Creators of the Gender book, a colorful visual primer on the world of gender, have announced their manuscript is complete and they are ready to go to press. The Gender book has been called “clear enough for your mom to understand, real enough to hit home on every page.” (Lily Hiott-Millis, buzzfeed.com). It discusses terms…
Award-winning singer/songwriter, Eric Himan, returns to San Diego for one night only at Lestat’s Coffeehouse, 3343 Adams Ave., Dec. 18 at 9 p.m. Himan may be a staple in his current city of Tulsa, but more and more, there are people outside of Oklahoma who are taking notice of him. The San Diego stop is…
SAN DIEGO – Home and Healthy for the Holidays is back for a second year, Dec. 5, 5-8 p.m., at W Hotel, 421 West B Street in San Diego. Family Health Centers of San Diego will once again use the power of fun to raise money for a very real and compelling need – health…
http://youtu.be/bj8gySRem6w At a recent signing for his new book, My New Teacher and Me!, parody legend “Weird Al” Yankovic talked to online talk show personality and award winning social justice activist, Jeff 4 Justice about why he donated money from his Lady Gaga “Perform This Way” parody to HRC, his support for marriage equality, and why…
As cross-cultural pollinization accelerates, its various permutations can seem both jarring and perfectly normal. Take, for example, the wholly natural assimilation of the story of Sherlock Holmes and his unwavering sidekick Dr. Watson in Chinese culture. Since 2011, when millions of television viewers first laid eyes on Benedict Cumberbatch as the iconic sleuth and Martin…
The Beekman Boys, Brent Ridge and Josh Kilmer-Purcell, have been making quite a name for themselves in both reality television and in the world of fine foods for some time now. Currently they are adding an heirloom desserts cookbook (a follow-up to their successful The Beekman 1802 Heirloom Cookbook) to their list of accomplishments. Is…
Margaret Cho has never been one to shy away from controversy, or a challenge and it’s that kind of attitude and out of the box creativity that brings a fresh take to her stand-up comedy. Cho, who will be performing here in San Diego at the Balboa Theatre Dec. 5, will be sharing her immense…
Nebraska I am a sucker for father-son movies, so much so that I’ve wept openly at movies of such disparate quality as the lovely The Sum of Us (Russell Crowe’s gay son living with his hilariously supportive father Jack Thompson), the fine Frequency (Jim Caviezel talking with dead father Dennis Quaid through a mystical shortwave…
thursday, nov. 21 Scape/Escape : Stephen Curry Through the disassembling and reassembling of nature, San Diego based artist, Stephen Curry presents a fresh perspective of the landscape. Fragmenting trees and other objects from nature, his dramatic installations recall photographic negatives that hint at a familiar environment. Scape/Escape will feature a collection of multiple panel paintings…
dvd of the week James Mangold’s The Wolverine is a great leap forward for the franchise, which has yet to reach its potential. Loosely based on a famed 1982 limited series written by Chris Claremont and drawn by Frank Miller, The Wolverine opens with our hero (muscle bear icon Hugh Jackman) living alone and depressed…
