starlight bowl reopening

the starlight theatre in balboa park has reopened with some local music shows. to be honest, i never knew this place existed, and i bike through balboa park all the time. apparently it's next to the air and space museum, which puts it at the south end of the park and directly under the flight path to lindbergh.

i'm all for as many open-air venues in san diego as possible. my favorite is the embarcadero location right on the bay, just beyond where the convention center walls off the bay. of course, the uptight conservatives in coronado across the bay have had their way and shut the place down for non-symphonic concerts. i'm guessing it was the menacing bass line from radiohead's "national anthem" that really put them over the edge. anyway, as this review in prefixmag makes evident, the location and weather for that concert helped turn the show into an incredible experience. let's hope the starlight can book some bigger bands to create some new memorable evenings.