POP MUSIC
The purpose-driven life
For guitar wiz Jennifer Batten, music is 'all about stretching your creativity'
By George Varga
POP MUSIC CRITIC
After spending three years going head-to-head with rock guitar icon Jeff Beck in his band, and a decade as the featured six-string soloist in pop-music legend Michael Jackson's group, Jennifer Batten was ready to downsize. “I really needed a change,” said the former San Diego guitar wiz, whose Wednesday solo concert at Dizzy's downtown marks her first area performance since a sold-out 1999 show with Beck at the SDSU Open Air Theatre.
CENTERPIECE
Sun spot
The fun is out there and easy to find now that the tourists are gone
Ah, finally, it's our turn.
Sunny days and chilly swells have brought the tourist masses surfside all summer long. But with vacation time ending and tourists returning home, we can stake our rightful claim to the beaches and the bays, the restaurants and taverns.
DINING GUIDE
Yo! Fro-yo!
By Caroline Dipping
STAFF WRITER
Frozen yogurt shops are offering new flavors – in the right hands, that's a good thing
Forget the frozen yogurts of the 1980s and 1990s, with their molar-achingly sweet rum-fudge-ripple and cake-batter flavors.
