(CNN) — I’ve known my BFF Natalie Palmer since ninth grade. She’s still my best friend 21 years later. We’ve shared some defining moments: her wedding and the birth of her two children; my coming out of the closet as a gay man; losing my mother at 23 years old; our 20-year college reunion. I…
Having never seen (nor read, I’m ashamed to say) William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, and it being my first time at The Old Globe theatre, I was a double virgin coming into the experience. I was captivated by both aspects of a recent midsummer’s eve spent in the bosom of San Diego’s cultural hearth,…
The Intouchables In my humble opinion, The Intouchables is the best movie I have seen this year. Granted, the high-brow movies that are expected to win awards don’t usually arrive in theaters until September, so the competition hasn’t been fierce. However, I’m pretty sure that come December, I will still love The Intouchables, and I…
thursday, aug. 2 Sounds of Jazz Loft spotlight on jazz saxophonist Ian Tordella Enjoy a solo jazz session at the Museum of Photographic Arts featuring jazz saxophonist Ian Tordella. Experience the current exhibition, The Jazz Loft Project: W. Eugene Smith in NYC, 1957-1965, while the music of the time is performed live. Tordella is an…
The openness of being gay at Gay Pride brought to mind the time when guys had to use “she” and the lesbians “he” when discussing their dates. Code words and phrases were used to identify fellow travelers and gay businesses. “The Ruby Slipper” gift shop was clearly a place where one could ask about the…
Well, my doctor made me cancel my Texas trip last weekend and so I got to enjoy some of our Pride, but the heat made a lot of participation impossible. GLBTs boo, turn their backs on DeMaio It was so noticeable that even the Union-Tribune, among other media, reported that people all along the Pride…
An all-tapping, all-singing, all-Hollywood USA show has audiences jumping to their feet at the North Coast Rep. Just in time for the summer holidays, Dames at Sea, originally subtitled, The New 1930s Musical, sports a hard-working cast of hoofers who boast brass pipes and a three-piece band that shakes the rafters. The six-person show originated…
By the time you read this, the actual movie called The Dark Knight Rises will have been completely eclipsed in the popular imagination by the shooting at a July 20 midnight screening of the movie in Aurora, Colo., in which 12 people were killed and 58 wounded. James Holmes, the 24-year-old man who (allegedly) committed…
San Diego is a very unique and desirable city for many reasons. One of the most obvious reasons is the amazing weather that we have here. In fact, San Diego has one of the best climates in the world year round. This is very evident when you watch the weather reports from the rest of…
thursday, july 26 Fiddler on the Roof Relive a glorious tradition with the Tony Award-winning musical set in 1905 in a small Jewish village in Russia telling the story of dairyman Tevye and his attempts to preserve his family’s traditions in a changing world. Moonlight Amphitheatre, 1200 Vale Terrace Drive in Vista, 8 p.m., tickets…
