If an evening filled with dancing, silent auctions, gourmet appetizers and wine sounds like a good time, come out on Sept. 8 to support the Red Ribbon Dance Project, a benefit event that raises funds for AIDS research. Three years ago, the Red Ribbon Dance Project began an annual performance to raise money for the…
thursday, sept. 1 Athenaeum’s 20th Annual Juried Exhibition The Athenaeum’s Annual Juried Exhibition, now in its twentieth year, is recognized as one of the most prestigious juried shows in all of San Diego. Open only to artists who live, work or have exhibited in San Diego, the show is a sampling of some of the…
Singer and gay-rights campaigner Lady Gaga is coming to Springfield for a guest appearance on TV’s The Simpsons. Recorded earlier this month Gaga plays herself in a role where she tries to cheer Lisa up and ends up kissing Marge. Yeardley Smith, who voices Lisa Simpson and currently appears in off-Broadway’s Love, Loss and What…
MOVIE REVIEW: I must admit that I walked into The Help expecting to be offended. Because I knew it to be about a young white woman writing a book about the black maids in early 1960s Jackson, Miss., perhaps unfairly I expected it to be a prequel of sorts to The Blind Side. That movie,…
Some people seem to think that the X-Men prequel that came out earlier this summer is the greatest superhero movie in years. It’s not, not by any means, but James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender, as Professor X and Magneto respectively, are both perfectly cast and have a lot of fun chewing scenery. (Jennifer Lawrence and…
HBO Signature Wednesday, Sept. 75 a.m. Kirby Dick’s scathing documentary about closeted gay politicians who work against gay rights will outrage anyone who doesn’t already know that, say, Charlie Crist and David Dreier are hypocritical scumbags. But the dirt digging goes beyond outing and exposes the ways in which politics and homophobia are deeply and…
I’m back from a brief drive up California’s spectacular central coast just in time for this year’s Art San Diego Contemporary Art Fair. The weekend-long event (Sept. 1-4) that aims to put San Diego artists and galleries on the national radar has grown significantly since it’s inception in 2009, becoming a cultural highlight in our…
Country music star Chely Wright, 40, has married her girlfriend Lauren Blitzer, 30, in a ceremony in Connecticut just over a year since she came out. At the time of her coming out, Wright talked about the difficulties artists faced after admitting being gay. Wright had told the Los Angeles Times, “You get good money…
In an interview with Out magazine The Voice judge Adam Levine has hit out at the producers of American Idol for not finding more gay contestants. The Maroon 5 lead vocalists told Out, “What’s always pissed me off about Idol is wanting to mask that, for that to go unspoken. C’mon. You can’t be publicly…
FilmOut San Diego’s 13th LGBT Film Festival continues this weekend with three more days of film screenings at the historic Birch North Park Theatre (2891 University Ave.). FilmOut San Diego annually affirms the ongoing integrity and boundless imagination of our community and the artists who tell our stories. The festival board of directors believes its…
