thursday, sept. 15 A Midsummer Night’s Dream Coronado Playhouse presents their 15th annual free Shakespeare production. Terence J. Burke stars as Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream , in which Shakespeare assembles a comic array of rustics, young lovers, royalty and magical forest creatures who fall in and out of love in the Athenian forest….
Labor Day has come and gone which means summer is just about done. This means that most of the city’s museums are taking their splashy blockbuster exhibitions down and preparing new, perhaps more serious shows for the fall and winter. With that in mind I was wondering what else might be happening in town, especially…
As an artist, Matt Zarley has made many proclamations through his music; whether it was his CD Debut in 2002, or reiterating Here I Am in 2008, to his latest, Change Begins With Me, he utilizes his songwriter/singing talents to their fullest effect by affording listeners a look (and listen) into where he is at…
ABC has announced that Chaz Bono will partner five-time veteran Lacey Schwimmer in Dancing with the Stars Season 13. Schwimmer placed second with Disney star Kyle Massey in Season 11. The New York Daily News reported Schwimmer as tweeting, “I’m so thrilled. He is such an amazing person! And so sweet!” She later added, “Such…
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has condemned MTV for giving a VMA award to Tyler, The Creator, a rapper, record producer and music video director from Los Angeles. Tyler, whose real name is Tyler Okonma, won Best New Artist for the music video for “Yonkers,” the first single from his second album,…
I must admit that going into the theater to see the mixed martial arts movie Warrior, I thought it was based on a true story. I don’t know why I thought this. It may have been its gritty similarity to The Fighter, last-year’s Oscar-winning movie about the real-life boxer Micky Ward and his brother Dicky….
thursday, sept. 8 Among Giants Widely regarded as the premier whale photographer of the world, Flip Nicklin, a National Geographic contributing photographer, will be presenting images featured in his latest book, Among Giants . For anyone who has marveled at the majesty of whales in the wild, Among Giants is guaranteed to be inspiring, even…
Tom Hardy’s body in Warrior is as bizarrely and suspiciously inhuman as Chris Hemsworth’s in Thor. In one scene, Hemsworth wanders around shirtless in Natalie Portman’s apartment while the other actors and the audience just gawk. It’s absurd. So is the movie. And I loved it. One of the deluge of superhero movies this past…
There is a god, because Sarah Michelle Geller is back on TV. Eight years after the end of the iconic Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Geller is the star of a new drama in which she plays twins Bridget and Siobhan who are mired in danger, scandal and drama. She recently described it as a cross…
Comedians Sean Wherley and Sarah Burford bring another round of the Laugh Out Proud Comedy Show to Martini’s Above Fourth on Sept. 8. The show will feature four LGBT comedians and one allied comedian including Los Angeles headliner Steve Hasley. Hasley, best known for his stints on television shows like Will & Grace, How I…
