SAN DIEGO — The idea of organizing a wild and fun evening of Jell-O wrestling to benefit homeless, LGBT and at-risk youth may sound like something crazy, but in the last four years it’s been proven to be crazy in only the best ways. Enter Throw Down for a Cause (TD4AC), founded in 2010 with…
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Johnson & Johnson’s corporate-wide anti-bullying and LGBT equality initiative is expanding as it kicks off its third year in June. Since 2012, donations raised through CARE WITH PRIDE™ have supported PFLAG’s anti-bullying efforts and this year, The Trevor Project and Family Equality Council are newly added beneficiaries. By the end of 2014,…
SAN DIEGO — The San Diego dance community is aligning with new energy and new leadership under the name San Diego Dance Connect. After several months of gathering the community’s input, ten dance leaders were selected to steer the newly formed alliance. They include: Blythe Barton, Erica Buechner, Ana Nieto, Molly Puryear, Elyssa Dru Rosenberg,…
A few weeks ago, I was hanging out with one of my best friends, a musical theater composer who has impeccable and refined taste. I had mentioned that I was going to review the Jersey Boys movie and he told me that when he saw the stage musical, it was so thrilling, “I wanted to…
“Your eyes deceive you.” Essentially, that’s what lawyers representing the police officers who beat Rodney King half to death said 23 years ago last month. “You did not see what you think you saw.” That’s what Communist Party officials continue to say to Chinese people who were around to see the bloody massacre in Tiananmen…
You didn’t want to look. When you bought the ticket, you knew the movie was going to be scary, but you had to see it for yourself. Kind of. Peeking between your fingers. You couldn’t look … but you couldn’t look away, either. In the early 1980s, when AIDS was barely understood, Sean Strub decided…
Hillcrest has changed greatly these last decades and I have lived here on and off since the 1970s. I still live in Hillcrest, in a seniors building and have always loved this peaceful and wonderfully diverse neighborhood. San Diego itself has changed much and so have so many of its neighborhoods and our Latino and…
dvd of the week The complete third season of AMC’s low-rated but brilliant murder mystery was an under-watched marvel. The first season of the show, following two damaged detectives investigating the murder of a teenage girl in rainy and moody Seattle, was a huge success, but after the show failed on its promise to reveal…
dvr this HBO, Sunday, June 29, 10 p.m, Damon Lindelof, the producer of Lost, has taken Tom Perotta’s novel about the people in a suburban town left after the Rapture and turned it into HBO’s next prestige series. It’s hard to know how good the show will be, since Lindelof has famously ruined several…
The Japan Society of San Diego & Tijuana held its 12th annual Beer & Sake Festival June 13 at Harrah’s Rincon. Guests enjoyed sumptuous appetizers, tasty beers and sakes while listening to the dynamic sounds of San Diego Taiko. It felt like there were less vendors than last year and the bigger space took away…
