The phone call began another very long day. It arrived approximately 10 seconds after you walked to your desk, the first of that kind of interruption, followed by dozens of urgent (to the sender) emails and six cubicle drop-bys. Alas, you didn’t get much done that day. Sometimes, you just want to be left alone…
That’s what Justin Frank, director of operations for Sausage and Meat (S&M), told me. As expected, the menu focuses on house made sausages and exotic meats, charcuterie and bacon. But the menu “can change at any time” depending on what’s in season, and what Chef Mark Younggren has been concocting in the kitchen. I visited…
It’s likely that both the Best Actor and Best Actress winners at this year’s Academy Awards will go to portrayals of people suffering from chronic neurodegenerative diseases. The films couldn’t be more different, however. In The Theory of Everything, Eddie Redmayne plays Stephen Hawking, who was struck with Lou Gehrig’s disease (or ALS) more than…
The Lafayette Hotel ballroom was standing room only for the sold-out 43rd annual Coronation Ball of the Imperial Court de San Diego. Visiting LGBT royalty were in attendance from the International Imperial Court System, which has chapters in over 68 cities across the United States, Canada and Mexico. The evening wear for this most regal…
Two gay male nurses who were caught on hidden camera having sex in front of their patient, a 98-year-old grandmother, both pleaded guilty Monday to committing felony elder abuse. They both face up to one year in jail when they are sentenced March 30 before San Diego Superior Court Judge Timothy Walsh. Both remain free…
The 2015 Hillcrest Fat Tuesday celebration will be held Feb. 17. from 6-11 p.m. After a less than stellar outing at a new location in 2014 that produced lower than expected results, the Hillcrest Business Association is returning the event to its original location on University Avenue between First Avenue and Fourth Avenue. This year’s…
Last week “Big Brother” was featured in a headline in our local newspaper and I wondered if I mentioned it to a younger person, would I receive anything but a blank stare. Probably not. After all, it was over 30 years ago when cartoons, comedians, politicians and we ourselves were jokingly forewarning each other that…
Recently, I had dinner at Baja Betty’s with the frontrunner for the 78th Assembly District race Sarah Boot, who Toni Atkins has endorsed as her successor. But local Republican Party officials are pushing former Marine captain and out lesbian Jacque Atkinson to become a candidate. Atkinson is currently the co-chair of the Sheriff’s GLBT Advisory…
dvd of the week Lewis Bloom, played by a balls-out brilliant Jake Gyllenhaal, is a nightcrawler, a freelance reporter who spends the nights wandering the city, waiting for a police scanner to announce a car crash or a murder that can be filmed and turned into the bloody local TV news. Pathologically ambitious, solicitous and…
