Dame Edna returns to Palm Springs, Sept. 6, 7 and 14

PALM SPRINGS, Calif.  — Back by popular demand, world famous celebrity impersonator Michael Walters as Dame Edna returns to the Purple Room Restaurant and Stage in Palm Springs for three shows only on Saturday, Sept.  6, Sunday, Sept. 7 and Sunday, Sept. 14. Barry Humphries, the original creator of Dame Edna, calls Walter’s show “spectacular.” …

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Jodorowsky’s Dune

dvd of the week David Lynch’s 1984 sci-fi epic Dune is one of the grander disasters in modern film: weird, long, campy and disliked both by fans of Frank Herbert’s novel and fans of David Lynch. Jodorowsky’s Dune is the fascinating and entertaining story about what Dune could and arguably should have been. The Chilean…

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Wings (1927)

dvr this Turner Classic Movies, Friday, July 4, 11:15 p.m. The first-ever winner of the Best Picture award at the Academy Awards, Wings, directed by William Wellman, is ostensibly about two men rivalling each other for the affections of a woman, first in a small town and then as World War I flying aces. The…

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The City: Top to Bottom

thursday, july 3 San Diego International Fringe Festival Following a successful debut in 2013, the second annual San Diego International Fringe Festival (SDIFF) brings the beautiful, the bizarre and the unexpected to America’s Finest City. From July 3 through July 13, SDIFF continues to make San Diego theater history by hosting over 35 world premieres,…

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Burger King unveils a digital short film celebrating self-expression (VIDEO)

http://youtu.be/qBkAAortU_g MIAMI – Burger King Worldwide, Inc. is broadcasting a widespread message in support of self-expression with a digital film launching today on Youtube. The film was created at a Burger King restaurant at the heart of the San Francisco Pride Parade route where a limited edition Proud Whopper Sandwich was added to the menu. Guests who ordered the…

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VA San Diego Health Care System to honor LGBT veterans: July 14

VA San Diego Health Care System will host a Pride Flag ceremony to honor LGBT military veterans  Monday, July 14 at 8:30 a.m. on the San Diego VA Medical Center lawn. The ceremony will feature five flags donated from LGBT community organizations and will be flown during Pride Week July 14-20. Organizations providing flags are The Center,…

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First openly gay Lutheran Bishop to walk in San Diego’s LGBT Pride Parade

SAN DIEGO — Saturday, July 19, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s (ELCA) first openly gay Bishop Guy Erwin will walk in San Diego’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) Pride parade. Joined by members of First Lutheran Church San Diego, San Diego’s only LGBT open and affirming ELCA Lutheran Church, Bishop Erwin and his husband…

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