Normally, I balk when I’m confronted with film characters who are mentally ill, have odd neurological ticks or are addicted to some sort of chemical. Partly, this is because I spend so much time in the real world with such people, and the fictional versions are rarely convincing. For every virtuoso performance like Joaquin Phoenix’s…
also playing The last time Stephen Spielberg and Tony Kushner collaborated was Munich, the taut, emotionally devastating thriller about the Israeli agents who hunted down the perpetrators of the kidnapping and massacre of Israeli Olympians in 1972. So, I had high hopes for their latest. Lincoln stars Daniel Day-Lewis as the 16th president, Sally Field…
Tina Leight-Roades has resigned as Director of Pride @ the beach and a board member of North County LGBTQ Resource Center. Citing family and health demands Leight-Roades announced her resignation in an email addressed to ‘Community Members.’ From the email: “It is with a great deal of sadness and thought that I announce that effective…
http://youtu.be/pceXYElEXuU http://youtu.be/N_EyZVeorhY (CNN) – The phenomenal success of Modern Family has been a game changer for its entire cast, including actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson. The show’s high ratings, three consecutive Emmy wins for outstanding comedy series and broad fan base have given all its stars a massive platform. Ferguson is using his for a cause…
NEW YORK – A male-on-male sexual harassment suit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against an upscale New York steakhouse has been settled. Sparks Steak House, once rated by The New York Post as “The Greatest Steakhouse in Manhattan” will pay $600,000 and take steps to introduce a number of anti-discrimination policies….
Friday Nov. 9, a crowd of more than 200 LGBT community members, veterans and allies gathered to honor 11 veterans who were inducted into the Benjamin F. Dillingham III and Bridget Wilson LGBT Veterans’ Wall of Honor at the San Diego LGBT Community Center. The veterans honored were: • Donald P. Kambic, U.S. Army, 1942-1946…
The San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus (SDGMC) is back with its annual holiday show Saturday, Dec. 15 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 16 at 3 p.m. The show, Ice & Spice, will take place at the Balboa Theatre in downtown San Diego. “Our show promises the whimsical magic of traditional holiday songs accented with…
After more than six hours of deliberations, a jury convicted the “Incense Bandit” of three robberies and one attempted robbery Nov. 9, but they ironically deadlocked 7-5 for acquittal in the hold-up of the candle store where the robber got his nickname. Jurors told San Diego Superior Court Judge Amalia Meza they were hopelessly deadlocked…
The University of California, San Diego is holding a Founders’ Day event starting 11.30 a.m. Fri. Nov. 16 at Town Square, UC San Diego. This year’s celebration opens with a brief video, telling the story of the campus through the eyes of past chancellors. The investiture of Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla follows. After the program,…
WASHINGTON – John Hall, 27, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Seagoville, Texas, has pleaded guilty in federal court to violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act stemming from his assault of a fellow inmate he believed to be gay, the Department of Justice announced. Hall assaulted his…
