UNITED KINGDOM – Gay’s The Word, London’s famous gay bookshop has been attacked by vandals. Staff arrived at the store, located in Marchmont Street, west central London, to find the front window smashed and the shopfront covered with broken eggs. Assistant manager Uli Lenart told PinkNews that witnesses reported seeing a group of youths “rampaging”…
Hello, fellow readers. Thanks for the Nicky Awards nominations. I was honored to see my name nominated; however, as co-chair of the event, I can’t be nominated. I guess I do have fans! Vote for San Diego’s best On the subject of the Nicky Awards, online voting is up and running at nickyawards.com. The awards…
Louis J. Marinelli has canceled his Summer Equality Tour, which was supposed to launch in San Diego, Aug. 14. The cancellation was due to conflicts with a similar tour by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). “Unfortunately, due to competition that arose out of the HRC bus tour with the same name, starting the same…
Over the past few months, I’ve reported on and written about various events, contests and festivals. I have really been impressed by the display of all the leather arts, crafts and history behind it. As most of us were, I was exposed to the naked human body through paper pornography. It was used for its…
MOVIE REVIEW: If your jaw dropped at how realistic, how life-like and creepy Gollum was when you first saw him in The Fellowship of the Ring ten years ago, it will fall open again and your mouth will dry out when you see Caesar, the super smart chimpanzee at the center of Rise of the…
This year’s Toast to Hillcrest will be celebrated at our neighborhood’s finest bars, cafes, restaurants and wine bars on Thursday, Aug. 18, 5:30-8 p.m. The fifth annual Wine, Spirits & Nibbles Tour, for those over age 21 only, is the annual fundraiser for the Hillcrest History Guild. Bring your friends and make it a party!…
Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig in Cowboys & Aliens MOVIE REVIEW: When I first saw the poster for Cowboys & Aliens, I got excited. These are two great tastes that haven’t yet gone together, but should. Five years ago, that’s what I said about chocolate and bacon. Now you can buy bacon chocolate bars everywhere….
RESTAURANT REVIEWS: I love when food becomes a controversy and a debate. People all over become attached to what they think is the best and where the best is made. There is probably only one culinary dish around our different regions, even throughout the world, that brings such heated arguments. From its origin, to its…
Of course you remember the Three Musketeers, with the motto “All for one and one for all.” Each member of that group would be there for the group or for any of the others. In other words, they were vowing to stand together. There’s a writing where the Apostle Paul is trying to get the…
As part of a regular series, I aim to identify unlikely places around the city where you can see art, both intentional and otherwise. We all know that art can be found in museums, galleries, street fairs and theaters but did you know you can also discover a broad array of art forms at your…
