CENTERPIECE
Users manual
The golf fans – and other turistas – are coming on fast, so we've prepared a guide for the smart set: You
Checked the calendar lately?
Practice rounds at the U.S. Open tee off at Torrey Pines Monday; the seven-day extravaganza will overlap with a.) the Del Mar Fair, which opens June 14, and b.) Father's Day, June 15.
That's right: you'll spend next week dodging NBC sportscasters, ESPN satellite trucks, Tiger's cart, corporate high-rollers, gallery groupies, carnies, daddies. Oh, and parents?
ON STAGE
In good hands
John Lill lets Beethoven's piano concertos carry the day
By Valerie Scher
CLASSICAL MUSIC CRITIC
To hear a concert featuring one of Beethoven's piano concertos is no big deal. Hearing all five in a single program? That's a very big deal.
And that's how San Diego's Mainly Mozart Festival will launch its 20th season Tuesday night.
POP MUSIC
Playmakers
94.9's Independence Jam fields a solid lineup
By Nina Garin
STAFF WRITER
Radio station concerts aren't something to get all excited about. Usually the stations present their biggest charting artists who play watered-down hits for about 20 minutes. The experience is never quite satisfying or exciting.
