thursday, oct. 24 The Scream Zone One of San Diego’s largest and scariest haunted attractions, the Scream Zone features a huge House of Horror with rooms filled with terrifying scenes and scares lurking at every turn, a one-of-a-kind Haunted Hayride through the haunted barns on the world-famous Del Mar race track and The Chamber with…
Budgeting is boring! There is no other way to describe it. Tracking all your expenses and inputting them into categories created in one of those financial programs can be tedious. Even the online services that connect to your banking account require monitoring and correcting. It is no wonder that most people never even attempt to…
“We treat our transgender students – our boys, our transgender boys and girls – simply like any other boys and girls with the same rights and responsibilities, rules and obligations,” stated Judy Chiasson, Ph.D. and program coordinator for Human Relations, Diversity and Equity, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) at the June 12 California State…
(The article this week is from Rev. Elder Don Eastman – former vice moderator for Metropolitan Community Churches and retired minister.) A few months ago more than 1,500 people from Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC) all over the world gathered in Chicago for our 25th General Conference. Again and again, every day we heard wonderful stories…
One of the first movies I reviewed for this paper was Heartbeats, a stunningly beautiful update of Jules & Jim made by queer Quebecois wunderkind Xavier Dolan. It lasted in San Diego for about a week; I am still the only person I know who has seen it. His next movie Laurence, Anyways won awards…
One in a million. That’s the best way to describe your kid. Not that you’re biased or anything, but it’s true. He’s smarter than other people’s children, very definitely cuter and he has more talent in his left foot than most adults possess in their entire bodies. No child can compare to yours, that’s a…
In one of my past columns I personally took my own responsibility as a longtime friend and supporter of Bob Filner for not speaking out to him about his conduct. The facts are that almost all of us heard, talked, gossiped about Bob and his hitting on women, not for years, but decades. We laughed…
dvd of the week It’s a tale as old as time: A young gay man and his best girlfriend fall in love with the same beautiful boy. This plot and its lesbian equivalent have been at the center of entirely too many bad independent films. So, you might expect that Heartbeats, a film about such…
dvr this Fox, Mondays, 9 p.m. The premise of Sleepy Hollow is absurd: Ichibod Crane and the Headless Horseman are suddenly brought back to life in modern-day Massachusetts, and they are linked to a massive, supernatural worldwide conspiracy. The ridiculousness works, mostly because of Tim Mison as Crane; he is arch and serious and very…
