Logo, Sunday, Aug. 14, 8 p.m.: Jamie Babbit’s brightly colored comedy about an ex-gay therapy camp for teen queers is not quite as funny or moving as it wants to be, but it’s damn entertaining, with Natasha Lyonne as the lesbian cheerleader and Clea DuVall as her fellow camper. The rest of the cast is…
Miley Cyrus has got a new tattoo. Her seventh in fact. The new tattoo is an equal sign on her wedding ring finger symbolizing the fight for equal rights. Pink News reported that Cyrus tweeted a picture of the new tattoo to fans with the words “all love is equal.” Some fans were not happy…
Actors Jacob Caltrider and David McBean are working together to bring an inanimate object to life on the Cygnet stage. “Do I look inanimate to you, punk? If I can talk and I can move, who’s to say I can’t do anything I want,” says their character at the end of Act I. Caltrider and…
The San Diego Museum of Art’s Summer Salon series continues on Thursday Aug. 4 with another crop of artists responding to this year’s theme: What Does a City Need? In addition to an art-making activity involving Asian art and a reading by internationally-renowned artist, curator and author Rubén Ortiz Torres there will be a performance…
The Disney musical made its first splash on the screen in 1964 with Oscar winner Julie Andrews in her signature part. Forty years later the Disney people turned the movie into a happy, colorful stage musical that is touring the world. Now, with six productions running on three continents, the show has been seen by…
If you’ve been fascinated with the “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” world of Mary Poppins since childhood, you won’t want to miss the Broadway musical Mary Poppins. The stage production plays at the San Diego Civic Theatre from Aug. 10-21. The musical is much more than just a retelling of the beloved 1964 Disney film adaptation and its infamous…
Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig in Cowboys & Aliens MOVIE REVIEW: When I first saw the poster for Cowboys & Aliens, I got excited. These are two great tastes that haven’t yet gone together, but should. Five years ago, that’s what I said about chocolate and bacon. Now you can buy bacon chocolate bars everywhere….
Thursday, Aug. 4 The art of Leonard Bernstein Hershey Felder in Maestro: The Art of Leonard Bernstein is a new work from the creators of George Gershwin Alone, Monsieur Chopin and Beethoven, As I Knew Him. With a story spanning the entire twentieth century, Leonard Bernstein, one of America’s greatest musicians, broke through every artistic…
The Film and the Series: To date, the best mash-up of sci-fi adventure and the Western is Firefly, Joss Whedon’s short-lived TV series and subsequent feature film about a rag-tag group of fugitives and smugglers in the far frontier of a galactic federation. Instead of focusing on the simple conceit – cowboys in space –…
Sat, Aug. 6, 4:05 a.m., Encore Mystery: In one of his best performances, Frank Sinatra investigates a series of murders revolving around closeted and crazy gay men in 1960s New York. Sinatra’s character is empathic and sympathetic and tough. Made in 1965, the movie is creaky, but it’s also revolutionary in that the hero is…
