Prescribing Joy explores how art is transforming well-being across San Diego through The Prebys Foundation’s Healing Through Art and Nature initiative. Featuring interviews with Prebys CEO Grant Oliphant, Malashock Dance Executive Director […]
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Vanguard Culture is an online media entity designed for culturally savvy, socially conscious individuals. We provide original interviews and reviews of the people, places, and events that make up San Diego’s thriving arts and culture community, as well as curated snapshots of the week’s best, most inspiring and unique cultural and culinary events. We believe in making a difference in the world, supporting San Diego’s vibrant visual and performing arts community and bringing awareness to important social and community causes.
THE BUZZ: San Diego Has Too Much Good Theatre in May
The jasmine is blooming and tourists are arriving, meaning it’s time for San Diego theaters to open some of the most anticipated plays of the year. From Coronado to Oceanside, […]
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THE BUZZ: Rhythm of the Earth: A Mindful Music Festival Rooted in Joy, Nature, and Community
Why would a Zen monastery hold a music festival? “It is part of the Plum Village tradition, to find new and creative ways to bring people to mindfulness,” says Brother […]
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THE BUZZ: Your Best Friend Is Happy For You. She’s Also Lying: The Old Globe’s Alien Girls
Alien Girls, a world premiere play developed at The Old Globe’s 2025 Powers New Voices Festival, is moving, funny, a little odd, and very vulnerable. Playwright Amy Berryman structures the […]
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THE BUZZ: From the Pulpit to the Stage: Universal Spirit Center Presents The Laramie Project Cycle
By Kristen Nevarez Schweizer April 27, 2026 A local spiritual community makes the case that live theatre isn’t just art — it’s a moral act. Universal Spirit Center, an inclusive, […]
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THE BUZZ: The Nora Ephron Era Is Back — and It’s in Solana Beach
By Kristen Nevarez Schweizer April 27, 2026 The Gen Z girlies have just discovered Nora Ephron. They’re posting on TikTok about You’ve Got Mail and When Harry Met Sally like […]
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THE BUZZ: The Power of the First Move: Lessons from an Emerging Filmmaking Duo
By Michael Howard April 26, 2026 Before there is a script, before budgets, late nights, location scouting, casting – before any of it, every indie film is just an idea. […]
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OPINION: A False Economy of Cutting Arts Funding : The San Diego Story
When budgets tighten, arts funding is often among the first casualties. The reasoning must have felt practical to the San Diego Mayor, ever responsible: in difficult times; governments must prioritize […]
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THE BUZZ: GIANTS In La Jolla: A Chorus of Black Vision, Memory, and Possibility
From the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego – April 18 to August 9, 2026 By Cory-LaNeave Jones April 24, […]
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OPINION: San Diego Kept Arts Funding Through 2008 and COVID. Todd Gloria Killed It.
By Kristen Nevarez Schweizer April 17, 2026 I have never written about politics. Ever. I follow local politicians the way I follow celebrities (that is to say: loosely, and primarily […]
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THE BUZZ: Threading the Sky: Faith Ringgold’s Stories Rise, Stitch by Stitch
Curated by Mashonda Tifrere | Featuring the work and legacy of Faith Ringgold By Cory-LaNeave Jones April 15, 2026 “I have always wanted to tell my story – or, more […]
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THE BUZZ: Fences Still Standing: August Wilson at The Old Globe
By Kristen Nevarez Schweizer April 15, 2026 Sit down. Let me tell you about a man named August Wilson — a man who changed Black theatre forever — and how […]
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OPINION: Cuts To The Arts Are Stupid: The US And Now The City of San Diego Wants To End All Arts Funding
by John M. Eger April 13, 2026 The Mayor of San Diego, Todd Gloria, is scheduled to announce tomorrow (April 15th) that all funding for the Arts would be eliminated. […]
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THE BUZZ: Watch Her Eyes: New Village Arts’ sharply cast Matt & Ben
By Kristen Nevarez Schweizer April 10, 2026 The question isn’t whether Matt & Ben, New Village Art’s satirical comedy, lands (it does) – it’s why. Mindy Kaling and Brenda Withers […]
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OPINION: The Center Holds: Why Downtown Defines a City’s Identity
by John M. Eger April 5, 2026 A past president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors once said: “The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century, a […]
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