Coronado Times

Jake Lyons at Garage Buona Forchetta
2023-01-15 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Garage Buona Forchetta, 1000 C Ave, Coronado, CA 92118, USA

Live Music at McP's Irish Pub
2023-01-14 20:00 - 2023-01-15 00:00, 2023-01-13 20:00 - 2023-01-14 00:00, 2023-01-12 20:00 - 2023-01-13 00:00 | McP’s Irish Pub, 1107 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA 92118, USA, 101 Orange Ave, United States
http://www.mcpspub.com/enter.htm

"Ripcord" at Coronado Playhouse
2023-01-13 20:00 - 22:00 | Coronado Playhouse, 1835 Strand Way, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Coronado Playhouse is launching into the new year with a comedy of one-up-womanship. It’s not often we see media centered around aging women anymore, but this play by David Lindsay-Abaire will give fans of classics like “Golden Girls” all the humor, sarcasm, and grit only women of a certain age can dish out.
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Coronado Playhouse Presents “Ripcord” – Jan. 13-29, 2023

Live Music in the Cays Lounge
2023-01-14 19:00 - 21:00, 2023-01-13 19:00 - 21:00 | Loews Coronado Bay Resort, 4000 Coronado Bay Rd, Coronado, CA 92118, USA, 4001 Coronado Bay Rd, United States
https://www.loewshotels.com/coronado-bay-resort/dining/lounge
Listen to live music on Friday and Saturday from 7 – 9pm at Cays Lounge while sipping on craft cocktails and snacking on seasonal tapas. Friday and Saturday bar service is open until midnight, with last call at 11:30pm. Cays Lounge is open daily from 3 – 10pm with indoor and outdoor seating.
Join us for Happy Hour Monday – Friday from 3pm – 5pm.

Live Music at Babcock & Story Bar, Hotel Del
2023-01-14 18:00 - 22:00, 2023-01-13 18:00 - 22:00, 2023-01-12 18:00 - 22:00 | Babcock & Story Bar, 1500 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA 92118, USA, United States
https://hoteldel.com/dine/babcock-and-story-bar/

Live Music at Emerald C Gallery
2023-01-14 18:00 - 20:00, 2023-01-14 17:00 - 18:00, 2023-01-11 18:00 - 20:00, 2023-01-11 17:00 - 18:00 | Emerald C Gallery, 1331 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA 92118, USA, 101 Orange Ave, United States
https://www.facebook.com/emeraldcgallery/

Democratic Club Meeting
2023-01-14 15:00 - 16:00 | Coronado Library Winn Room, 640 Orange Avenue, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
The Coronado Democratic Club will hold its first general meeting of 2023 on Saturday, January 14th at 3 pm in the Winn Room at the Coronado Public Library. The meeting is open to the public and the club welcomes visitors and guests.

Live Music at Beach & Taco Shack, Hotel Del
2023-01-14 14:00 - 17:00, 2023-01-13 14:00 - 17:00 | CA
https://hoteldel.com/dine/beach-taco-shack/

Rose Pruning Workshop
2023-01-14 09:30 - 11:30 | Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Learn how to prune roses on Saturday, January 14 from 9:30 am through 11:30 am at the Harlow Rose Garden in front of the Library. Please bring your sharp bypass pruners and gloves to participate in this hands-on workshop. This event is also an opportunity to get information about fertilizing roses, pests and fungal diseases. This free event is open to the public and led by Consulting Rosarian and Master Gardener, Rita Perwich, and Master Gardeners, Maria Mata and Carvill Veech.
Master Gardeners will be present to provide free cleaning and sharpening of one pair of pruners or loppers for attendees of the workshop. Tools need to be in good working condition to be cleaned and sharpened.

Tricia Lynn - Live Music at Garage Buona Forchetta
2023-01-13 18:30 - 20:30 | Garage Buona Forchetta, 1000 C Ave, Coronado, CA 92118, USA

La Don Jones & Barbara Linette at Wine a Bit
2023-01-13 18:00 - 21:00 | Wine A Bit, 928 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA 92118, USA, 101 A Ave, United States
Every Friday with https://mochatones.com/

West African Kora Concert
2023-01-13 13:00 - 14:00 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
On Friday, January 13th at 1 pm, Sean Gaskell will give a performance and educational demonstration on the kora, an ancient 21-stringed harp from West Africa. He will feature traditional songs that are the heart and soul of the kora’s musical repertoire.

Sean Gaskell first heard the kora performed live in 2006. That performance by Kane Mathis, who would become his first teacher, inspired him to immerse himself in music of the kora and travel to its homeland in West Africa. The kora is traditionally played by oral historians known as Griots, often called Jalis or Jelis. Many songs tell story of war, hardship, love and loss all while presenting the history and fabric of Mande society, of which the instrument originates. Visits to Brikama, Gambia, West Africa provided Gaskell the opportunity to study the kora under the instruction of Moriba Kuyateh and his father, the late Malamini Jobarteh. Gaskell has presented adult, youth and family programs at over 350 libraries and a multitude of k-12 schools, colleges, universities and assisted living facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Coronado Ukulele Club
2023-01-12 18:30 - 19:30 | Resurrection Lutheran Church, 1111 5th Street, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Free and open to all who are interested in learning or playing the Ukulele
For more information, call 619-435-0307

Drop-In Monthly Chess for Adults
2023-01-12 15:00 - 17:00 | Coronado Library Winn Room, 640 Orange Avenue, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
The Library is hosting open chess play on the second Thursday of every month between 3 and 5 pm in the Winn Room. Enjoy playing chess with others, or learn to play or improve your game with help from facilitator and local chess coach Chuck McClung. Chess boards and pieces provided. Open to all adults age 18 and older.

New Year's Mixer with Live Music
2023-01-12 15:00 - 17:00 | John D. Spreckels Center, 1019 Seventh Street, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Are you looking for a fun event to kick off 2023? Spend an afternoon at the John D. Spreckels Center New’s Year Mixer featuring a three-piece band with local artist, Maria Christina on Thursday, January 12 from 3-5 pm.
Attendees can plan on listening to a great mix of jazz, soul and R&B hits while enjoying a casual welcoming atmosphere. Pop onto the dance floor or just take in the music. Appetizers and refreshments will be served, and a cash bar will be on site for the purchase of spirits.

Friends & Flowers: Horticulture: How to Prepare Your Entries
2023-01-11 18:00 - 19:00 | Coronado Library Winn Room, 640 Orange Avenue, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Meet new friends and enjoy a shared appreciation for flowers! Join the Coronado Floral Association for the monthly Friends & Flowers events this January-April as we gear up for the 101st Coronado Flower Show on April 15 & 16, 2023.
There is something for everyone in the upcoming show. Come learn more about this community event and find out how you can participate!

The January 11th meeting’s theme is Horticulture: How to Prepare Your Entries. Learn how to ready your container-grown and hanging plants for entry in the upcoming show. Horticulture Chair Diana Drummey will also talk about how to select and prepare entries of cut flowers, cacti and succulents. If you’d like to bring a sweet or savory snack to share, please call Kate at 619.549.3178.

Biography & Memoir Book Club: The Yellow House
2023-01-11 13:00 - 14:00 | Ruby Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
Join the Through Their Eyes Book Club is reading The Yellow House by Sarah Broom. In 1961, Sarah M. Broom’s mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. Ivory Mae raised twelve children and Yellow House would become Ivory Mae’s thirteenth and most unruly child.
Broom’s The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America’s most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother’s struggle against a house’s entropy, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after Hurricane Katrina.(Amazon)

Poetry for the People
2023-01-04 11:00 - 12:00 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
This course will feature poems, both historic and contemporary, which enjoy iconic status. These poems, as well as their authors, are acknowledged as widely recognized and admired as having exceptional influence. All class members are encouraged to contribute their ideas and perceptions of the poems, enriching the discussions for everyone in attendance.

Chuck Kamar received his bachelor’s from Boston State and his master’s from Boston University. He taught for 34 years in the Newton Public Schools, the last 20 of which where at Newton North High School. In 1998 he won the Paul E. Elicker Award for Excellence in Teaching.

"Operation Underworld" Author in Person
2023-01-10 19:00 - 20:30 | Winn Room, Coronado Public Library, 640 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA, 92118, United States
On Tuesday, January 10th at 7 pm, the Coronado Public Library, in partnership with Warwick’s, will host Matthew Black as he discusses and signs his new book, Operation Underworld: How the Mafia and U.S. Government Teamed Up to Win World War II. This event is open to the public, seating is first-come, first-served, subject to availability. Guaranteed preferred seating is available with purchase of Operation Underground through Warwick’s Bookstore. Please visit www.warwicks.com/event/black-2023 or call them at 858-454-0347 for more information.
Matthew Black is a labor and crime historian who was recruited by James P. Hoffa’s office in 2016 to author Dave Beck – A Teamsters Life. Black has also worked as a staff writer for the San Diego Union-Tribune and has written articles for Alaska Airlines magazine. He has published dozens of articles on History101.com, where he has individually brought some 42 million readers to his work. Born and raised in Seattle, he is a graduate of the University of Washington with an honors degree in history. While he travels the country and the world at a feverish pace in search of stories, he calls San Diego home, where he lives with his wife and daughter.
About Operation Underworld: In 1942, a rational fear was mounting that New York Harbor was vulnerable to sabotage. If the waterfront was infested with German and Italian agents then the U.S. Navy needed a recourse just as insidious to secure it.
Naval intelligence officer, Commander Charles Radcliffe Haffenden had the solution: recruit as his own spies, members of La Cosa Nostra. Pier to pier, no one terrified the longshoremen, stevedores, shopkeepers, and boat captains along the harbor better than the Mafia gangs of New York, who controlled the docks in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Haffenden was prepared to make a deal with the devil–the man who put “organized” into organized crime. Even from his cell in Dannemora State Prison, former Public Enemy #1, Charles “Lucky” Luciano still had tremendous power. Luciano was willing to wield it for Haffenden. But he wanted something in return—Luciano’s contacts in Italy to track the Nazis’ movements.
Operation Underworld is a tale of espionage and crime like no other, the unbelievable, first-ever account of the Allied war effort’s clandestine coalition between the Mafia and the U.S. Government to protect New York, vanquish the Nazis by taking the fight to the enemy in the 1943 U.S. invasion of Sicily. It was an ingenious strategy carried out by some of history’s most infamous, improbable, and unsung heroes on both sides of the law. It was a Faustian bargain that brought homefront enemies together but, as journalist and crime historian Matthew Black reveals, one that ultimately succeeded in helping the Allies win World War II.
