Refuge’s remaining performances are June 11 and 12. A few issues ago, I reported on a handful of dance companies located at Liberty Station. I encouraged LGBT Weekly readers to consider taking a dance class or attend a choreographed production as a way of adding some variety to your local art-going activities. I took my…
InnerMission Productions will be presenting the Adam Bock comedy Swimming in the Shallows at the Diversionary Theatre beginning June 4. Swimming is a surreal comedy that weaves in a lesbian commitment ceremony, a middle-aged couple re-evaluating their lives, and a boy in love with a shark. In a phone interview with LGBT Weekly, playwright…
It looks like ole ABC did it to me again, and I didn’t even get the luxury of being taken out to a free dinner prior to them … you get my drift and you may want to stand downwind! First, they axed one of their most inventive shows ever when Pushing Daisies was cancelled…
MOVIE REVIEW: The relationship between a gay son and his straight father is about as fraught and awkward as any, and this is reflected in the history of queer cinema, which has mined this conflict like it was a ten-mile-deep cache of diamonds: The Sum of Us, La Mission, Beautiful Thing, etc. For obvious reasons,…
Thursday, June 9 Debut U.S. tour Live on the stage of San Diego’s Civic Theatre for one night only, Black Country Communion is a devastating head-on collision between American and British rock influences – a true “supergroup” that delivers a titanic rock experience greater than the sum of its supremely talented parts. The seed for…
If you take a fairy tale and reinterpret it with ’80s music video clichés and the bitter lens of the fired director of Twilight, Catherine Hardwicke, you get the most ridiculous Red Riding Hood. Amanda Seyfried is the titular character who must figure out who in her medieval village is the werewolf killing her friends….
Rob Epstein’s Oscar-winning 1984 documentary helped solidify the legacy of Harvey Milk, the ground-breaking gay San Francisco city councilman who was assassinated in 1978. Perhaps even more moving than Gus Van Sant’s 2008 docudrama, it treads similar ground but with archival film and interviews instead of great art direction and acting. It must be seen.
Hip-hop producer and DJ Mister Cee has pleaded guilty to a charge of loitering and lewd conduct after he was arrested for receiving oral sex from another man in a parked car. The New York Daily News reported that Cee, real name Calvin LeBrun, together with Lawrence Campbell was arrested in the early hours of…
The National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC) and GLAAD have announced that AT&T and Time Warner Cable have withdrawn advertising from José Luis Sin Censura. It was also announced that WSVN-TV in Miami, Florida and KCTU-TV in Wichita, Kansas are the first two affiliates to pull the show from the airwaves. The original FCC complaint documented…
The comedy of Travon Free will be highlighted June 9 at Martinis Above Fourth as part of the Laugh Out Proud series. Laugh Out Proud is San Diego’s only comedy show geared towards the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Free, a Compton, California resident, will be performing as a comedian in San Diego for…
