At the moment, very few cinemas are showing movies that aren’t loud, computer-generated products for the teen masses. Usually, summer tends to be dominated by movies like The Avengers and Brave and Ted. The small art houses do their best to counter-program with nerdy crowd-pleasing indies; this is why Wes Anderson’s wonderful Moonrise Kingdom is…
I try to keep my day job out of my column, but sometimes the political scene requires I bring the MD and PhD to bear. With the House effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act making headlines this week, it seemed a good time to talk about a few of the system’s dirty little secrets,…
If you enjoy zines: reading them, making them, collecting them, then you will appreciate a series of events scheduled for this coming weekend. Do Anything features work by individual artists and collectives who focus on do-it-yourself publishing and print projects. Employing alternative methods of production to create and distribute books, zines and video work, the…
thursday, july 12 The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses Attention Comic-Con devotees and fans of Zelda! Don your green tunics, wield yourmaster swords and prepare to embark on the greatest adventure in video game history. The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses showcases the enduring work of Nintendo composer Koji Kondo. Don’t…
Almost 50 percent of Americans cannot come up with $2,000 for an unexpected expense, even if they have 30 days to get the money. That’s pretty scary! Consider all the different ways someone may need to come up with cash quickly: $1,000 deductible to repair a wrecked car, 20 percent co-payment for a broken arm,…
Here we are in San Diego, Calif. a city on the U.S. border with Mexico. We live within a nation of immigrants in a state that used to be a part of the country of Mexico. And here we are, as LGBT Californians – as LGBT Americans – aware of how we aren’t granted the…
Every hospital has one hallway that seems seven miles long. I’ve been to many hospitals and even though hospitals don’t all look alike, they all look like hospitals – and every one of them has one corridor that seems like its seven miles long. It doesn’t matter how long the hallway actually is. It doesn’t…
Teens from Orange County, California have released an online PSA featuring Betty DeGeneres to raise awareness for Seth’s Law – which requires California schools to enact anti-bullying policies. More info below or here. This week the teens are also contributing posts about bullying to Huffington Post Gay Voices and Youth Voices. The young adults are…
Singer Frank Ocean of Odd Future came out as gay Wednesday after posting a tumblr blog on a same-sex relationship – his first, at the age of 19. Towerload first reported on speculation of Ocean’s homosexuality after some of his songs were addressed to “he” instead of “she.” The R&B singer then came out later…
