If you’re like most people, when choosing your Oscar pool picks, you guess on a bunch of them, and definitely for the winners of the three short film awards. For many years, the short films were nearly impossible to see; the compilations of all of the nominees often didn’t show up at theaters until after…
Some of the best experiences you had last year were with your friends. When you think back about the highlights, you remember dancing together, eating together, late-night bull sessions, parties, travels and idle man-watching. Those shared experiences are the glue that forever holds your friendship together. Or maybe, like the men in The Aids Generation…
Controversial San Diego personality, Linda Perine, has now written numerous commentaries, letters to the editor, blog postings, etc. The seemingly obsessive Perine has really gone over the deep end this time in her constant attacks on me and other GLBT activists who have endorsed Kevin Faulconer for mayor. But last week’s attack on me was…
dvd of the week Last year’s best new drama, about two deep cover KGB spies living near Washington, D.C. in the early 1980s, returns for its second season at the end of February. The first season is now on DVD and you have two weeks to binge watch these 13 episodes. Keri Russell’s Elizabeth…
dvr this On Hulu Easily the creepiest thing on network TV, Hannibal is a TV series prequel to Silence of the Lambs with Mads Mikkelsen as the titular character. He’s almost as good as Anthony Hopkins, but Hugh Dancy, as his FBI psychiatrist foil, is also excellent. But the real star of the show is…
We really enjoyed the Got The Music In Me showcase. The featured documentary and shorts gave us a glimpse of the birth of Kansas City jazz, the life of 1950s soul singer Jesse Belvin and the roots of blues passing from one generation to the next. It also made us want to know more about…
thursday, feb. 6 Please Be Seated From woven mats to high-tech contemporary designs, this exhibition will reveal the never-ending quest to seat people comfortably, appropriately and fashionably. Drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection and from other institutional and private collections, the exhibition will present wide-ranging examples of seating from many periods and cultures. Mingei International…
Physical pain. I’ve been experiencing a lot of it in the past week. One of the chronic conditions that contribute to my VA disability rating of 100 percent is the lumbar area of my back. A combination of exaggerated lordosis (an exaggerated curve in the lumbar region of the spine), years of lifting heavy gas…
The plaintiffs in a Michigan district court case challenging the state’s ban on marriage equality are calling for Mark Regnerus to be barred from testifying because of the roundly rejected junk science he peddled in a 2012 report demonizing gay and lesbian parents. In their motion, the plaintiffs cite Regnerus’ “flawed methodology” in his biased research,…
http://youtu.be/effb2JYiKXM Once you see this, you’ll never look at the luge the same again. Check out The Canadian Institute of Diversity and Inclusion commercial in support of all athletes at the Winter Olympics in Sochi.
