In Erie, Pa., everyone roots for two teams on a college football Saturday: Notre Dame and whoever is playing Penn State, or Penn State and whoever is playing Notre Dame. Having spent a summer in University Park during high school, I chose the latter. Through medical school and graduate school, I went to the Penn…
20th Annual Tree of Life ceremony The 20th Annual Tree of Life ceremony observes the 30th Annual World AIDS Day in support of Mama’s Kitchen, with the help of The Center and Village Hillcrest. Those and other organizations and individuals will commemorate World AIDS Day by “recognizing and remembering those affected by AIDS, as well…
Help Father Joe served more than 1.7 million meals in 2011. To help beat that number in 2012, Father Joe’s is hosting a Thanksgiving Day 5K event Thursday, Nov. 24 at 8 a.m. in Balboa Park. Event T-shirts can be picked up at Spreckels Organ Pavilion Wednesday, Nov. 23 2-6 p.m. or Thanksgiving morning from…
The Imperial Court de San Diego will host the 23rd Annual Scott Carlson Community Thanksgiving Dinner from 2-5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 24, at The Center. All are welcome, but Center staff request that guests contact either Cory R. Huston at 619-306-8344 or via email cory51586@yahoo.com, or Kaiden Montana at 619-674-1476 or Kaiden_boi@yahoo.com with the number…
ROME – Amid mixed reactions, Italian fashion brand Benetton has released its new advertising campaign. The Washington Post reported the campaign, which depicts images of various world leaders kissing each other, from President Barack Obama kissing China’s Hu Jintao to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu kissing Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, was unveiled last week on…
The blind date has never lost its popularity. With my family, it was to make me happy with a nice young woman; later my friends assumed the unasked for obligation and tried to make me happy with a nice young man. Recently, the difference of being “young” has morphed into “young at heart.” I have…
Admit it – you’ve done some dumb things in your life. And now that you’ve admitted it, you can blame it on youth. It’s OK. You were a dumb kid. From the curfews broken, hearts broken, laws broken and the bones broken, you did a lot of things you can look back upon now that…
dvd of the week Paul Rudd has been in a string of broad, absurd comedies over the last five years that have made him a star but which have not been remotely insightful. Our Idiot Brother does not have the depth of a good Woody Allen or the painfully strong laughs of Judd Apatow’s best,…
Speaking as the 4 Friends, a collaboration of San Diego’s AIDS Service Organizations, after 30 years of fighting this fight, we should have something to say. Can we say that all who are living with HIV/AIDS has food to eat, medicine to heal, and a place to live? Can we say we have stopped infecting…
