If you are an artist you know that making a living, earning an income from your artistic labor and having that effort help put food on your table and pay bills can be difficult. Therefore, many artists make art and simultaneously work a full-time job, maintain a home and family and kids and pets. It…
thursday, sept. 6 Pippin A reimagined, innovative staging of the musical favorite that captivated Broadway audiences and continues to appeal to the young at heart everywhere! James Vasquez upends the story of a young prince searching for happiness and fulfillment. On his journey Pippin samples the glories of the battlefield, the wisdom of a grandmother,…
BY ADAM LATHAM Mr. San Diego Leather 2004 Wow, what a weekend. Everyone planned, worked, and hoped that the new San Diego Leather Pride event, ROMP San Diego, would be fun; but it turned out fantastic. Members the San Diego leather communities have been working hard for this, the very first year that the Mr. and Ms….
thursday, aug. 30 The Mystery Plays Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft, Alfred Hitchcock and The Twilight Zone, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s The Mystery Plays is comprised of two intertwined, spine-tingling one-acts. In the first – The Filmmaker’s Mystery – a young horror film director survives a train disaster only to be haunted by a passenger he met briefly…
Paul Davis has been organizing the Summer of Love Pool Party for more than a decade. Originally organized 12 years ago as “the Luau,” the event is a get-wet-and-have-fun summer classic, which Davis says is one of the most anticipated get-togethers in San Diego’s LGBT community. More than 130 people attended the 2012 Summer of…
Livia Borak, president of the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) San Diego has called out mayoral candidate Carl DeMaio for his attempt to rebrand his mayoral campaign with the release of an environmental plan. Citing his “terrible” environmental record as a city councilmember Borak said in a statement, “While the policy goals outlined by Carl…
Thinking we probably already saw them when we were younger, we seniors (and soon-to-be seniors) seldom rent movies from our youth. Big mistake. We were so young and innocent in those days (at least I was), that we missed the subtle, yet very much present sexual relationships and motives that often were vital to the…
The nightlife venue that formerly housed Eden and Universal re-opened last Friday under an undisclosed name. Billed as a soft opening that also seconded as a renaming party, the event saw a large crowd who donned every look from street clothes and mohawks to “dress to impress” little black dresses and bow ties. Many are…
Although home mortgage rates continuously go up and down, they have been historically low over the last couple of years. This has enabled more buyers to afford a home. But this summer, the average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage fell again, this time dropping below 3.50 percent for the first time in recorded history….
To quote the great Steven Sondheim, (via Barbra Streisand) “A vision’s just a vision if it’s only in your head … It has to come to life!” That was certainly the case when the San Diego Museum of Art accepted The Quilt Conversation, my summer-long project proposal about AIDS and the 1980s that involved quilting,…
