the 10th Annual San Diego Spirits Festival on Saturday and Sunday, August 25 and 26. Calling all whiskey and bourbon worshipers, tequila aficionados, gin guzzlers, rum radicals, vodka vixens and mixologists to this nationally-acclaimed bayside event celebrating cocktail culture, with brand ambassadors, celebrity chefs, bartender competitions, tastings and seminars and entertainment, all set in a fun party atmosphere with one of the best views the city has to offer. This is a one-of-a-kind opportunity offering members of the spirits and culinary trade, local bars, restaurateurs and consumers who are passionate about SoCal’s burgeon- ing cocktail and culinary scene a chance to sample the best they have to offer. For more information or to purchase tickets, call 858.551.1605 or go to sandiegospiritsfestival.com.


4th Annual Casino Night Feeling like lady luck is on your side? Here’s your chance to gamble your funds, but be guaranteed your losses go to a great cause (even though you can’t really lose)! The San Diego LGBT Center’s 4th annual Casino Night onSaturday, August 18 is a fun-filled evening of mock gaming with food, drink (including their oh-so-popular bourbon bar), featuring live music, a silent auction and truly fabulous prizes! Previous year’s attendees rave about this signature event of The Center and this do-not- miss event is something you can’t afford to miss. Tickets are $125 with event costs underwritten by your hosts, Joyce Rowland and Pamela Morgan and the entire ticket price goes to support The Center’s amazing community programs. The event address will be revealed once ticket purchase occurs and confirmation email is sent to you. For more information, contact Ian Johnson at ijohnson@ thecentersd.org or 619.692.2077 x247 or go to the Signature events page at thecentersd.org.


Hillcrest CityFest San Diego’s favorite street festival is turning 34! One guesses the organizers, Fabulous Hillcrest, must be doing something right because that’s how long this summer music and art festival has been taking place in the heart of San Diego’s gay neighborhood! Join the annual celebration, billed as San Diego’s largest single- day street fair along with more than 150,000 of your best buddies, friends and lovers (one can always hope) from 12 to 11 p.m. onSunday, August 12. Cityfest features a “massive” spirits garden with an impressive cocktail bar and Miller-Coors Beer Garden featuring Hop Valley Brewing Co.’s Reveal Pale Ale, live headliner music, games and activities, as well as over 250 vendors selling things you didn’t know you needed, but once seen you “gotta have,” more food than a county fair’s midway (including an international food court), as well as DJs who will have you dancing along the many blocks of summertime fun! Community is the theme for this fabulous fete and Hillcrest’s core is as strong as ever. Eat, drink, shop and dance the night away right beneath the iconic Hillcrest sign! For more information call 619.299.3330 or go to fabuloushillcrest.com.


Big Bear Romp They’re everywhere, they’re everywhere…Bears! Hundreds of the two-legged furry-chested (and then some) kind and they’re congregating at The Lodge at Big Bear Lake fromThursday, August 16 through Sunday, August 19! Big Bear Romp’s goal is “to bring hundreds of men back each year for mischief and more in the great outdoors,” for a fun, and memorable event in Southern California’s beautiful San Bernardino Mountains. Early bird check-in takes place onThursday, August 16at the host hotel, with aPre-Comers Party at Murray’s Saloon & Eatery, 672 Cottage Lane followed by a chance to toss some hard balls that same evening atRomp’n Bowlat the Bowling Barn. Check-in continues onFriday, August 17 with the weekend’s big fun beginning at theBig Wet Spot Pool Party at The Lodge. The first “official” event follows during theRomp Weekend Kick-off Party inside The Lodge’s Cove Amphitheater, followed byMountain of Laughs Comedy Nightat The Lodge Ballroom. Gear up for “a little mischief in the dark” atRomp in the Dark at the host hotel for some dancing and fuzzy adventures that same night. Refresh that tired, furry bod onSaturday, August 18 atBubba- licious Beer Bust & BBQ Pool Party, followed by aPick Your Own Romp Adventure (additional fees may apply) including: Big Booty Pirate Ship Cruise, Mountain Zipline Tour, Trivia Night, or the Scenic Sky Chair Tour at Snow Summit. Say your prayers onSunday, August 19 during the Recovery Bingo Brunch, get baptized during theLast Splash Before Dash pool party, and for those hanger-oners, theDie-Hards and Stayouts Partyreturns to Murray’s Saloon & Eatery. It’s a quora of fun for all! For tickets and more information, go to bigbearromp.com.


Gregory Hinton:


Out West With Buffalo Bill Gregory Hinton is an out, California-based author, historian, and lecturer who through his novels, plays and scholarship has worked to cultivate a broader picture of the “Wild West.” His work takes us far beyond the singular, tired “Cowboy and Indian” trope as he shines a light on the role gay and lesbian men and women played in America’s West. Generations of rural, western-born gay men and women left behind the communities where they grew up for the coastal cities of the Golden State seeking community, companion- ship and security.Out West With Buffalo Bill, taking place at the San Diego History Center onThursday, August 23, is Hinton’s acclaimed national museum program series inspired by his longing to come home as who he is to the rural mountains of his youth, and how William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody led the way. Cross-dressing members as “two spirits,” lesbians who made no bones of their sexual orientation and frontier women who impersonated men as a measure of safety are all a part of the picture the hometown boy from Cody, Wyoming paints. “We’ve been here since the beginning,” Hinton says. “We’re stakeholders to our own story.” For tickets and more information, call 619.232.6203 or go to sandiegohistory.org/event/gregory-hinton-out-west-with- buffalo-bill.


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