Local summer is a phrase coined by all of us San Diegans, especially the beach residents referring to the months of September and October when all of the Zonies have gone back to Arizona and we get our beaches back.

A cultural and aesthetic mind-state that prioritizes making money, even as an “underground” or “radical” creator. The work isn’t made for money, but it’s the money that matters the most.

the last month of summer after tourists leave the jersey shore