The New York Times reports that a new play about the legal battles over California’s Proposition 8 will be performed in several staged readings on Broadway in September. Written by Oscar-winning Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, the play, titled simply 8, consists largely of dialogue from transcripts of the 2010 trial that ended with a…
Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria is to be featured in her first same-sex lovemaking scene in the upcoming comedy, Without Men. Based on the novel Tales From the Town of Widows by James Canon, Longoria takes on the role of Rosalba, the de-facto mayor of a Latin American village deserted by men when they are…
As part of a regular series, I aim to identify unlikely places around the city where you can see art, both intentional and otherwise. We all know that art can be found in museums, galleries, street fairs and theaters but did you know you can also discover a broad array of art forms at your…
MOVIE REVIEW: Captain America: The First Avenger debuted in San Diego last week at a screening full of both comic book geeks here for Comic-Con and local soldiers, sailors and pilots in fatigues and pressed blues. Both groups were thrilled when a troupe of dancing girls decked out like Rockettes from the 1940s performed at…
Thursday, July 28 Damn Yankees Vanguard presents Damn Yankees. Middle-aged baseball fanatic Joe Boyd trades his soul to the Devil for a chance to lead his favorite team to victory in the pennant race against the New York Yankees. Based on the novel by Douglas Wallop The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant, the show…
Open for a split second in San Diego this winter, you now have no excuse not to see this gorgeous and moving story about a young gay man and his best girlfriend, who fall in love with the same beautiful boy. As I wrote in my review, “You might expect that Heartbeats, a film about…
Hit show Glee is to lose three of its main characters after the third series. Rachel, played by Lea Michele, Finn, played by Cory Monteith and gay character Kurt, played by Chris Colfer, will graduate from the school. Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy said, “You can keep them on the show…
Times are tough for many of us as well as for many non-profit museums in San Diego. Nevertheless, the mission of any community museum is to make art, various histories, science and curiosities accessible and affordable to the general public during good and bad times. San Diego is home to many great museums and they…
MOVIE REVIEW: Tabloid, the latest documentary from Oscar-winner Errol Morris (The Fog of War, The Thin Blue Line), couldn’t have arrived at a more appropriate moment. While Britain is immersed in an epic scandal involving the relentless, creepy and illegal overreach of its most popular tabloid newspaper The News of theWorld, Morris’ film showcases a…
Thursday, July 21 Great Spanish masters The San Diego Museum of Art is the only U.S. museum to show From El Greco to Dalí: Great Spanish Masters from the Pérez Simón Collection. This spectacular survey of Spanish art from the 16th century to the 1970s features 64 works drawn from one of the world’s finest…
