2011
City: Top to Bottom
Thursday, March 10 Thursday, March 10 Live action shorts Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see all five Academy Award nominees in the category of Best Live Action Short! Program includes: The Confession (UK), the story of a quiet and sincere 9-year-old boy who is worried about making his first confession; The Crush (Ireland), the…
Mayoral race heats up while a Russian boils over …
In my many travels, I sometimes spot San Diego tourist TV ads in my hotel room entitled something like, “Happy happens in San Diego.” The slogan and commercials come across as silly and not exciting at all. Someone needs to change these awful San Diego tourist commercials. As for me I’m off to Oklahoma, then…
JAMES MARSTERS: Vampire, time traveler, rocker
Music is not one of the first things you might associate with James Marsters. His music, however, is what is bringing him to San Diego this weekend. The multi-talented artist is probably better known for his re-occurring role as the platinum blonde, blood sucking, and dare we say sexy vampire, Spike, on the Buffy the…
LOVE DARLING: From reality TV to San Diego
Rock band Love Darling broke onto the national music scene with their song “Hazy” when it appeared as the theme song to reality show, The Real L Word. Compared to its predecessor’s, The L Word choppy, cheesy theme song, it was sexy and upbeat in a casual way, just like the band that sings it….
Aye aye, Sir – or Ma’am!
Fall-in! It’s a very familiar command to all members of the armed forces. It means get in formation, line-up, dress right dress and stand tall! Yes boys and girls, Sirs and Doms, it’s time to show your military leather pride. This year, the San Diego Leather Pride Community is celebrating our roots! Yes, that’s right;…
MERS attacks!
As I mentioned here several weeks back, a handful of successful lawsuits against mortgage conglomerate MERS are being won across the country. Well, that trickle is now a stream. Watch out for the deluge. What is MERS? Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems is a 50-employee company founded just 16 years ago in Reston, VA. Today, MERS…
Movie Review: The gorgeous ‘Heartbeats’ of a love triangle
It’s a tale as old as time: A young gay man and his best girlfriend fall in love with the same beautiful boy. This plot and its lesbian equivalent have been at the center of entirely too many bad independent films. I don’t think it is so overused because it’s such a great storyline, but…
Break out your ’60s pearls for this vintage mid-century haunt
In San Diego, our neighborhoods are all very unique. Probably so much so, that we tend to never leave them. I often talk to people who live in North Park that never venture to Little Italy. Some Hillcrest residents stay within the triangle of Bankers Hill, University Heights and Mission Hills. Even La Jolla sometimes…
‘Playgirl’ launches in U.K. – but without nudity
This month sees the launch of Playgirl magazine in the U.K. But there will be a significant difference between the U.K. version and the original publication in the U.S.: the U.K. version will not contain any below-the-belt nudity. “The U.K. version will only feature men topless from the waist up, as surveys of female readers…