This Weekend in SD: Giveaways Galore with the San Diego Entertainer

Tis the season of giving, so we at the San Diego Entertainer have been working hard to bring you some wonderful FREE gifts to enjoy! With so many  talents and venues throughout the county, there is plenty to look forward to. From frolicking with the Nutcracker sugar plum fairies to rocking out at Wrex the Halls, there is sure to be an event to make your season merry and bright.

Speaking of sugar, plums and fairies, send in your “Favorite Christmas Memory” story  (250 word max) to us here at the San Diego Entertainer (angel@sdentertainer.com) by next Wednesday, December 15th at noon for a chance to win FREE tickets to see the only performance in San Diego of the Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker in the Copley Symphony Hall showing Monday, December 20th at 8pm. Tickets start at $27.50.  For more information and to purchase tickets, click here.

Thursday, December 9

Rocking the Casbah is the Mt St Helens Vietnam Band while The Gracious Few hit up the House of Blues with guest Danielle Barbe.

Then the Aztecs are taking it off for charity! The local students of San Diego State University will be stripping down and getting chilly at this semesters SDSU Undie Run as they collect clothes for donation to the San Diego Coalition for the Homeless.

Tonight is the last night to check out Kings of Pastry at the Reading Cinema Gaslamp 15 (7/9pm), a documentary film by Chris Hedegus and Da Pennebaker that follows Jacquy Pfeiffer as he prepares and competes for the title of France’s finest pastry craftsmen. Watch as Pfeiffer, along with 15 other talented chefs, contends in the Meilleurs Ouvriers de France competition, a three-day culinary contest for the famed red, white, and blue collar marking then as a master of the culinary arts chosen by the President of France himself, Nicolas Sarkozy.

Friday, December 10

This evening, head over to Montezuma Hall at San Diego State University for [email protected]’s Green Christmas featuring performances by Natasha Bedingfield, Neon Trees and The Plain White T’s or relax at A Smooth Jazz Christmas 2010 with Dave Koz & Friends at the Balboa Theatre.

Saturday, December 11

Take a trip back to the wonder years this weekend with 13, a new musical by Tony Award® winning composer Jason Robert Brown about the mishaps and mischief of those high school years. Thirteen-year-old New Yorker Evan Goldman is thrown into a whirlwind as his parents’ divorce lands him in a small town in Indiana to celebrate his Bar Mitzvah surrounded by strangers and lameness, instead of friends and the familiar.

Sign-up below for your chance to win a FREE pair of tickets from the San Diego Entertainer to a family friendly performance of 13 by Friday at noon!  13 is playing through the weekend (two performances are: Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 1pm and 4:30pm) at the David & Dorothea Garfield Theatre in La Jolla. To check out some of the music from the show click here and to purchase tickets call the JCC Box Office at 858-362-1348.

It’s a Weekend Holiday Celebration at The New Children’s Museum! Enjoy festive music all weekend and a special appearance by the Grinch on Saturday at 1pm! Take advantage of free admission on Sunday and enjoy additional performances by Creative Performing Media Arts Middle School, Oak Park Western Percussion Ensemble, San Diego Square Dance Association, YMCA, and more.

Sunday, December 12

Start the day off with Breakfast with Santa at the Hard Rock Café. Bring the kids to enjoy a breakfast buffet with live entertainment from the popular children’s band Hullabaloo! Then after supporting the local San Diego Chargers as take on the Kansas City Chiefs at 1PM, hop over to the Hotel Del Coronado as it teams up with the Lamb’s Players Theatre for An American Christmas through December 26.

Then there is more music mayhem to be had at San Diego State University for 91X Wrex The Halls at the Viejas Arena. Go rock out with the Smashing Pumpkins, My Chemical Romance, Bad Religion, Jimmy Eat World, Switchfoot, Anberlin, A Day To Remember for a crazy winter celebration.

Don’t forget to sign up here for your chance to win FREE tickets to see this weekend’s “13” musical in La Jolla! Friday at noon this giveaway ends!

The Great Russian Nutcracker photos courtesy of  the Moscow Ballet. Photo of Natasha Bedingfield courtesy of BobCobb22 via Wikimedia Commons and the Smashing Pumpkins courtesy of Carlos Varela via Flickr.