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Strawberries, Snoop, & Suds—Your Memorial Day Hit List🇺🇸

Memorial Day plans = cheesy, crawfishy, and completely fabulous. Let’s make it count.

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Brandon Iverson
May 22, 2025

👋 Hey, it's Brandon. Welcome to Area 619, your weekly guide to San Diego's best local events and hidden gems—so you never run out of weekend plans.

Good morning, San Diego! 🇺🇸 It’s Memorial Day Weekend, which means we’re honoring heroes, dodging crowds at the beach, and eating an ungodly amount of crawfish, cheese, and strawberry-based desserts. From ’80s throwback concerts to armadillo art installations (yes, really), this weekend is stacked like your mimosa flight—let’s get into it.

In Area 619 today:

🧀 Bottomless snacks and sips, say less
🦞 One boil, 20K reasons to attend
🎸 Big hair, bigger hits, zero shame

Let’s get to it.

— Brandon Iverson

WHATS HAPPENIN’

🍕 Taste of East Village (Wed–Thu, May 21–22)

Thirty-plus restaurants, two nights, and one highly snackable passport—you will need stretchy pants.

🎸 Hardy at North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre (Thu, May 22)

Country meets hard rock with some serious twang—and a touch of mullet energy.

🎶 Curren$y at The Music Box (Thu, May 22)

The vibe? Weed rap + live instrumentation—roll with it.

🍻 Over the Line Beer Fest (Sat, May 24)

Sun, suds, and wildly inappropriate team names—a San Diego classic.

🎤 Simple Minds at North Island Amphitheatre (Sat, May 24)

Dust off your leg warmers—it's time for ’80s nostalgia.

🌏 Asian Pacific Cultural Festival (Sat, May 24)

Balboa Park goes global with cultural flavor and nonstop performances.

🦞 San Diego Crawfish Boil (Sat, May 24)

20,000 pounds of crawfish and zero shame for eating until your buttons pop.

🎭 Latin History for Morons at Brooks Theater (Fri–Sun, May 23–25)

John Leguizamo’s hilarious one-man show schools us with sass and smarts.

🧀 Cheese & Libation Expo at BRICK (Fri–Sun, May 24–26)

Bottomless cheese + drinks = my kind of marathon.

🦔 Tuck and Roll: The Art of Armadillos (Opens Sat, May 24)

This exhibit proves armadillos are San Diego’s next it-girls.

WEATHER

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