Summer is here and with it all kinds of arts events and outdoor activities. In August, the San Diego Museum of Art will be presenting a new incarnation of their popular Summer Salon. Before that however, those of you who are oriented toward the performing arts will have a smorgasbord of off the wall performances…
Mario Ortega (Her Most Imperial Majesty, Empress Candi Samples of the Imperial Court de San Diego) and husband James Hederer were legally married in a historic ceremony Wednesday. Although the couple’s nuptials did not represent the first same-sex union in the County since the repeal of Proposition 8, their wedding is the first legal marriage…
San Diego mayor, Bob Filner, planted a peace tree last Saturday at the Sri Chinmoy Peace Garden located in the community of Normal Heights, on the corner of Adams Avenue and Arizona Street. At the ceremony Filner said: “As we progress as a city and we talk about tourism, and we talk about the navy,…
Day of Decision, Wednesday, June 26: The LGBT community took to the streets and rallied at the Hillcrest Pride Flag to celebrate the Supreme Court’s rulings on DOMA and Prop. 8.
If you want to bring water to the San Diego Pride Festival, make sure it is in a sealed bottle. Opened bottles of water or any beverage will not be allowed inside and you will be told to finish it or pour it out. This is a San Diego LGBT Pride policy to deter the…
Diversionary Theatre is proud to march in this year’s San Diego LGBT Pride parade Saturday, July 13. Diversionary are inviting San Diegans to join their squad and be part of this historic day! They’ll have coffee and pastries to fuel you up for the march and will supply T-shirts, banners and postcards to pass out…
Goodness gracious! I just remembered pride is one of the seven deadly sins. Fact bible Wikipedia says it is the worst, leading to all the others. Yet here we are holding a parade and festival for it. Surely, there has been a mistake in the translation of the ancient tongue. What is there to celebrate?…
San Diego citizen Jeff Olson (who is gay) made national news headlines when he was arrested for just writing his protest message against American banks in chalk on the streets. (I call this political art.) Of course, it was arch right-wing (check out his state legislative record) City Attorney Jan Goldsmith who made the decision…
The Newsroom returns to HBO July 14, and before then you can binge on the first season of Aaron Sorkin’s sometimes comic drama about the backstage goings on at a cable news show hosted by a truth-telling independent. Sorkin, who created The West Wing and wrote The Social Network, has a practically patented style of…
