Spike Jonze’s beautiful vision of the future
Two years ago, Apple introduced Siri, a program for their iPhones that acts like a personal assistant, complete with a female voice. You talk to it, it talks back, and the famous advertisements featured conversations between celebrities and Siri that made her seem, well, intelligent. Anyone who has used Siri knows Siri isn’t as helpful…
‘San Diego IndieFest’ finds support and partnership with mobile health care company
IndieFest is one of the largest music and arts festivals in San Diego and is produced by Danielle LoPresti and Alicia Champion together with a lot of other hardworking folks behind the scenes. This week, IndieFest got a huge advantage and jumpstart for future festivals as they signed a partnership agreement with EXUSMED,™ a corporation…
USPS stamp honoring Bayard Rustin in the works
The openly gay organizer of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Bayard Rustin may be the next openly gay American to have a United States postage stamp issued in his honor. The official launch of the Bayard Rustin USA/National Stamp Campaign will be announced at the 2014…
Imperial Court de San Diego raises more than $80,000 during reign XLI
The year reign of Empress XLI Candi Samples and the Imperial Court de San Diego will come to an end Feb. 8 at the Lafayette Hotel when the new emperor and empress will be elected and crowned. The Imperial Court, Empress XLI Candi Samples and the board of directors have been responsible for giving out…
SD Pride 2014: ‘sign up early’
As San Diego LGBT Pride’s volunteers, board of directors and staff work on this year’s 40th anniversary Pride celebration they are inviting community participation in the festivities scheduled for July 18-20. Applications for entertainers, sponsors, parade contingents, program guide advertisers and festival exhibitors are now available online at sdpride.org. The annual Pride weekend festivities, which…
Jury takes only four hours to convict phony HIV doctor
After deliberating only four hours, a jury Jan. 10 convicted a La Mesa man of six counts of practicing medicine without a license after he claimed he could cure HIV and cancer with unusual and expensive treatments. Keith Allen Barton, 52, was also convicted of two counts of grand theft, attempted grand theft and false…
Five questions for two candidates
As the special runoff election for mayor draws near, San Diego LGBT Weekly posed five questions on behalf of this city’s LGBT community to the two remaining candidates, District 2 City Councilmember Kevin Faulconer and David Alvarez, Councilmember for San Diego’s District 8. Unfortunately, despite several attempts to fulfill the vision for this article and…
Writing, reading, sharing our stories
I am reluctant to play the age card because change is inevitable and progress is … well, progress. But in this case I will. Back in the dark ages of the 1970s and 1980s when I was plump, young and oh-so serious I used to journal a lot, put onto paper all the dark and…
Back in Japan
For the next issue or two I may comment about my current travels. I’m with my partner in Tokyo at the moment and cold. Our apartment is about 55 degrees with the kerosene heater on and no heat at all in the toilet and separate shower room. Whatever we do, we do it fast. Speaking…