Legendary driver Ivan (Ironman) Stewart is producing a special three-month off-road show at the San Diego Automotive Museum, starting May 1.
Stewart, whose enterprises now including the manufacturing of Protrucks, has enlisted the services of several of his friends and former competitors to provide racing equipment. Some of those involved are Walker Evans, the Corky McMillan family and Parnelli Jones.
It is timely, since Championship Off-Road Racing (CORR) will open its racing season in Otay Mesa May 18-21, while the annual Baja 500 is set for June.
Stewart will have a two-seat buggy and truck he raced in many stadium races, including San Diego’s Qualcomm.
He won 19 Baja races when he drove solo but said he didn’t gain his national reputation until he was a successful Toyota-factory driver in stadium races.
He retired shortly after he won his last Baja 1,000 and when Toyota pulled out of stadium racing.
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The Old Globe announced the cast of its Summer Shakespeare Festival for three of the Bard’s best loved works: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello and Titus Andronicus to run in nightly rotation in the outdoor Lowell Davies Festival Theater from June 18 to Oct. 1.
The company includes J. Paul Boehmer, Lise Bruneau, Celeste Ciulla, Bayardo DeMurguria, Michael Drummond, Wynn Harmon, Charles Janasz, Julie Jesneck, Leonard Kelly-Young, Karl Kenzler, Michael Newcomer, Owiso Odera, Jonathan Peck and Michael Urie. Students in The Old Globe/USD Professional Actor Training Program will have understudy roles.
Nationally renowned Darko Tresnjak returns as Artistic Director of the Festival.
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Edge of the Earth and Corner of the Sky is author-photographer Art Wolfe’s lecture topic May 13 at the Natural History Museum.
The entertaining presentation encompasses his adventures from his book. It starts at 9 a.m.
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The San Diego Museum of Man features two interesting subjects this month with Body Ornamentation and Forgotten Germans: Family Survival of World War II Tragedies.
The first on May 12 deals with the importance of body art to a variety of cultures around the world and its popularity in the contemporary Americas.
Associate curator Phil Hoog will discuss personal family history about the expulsion of eastern European Germans from their homeland after World War II.
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The Puppet Theater will feature four different shows in May.
Dr.. Lackowitz vs. the Computer Virus, May 3-7, Princess Phoebe’s Birthday Present, May 10-14. Flower Fantasy, May 17-21 and Sleeping Beauty, May 24-28 and Comical, Magical Ventriloquism, May 31-June 4.
Show hours are Wednesday through Friday, 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.