OAKLAND, Calif. – Arrive Ride Services is a new, members-only concierge service that connects seniors to the services of Lyft and Uber. These companies are exclusively app-based, but 73 percent of Americans over the age of 65 do not own a smartphone and therefore have no access to on-demand rides. Arrive seeks to connect these…
Your mother called it an “angel’s kiss.” Ugh. Lots of people are born with birthmarks or unique features but you saw yours as a flaw and you hated it for years. Slowly, though, you came to embrace it, to see it as something that sets you apart, and now you wouldn’t erase it for the…
Rap group Run-DMC are suing Amazon and Walmart for $50 million for trademark infringement. CNN Money reports that the suit, filed Thursday in federal court in New York, accuses the retailers of manufacturing, marketing and selling products with the group’s trademarked name, including glasses, hats, T-shirts and wallets. “The products sold by the Defendants confuse…
OnStage Playhouse will present Play it Again Sam Jan. 06 – Feb. 04, 2017, at their historic Third Avenue theater in downtown Chula Vista. Originally staged on Broadway in 1969,Woody Allen’s Play it Again, Sam was a smash hit and was nominated for three Tony awards. It was adapted for film in 1972 starring Woody…
SAN DIEGO — A Public Candle and Flower Vigil in Memory of Will Walters will be held today at 2 p.m at the Pride flag located at the corner of University Avenue and Normal Street in the heart of San Diego’s historic LGBTQ Hillcrest neighborhood. There will be remarks and remembrances from community members, colleagues…
LONDON — Victoria Beckham, wife of former soccer star David Beckham is to be honored by the Queen in her New Year’s Honors List for her for her fashion empire and charity work with the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. Mrs. Beckham broke with protocol by announcing the award ahead of the official notification. Sky…
The autopsy results on George Michael’s body have proved inconclusive and further tests will need to carried out, British police reported Friday. Michael, who died on Christmas Day, was found by his boyfriend Fadi Fawaz and it was initially reported that he had died of heart failure. CNN reported that Thames Valley police, the local…
A member of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir has quit the group over being selected to sing at President-elect Trump’s inauguration. CNN reports that Jan Chamberlin sent a resignation letter to the choir president this week saying she could never sing for Trump. “I’ve tried to tell myself that it will be all right and that…
RESTON, Va.—”‘Is it a girl or a boy?’ For parents of children with Disorders/Differences in Sex Development (DSD), the question can provoke great anxiety,” writes Michiko Watanabe, PhD, and Naveen Uli, MD, co-editors of a special issue of Birth Defects Research Part C: Embryo Today, which examines challenges surrounding sex determination of babies born with…
SAN DIEGO — Will Walters, who sued the San Diego Police Department (SDPD) for discrimination when he was arrested for wearing a short kilt-like costume at the LGBT Pride festival in 2011, was found dead Wednesday at his apartment in Hillcrest in an apparent suicide. Dec. 13, an eight-member jury in the U.S. District Court…
