ITALY – Gay rights campaigners across Europe are fuming after Italy’s parliament rejected a bill to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people from discrimination. They are calling for the European Union to step in and help as they fear a rise in homophobic violence. The Chamber of Deputies voted 293 votes to 250 not…
INDIA – A court in India has provided police security to a lesbian couple, who fear a backlash from anti-gay family and community members. Savita, a 25-year-old student at Choudhary Charan Singh University and her 20-year-old wife Veena, 20, were married by a court in Haryana, close to New Delhi, earlier this month. The women…
A serious topic to start this week’s page. As seniors, we have to think about the elephant in the room. We are losing friends and acquaintances at an accelerating rate. What can we do about it? Nothing. No more than we could 30-40 years ago when we of a certain age went through the plague…
As I’ve said before, I just don’t know why they call these the “Golden Years” as they are really the “Bronze” or “Copper” years when it comes to ageing! The heat really gets us seniors, and my home at Shady Pines isn’t too cool – and now I’m off to the East Coast where it’s…
Actors Jacob Caltrider and David McBean are working together to bring an inanimate object to life on the Cygnet stage. “Do I look inanimate to you, punk? If I can talk and I can move, who’s to say I can’t do anything I want,” says their character at the end of Act I. Caltrider and…
The San Diego Museum of Art’s Summer Salon series continues on Thursday Aug. 4 with another crop of artists responding to this year’s theme: What Does a City Need? In addition to an art-making activity involving Asian art and a reading by internationally-renowned artist, curator and author Rubén Ortiz Torres there will be a performance…
The Disney musical made its first splash on the screen in 1964 with Oscar winner Julie Andrews in her signature part. Forty years later the Disney people turned the movie into a happy, colorful stage musical that is touring the world. Now, with six productions running on three continents, the show has been seen by…
If you’ve been fascinated with the “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” world of Mary Poppins since childhood, you won’t want to miss the Broadway musical Mary Poppins. The stage production plays at the San Diego Civic Theatre from Aug. 10-21. The musical is much more than just a retelling of the beloved 1964 Disney film adaptation and its infamous…
Ah, August! Pride season is over, Comic-Con is all wrapped up, tourists are flocking to America’s Finest City and the locals are usually heading out of town for their own vacation. Yet the concept of a staycation, the idea of vacationing in your own hometown, is gaining popularity. Some experts say it is because of…
