HAPPY NOVEMBER!!! Crazy.

I hope everyone had a very fun Halloween weekend, ate your weight in candy + watched at least one thing that made sleeping slightly harder. My boyfriend and I went as clowns this year after a very last-minute costume scramble and, not to toot our own tiny clown horns, I think we absolutely pulled it off.

And now somehow we’re staring directly at the end of the year.

Before we start decorating trees, planning Friendsgivings + pretending December isn’t about to become one giant calendar conflict, we have ONE extremely important piece of November business:

GO VOTE.

Vote today if you can, or make your plan for tomorrow. Please. I am begging you to participate in the group project. THEN we can get back to the fun stuff.

Like Amtrac’s Dream Live Tour at Music Box on 11/28, which feels like a very solid reward for successfully entering November. And naturally, I’ve got a pair of tickets for one of you. Enter to win!

JUST ANNOUNCED

• Crooked Fingers is bringing Dignity and Shame back into the world with a fresh vinyl reissue + a full-band tour, and San Diego gets Jim Ward on the bill too. See the legends at Casbah on 3/4.

• Your spring calendar just got one extremely good reason to spend a Friday night inside The Observatory: DIIV graces us with their presence on 5/21.

• You’ve survived Christmas. The presents are open. The relatives have been sufficiently visited. Tyga at NOVA on 12/26 is what happens next.

• Twenty years after Nothing Left to Lose, Mat Kearney is still out here making us confront the passage of time against our will. See him at Humphreys on 8/20.

• See the full list of ALL shows announced in October before I wipe the page for November TOMORROW!

SAN DIEGO NEWS & JOB OPENINGS

Fresh Monday homework, but the useful kind: know what’s happening around town + see who’s hiring.

The San Diego news + jobs guide got its weekly refresh today.

Go be informed and/or employed!

THIS WEEK

LOCALS ONLY

• Tiny San Diegans just got a very good deal: kids from birth to age 5 can get a free book mailed to them every month through Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. Check eligibility here!

• Something everyone can agree on Tuesday: free fries. Mr. Charlie’s Hillcrest is throwing them in with any burger on 11/3 when you mention Election Day. Go eat!

• Think you can fit an entire story inside a matchbook? The Library Shop SD’s tiny-but-mighty writing contest is back through 11/15, and every $5 entry also sends another $5 to the library system. Submit yours!

WIN STUFF

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