At a time when businesses have a hard time staying afloat, it is rare for a store to last decades, but Friday, March 28, Obelisk Mercantile will be celebrating its 21st anniversary with a party from 7-11 p.m., followed by a huge sidewalk sale Saturday March 29 starting at 10 a.m. The Friday night party…
March 21 Sister Speak releases it’s debut album, Rise Up For Love, recorded with two Grammy award winning engineers on the board – producer and mixing engineer Alan Sanderson(Fiona Apple, Elton John) and mastering engineer Brian Lucey(Black Keys, Arctic Monkeys). The March 21 CD release party will be held at the World Beat Center, 2100 Park Blvd….
Stampp Corbin is my publisher, and has been a guiding force in my involvement in politics. Hilllcrest Mayor Nicole Murray Ramirez saw something that made him suggest me as a City commissioner. As I consider both to be my mentors, I have followed their recent dueling columns with all the joy of a child watching…
That is the amount by which David Alvarez lost the mayoral race to Kevin Faulconer. First, the LGBT community did not sell out. It voted overwhelmingly for David Alvarez in the “gayborhoods” of Hillcrest, North Park, University Heights and South Park. Meaning in most precincts Alvarez got more than 70 percent of the vote, just…
A New York mother is causing a stir after her response to her young son’s classmate’s birthday party invitation was sent to a radio station after the two dads to a seven-year-old girl were sent a brutally homophobic R.S.V.P from the boy’s dad. The New York-based couple then decided to invite their local radio station…
There are those who feel that I have demonized Candidate Kevin Faulconer. That is simply not true. What I have done is simply represent the majority of our community that believes any Republican who wants our vote needs to repudiate his or her party with respect to LGBT issues, as well as the party leaders…
A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article for this magazine entitled “That was then. This is now.” (Issue 138, Jan. 16) I asserted that the national political trend is to address large issues like income inequality, global warming and justice for workers in mayoral elections. I opined that San Diego would take a…
I have had enough of people being able to say ridiculous things about the LGBT community and get away with it. Most recently it was the star of the Bachelor who called us perverts. He also said that there should never be a gay Bachelor. Really, gay men and women can get married in 18…
Why should gay people be Republicans? Because gay people are … people. Gay Americans are Americans. And most Americans aren’t single-issue voters. They are, on the whole, more center-right than center-left, more fiscally conservative than wealth-distributive, and happier to spend their money as they see fit than to have the government do it for them…
Feb. 11, San Diego has the opportunity to join world class cities like New York City in electing a truly progressive and inclusive mayor. However, some LGBT “leaders” want to go backwards to business as usual politics. Last year Robert Reich released Inequality for All, a documentary about income inequality destroying the American dream. Newly…
