dvd of the week David Lynch’s 1984 sci-fi epic Dune is one of the grander disasters in modern film: weird, long, campy and disliked both by fans of Frank Herbert’s novel and fans of David Lynch. Jodorowsky’s Dune is the fascinating and entertaining story about what Dune could and arguably should have been. The Chilean…
When the United States Supreme Court ruled in 2003 in Lawrence vs. Texas on a 6-3 vote that the state had violated the liberty of the plaintiffs protected by substantive due process under the Fourteenth Amendment, it not only legalized consensual sex between two adults regardless of gender, but it overturned Bowers vs. Hardwick (1986)…
dvd of the week In Prisoners, the Quebecois auteur Denis Villeneuve directed Jake Gyllenhaal to one of his best performances, as a cold and determined cop searching for two kidnapped girls. Enemy, based on Nobel Prize winner José Saramago’s book The Double, is as austere and difficult as Prisoners was pulpy and obvious. Gyllenhaal plays…
I just don’t know what to say … more trouble at the Hillcrest Business Association (HBA). The new Executive Director Sonya Stauffer was terminated June 5. She is now pursuing action with the board of directors to determine whether Johnathan Hale had the authority to fire her. LGBT Weekly got a copy of Ms. Stauffer’s…
TEL AVIV — An estimated 30,000 tourists, men in tank tops, overcrowded clubs and bars, cultural events and city streets replete with rainbow flags are making the Israeli capital a hugely popular city to celebrate Pride Week, reports GayAsiaNews.com. “It’s never like this,” said Shuli Mammon guarding the door of a club in Tel Aviv’s…
dvr this On demand on Netflix The second season of Netflix’s breakout hit dramatic comedy about a women’s prison debuted last week, and I binged on all thirteen episodes in one sitting. The second season is better than the first. By focusing less on annoyingly entitled blonde goody good Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), and much…
A new network of bike lanes and routes meandering through Bankers Hill, the Gaslamp District, downtown and several other San Diego neighborhoods was unveiled by Mayor Kevin Faulconer and City Council President Todd Gloria recently. The two officials dedicated the latest addition of two-wheeled infrastructure to the cause of making the city more bicycle-friendly and…
dvd of the week In Wes Anderson’s greatest film so far, it is 1932 and the Grand Budapest Hotel is in its heyday. A treasure of the fictional Eastern European nation of Zubrowka, it is packed with suited dignitaries and their bejeweled wives, and the regimented staff is legion; over all of it presides the…
dvd of the week Neil deGrasse Tyson’s reboot of Carl Sagan’s iconic PBS series Cosmos is the best nonfiction on television this year, updating Sagan’s science and the show’s visuals and using Tyson’s remarkable explanatory power to make astrophysics, evolutionary biology, geology and the history of science as entertaining as most network dramas. Tyson, who…
As a progressive, I believe there are many names for God and many ways to God; this article reflects one of those ways. Take from here what works for you. Celebrate life with joy and peace! How quickly the seasons make their full circle and the rhythm of life continues. As many of you know,…
