With mortgage interest rates at an historic low, money is now cheap to borrow and it is an incredible time to consider taking advantage of this opportunity. There are several different ways to use this opportunity to your own advantage and listed below are a few ideas for you to consider. If you do not…
“The Mayor of Castro Street,” gay civil rights activist Harvey Milk, said this in his 1978 speech, That’s What America Is: “Gay brothers and sisters … You must come out. Come out … to your parents. I know that it is hard and will hurt them but think about how they will hurt you in…
The visual arts scene is officially dead this week. Ghosts and darkness linger where spectacle and thought once lived. All joking aside, there is virtually nothing new happening in the visual arts in San Diego this coming week. It’s the unofficial moment when all the large museums take down one mega show in order to…
February is one of the most interesting months of the year. It is, of course, the shortest and changes every four years with the addition of a day. It has Groundhog Day, Presidents Day weekend and Valentine’s Day all wrapped up in 28 (or 29) days. In recent years, I have noticed that Valentine’s Day…
BY VICTOR HOFF Black. Gay. Christian. To be a member of any one of those groups is fraught with all the ugly, untoward stereotypes a country like ours rarely hides. Or, if it does, it’s blanketed in a sort of subtle gloss that shields the perpetrator with an unbelievably high level of unawareness. But for…
BY VICTOR HOFF In general, the history of queer cinema reads like a never-ending saga of homophobia: murderers (“Rope,” 1948), psychopaths (“The Fan,” 1980), both (“Cruising,” 1981), limp-wristed pansies (“Partners,” 1982), manic depressives (“The Children’s Hour,” 1961) and just about every other pathology one can evoke. Hollywood was unapologetic in its cruel depictions of…
If there is one food that America is definitely known for, it has to be the hamburger. For centuries, we have been consuming them avidly. Just look around, everywhere you turn you can find a new hamburger joint popping up. It almost seems like the clock has been turned back 50 years – when diners…
Psychiatrist Gerald May begins his book Addiction and Grace with a bold statement, “I am convinced that all human beings have an inborn desire for God”. Although many of us live with such hope, many people don’t have that experience – at least they’re not aware of it until they are in crisis or at…
Administrators, parents, faculty and students at Alice Birney Elementary School in University Heights won’t know for a while whether the school’s cafeteria-auditorium will reopen during the current school year after it was damaged by someone police are calling a serial arsonist. That information was shared during a community meeting, at which Principal Amanda Hammond-Williams joined…
So, we’ve taken a hard look – sponsored in part by Viagra – at the first two installments regarding 2012’s TV shows and movies. But, this year’s musical resolutions aren’t a case of the first Gilligan’s Island theme song, in which I’m presenting an “and the rest” type of scenario. Simply put, it’s time to…
