Video: SDYS Winter Showcase Concert 2013 at Copley Symphony Hall SAN DIEGO – San Diego Youth Symphony and Conservatory (SDYS) invites new students of all levels to audition for its music programs. Registration is open until 5 p.m. Friday, July 26. Now holding auditions for its 68th season, SDYS provides a platform for aspiring youth to…
SAN DIEGO – San Diego City Council President Todd Gloria contributed $13,549 to upgrade the Neil Good Day Center, and earlier in the week visited the facilities to see the completed improvements. The upgrades consisted of installation of synthetic landscape grass and clean up of the entire outdoor space. “The Neil Good Day Center was…
SAN DIEGO — The inaugural Bayard Rustin Civil Rights Honors will be held at 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 2 at The San Diego LGBT Community Center. The awards will be presented by the National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC) of Washington, D.C., The International Court Council and the San Diego LGBT Community Center. Bayard Rustin (March…
Commentary: Conversations with Nicole BY NICOLE MURRAY RAMIREZ It was very interesting all the reaction I got from last week’s column concerning Carl DeMaio. Lots of emails, calls and comments – almost 100 percent negative. Well, I’m sure DeMaio has supporters in our community but there are certainly a lot of “haters.” First of all,…
One day, out in the wild, wild, west, a cowboy was riding down an old wagon trail. All of a sudden as he rounded a bend, he saw a man, whom he recognized as a locally renowned scout, lying down – flattened in the middle of the trail, his ear pressed to the ground. As…
thursday, june 13 GSDBA Business Women’s SpeakEasy Mixer GSDBA presents a special women’s networking event featuring music from Sweet Sue (Sue Palmer) & Her Syncopaters. Special themed cocktails and wonderful appetizers await behind the secret door. Great giveaway prizes! The Cosmopolitan Hotel & Restaurant, 2660 Calhoun Street in Old Town, 6-8 p.m., tickets $10 for…
SAN DIEGO — San Diego County Library is hosting its third annual Pride & Identity Celebration at the El Cajon Library, 201 E Douglas Ave, Saturday, July 6 from 1-4 p.m. This year’s event will include a performance by the San Diego Women’s Chorus and the Black Storytellers of San Diego, a Human Library, refreshments,…
Today, San Diego Pride announced several new additions to the upcoming Pride weekend! Actor, author and activist George Takei will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Spirit of Stonewall Rally and Flag Raising. He will champion Pride’s 2013 theme “Freedom to Love and Marry.” Takei had this to say about his participation, “Freedom, love…
To celebrate Pride month, the San Diego LGBT Literary Foundation are offering a discount of 25 percent off all new LGBT titles that the multicultural LGBT book club has read or supported. These titles include, Chulito by Charles Rice-González, Gulf Dreams by Emma Pérez, For Colored Boys by Keith Boykin, The Color Purple by Alice…
SAN DIEGO – Mayor Bob Filner will open the San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus “Summer of Love” encore gala Saturday, June 15 at Liberty Station, Point Loma. All proceeds from the ’60s-themed event will benefit the 150-member chorus’s mission of social change through musical outreach. Mayor Filner is no stranger to the turmoil of Sixties,…
