Oh the trials of writing a weekly political print column. Last week, in the day between submitting my big questions for the year and printing them, Sen. Barbara Boxer answered one of them by announcing she would not seek re-election in 2016. Since then, some of the major players have stolen my opportunity for impressive…
Steal Heaven, the new play at San Diego REPertory Theatre takes us to the afterlife where political and social activist, Abbie Hoffman, who co-founded the Youth International Party (“Yippies”) in 1968, is an activist guru in heaven. He has the power to send someone in purgatory back to Earth if they pass his training. He…
If there ever is an object lesson about vetting leadership for transgender specific organizations, Allison Woolbert’s elevation to executive director of the Transgender Human Rights Institute (THRI) start-up nonprofit and creation of the Trans* Violence Tracking Portal (TVTP) should be that lesson. Allison Woolbert recently resigned as executive director of Transgender Human Rights Institute (THRI)…
As a progressive, I believe there are many names for God and many ways to a loving God; this article reflects one of those ways. Take from here what works for you. Celebrate life with joy and peace! Last week we began a story from the Hebrew Scripture about a widow who was in a…
Every now and then, you catch your cat staring off into space, and you wonder what he’s thinking about. Food, maybe; he’s always hungry. Outside, perhaps, or where his catnip mouse is hiding? Then again, he could be pondering the meaning of life; you never know, with a cat. Don’t you wish you understood what’s…
dvd of the week Tom Hardy is Bob, a slow-talking, seemingly sweet bartender, who finds an abandoned pit bull and nurses him back to health with Nadia, a wary woman with a past (Noomi Rapace). Bob works for Cousin Marv (James Gandolfini in his last role), who has made a series of terrible deals with…
dvr this HBO, Sundays, 10 p.m. The second season of HBO’s divisive series about a group of gay men in San Francisco has arrived. The first season began with screeching fights on social media about the show and its narcissistic, somewhat unbelievable characters, but as the episodes piled up, those of us who kept watching…
thursday, jan. 15 San Diego Comedy Festival The Comedy Palace is Proud to host the 2014 San Diego Comedy Festival! The festival goes from Jan. 15- Jan. 25. Don’t miss your chance to see some of San Diego’s best comedians! The Festival kicks off tonight with comedian Bob Zany from The Tonight Show, Billy Gardell’s…
The Mormon Church has moved to excommunicate the prominent Utah-based founder of an online forum for being critical of or doubting Mormons, charging him with apostasy for supporting same-sex marriage and the ordination of women and for questioning church teaching, reports the New York Times. John Dehlin is the founder of Mormon Stories Podcast (http://mormonstories.org)….
The 2015 Academy Awards nominations, which were announced this morning, highlighted films and actors that have focused on LGBT equality, writes Hayley Miller on the HRC Blog. “The Imitation Game,” a film about Alan Turing, is nominated for eight awards, including best picture. The film’s stars, Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, were also nominated. Last…
