If you missed the screening of “Matter of Time,” the Matt Finlin-directed documentary about former San Diegan Eddie Vedder, his 2023 solo concerts in Seattle and his and wife Jill Vedder’s raising of awareness about a rare debilitating skin disorder, it’s making its streaming debut Tuesday on Netflix.
The disease is epidermolysis bullosa or EB, and it largely affects children. “Matter of Time,” which was co-produced by Door Knocker Media, EB Research Partnership and the Vitalogy Foundation, made its world premiere last June at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.
Besides footage of Vedder’s concerts, “Matter of Time” is set to an original music score written by Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene. The title of the film is the same as a six-track solo EP that Vedder released back in 2020. The tune “Matter of Time” includes the line “You got the cure / I got the fight,” which speaks well to the Vedders’ commitment to finding an answer to EB.
Advocacy is not new for Vedder or for Pearl Jam, who spent some of his teen years in San Diego, which has been active in supporting social and environmental causes and championing voters’ rights.
Singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega will perform Tuesday at the Belly Up in Solana Beach. AP
Pop music
Touring behind her first album of all-new songs in more than a decade, Suzanne Vega will take the Belly Up Tavern stage on Tuesday in Solana Beach. Though “Flying with Angels” came out nine months ago, its tunes will be band-new for all but fans who’ve been streaming it ever since.
You’ve got to go back all the way to 2014’s “Tales from the Realm of the Queen of Pentacles” (how’s that for a title?) to find an album of all-new material from Vega, though she does tour regularly and her tunes “Luka” and “Tom’s Diner” still merit radio airplay. If this show sells out before you can get tickets, Vega will perform Wednesday in Palm Springs at the Plaza Theatre.
Jordyn Case and Michael DiRoma rehearse a scene for Trinity Theatre Company’s “Rabbit Hole.” (Vivian White)
Theater
Though it won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, David Lindsay-Abaire’s “Rabbit Hole” will challenge your emotional thresholds. The story of a family’s deep grief “is not the most pleasant of shows,” Sean Boyd, artistic director of San Diego’s Trinity Theatre Company, told me recently. Even if you’ve seen it before and “you still laugh and you still smile,” he said. “You still hurt.”
Trinity is staging “Rabbit Hole” at its Mission Valley space beginning Friday and running through Feb. 22. The production is being directed by Eddy Lukovic, who starred last year in Trinity’s staging of Jen Silverman’s “Witch,” with Boyd directing.
A scene from the 1927 silent film “Wings,” which will be screened with organ accompaniment on Monday at the hsitoric Balboa Theatre. AMPAS
Film
One night last year, during Turner Classic Movies’ annual “31 Days of Oscar” programming, I watched “Wings,” the 1927 silent film that won the very first Academy Award for Picture. It starred Clara Bow and “Buddy Rogers,” a couple of Silent Era stars I’d learned about taking a history of cinema class back in college. But the real stars of the film were the pilots who did the movie’s aerial warfare scenes. I wondered how they’d look on the big screen.
Now I can find out. San Diego Theatres’ “Silent Movie Mondays” is screening “Wings” on big screen at the Balboa Theatre downtown this Monday, with live organ accompaniment by Russ Peck. I hope that the Academy honors “Wings” when it celebrates the 100th anniversary of its awards next year.
The 1942 classic film “Casablanca” will be screened Wednesday at the La Paloma Theatre in Encinitas. WARNER BROS.
More movies
A big-screen pre-Valentine’s Day date awaits you at La Paloma Theatre in Encinitas which on Wednesday is showing one of the most romantic classic films of all time, “Casablanca.” Bogie, Bergman, “As Time Goes By” and “Here’s looking at you, kid.”
This 1942 film directed by Michael Curtiz has been talked and written about (and loved) for decades, so there isn’t much behind the scenes that even the casual “Casablanca” fan doesn’t know. But here’s something I’d never heard: Comedian Jack Benny had an uncredited cameo in the movie in one of the saloon scene at Rick’s, the nightcub at the center fo the film. A little research appears to confirm it. So keep an eye out for him on Wednesday night.
UCTV
University of California Television invites you to enjoy this special selection of programs from throughout the University of California. Descriptions courtesy of and text written by UCTV staff:
“Paola Capo-Garcia: Poet Laureate on Humor, Intimacy and Voice in Poetry”
Poetry becomes more accessible when it speaks in everyday language and reflects lived experience. San Diego Poet Laureate Paola Capó-García shares how her creative process is shaped by graduate study, mentorship, and hands-on experimentation — sometimes physically cutting and rearranging text to discover new rhythms and forms. Her poems draw from family stories, identity, and personal history, grounding abstract ideas in the real and familiar. As poet laureate, she’s committed to widening access through public readings, workshops, and collaborations that blend poetry with visual art, zines, music and film. She also advocates for expanding what’s taught in classrooms, so more students can recognize themselves in poetry and see the humanities as a foundation for communication and self-expression.