I now live five blocks from the giant blue Scientology building in Hollywood, and I often catch a bus at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Vermont Avenue, where young Scientologists, wearing blue blazers and solicitous smiles pass out proselytizing leaflets proclaiming, as all religions do, that they have the true answers to enlightenment. I…
thursday, april 9 Tastings: A one-hour musical sampling of SDSO’s 2015-16 season highlights From Mussorgsky’s Pictures from an Exhibition to Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, from Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” to Marvin Hamlisch’s “What I Did for Love,” don’t miss this one-night-only preview of the San Diego Symphony Orchestra’s (SDSO) outstanding (and just-announced) 2015-16 Downtown…
Economically, the state of Indiana has a surprising number of similarities to Apple Inc. The Hoosier State’s annual gross output is actually greater than the iconic tech firm’s annual sales: $294 billion for Indiana, $199 billion for the iPhone maker. But the leaders of these two large enterprises couldn’t be more different in the way…
Sooner or later, it happens to us all. You happen to meet someone and things go well. You spend time together and soon, you’re in love. And then something happens and you fight, you break up, and it’s the worst. Your heart is shattered and you think you might die. The good news is that…
First of all, let me say that I like Anthony and I believe he has a future in politics, but there is a far more qualified candidate running for the Third District Council seat. As many of you know I have supported straight candidates over gay candidates but this council race has to do with…
dvd of the week Barely released this winter, Maps to the Stars is Julianne Moore’s other great performance of 2014, and I think she’s better in this David Cronenberg movie about the darker side of Hollywood than in Still Alice, for which she won an Oscar. Moore is a needy, fading starlet trying to be…
dvr this PBS, Sundays, 10 p.m. The first episode of Wolf Hall, the BBC adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Book Prize winning novel, is sitting on my own DVR. One of the highest rated television shows in British history, it was also wildly praised by critics, and PBS’s Masterpiece is bringing it to the U.S….
Politicians, pundits and preachers arguing in favor of Religious Freedom Restoration Acts (RFRAs) have coalesced behind a metaphor: Tolerance is a two way street. All they want is the same respect for religion that the LGBT community is requesting for sexual orientation and gender identity. In their view, LGBT activists are on the march, aggressively…
It’s about that time of year when our friends and family come to visit and we end up doing the tourist stuff we don’t normally do on our own. Many cultural events have been planned around Balboa Park’s 2015 centennial celebration this year including the much-anticipated Coast to Cactus: In Southern California at the San…
Ephesians 6:11-13 says, “Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in…
