San Diego Cat Fanciers hosts show POINT LOMA — A new cat show will take place at the Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road on Aug. 7 and 8. There will be up to 225 exotic cats to see from 40 different breeds. Show cats will be on display and there will be unique gift items for purchase. Pedigreed kittens will be for sale and rescue cat adoptions available. The show runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets cost $8 for adults and $6 for children, seniors and military personnel. Children under age 6 are free. Ticket fees must be paid in cash and can be purchased at the door. For more information visit www.sandiegocat.org. —DEBBIE HATCH The Old Globe’s Shakespeare Festival continues BALBOA PARK — Readers may be aware that The Old Globe is celebrating its 75th anniversary, and have they got a summer festival season for you! Selected by Shakespeare Festival artistic director Adrian Noble, former director of the Royal Shakespeare, two works by William Shakespeare and another more recent work by Alan Bennett play in alternating repertory nightly except Mondays on the Globe’s outdoor stage. Playing through Sept. 23, “King Lear” is Shakespeare’s great tragedy about an aged ruler (played by television and film actor Robert Foxworth), who intends to divide his kingdom between his three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. Playing through Sept. 24, Alan Bennett’s “Madness of George III” is a companion piece of sorts for “Lear” in that it, too, concerns a mad monarch, in this case George III of England, who ruled at the time of the American Revolution. Playing through Sept. 26 is the comedy with which this season’s festival leavens the tragedy of “Lear” and the medical torture of “George III.” Among the Bard’s most popular comedies, the play pits the Shrew (Swallow, a most intelligent and attractive woman) and a young man named Petruchio (Jonno Roberts, a fine actor, a magnificent hunk and portrayer of the murderous Edmund in “Lear”), who “comes to wive [sic] it wealthily in Padua.” Each production takes place at the Lowell Davis Festival Theatre in Balboa Park, where the animals in the nearby zoo add unexpected sound and the stately trees are the real McCoy. A complete schedule of performances may be found at www.theoldglobe.org or phone (619) 23-GLOBE. — CHARLENE BALDRIIDGE Air & Space Museum ramps up appeal BALBOA PARK — There’s much more to Balboa Park’s Air and Space Museum than static displays of historic flight — it’s an aerial circus at ground level. There’s no one better at the controls than executive director Jim Kidrick, a one-time Navy fighter pilot and former organizer of major air shows. He even headed the Mission Bay Bayfair hydroplane races for eight years. Museum officials have added a 3-D/4-D theater as a coupled entertainment entry with the ongoing “Science of Aliens” exhibit. There’s a kid’s hangar, an observation deck and many historical planes with scenes that depict progress of flight. Throughout are video presentations. “Have a hot dog or Slurpee and listen to the airport tower’s instructions as airliners fly over,” Kidrick said. He said in mid-August four additional joint strike simulators of the new F-35 Lightning program will be in place. Coming in February to replace the “Aliens” exhibit will be NASA’s supported “Space: A Journey to our Future.” It’s about space — from the beginning to the end — with many interactive things. “I saw it at the Smithsonian,” Kidrick said. “We’ll have an additional 3,000 to 4,000 square feet for it than they did.” Previous traveling exhibits have been “Star Trek” and “The Da Vinci Experience.” The “Aliens” exhibit is broken into four sections: alien fiction, alien science, alien worlds and alien communication. The “Science of Aliens” exhibit’s limited engagement has extended well beyond January. The 3-D/4-D Zable Theater seats 36 guests and employs unique special effects. The films are played continuously each day at no extra cost. Just add some exciting motion with the depth of third dimension. One film is about a schoolboy’s mythical jetpack adventure past skyscrapers and over freeways. The other is an exciting trip in the legendary Apollo 11 as it shoots to the moon. Then look back with an eye-popping view of Earth. Funding for the theater was provided by the Walter J. Zable and Betty C. Zable Foundation, Cubic Corporation and the San Diego Air & Space Technology Center. The Kid’s Aviation Action Hangar offers preschoolers magnetic toys and aviation coloring books, with art equipment to sketch aircraft or to pedal planes. Grade-schoolers can board flight simulators or romp on the moon’s surface in space suits. Kidrick likes to discuss the many positive changes taking place, and it’s a busy place. — JOHNNY McDONALD Chef Travis Flood joins George’s at the Cove LA JOLLA — George’s at the Cove announced that Travis Flood has joined its culinary team. The San Diego-native returns to America’s Finest City after nearly a decade in the San Francisco Bay Area to join executive chef and partner Trey Foshee at George’s California Modern. Flood’s cooking philosophy is inspired by his California roots and his love for the region’s great outdoors, making him an ideal match for Foshee’s hyper-local and seasonal menus. “I’m an ardent proponent of organic and sustainable ingredients and the people who supply them,” Flood said. A 2002 graduate of the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco, Flood has worked at several notable Bay Area restaurants. Most recently, Flood assisted chef Mark Sullivan at Spruce in Park City, Utah, during the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Previously, he was executive chef at Picolo Teatro di Sausalito and executive chef and partner of Moose’s Restaurant in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood. The one constant in every kitchen he has managed has been his commitment to weekly farmers market visits. George’s at the Cove is located at 1250 Prospect St. For more information or reservations call (858) 454-4244 or visit www.georgesatthecove.com. FRIDAY, AUG. 6 Point Loma/Ocean Beach • Ringo Starr and his All Starr Band featuring Edgar Winter, Gary Wright, Rick Derringer, Richard Page (Mr. Mister), Wally Palmar (Romantics) and Greff Bissonette 8 p.m., Humphrey’s Concerts by the Bay, 2241 Shelter Island Drive, (619) 224-1556, $135. • Friday Night Liberty, NTC Promenade Arts & Cultural District features a free evening of art, music, food, drinks and exhibits in support of local artists and designers. The featured event will be the newest addition of Mod-Est Studio Gallery in Suite 104 of the district, with displays by owner/artist Kevin Winger. Friday Night Liberty takes place at 2640 Historic Decatur Road at Liberty Station. For more information, call (619) 573-9260, or visit www.ntcpromenade.com, free SATURDAY, AUG. 7 Pacific/Mission Beach • Blood drive, 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., The Wave House, 3115 Ocean Front Walk, Mission Beach, put on by the Old Mission Beach Athletic Club, benefiting the San Diego Blood Bank • Clean PB Day, 9 a.m. to noon, Ocean Boulevard at Grand Avenue, www.cleanpb.com • Board Silly, noon to 2 p.m., Pacific Beach/Taylor Library, 4275 Cass St., board games for adults, (858) 581-9934, free b>Point Loma/Ocean Beach • “Hot ’n’ Spicy,” 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. San Diego Watercolor Society, 2825 Dewey Road, Suite 105, for more information, call (619) 876-4550 www.sdws.org • “Transformations/Reflections” 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Quilt Visions Art Quilt Gallery, 2825 Dewey Road, Suite 105, for more information call (619) 546-4872, or visit www.quiltvisions.org Downtown • Mary Chapin Carpenter, 8 p.m., Balboa Theatre, 868 Fourth Ave. www.sandiegotheatres.org, ticketmaster.com or (619) 570-1100 La Jolla • Children’s Stranger Awareness & Avoidance & Bully Self-Defense course, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., La Jolla YMCA, 8355 Cliffridge Ave., (858) 453-3483, $30 members/$40 nonmembers SUNDAY, AUG. 8 Pacific/Mission Beach • Rockola, Concerts on the Green, 4 to 6:30 p.m., Kate Sessions Park, free • PB Democratic Club picnic at Kate Sessions Park, 4 p.m., Jim Morrison, (858) 274-7581 Downtown • Burt Bacharach, 7:30 p.m., Embarcadero Marina Park, for tickets visit www.sandiegosymphony.com or (619) 235-0804 • Summer Bridal Bazaar with three fashion shows at the San Diego Convention Center. Call (760) 334-5500 Point Loma/Ocean Beach • “Hot ’n’ Spicy,” 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. San Diego Watercolor Society, 2825 Dewey Road, Suite 105, for more information, call (619) 876-4550 www.sdws.org • “Transformations/Reflections”10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Quilt Visions Art Quilt Gallery, 2825 Dewey Road, Suite 105, for more information call (619) 546-4872, or visit www.quiltvisions.org La Jolla • Free visitor tour of the University of California, San Diego, 2 p.m.; 90-minute guided tour of architecture and landscaping; walking tour first Sunday of each month, bus tours every other Sunday year-round; call (858) 534-4414 for reservations • Benny Hollman’s Big Band Explosion, 2-4 p.m., La Jolla Concerts by the Sea, Scripps Park at La Jolla Cove, free