Dec. 19, the Electoral College chose Donald Trump as the next president. How did Sec. Clinton go from prohibitive favorite to runner-up? Here’s my summary of six weeks of coverage. The national polls weren’t that far off Clinton’s lead in the popular vote stands at nearly 3 million votes, or 2.1 percent, only 1.1 percent…
I relatively recently became a Los Angeleno, and among the many lessons I have learned since arriving is that the movies that taught me about L.A. are mostly bold, beautiful lies. I have long known that Hollywood is in the business of pablum, artifice and mythmaking; I’m a film critic, after all. But the extent…
A gay old time in sultry San Juan: Part Two Our entourage of dynamic correspondents disembarked at La Concha, an au courant Renaissance seaside resort. Mellow club music thumped in the background. Long low sofas lounged in the airy modern lobby. Think hip and chic. The itinerary for the day included lazing by the adults…
For five years now, young businessman Johan Engman has closed his restaurants (Fig Tree, Breakfast Republic, etc.), on Christmas Day to provide a complimentary gourmet dinner for military veterans through the Wounded Warrior Project. This wonderful event has grown so big that Engman, who has donated the bulk of the costs, needed some help and…
In this season honoring various traditions, one is mindful of the places with differing cultures where misinterpretations are likely, but finding what might be called a mixed metaphor right here in a San Diego display case gave me pause. The age old depiction of Christ’s birth in the traditional stable/manger crèche scene included an unannounced…
Thom Senzee, author of this article, is a West Coast-based freelance journalist, and a regular contributor to San Diego LGBT Weekly. Restaurants fail every day. Each time one closes, there’s a good chance a restaurateur’s dream dies with it. But occasionally, a restaurant’s closure also means employees don’t get their final paychecks. That’s exactly what…
The San Diego City Council unanimously approved Monday all the nominees for committee heads by newly elected Council President Myrtle Cole, but five people from her Fourth District complained that no one from their area will sit on the Public Safety & Livable Neighborhoods Committee. Cole used to be a member of that committee, but…
It is only fitting that the Electoral College did their job and made Donald Trump the president. After all the Electoral College was established for two reasons: to ensure that the general populace could not elect the president because they were not qualified to do so and to guarantee that the “Three-Fifths Compromise” in the…
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir has accepted an invitation to sing at the swearing-in ceremony during the presidential inauguration for President-elect Donald J. Trump and Vice President-elect Michael R. Pence.at the U.S. Capitol next month in Washington, D.C. This performance will mark the sixth time the Mormon Tabernacle Choir has sung at an inauguration. These inaugural…
Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017, thousands will gather to march at the San Diego Women’s March, held in solidarity with the Women’s March On Washington. Women, men and children of all backgrounds, ethnicities, abilities, religions, orientations and political affiliations will come together at 10a.m. for this peaceful event the day after the presidential inauguration in response…
