The Hillcrest Wind Ensemble (HWE) will present A Night at the Opera Oct. 10, 7 p.m. at the First Unitarian Universalist Church, 4150 Front Street in San Diego. The ensemble is proud to be working with the San Diego Opera’s University Partners Program known as Opera Exposed, which features voice students from SDSU, USD and…
A drunk driver who killed a La Jolla waiter on his way home from work has been sentenced to nine years in state prison. His friends told the driver the victim would have forgiven him, even for causing his death. Bryan R. Delaney, 36, worked at George’s at the Cove in La Jolla and was…
A recent trip down memory lane in my hometown was definitely a double-edged sword. True, nostalgia and memories met me at every turn, but shock also when the turn didn’t reveal the expected. For example, my stately high school had morphed into a bizarre condominium. Worse was my childhood neighborhood of large Queen Anne style…
If you look up the words “integrity” and “honesty” in the political dictionary, you would probably find a picture of Toni Atkins right next to these two words. Atkins has never forgotten where she came from – the Appalachian mountains of Virginia, a coal miner’s daughter. She grew up in a home with no running…
dvd of the week Nigel Finch’s low-budget 1995 adaptation of Martin Duberman’s novel about the Stonewall riots does not have the squeaky clean production values of Roland Emmerich’s mess, and the older film is not great. But it’s a better movie and yet it ostensibly has a similar plot. Frederick Weller is Matty, the white…
dvd and streaming Joss Whedon’s The Avengers was one of the most successful films of all time, and it was also good. For the sequel, The Avengers: Age of Ultron, Whedon has produced another greatly enjoyable piece of popcorn entertainment, one of the best episodes in the increasingly populated and complicated MCU storyline. The Avengers…
Move over, Colonel. Forget about doing chicken right. Streetcar Merchants does chicken better. My attractive dinner companion and I worked up a huge appetite one afternoon and hungered for a late lunch. Lestat suggested we try something different and check out Streetcar Merchants. They proudly serve fried chicken, housemade doughnuts, specialty coffee and craft beer….
The Holy See of the Catholic Church, known simply as the Pope, dominated the airwaves in America last week. Pope Francis was able to take Donald Trump out of the relevant news cycle for a week. Now that is something. Something that should concern all Americans. The media and our government has allowed religion, the…
After Roland Emmerich, the gay, German-born director of The Fourth of July and The Day After Tomorrow, learned about the plight of homeless LGBT youth, he decided to make a movie about them, and that movie transmogrified into the story of homeless LGBT youth who helped start the 1969 Stonewall riots. This is a laudable…
