The LGBT Community Center presents The Repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell from an Insider’s Perspective, featuring U.S. Congresswoman Susan Davis, Aug. 31, 5:30-6:30 p.m. at The Center (3909 Centre St. in Hillcrest). In addition, Michael Magee, board co-chairman of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, will discuss the implementation of the policy’s repeal. “Susan has…
Mama’s Kitchen, a San Diego non-profit organization founded in 1990 and now delivering 7,000 healthy meals every week to men, women and children affected by HIV/AIDS or cancer, is moving its home to larger premises. The new building, at 3960 Home Ave. in Fairmount Park, opens for business on Monday, Aug. 29 and will also…
Jessica Anderson of Aptus Insurance, which is based out of Bellevue, Wash., and her team, have put together a financial guide to help those in the LGBT community to maximize their benefits. Anderson was able to explain how, and why, this guide came about and just who would benefit from this guide in a recent…
Diversionary Theatre is preparing to launch its largest production ever – which is saying a lot for a performing arts company that has been around for 25 years. Richard Baird returns to San Diego to direct 14 actors playing numerous roles in an intense account of the struggle between passion and responsibility in Edward II….
Ugandan Bishop Christopher Senyonjo’s U.S. Compass to Compassion tour reached San Diego on Tuesday with a ceremony blessing and honoring the hands of doctors, nurses and all engaged in the business of healing and caring for the sick. The ceremony took place at LifeHouse San Diego Health Care Center, one of the largest nursing facilities…
The city’s lone organist who plays at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion in Balboa Park won a 10-year salary guarantee when the San Diego City Council voted 8-0 to pay Dr. Carol Williams a total of $286,000 over the next 10 years. Williams receives approximately $28,860 annually from the city to play one hour concerts that…
Theresa Erickson, a San Diego adoption attorney and a one-time San Diego LGBT Weekly columnist, has pled guilty in federal court last week to what officials are calling a “baby-selling ring.” With the help of two other people that worked in this alleged ring who have also pled guilty, Erickson hired San Diego women to…
RESTAURANT REVIEW: Here in San Diego you would think we had hundreds of great restaurants right on the water. Every time I have visitors from out of town, going and having dinner on the water is one of the first things that they want to do. There are the great standards here that have proven…
As a writer and director, Casper Andreas has highlighted the lighter side of being gay in films such as A Four Letter Word, Slutty Summer, and most recently 2010’s Violet Tendencies. His latest written and directed by project, Going Down in LA-LA Land, showcases a darker side of the rainbow, in which its main character,…
The bittersweet comedy about a down-on-his-luck wrestling coach (Paul Giamatti) is not as wrenching and beautiful as writer-director Thomas McCarthy’s last film, The Visitor, or as revelatory as his first, The Station Agent, but Win Win is still a pleasure. While he works without studio money, McCarthy is still creating populist entertainment, but in that…
