It’s that time of year when you have been bombarded with commercials spotlighting shiny new cars topped by large bows, and suddenly your reliable whip in the driveway looks road-worn and tired. Maybe you’re thinking it’s time to trade in your old wheels for something sleek, powerful and sexy. But where to spend your hard-earned…
With inarguably the most important film released this year, out director Joshua Oppenheimer lays bare the emotional and moral reverberations of violence in a way no documentarian has ever done before. Interviews with several men who were leaders of death squads in Indonesia during the 1960s civil unrest become recreations of the hundreds of murders…
Turner Classic Movies, 6:30 p.m., Monday, Jan. 6 Carol Reed’s masterpiece of suspense stars Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles in a cat-and-mouse espionage game in post-World War II Vienna. The period dialogue is a bit creaky, but the direction, with stunning cinematography and unnerving pacing, is stunning. You’ll think you’ve seen it before because it’s…
August: Osage County In 2008, Tracy Letts’ three-and-a-half hour comic tragedy August: Osage County won the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for Best Play, and it was considered one of the theatrical events of the first decade of the century. Transforming the play into a film was a no-brainer, but whittling three-and-a-half hours to…
thursday, jan. 2 The San Diego International Auto Show The San Diego International Auto Show features both new car and truck models from more than 30 manufacturers. Additionally, the Auto Show highlights what may become the cars and trucks of tomorrow with displays of concept vehicles from a number of manufacturers. The show runs through…
http://youtu.be/In3q9kiVFbM In this year of marriage equality, up pops a Facebook post of one sister’s gift to her gay brother on his wedding. This sister got an old Bert and Ernie pop-up book and reworked with pictures of her brother, husband and their entire wedding party. The post states: “My brother finally got the chance to marry the…
SAN DIEGO,– The San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus (SDGMC) announced today the selection of RC Haus as its interim artistic director. Haus begins his role immediately and will conduct the chorus’s spring show Wow! The Chorus Sings the ‘90s. “I am thrilled to be rejoining the chorus in this role. With almost three decades of…
The Glenner Memory Care Centers, a local nonprofit providing programs and resources for those living with dementia, was the lucky beneficiary for the very popular San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus (SDGMC) holiday concerts in mid-December. Representatives dropped off a check Dec. 23 for $2,128 from donations collected in a giant ruby red slipper in the…
Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts has come out. Celebrating 100 days since her bone marrow transplant in her battle with myelodysplastic syndrome she wrote in a Facebook post on Sunday, “At this moment I am at peace and filled with joy and gratitude. I am grateful to God, my doctors and nurses for my restored good…
CBS 5 – KPHO Believe it or not, there is a new movement that has been set up to support Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson. HuffPost Gay Voices reports that the latest development to stem from Robertson’s homophobic and racist comments in a recent GQ profile and subsequent suspension from A&E, an unnamed group has…
