dvd of the week I don’t think there’s much argument that Captain America: The First Avenger ended up being the best surprise of the summer movie season, at least as far as action films go. As I wrote in the middle of July, “Captain America is the fourth massively expensive comic book superhero movie to…
dvr this Flix, 8 p.m., Oct. 31 In arguably Tim Burton’s best movie, Johnny Depp plays the worst director of all time, Ed Wood, whose insanely bad, low-budget schlock often starred Bela Lugosi and various other has-beens. Martin Landau won an Oscar playing Lugosi, who can’t seem to believe he’s still playing Dracula after all…
The lengths to which people in love will go to be together have never been better illustrated than by Shakespeare. The recent “transgression” of trans civil-rights leader, Meghan Stabler, who used two of Texas’ own bigoted anti-equality laws to hers and her female partner’s advantage, by marrying earlier this year appear rather inconsequential seen through…
Before Lindsay Lohan, there was the original Hollywood bad girl, Traci Lords. One of the biggest adult film stars of the eighties, Lords sparked a firestorm of controversy when it was revealed that she was under 18, making all of her popular films, in essence, child pornography. The Traci Lords of today is a star…
Americans thirst for change. The Occupy San Diego movement (the scariest thing in decades to powers that be) proves it. But at least for a few days, as the season turns and Halloween approaches, change-thirst becomes blood-thirst. San Diego LGBT Weekly has a few suggestions for quenching yours (if you’ll not mind our use of…
Two beautiful 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom North Park condos with their own garage, patio, fireplace and many upgrades, currently for sale in the $239,000 to $249,000 range. North Park is one of the oldest neighborhoods in San Diego, and has gone through much change through the years. This uniquely San Diego enclave sits at the…
Conservatives seem to understand homonyms, those pesky words that sound the same but are spelled differently. They’ve seen Rick Perry’s attempts to parry debate shots, and they’re certain Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan may cause some pain, but doesn’t actually involve a cane. Their mastery of homographs, words that are spelled the same, but sound differently,…
thursday, oct. 27 Man of La Mancha One of the great theater successes of our time, the show features a play-within-a-play, based on Cervantes’ Don Quixote . We have a poignant story of a dying old man whose impossible dream takes over his mind. “It’s All the Same,” “Dulcinea,” “I’m Only Thinking of Him,” “The…
Have you ever wanted to get back at someone who’s embarrassed you in front of your peers? In the book of Matthew there’s a story about when the rule-keeping religious leaders had been silenced by Jesus, another group called the Pharisees gathered together. They gathered together to try to come up with a question that…
