Normally, I balk when I’m confronted with film characters who are mentally ill, have odd neurological ticks or are addicted to some sort of chemical. Partly, this is because I spend so much time in the real world with such people, and the fictional versions are rarely convincing. For every virtuoso performance like Joaquin Phoenix’s…
also playing The last time Stephen Spielberg and Tony Kushner collaborated was Munich, the taut, emotionally devastating thriller about the Israeli agents who hunted down the perpetrators of the kidnapping and massacre of Israeli Olympians in 1972. So, I had high hopes for their latest. Lincoln stars Daniel Day-Lewis as the 16th president, Sally Field…
Friday Nov. 9, a crowd of more than 200 LGBT community members, veterans and allies gathered to honor 11 veterans who were inducted into the Benjamin F. Dillingham III and Bridget Wilson LGBT Veterans’ Wall of Honor at the San Diego LGBT Community Center. The veterans honored were: • Donald P. Kambic, U.S. Army, 1942-1946…
The San Diego Gay Men’s Chorus (SDGMC) is back with its annual holiday show Saturday, Dec. 15 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 16 at 3 p.m. The show, Ice & Spice, will take place at the Balboa Theatre in downtown San Diego. “Our show promises the whimsical magic of traditional holiday songs accented with…
After more than six hours of deliberations, a jury convicted the “Incense Bandit” of three robberies and one attempted robbery Nov. 9, but they ironically deadlocked 7-5 for acquittal in the hold-up of the candle store where the robber got his nickname. Jurors told San Diego Superior Court Judge Amalia Meza they were hopelessly deadlocked…
The University of California, San Diego is holding a Founders’ Day event starting 11.30 a.m. Fri. Nov. 16 at Town Square, UC San Diego. This year’s celebration opens with a brief video, telling the story of the campus through the eyes of past chancellors. The investiture of Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla follows. After the program,…
WASHINGTON – John Hall, 27, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Seagoville, Texas, has pleaded guilty in federal court to violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act stemming from his assault of a fellow inmate he believed to be gay, the Department of Justice announced. Hall assaulted his…
LOS ANGELES – The election has not only brought marriage rights to same-sex couples in Maine, Maryland and Washington but it will also boost the economies of the three states according to a new report by the Williams Institute. The report estimates that extending marriage to same-sex couples will generate more than $166 million in…
SAN FRANCISCO – Community Marketing & Insights (CMI), the San Francisco-based LGBT research and communications firm, has released its 17th annual LGBT Travel Survey, a USA snapshot on LGBT travel motivations, perspectives and purchases. Respondents to the study are derived from CMI’s proprietary research panel and through partnership with national and community magazines, newspapers, Web…
The shower has always been a great place to do it. In the privacy of your car is good, too. Nobody can hear you sing there, so you can belt out a tune as loud as you want and the radio is always there as a guide. At church, at the bar with friends, in…
