June 4, 2026 In Kyoto,hearing the cuckoo,I long for Kyoto.— Matsuo Bashō, In Kyoto … (translated By Jane Hirshfield, The Poetry Foundation) L’histoire de la musique atmospherique has always been […]
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CORY LANEAVE JONES is a freelance fiction writer and critic, journalist, photographer, nonfigurative painter, drummer, homebrew beer judge, home chef and semi-pro foodie, runner, enjoys live artistic performances, an active proponent of the Oxford comma, and on weekdays, is a practicing Professional Civil Engineer. His bachelor and masters STEM education was from Vanderbilt and UNC Charlotte in the 90’s. He also previously worked as House Manager at the North Coast Repertory Theatre and sold tickets and merch at the Belly Up Tavern on nights and weekends in Solana Beach. When he’s not doing all that, he enjoys a nice meditative respite, a good read, or listening to a good podcast.
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THE BUZZ: Helen Sung brings The Zodiac Suite to San Diego
By Cory-LaNeave Jones “We dance round in a ring and suppose,But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.” — Robert Frost, from The Secret Sits (1942) Robert Frost’s couplet […]
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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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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: 4,000 Years in the Making: Why Gilgamesh: The Opera Is Worth the Drive
By Cory-LaNeave Jones March 27, 2026 There are evenings when the past does not feel past at all, when it arrives not as history but as breath—ragged, urgent, and unwilling […]
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THE BUZZ: Taj Mahal’s Climate Change Blues Strike a Powerful Chord
By Cory-LaNeave Jones March 3, 2026 When we stop paying attention to the oceans, will we finally have the real “Fishing Blues”? Henry “Ragtime Texas” Thomas first recorded a version […]
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THE BUZZ: Beyond the Soundsuit: Nick Cave on Art, Race, and Making Work That Matters
By Cory-LaNeave Jones January 24, 2026 Do you hear it walking into the museum?It does not ask permission.It does not declare its race, its gender, its wounds.It shakes. It rattles. […]
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THE BUZZ: Eduardo Chillida: Convergence: Where Iron Thinks, Space Breathes, and Light Learns to Hesitate
By Cory-LaNeave Jones “Does the infinite space we dissolve into, taste of us then?”—Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. Stephen Mitchell, NY, Vintage International, 1989. […]
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THE BUZZ: An Introductory Guide to the 2025 San Diego International Film Festival
By Cory-LaNeave Jones October 8, 2025 Light in the Dark The air in San Diego in October always carries a kind of cinematic light — that bleached hush before the […]
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THE BUZZ: Between the Breath of Cloth: An Interview with fabric portrait artist, Bisa Butler
By Cory-LaNeave Jones September 18, 2025 In the hush where thread whispers its secrets, the quilt becomes a poem, each patch a syllable in the story of souls unseen. There, […]
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THE BUZZ: Karl Denson Returns to So Cal, Waxes Poetic on Stones, Kravitz & Chicken‑N‑Waffles
By Cory-LaNeave Jones August 18, 2025 The first thing you notice about Karl Denson is not the horn, or the flute — though they sit near him like tamed animals […]
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THE BUZZ: La Jolla Music Society’s Summer Fest Blends Classics, Jazz & Innovation
La Jolla Music Society’s Summer Fest is bringing Classical Music to new heights at the Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center in La Jolla from now until August 23rd. By Cory-LaNeave […]
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THE BUZZ: Devious Delight: North Coast Rep’s Tuneful Take on Class and Consequence
By Cory-LaNeave Jones July 25, 2025 In the salt-tinged air of North County’s coastal strip, where surfboards are religion and craft coffee a civic right, you might not expect to […]
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THE BUZZ: Innovative, Bilingual & Jazz‑Packed — San Diego Welcomes Mei Semones
Welcoming dual-language Indie-J-Pop and Jazz—Fusion Singer Songwriter, Mei Semones, to San Diego’s Quartyard on Wednesday, July 16 By Cory-LaNeave Jones Mei Semones is a newbie on the jazz charts, but […]
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THE BUZZ: From Venice Biennale to LA: Jeffrey Gibson’s Dazzling Return at The Broad
by Cory-LaNeave Jones June 25, 2025 Jeffrey Gibson has brought his fabulously bright and kaleidoscopic exhibit all the way from the Venice Biennale to Southern California. Jeffrey Gibson: the space […]
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