About Last Night: Dating Disasters in San Diego
Way back in the aughts, The Reader ran a column called “Dumped” — user-submitted stories of your breakup and/or date from hell. We paid $100 for entries we used, because if you can’t make money off your pain, why even feel it? We got some great stuff, including an entry from a man who immediately diagnosed his date as having Peter Pan syndrome (“she possessed two bachelor’s degrees and was working on a third, yet worked at Restoration Hardware”) before lamenting that she treated him like Lucy “Five Cents Please” Van Pelt. Later, he met a friend of the woman’s, who told him that he had turned off his date when he stuck a wad of gum under the table instead of inside a napkin. Good times! As the About Last Night crew notes: good dates get a text back, but bad dates are worth sharing. Come laugh at someone else’s suffering!
Where: Hilton San Diego Gaslamp, 401 K Street, San Diego When: Saturday, June 6, 8 pm-10pm Ages: 21+ Cost: $28.42-$33.75The Stereotypes
Founded in Escondido circa 2001, DIY rockers The Stereotypes play late-60s-inspired psychedelic pop and garage rock, blended with ‘80s and ‘90s alt-rock and post-punk. Taking inspiration from acts like The Strokes, Wilco, The Buzzcocks, and The Velvet Underground, the band utilizes a DIY, lo-fi aesthetic relying on catchy melodies, jangly guitars, and layered, textured production. Their songs have been heard in various television shows, including NBC’s 2008 “Knight Rider” reboot, the USA Network series “Suits,” and three episodes of ABC’s sci-fi drama “Kyle XY,” as well as the Universal Pictures feature film “A Dog’s Journey.” The Little Italy show is headlined by the Daniel Ezra Band, a local project blending acoustic folk with bluegrass and vintage garage rock. Also scheduled to appear is local duo Hi-Five Ghost, founded in 2023 and known for their fuzzed-out fusion of melodic garage rock, pop, and grunge music.
Where: The Casbah, 2501 Kettner Boulevard, San Diego When: Sunday, June 7, 2026, 7:30 pm Ages: 21+ Cost: $13.40Silent Movie Mondays: Safety Last!
“You’ll believe a man can fly,” ran the tagline for “Superman” in 1978. That was enough to put butts in seats. (Well, Christopher Reeve and Gene Hackman as Lex Luthor helped, too.) People had the same reaction to “Jurassic Park” 15 years later. Those look like real dinosaurs. Now that CGI has made the impossible commonplace, the impossible has become just that — and the CGI budget often suffers as a result. Now, thanks to AI, anyone can make anything, and the result is, all too often, slop. Good enough for your phone? Probably. Entertaining? Maybe. Breathtaking? Never. Not when compared to the scene above. “You’ll believe a man could die.” Now that’s comedy. And movie magic. Come see silent film legend Harold Lloyd as a small-town boy looking for love in the big city. With visuals like this, who needs dialogue?
Where: Balboa Theater, 868 Fourth Avenue, San Diego When: Monday, June 8, 2026, 7 pm Ages: All ages Cost: $18-$38David J
David J. Haskins, better known as David J, was the bassist for the gothic British rock band Bauhaus and a co-founder of Love and Rockets, named after the popular comic book series. Earlier this year, David J and the Resistance released a single called “ICE Too Cold To Thaw,” referencing the traumas experienced by non-citizens (and those perceived to be immigrants) by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. A new solo release called “Tracks From the Attic Revisited” features ten tracks culled from the 37-track home recordings first heard on “Tracks From the Attic,” a triple album released by IPR in 2024. Some of the songs have been reshaped, sometimes rewritten and are now reinterpreted and recorded with a full band. “The demos were like neglected little seeds that had been set aside, or fallen on fallow land,” David J reflects. “They’ve been gathered up, nurtured, tended and brought back to life as little buds. Now this is the bloom.”
Where: The Casbah, 2501 Kettner Boulevard, San Diego When: Tuesday, June 9, 2026, 8 pm Ages: 21+ Cost: $31.44Art of Élan: Midday Music
Art of Élan is a chamber music organization presenting and producing concerts in what they call “artistically stimulating and invigorating environment.” The ensemble aims to expose new audiences to classical music, explore (and expand) the horizons of the classical music scene, energize audiences and musicians alike, and ultimately educate and cultivate a future generation of classical music lovers. To that end, a two-album release called Visions & Dreams will present the organization’s 20-year retrospective via Phenotypic Recordings in two volumes, with Volume 1 due digitally on June 26 and Volume 2 on July 10. The first single, “Shiner” by Sarah Kirkland Snider, is out now. According to Executive and Artistic Director Kate Hatmaker, “’Shiner’ was written for an unlikely cast of characters: trombone, harp, viola and marimba, finding beauty in unexpected places.”
Where: Central Library, 330 Park Boulevard, San Diego When: Friday, June 12, 2026, noon-1 pm Ages: All ages Cost: FreeSan Diego Smooth Jazz Festival
This year’s 8th Annual San Diego Smooth Jazz Festival was designed as a fully immersive two-day sensory experience with many offerings: merch, munchies, and oh yes, music. The lineup includes world-class jazz, soul, and funk artists, hosted and headlined by saxophone icon Eric Darius, whose new single, “Maputo Nights,” is currently streaming online. Saturday’s bill features Rebecca Jade, Boney James, Bob James, Acoustic Alchemy, Brian Simpson, Kim Waters, Andrea Lisa, and Jessy J. Sunday’s lineup is headlined by Darius, supported by Lalah Hathaway, Najee, Pieces Of a Dream, Oli Silk, and Lin Rountree.
Where: The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, 222 Marina Park Way, San Diego When: June 13-14, 2026, starting at 3 pm both days Ages: All ages Cost: $92-$292“Measure for Measure”
Shakespeare season has arrived at the Old Globe, and they’re digging into the moral muck with “Measure for Measure.” The play sees the return of a sadly perennial subject: the meager mercy of the politically powerful. Consider Isabella’s appeal to Angelo on behalf of her brother in Act 2. Heck, read it out loud: “O, it is excellent to have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant. Could great men thunder as Jove himself does, Jove would ne’er be quiet, for every pelting, petty officer would use his heaven for thunder; nothing but thunder! Merciful Heaven, thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt splitt’st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he’s most assured, his glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven as make the angels weep.”
Where: The Old Globe, When: June 14-July 12, 2026, visit theoldglobe.org for showtimes Ages: All ages Cost: $38-$138Stavros Halkias
The wife’s favorite bit from Stavros Halkias is when he starts talking about Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin flight and points to an audience member and says, “This guy is never getting health insurance, and Jeff Bezos is going to space!” The brutal reality of economic disparity, amirite? But my favorite thing about him is the way he hates on whatever town happens to be hosting him. San Diego seems especially ripe for it. Deep down, you know this, even if you love living here. Never mind the Padres’ perennial playoff implosion. Get creative. Try to anticipate. Explore your own insecurities about living in America’s Finest City, starting with the fact that it calls itself America’s Finest City, and that it was so named by Pete Wilson after it lost the 1972 Republican National Convention to Miami.
Where: Balboa Theater, 868 Fourth Avenue, San Diego When: Tuesday, June 23, 2026, 7 pm Ages: 21+ Cost: $119-$429Into the Horizon
The charmingly pretentious clothing company J. Peterman once pitched the shorter version of its signature duster jacket with something along the lines of, “Sometimes, you go out shopping for a Rolls Royce and you come home with a Bentley. Our shorter duster is not less coat, it’s just less long.” The same might be said of Into the Horizon, which is shorter, smaller, and a bit less esoteric than CRSSD. And that’s okay. It’s not a less festive Waterfront Park EDM festival, it’s just less long. And it still brings the heavies: Tiësto on Saturday and Martin Garrix on Sunday. Plus James Hype, Zhu, Lost Frequencies, TELYKAST, and a whole bunch of other folks.
Where: Waterfront Park, 1600 Pacific Highway, San Diego When: June 27-28, 2026, starting around 3 pm Ages: 21+ Cost: $119.49-$427.17Hence then, the article about 9 events to plan your june around was published today ( ) and is available on Times of San Diego ( Middle East ) The editorial team at PressBee has edited and verified it, and it may have been modified, fully republished, or quoted. You can read and follow the updates of this news or article from its original source.
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