Hiatus Picks the Week’s Best Bets

“Enemies of Happiness”
MCASD / Nov. 8 / 7 p.m. / $5

During Afghanistan’s first parliamentary elections in 35
years, documentarians Eva Mulvad and Anja Al Erhayem covered 27-year-old
Malalai Joya, the first woman to enter the country’s governing body, as she
embarked on a treacherous campaign trail. Mulvad and Al Erhayem’s emotionally
raw look at gender and politics after the fall of the Taliban won them the 2007
Sundance Film Festival award for best international documentary, premiering in
San Diego at the Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown La Jolla. Alongside the
hour-long feature, Cinefemme, a nonprofit organization for women filmmakers,
will screen a variety of short films. (CM)

Pieta Brown
Belly Up Tavern / Nov. 12 / 8 p.m. / $14

She may noy have the
East Coast grit of her folksy, gospel-channeling father Greg Brown or the
striking Western twang of her country-gal contemporaries, but Pieta lingers
long enough amid her stubborn storm to wait it out ’til the end, when we
finally have to stop and stare. And it certainly takes a second of endurance —
through slippery, introspective tracks that often seem to be going nowhere —
before she throws us that bone of intrigue. But once we’ve been consumed, her
husky middle-state mystery is downright heartbreaking, and for what seems to be
no reason at all. (SW)

This Week On Campus

“Cry-Baby”
La Jolla Playhouse
Nov. 8, 8 p.m.
$37

“Superbad”
Price Center Theater
Nov. 8, 6 & 9 p.m
$3

High Tide
Porter’s Pub
Nov. 9, 12 p.m.
FREE

Visual Arts Exhibition
Mandeville Center
Nov. 9, 6 p.m.
FREE

These Arms Are Snakes & More
Che Cafe
Nov. 10, 8 p.m.
$7

Paris Piano Trio
Neurosciences Inst.
Nov. 10, 8 p.m.
$17

Pulling Teeth, frightener
& waco fuck
Che Cafe
Nov. 12, 7 p.m.
$8

Perks Poetry Slamm
UCSD Bookstore
Nov. 14, 6 p.m.
FREE

Daphne Loves Derby
Porter’s Pub
Nov. 14, 7:30 p.m.
FREE