‘Richard III’ at The Old Globe, through Sept. 29 A review presented as a one-act coffee house caricature dialogue by San Diego’s most unpredictable theater critic, San Diego LGBT Weekly’s Thom Vegh Place: Filter Coffee House, San Diego Time: Another unrelenting sunny day around 10 a.m. (As the curtain rises KIP, an arts writer for…
thursday, aug. 30 The Mystery Plays Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft, Alfred Hitchcock and The Twilight Zone, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s The Mystery Plays is comprised of two intertwined, spine-tingling one-acts. In the first – The Filmmaker’s Mystery – a young horror film director survives a train disaster only to be haunted by a passenger he met briefly…
Legislation authored by Assemblywoman Toni Atkins, which redirects under-utilized housing funds to multi-family projects that provide homes for low income residents and reduce homelessness, has been passed by the state legislature and sent to the governor for his signature. AB 1951 shifts $30 million from unused funds within the Housing and Emergency Shelter Trust Fund…
Paul Davis has been organizing the Summer of Love Pool Party for more than a decade. Originally organized 12 years ago as “the Luau,” the event is a get-wet-and-have-fun summer classic, which Davis says is one of the most anticipated get-togethers in San Diego’s LGBT community. More than 130 people attended the 2012 Summer of…
Positively Aware, a magazine devoted to HIV treatment and wellness published bi-monthly by Test Positive Aware Network (TPAN) in Chicago, is sponsoring A Day with HIV, an annual photo essay to be published in the forthcoming November/December issue. Each day across the globe almost 7,000 people, including 900 children, will contract HIV, joining an estimated…
Livia Borak, president of the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) San Diego has called out mayoral candidate Carl DeMaio for his attempt to rebrand his mayoral campaign with the release of an environmental plan. Citing his “terrible” environmental record as a city councilmember Borak said in a statement, “While the policy goals outlined by Carl…
During the upcoming Labor Day weekend (Sept. 1, 2, 3), the San Diego Zoo will open one hour earlier, at 8 a.m., allowing guests the opportunity to spend more time with the zoo’s animals and special activities that are a part of Nighttime Zoo, a family friendly event. This will be the first time the…
Just before this year’s San Diego Pride, we chatted with NormSoft founder and chief technology officer, Tim Norman about his company’s partnership with San Diego LGBT Weekly, LGBTweekly.com and our retail discounts meet civil rights product, called The Pride Card. Because the final phases of the rollouts of the mobile applications the partnership has produced…
HARARE, Zimbabwe – The offices of the Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ), a voluntary association founded in 1990 to serve the needs and interests of LGBTI people in Zimbabwe, have been raided by the Zimbabwe Republic Police for the second time in two weeks. Police seized computers and GALZ literature claiming they were searching…
