dvd of the week The first seconds of Warm Bodies announces how different it is from almost every other zombie story. It begins with a zombified young man (Nicholas Hoult) wandering through an airport full of other hunched, shuffling dead people, and, shockingly, the young man has a witty, articulate voice over. This zombie can…
thursday, may 30 Steal Heaven – ONE NIGHT ONLY! Activist Abbie Hoffman is back on the scene raising Cain, raising the Pentagon and raising the next generation of social game-changers. San Diego REP’s artist-in-residence Herbert Siguenza of Culture Clash, whose “Weekend with Pablo Picasso” has been playing across the country, depicts Hoffman nestled in a…
June 28, 2010 the San Diego City Council voted 6-2 to approve construction of the new San Diego Central Library. At the time the project had its detractors. Councilmembers Carl DeMaio and Sherri Lightner voted against the library saying it was too expensive and the City could not afford it. Former City Attorney Michael Aguirre…
The first question I was asked after I walked out of Star Trek Into Darkness was not, “Was it good?” but rather, “How good was it?” After the 2009 glorious reboot of the iconic sci-fi series Star Trek, with J.J. Abrams directing Chris Pine as Captain Kirk and Zachary Quinto as Mr. Spock, the expectations…
When Mayor Bob Filner finds himself up against a wall politically, he turns to the very source of his political power: his constituents. That political power supply, the mayor says, is also his best source of personal vigor. As one of the mayor’s senior staff members told San Diego LGBT Weekly during a recent day…
dvd of the week The plot is basically a standard supernatural star-crossed lovers tale, one that is rather familiar to young consumers of contemporary pop culture. But there is a snarky, dark edge to Beautiful Creatures, partly because of the potential evil in Lena (Alice Englert) and partly due to the wry insults the teens…
dvr this Netflix, Sunday, May 26 True, you can’t really DVR this, since Netflix is like a DVR in the sky. But the long awaited fourth season of Arrested Development arrives on Netflix Sunday with 15 new episodes available all at once. The style of this insanely wacky comedy about the dysfunctional Bluth family begat…
thursday, may 23 Dance Like Michael Jackson Workshop Michael Jackson lives on in our hearts, our stereos and in our living rooms as we spin, kick and thrust our hips attempting to recreate those magical moves. If you have never tried to moon walk just from watching him, it simply won’t happen. It is one…
(CNN) — CNN anchor Anderson Cooper played the groom in a surreal wedding scene send-off for Bill Hader’s Stefon character on the season finale of “Saturday Night Live.” Hader announced last week that he was leaving SNL after eight seasons to move to California and get more sleep, which meant his memorable characters were also…
(CNN) — Father, son, husband of a Spice Girl, fashion icon, role model, sporting ambassador. It is sometimes easy to forget that David Beckham was ever a midfielder of the highest caliber with more than 100 appearances for England. He wore a sarong, a headscarf, nail varnish, adorned his body with tattoos and changed his…
