november2011

Fresh off of the première of Two and a Half

Men, Ashton Kutcher partied at FLUXX

with former castmate Danny Masterson,

Eric Balfour, Christopher Masterson,

and Michael Pena. The guys partied at

their VIP table, drinking Ketel One and

Patron Platinum.

Selena Gomez was spotted having lunch

with her family at Roppongi Restaurant

and Sushi Bar in La Jolla. She posed for a

photo with a group of young girls—one of

the fans even broke down in tears. Luckily,

her boyfriend Justin Bieber was nowhere

in sight.

Jersey Shore hothead Ronnie Ortiz-Magro

was spotted at FLUXX nightclub two

nights in a row. He was even seen teach-

ing his fi st-pumping techniques to Deron

Williams, point guard for the New Jersey

Nets, when the basketball player invited

Ronnie to his neighboring VIP table. Also

spotted at FLUXX was Jenny McCarthy,

who showed up with her boyfriend, sister,

and a few friends.

The San Diego Sports Medicine Foundation

celebrated 10 years at La Jolla’s Taste at the

Cove. Junior Seau, Marshall Faulk, Bill

Walton, Antonio Gates, Shaun Phillips,

and Ali and Roberto of The Bachelorette

attended the foundation’s fundraising event

honoring former Padres relief pitcher,

Trevor Hoff man, and the USD associate

director of athletics, Carolyn Greer.

Geena’s Gossip

28 SanDiegoMagazine.comNovember2011

❯❯ CITYFILES

❯❯ BY GEENA THE LATINA

Co-host of Frankie and Geena

in the Morning. See more of

her celebrity gossip at

channel933.com.

Vivian Maier:

Street

Photographer

Edited by John

Maloof

Maloof discovered

Maier when he

bought a box of

her negatives at

an auction house.

He found her to be

an extraordinary

chronicler of street

life (1950s-1990s),

with over 100,000

photographs from

all over the world.

// ANGELA CARONE

Do Travel Writers

Go to Hell

By Thomas

Kohnstamm

This tell-all is

a funny, booze-

fi lled look at

his experiences

writing Lonely

Planet guides.

Kohnstamm was

always broke and

claims he wasn’t

paid enough to

cover certain coun-

tries, resulting in

ethical lapses.

Boomerang:

Travels in the

New Third World

By Michael Lewis

A humorous look

at how the eco-

nomic crises in

Iceland, Greece,

and Germany, to

name a few, reveal

specifi c cultural

characteristics.

By the end, Lewis

turns his gimlet

eye back on the U.S.

The Cat’s Table

By Michael

Ondaatje

The author of

The English Patient

puts his young

protagonists on

a ship bound for

England in the

1950s. The boys

fi nd adventure and

a ship full of char-

acters who reveal

life’s mysteries

and dangers.

Your shelf life

The Tao of Travel

By Paul Theroux

Quite possibly our

best living travel

writer, Theroux

gives us a collec-

tion of his own

writing, as well

as passages by

writers who have

infl uenced him.

rs The Tao of Travel

5 travel-themed reads from Angela Carone

Our Excite-o-Meter

From delightful to

dreadful in November

CAN’T WAIT!!!

OVER IT ALREADY

SD Beer Week gets intimate.

The Suds & Scrubs spa special

at The Loews in Coronado off ers

a 50-minute wheat, orange, and

lemon massage, and a glass of

Mission Brewery Hefeweizen for

$99 (Nov. 4-13). Cheers to that.

Starting with the

T-giving Turkey

Splash & Dash

(Nov. 19) through

the Tax Relief Day

Swim in April, the

LJ Cove Swim Club

members begin

accruing miles

for their winter

program. No wor-

ries: your vacation

miles in Hawaii

count. Phew!

My Week With Marilyn opens

Nov. 4, starring former RSF-er

Michelle Williams.

Westfi eld UTC’s

ginormous reno.

Talk about a ’hood

that could use a

faceli. (Included in

the redevelopment

plans: a fancy movie

theater!)

The voiceofsandiego.org wins a

national award for general excellence

from the Online News Association

for small news site—the BBC won

for large site. Way to keep us in the

company of the big dogs, VOSD.

Boot camps run amok. The park just

isn’t the park with all that yelling.

Jenny

McCarthy

at FLUXX

Three words: Jesus

Christ Superstar.

Two More:

Des McAnuff.

Winter

waves. Kooks,

it’s time to

get out of the

water.