The City: Top to Bottom

thursday, dec. 15 John Caparulo Cleveland’s favorite son, John Caparulo, is a nearly 20-year veteran of stand-up, achieving national recognition on Chelsea Handler’s much-missed E! show, Chelsea Lately. Cap has also made numerous appearances on late night, such as The Tonight Show and Jimmy Kimmel Live, and was featured on national stand-up tours like Blue…

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Local San Diego small business leaders walk the streets against hate

Today, a group of San Diego small business owners will stand up to the hateful rhetoric surrounding the presidential election by posting signs declaring that “All Are Welcome Here” and “Hate Has No Business Here.” In three popular shopping and restaurant districts, small business leaders will walk door to door encouraging other shops to display…

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Covered California enrollment surging as critical deadline for coverage approaches

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — With a key deadline coming up this week, Covered California released new data on the number of people who have signed up for coverage during the current open-enrollment period, and the number of existing consumers who have had their coverage renewed for 2017. On Monday, Dec. 12, more than 11,000 new consumers…

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Pope Francis needs his gay priests

To the shock of many of us LGBTQ people of faith is the Vatican’s recent decision in the document “The Gift of Priestly Vocation,” to ban gays to the priesthood; thus, reaffirming its 2005 stance. Those of us who have “deep-seated homosexual tendencies” or who “support the so-called ‘gay culture’” are categorically denied to serve one of the church’s…

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‘Girls Lost’ — Swedish director Alexandra-Therese Keining explores transgenderism in this affecting, gender-bender flick from the acclaimed novel ‘Pojkarna’

Gender-bending as a cinematic device offers a fertile pasture upon which to graze. Many successful films over the years have explored the idea that we inherently embody both male and female identifies. To what extent they manifest themselves in our actual lives is really the luck of a DNA crap shoot. But it presents both…

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Discrimination affects minority groups’ financial decisions says University of Miami study

CORAL GABLES, Fla. — African Americans, women, and LGBTQ individuals – those more likely to experience social discrimination in their lifetime – are less likely to participate in the stock market and also allocate less of their wealth to equities, says new research from the University of Miami School of Business Administration. The findings, presented…

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