Thursday, May 5 Let Me Down Easy San Diego Repertory Theatre and La Jolla Playhouse present The Second Stage Theatre’s production of Let Me Down Easy conceived, written and performed by Anna Deavere Smith, who Newsweek called “the most exciting individual in American Theatre.” For the past eight years, Smith has interviewed hundreds of Americans…
After a recent episode of the hit series “Glee” focused on promoting tolerance among peers, conservative commentators have launched a critique of the show’s values and sparked reactions from GLAAD and other LGBT activists. The episode, dubbed ‘Born This Way,’ prompted Fox News host Glenn Beck to decry the series as a “horror show.” Meanwhile,…
Popular British boyband Blue has reunited after an initial split back in 2005. While the megahit Eurovision Song Contest is the primary reason for their reunion, the boys also seized the opportunity presented by Prince Williams’ royal nuptials to celebrate with a “saucy performance” at London’s famous G-A-Y bar on Saturday night. Front man Duncan…
Felicity Huffman was nominated for an Oscar for playing Bree, a neurotic male-to-female transsexual who drives cross-country with the son she fathered but never knew. As amazing as the performance was, the film itself is more than one great impression. It’s also an enormously sweet and moving story about the relationship between a parent and…
This past February, Atlantis Events created the largest gay and lesbian cruise event to date when they chartered one of the world’s biggest cruise ships, the Allure of the Seas, for an LGBT group voyage. Now, based on the popularity of that sold out cruise, another major LGBT travel company Concierge Travel, has planned a…
David Sedaris – the acerbic, sardonic and self-deprecating openly-gay humorist/writer – is at his best when life seems at its worst. His awkward foibles and fumbles with family, while employed as a Macy’s Santaland elf, insane neighbors including a Bad Seed-esque little girl and culture shock after moving to Paris with longtime partner Hugh Hamrick…
thursday, april 28 Dine Out, Fight AIDS! Don’t miss The Center’s fifth annual Dining Out for Life San Diego! More than 100 participating restaurants, bars, coffeehouses and nightclubs in San Diego will donate a portion of sales for The Center’s HIV/AIDS services and prevention programs. Delicious, right? Grab your family and friends and make plans…
BBC America, starting at 12 a.m. PST, April 29, and going all day long While every American network will be devoting hours upon hours to Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding (which includes parades, parties and an actual ceremony), the best coverage will certainly be the BBCs. The BBC knows how to cover a world…
MOVIE REVIEW Water for Elephants Directed by Francis Lawrence Written by Richard LaGravenese Starring Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz Rated PG-13 A few weeks ago, Entertainment Weekly published a letter from a reader expressing astonishment that the magazine’s cover story on Water for Elephants focused almost exclusively on Robert Pattinson while his costar…
If you are in the mood to circle one-way streets a dozen times looking for parking and peruse a huge array of art outdoors, then Little Italy is the place to be on Saturday, April 30 and Sunday, May 1 (from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.) for Art Walk, 2011. More than 300 artists from…
