Does life imitate art, or does art imitate life? For composer Brendan Milburn and lyricist Valerie Vigoda, their real lives have been intertwined into Sleeping Beauty Wakes, now performing at the La Jolla Playhouse. No, neither Milburn nor Vigoda are mystical fairies that lived once upon a time; however, key plot points in their modern…
From musicals featuring tunes from just about every generation to intense dramas, from kings and queens to aliens and trailer park trash – and a few drag queens, too – San Diegans can choose from an eclectic selection of stage productions. Now playing The Who’s Tommy: The world’s first rock opera is now re-imagined for…
The San Diego leather community is evolving into one of the premier communities within the U.S. There has been a lot of attention on us lately and I think it’s about time that we recognize ourselves. Wow, what a showing! Not only have we managed to capture the attention of the world with the pride…
San Diego is a very special and desirable city, and has always been an attraction for many people. What you may not know, is that San Diego has been and still is home to many of the rich and famous. In fact, many celebrities have been instrumental in helping develop San Diego into the world…
MOVIE REVIEW: Captain America: The First Avenger debuted in San Diego last week at a screening full of both comic book geeks here for Comic-Con and local soldiers, sailors and pilots in fatigues and pressed blues. Both groups were thrilled when a troupe of dancing girls decked out like Rockettes from the 1940s performed at…
San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus (SDGMC) performs with the San Diego Symphony in Broadway’s Tony Winners, part of this year’s Summer Pops series. The concerts are Friday, Aug. 5, and Saturday, Aug. 6, at 7:30 p.m. at the Embarcadero Marina Park South. “Recognizing the high-performance quality offered by gay men’s choruses across the country, SDGMC…
For as much as they discuss the Ten Commandments, you might think that social conservatives would endorse legislation that made schools tell the truth. Nope. They are organizing in opposition, and frantically so. California SB-48, The Fair, Accurate, Inclusive and Respectful (FAIR) Education Act, requires that schools include the contributions of LGBT Americans in social…
Thursday, July 28 Damn Yankees Vanguard presents Damn Yankees. Middle-aged baseball fanatic Joe Boyd trades his soul to the Devil for a chance to lead his favorite team to victory in the pennant race against the New York Yankees. Based on the novel by Douglas Wallop The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant, the show…
Do you like the film genre known as “teenage runaways who become prostitutes” with characters named Cookie and a pimp named Duke? How about unearthed and all-but-forgotten, work by actresses and actors that have gone on to award show glory? Or, perhaps, another female-based genre, simply known as “chicks who kick a**” is more or…
There are women of color and there are disabled women; there are lesbians and there are women of faith; there are mothers and there are servicewomen; there are women veterans and bisexual women, and that’s hardly an exhaustive list of the subcategories of women. Women’s experience intersects with multiple labels and multiple identities; each woman’s…
