Sherrie Miranda's Blog, page 101

We will miss you, Derrick. You made our hearts sing with that smile & that Liverpool accent. I hope you are having fun on the other side … ❤ ❤ ❤

Peace, love & saying goodbye,

Sherrie

Sherrie Miranda’s historically based, coming of age, Adventure novel “Secrets & Lies in El Salvador” is about an American girl in war-torn El Salvador: http://tinyurl.com/klxbt4y

Her husband made a video for her novel. He wrote the song too. You can go to the Home page of her blog to watch it:

https://sherriemiranda1.wordpress.com

Or you can see it on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P11Ch5chkAc

We will miss you, Derrick. You made our hearts sing with that smile & that Liverpool accent. I hope you are having fun on the other side … ❤ ❤ ❤

Peace, love & saying goodbye,

Sherrie

Sherrie Miranda’s historically based, coming of age, Adventure novel “Secrets & Lies in El Salvador” is about an American girl in war-torn El Salvador: http://tinyurl.com/klxbt4y

Her husband made a video for her novel. He wrote the song too. You can go to the Home page of her blog to watch it:

https://sherriemiranda1.wordpress.com

Or you can see it on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P11Ch5chkAc

We will miss you, Derrick. You made our hearts sing with that smile & that Liverpool accent. I hope you are having fun on the other side … ❤ ❤ ❤

Peace, love & saying goodbye,

Sherrie

Sherrie Miranda’s historically based, coming of age, Adventure novel “Secrets & Lies in El Salvador” is about an American girl in war-torn El Salvador: http://tinyurl.com/klxbt4y

Her husband made a video for her novel. He wrote the song too. You can go to the Home page of her blog to watch it:

https://sherriemiranda1.wordpress.com

Or you can see it on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P11Ch5chkAc

Yes

Yep, just do it anyway! Thanks, Carrie!

Sigh. . .

It’s been a looong year … With lots of lies & insults being passed around. Let’s hope this is the last time we get all our info from the internet. Especially Twitter & Facebook. ❤ ❤ ❤

Peace, love & justice for all,

Sherrie

Sherrie Miranda’s historically based, coming of age, Adventure novel “Secrets & Lies in El Salvador” is about an American girl in war-torn El Salvador: http://tinyurl.com/klxbt4y

Her husband made a video for her novel. He wrote the song too. You can go to the Home page of her blog to watch it:

https://sherriemiranda1.wordpress.com

Or you can see it on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P11Ch5chkAc

Writer’s Block

I know what to write! Now I just have to DO IT!

Voice of San Diego: Culture Report: Bob Matheny’s Weird and Wonderful Alley Gallery

This is a long link but there are many links imbedded in the article that don’t work when I copy & paste: http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics...

Culture Report: Bob Matheny’s Weird and Wonderful Alley Gallery

Lemon Grove sets its sights on an arts district, a San Diego photographer lands on a New York Times best of 2016 list and more in our weekly roundup of arts and culture news.

Bob Matheny uses the alley behind his house as a way to poke fun at the art world.

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The longtime San Diego artist has been mounting art on his back fence facing Brindisi Street in Sunset Cliffs for a few years now.

He’s been giving away his friends’ paintings, plus some of his own sculptures. A sign on the fence informed neighbors and passersby that they could take the work for free.

Matheny said he needed to clear out some of the art in his personal collection so he could make room for the new art he makes in his home studio every day. But more importantly, he’s also a provocateur who loves knocking art off its fancy pedestal.

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At his solo show at Bread & Salt in Logan Heights earlier this year, for example, he let another artist pick out one of his paintings and destroy it with a hammer. Also this year at Bread & Salt, Matheny invited the public to watch as he claimed to bury a real Willem de Kooning painting a few feet underground.

Matheny’s become known for his acts of anti-art, and for continually wagging his finger at the pretension of the fine art world.

But a few months ago, Matheny stopped giving art away for free in his alley gallery. He said he couldn’t keep up with the demand. Now he displays just one piece of art in the alley at a time.

He says the small sculptures he mounts on the fence are actually models of proposed public art pieces for San Diego.

“I’m hoping the Port of San Diego will come by and replace ‘The Kiss’ statue with one of mine,” he said.

He’s half joking, of course, but Matheny said he really does despise “Unconditional Surrender,” better known as “The Kiss,” a sculpture of a World War II sailor and nurse kissing that stands 25 feet tall on San Diego’s downtown waterfront. The Port of San Diego agreed to have it permanently installed at the Embarcadero in 2013, even though its own public art committee voted against the idea because of the statue’s lack of artistic merit.

“I hate it,” Matheny said. “It’s just too kitschy for me.”

Matheny joins longtime San Diego art critic Robert L. Pincus and other vocal critics in his dislike of the sculpture. Many feel it’s derivative, or even a giant act of copyright infringement since the sculpture is clearly a copy of Alfred Eisenstaedt’s iconic picture “V-J Day at Times Square.”

Matheny’s alley project, now called the Flash Brindisi Gallery for Public Art, is not his first venture into the gallery world. He founded the art gallery at Southwestern College in 1961, he ran a gallery on Third Avenue downtown for a short time in the 1970s and, more recently, he curated a series of shows at the Not An Exit gallery inside Bread & Salt.

“Odd and eccentric art and artists,” Matheny said. “That’s what I like.”

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Lemon Grove Contemplates a New Arts District

Lemon Grove could eventually be known for more than just its giant gaudy lemon when it comes to public art.

City planners are working on updating a plan for approximately 245 acres of downtown. At public workshops in August and December, community members suggested creating a new arts district to help attract people to the area.

“I think we’re looking to energize the downtown and create a destination in the city,” said David De Vires, the city’s development services director.

The arts district is being proposed for one of two areas; on Broadway between Massachusetts and Lemon Grove Avenue, or along a chunk of Lemon Grove Way, east of Lemon Grove Avenue.

De Vires said the city could kickstart an arts district by requiring art as part of new private and public construction projects in the area, and by commissioning new public art as city funding allows.

The proposed art district is just one aspect of the downtown plan expansion. The other big element is a pitch for a new park along Broadway, east of Lemon Grove Avenue.

De Vires said the next step is getting the plan approved by the City Council in 2017.

A Refugee Artist-in-Residence Project, Saving the Starlight Theater and Other Arts and Culture News

• The San Diego Symphony’s Our American Music festival will be a month-long celebration of music made in and inspired by America. The Huffington Post talked with the symphony’s manager of community engagement about the January festival, which includes performances by Rosanne Cash and Talib Kweli alongside symphony performances of iconic pieces by composers like Leonard Bernstein and George Gershwin.

• As VOSD’s Lisa Halverstadt reported early this year, Balboa Park’s once-beloved Starlight Theater is now falling apart. There’s a new group working to restore the theater and get it up and running. And now there’s the Save Starlight Band, which will play music at a food truck fest in Balboa Park Wednesday while educating passersby about ways they can help save the iconic theater.

• The New York Times rounded up the best photo books of the year, and the list includes “Estamos Buscando A” (“We’re Looking For”), a self-published book by San Diego photographer and educator Paul Turounet.

• A story about the history of Chicano Park popped up on LinkedIn. The piece includes an update to how close the park is to being officially designated as a National Historic Landmark.

• Celebrate Kwanzaa and get a sneak peak of the new African History Museum at the World Beat Cultural Center in Balboa Park this week. The museum is scheduled to officially open in February of next year. (U-T)

• KPBS dropped by the Leichtag Foundation’s farm and wrote about its experimental refugee artist-in-residence project.

• The U-T looked back at the notable visual arts, classical music, theater and dance events of 2016.

• I went on KPBS last week to talk about the first season of VOSD’s Culturecast podcast.

• Kraig Cavanaugh was not impressed by the “Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture” exhibition showing at the San Diego Museum of Art. (San Diego Story)

• Tijuana artist Alfredo “Libre” Gutierrez made Forbes Mexico’s list of the most creative Mexicans in the world. (San Diego Red)

• Check out this glowing review and photos of artist Dani Dodge’s exhibition and installation at HB Punto Experimental in Barrio Logan. (Diversions LA)

• Looking for something to do on New Year’s Eve? CityBeat and Times of San Diego have you covered.

Food, Beer and Booze News

• The city of San Diego wants to make it easier for breweries to expand. (U-T)

• Filipino food is the next big thing, say big-time foodies, so the U-T found some local Filipino chefs who are infusing menus with their favorite childhood recipes.

• The Reader’s Ian Anderson rounded up the biggest beer stories of 2016.

• Carnitas Snack Shack in Del Mar is closing, so the restaurant is hosting one last hurrah.

• Hard cider is coming to Scripps Ranch. (Reader)

• Craft cocktails and boozy milkshakes are coming to Hillcrest. (Eater San Diego)

• White Labs, the San Diego-based yeast-production company, is opening a new location in Asheville, N.C., in January.

Kinsee Morlan is the engagement editor at Voice of San Diego and the author of the Culture Report. Contact her directly at kinsee.morlan@voiceofsandiego.org.

Sherrie Miranda’s historically based, coming of age, Adventure novel “Secrets & Lies in El Salvador” is about an American girl in war-torn El Salvador: http://tinyurl.com/klxbt4y

Her husband made a video for her novel. He wrote the song too. You can go to the Home page of her blog to watch it:

https://sherriemiranda1.wordpress.com

Or you can see it on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P11Ch5chkAc

Don’t Let Trump’s Win Fool You—America’s Getting More Liberal | WIRED

Although I’m still not convinced that the election wasn’t stolen. After all, the ex-cons who placed the Diebolt machines are what assured Bush Dubya’s win twice.

But just as a friend told me then that if most people had voted, this wouldn’t have happened. Another friend told me that it should be a crime NOT to vote. I’m not sure I agree with that, BUT I love that Brazilians have to pay a fine if they don’t vote! That way, only the rich can afford to NOT vote. It would be cool if workers got the day off, but only got paid if they provided proof they voted. After all, can we really call this a Democracy if approx. 50% of eligible voters do NOT vote?!

MichMom • 8 days ago said:

This was one of my favorite segments from “The West Wing”. Candidates Santos and Vinick during their Presidential debate………

“SANTOS: It’s true, Republicans have tried to turn ‘liberal’ into a bad word. Well, liberals ended slavery in this country.

VINICK: A Republican President ended slavery.

SANTOS: Yes, a liberal Republican. What happened to them? They got run out of your party. What did liberals do that was so offensive to the Republican party? I’ll tell you what they did. Liberals got women the right to vote. Liberals got African-Americans the right to vote. Liberals created Social Security and lifted millions of elderly people out of poverty. Liberals ended segregation. Liberals passed the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, Liberals created Medicare. Liberals passed the Clean Air Act, and the Clean Water Act. What did Conservatives do? They opposed every one of those programs. Every one. So when you try to hurl the word ‘liberal’ at my feet, as if it were dirty, something to run away from, something that I should be ashamed of, it won’t work, Senator, because I will pick up that label and wear it as a badge of honor.”

………..and the “opposition” mentioned was all BEFORE the GOP opposition to everything President Obama wanted to pass.

No matter how liberal the county may be becoming, if the voters don’t vote, nothing changes. Only 54% of the eligible voters voted in this election. Trump was elected with 27% of the entire US eligible voters. Yes there may be suppression, yes there may have been fake news, there may have even been Russian partisanship as to the candidate they wanted to besmirch the most, in favor of electing the other candidate. But NO ONE made the remaining 46% of eligible voters stay home except them. Self-suppression.

We don’t always get the perfect candidate, there haven’t been many. We may not even get the candidate that espouses ALL of our priorities. But we get one that is as close as possible and have to vote…………..and if the country is becoming more liberal, then they have to get off the couch, get the ID they need, get registered to vote, and show up to vote in every primary and general election……..not just for the Presidential election every 4 years in November. There’s nearly two years before the mid-terms and four before the next Presidential election. Having Get Out The Vote and voter registration during the 4 months before the election hasn’t worked. Do it all year long, every year, push it. Voter suppression doesn’t work if you follow what’s required, even if it seems like an unbearable burden. Start planning more than a year before the election.

Thanks, MichMom!

Peace,

Sherrie

Sherrie Miranda’s historically based, coming of age, Adventure novel “Secrets & Lies in El Salvador” is about an American girl in war-torn El Salvador: http://tinyurl.com/klxbt4y

Her husband made a video for her novel. He wrote the song too. You can go to the Home page of her blog to watch it:

https://sherriemiranda1.wordpress.com

Or you can see it on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P11Ch5chkAc

Monday Funnies on Boxing Day…

I don’t know what Boxing Day is, but love these funnies! I tried to get this up before most of the world was on Tuesday, but couldn’t get this to post from my iPhone. Well, I had a very low-key Xmas & enjoyed it immensely. Hope you all did too!

I did catch my 1st Xmas mass ever! It was at the Episcopalian Church in San Diego. It was beautiful!

Why I’m not getting any writing done – Infographic…

Might as well come clean now! I got very little writing done in 2016. In 2017, I plan to finish & publish “Crimes & Impunity in New Orleans.”

Peace, love & getting to the writing for all,

Sherrie

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