SAN DIEGO — San Diego State University (SDSU) has received the 2013 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education. As a recipient of the annual HEED Award — a national honor recognizing U.S. colleges and universities that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to…
This week is the 38th wedding anniversary for my dad and stepmom. I celebrate their love! For most of their married life they have “shared” a house with cats. (Notice I said shared – because for those of you who are cat people, you know it’s people who are the guests in their house!) When…
One of the first movies I reviewed for this paper was Heartbeats, a stunningly beautiful update of Jules & Jim made by queer Quebecois wunderkind Xavier Dolan. It lasted in San Diego for about a week; I am still the only person I know who has seen it. His next movie Laurence, Anyways won awards…
One in a million. That’s the best way to describe your kid. Not that you’re biased or anything, but it’s true. He’s smarter than other people’s children, very definitely cuter and he has more talent in his left foot than most adults possess in their entire bodies. No child can compare to yours, that’s a…
In one of my past columns I personally took my own responsibility as a longtime friend and supporter of Bob Filner for not speaking out to him about his conduct. The facts are that almost all of us heard, talked, gossiped about Bob and his hitting on women, not for years, but decades. We laughed…
dvd of the week 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. So, you might expect that Heartbeats, a film about such…
dvr this Fox, Mondays, 9 p.m. The premise of Sleepy Hollow is absurd: Ichibod Crane and the Headless Horseman are suddenly brought back to life in modern-day Massachusetts, and they are linked to a massive, supernatural worldwide conspiracy. The ridiculousness works, mostly because of Tim Mison as Crane; he is arch and serious and very…
I was disappointed that Interim Mayor Todd Gloria didn’t run to keep the job. I thought he (along with Assembly Majority Leader Toni Atkins) had the best chance of defeating more conservative candidates to keep working on the progressive promises of former Mayor Filner. As one of his District 3 constituents, I also thought he…
It was quite a busy week with Fashion Week San Diego (FWSD) and the San Diego Film Festival (SDFF) occurring simultaneously from Wednesday Oct. 2 through Sunday Oct. 6. It helped that some of the SDFF screenings were held in the Gaslamp at the Reading Cinema and the FWSD runway shows took place at the…
thursday, oct. 17 The Wanted U.K.’s new boy band sensation, The Wanted, is made up of Jay McGuinness, Max George, Nathan Sykes, Siva Kaneswaran and Tom Parker. The Wanted are already rivaling some of the biggest music acts around today. “Most boy bands have very similar sounds,” explains Nathan. “We wanted to make ours different…
