FilmOut San Diego’s 13th LGBT Film Festival opens this weekend with 60 films being shown during the six-day, two-weekend film festival at the historic Birch North Park Theatre (2891 University Ave.). Filmmakers and talent representing more than 40 of the films plan to attend the festival and are scheduled to answer audience questions after screenings….
An entire generation of gay men owes director Randal Kleiser a big thank you for informing our proclivities through his cinematic achievements. Whether, it was Leigh McCloskey playing a male prostitute in the TV movie, Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway, which co-starred Eve Plumb (Jan Brady of The Brady Bunch) as the titular runaway/teen…
Whether you have a condo, a single detached home or rental units, no matter how big or how small the property is, no matter how new or old, there is always ongoing maintenance and repairs that need to be done. An essential element to successfully keeping up property maintenance is to know good and honest…
With a volatile stock and bond market, a dysfunctional congress and unemployment over 9 percent, it can be hard to believe in the American Dream. With Prop 8 still in effect, and a parade of Republican presidential candidates seeing who can hate gay marriage most (Fred Karger being the notable exception), it can be hard…
Sylvia Guerrero, murdered trans teen Gwen Araujo’s mother, has been quoted as stating “If I’ve learned anything since Gwen’s murder, it is that hope alone is not enough. Each of us who hopes to live in a state where our families are protected needs to work toward making California that place … “None of us…
It was Helen Keller who said, “Life is either a daring adventure, or it is nothing at all.” These words are true no matter who said them, but coming from Helen Keller, we’d better sit up and pay attention. Born blind, deaf and unable to speak, she somehow found a way out of the darkness…
8 ounces fresh mozzarella pearls (no liquid) 6 ounces shelled, blanched edamame 6 ounces sliced roasted or canned artichoke hearts or bottoms 2 ounces sliced red onion 4 ounces roasted, seeded yellow tomato wedges 4 ounces roasted, peeled red bell pepper strips 2 tablespoons lemon juice 4 tablespoons balsamic vinegar 2 ounces olive oil 1…
EPIX Tuesday, Aug. 23, 3:15 a.m. Both Ian McKellen and Lynn Redgrave were nominated for Oscars (and McKellen was robbed) for Bill Condon’s brilliant adaptation of Christopher Bram’s novel about the great and gay schlock director James Whale. Moving, artful and intense, the film is the last time Brendan Fraser did any good work. (He’s…
When Leonard Bernstein composed the music to the 1957 Broadway production of West Side Story, he solidified his place in musical theater history. Over 50 years later, his life and work is retold in Hershey Felder in Maestro: The Art of Leonard Bernstein, a one-man show at the Old Globe Theatre. This production is the…
