A 17-year-old Grossmont High School student has testified he was carjacked by a man who put hypodermic needles to his neck, saying they contained the AIDS virus. The student, who was only identified in court as Branik, pointed to Thomas Johnson, 36, as the man who approached him outside a restaurant on Parkway Drive in…
No, I am not talking about Rich’s, Flicks or Urban Mo’s on a Saturday night. I am talking about the presidential race. While I am an ardent supporter of Hillary Clinton because of her experience and policy agenda, it is time to admit that Secretary Clinton is a flawed candidate. I understand why Clinton decided…
thursday, aug. 18 Titanic the Musical Maury Yeston’s riveting and haunting musical based on the worst nautical disaster in history (and not the movie), depicts the final hours of the real-life people who set sail on the “unsinkable” Titanic. Winner of five Tony Awards including Best Musical, Titanic celebrates the human spirit of the rich…
dvd of the week Orry-Kelly won three Oscars for costume design, including for Some Like It Hot and An American In Paris. He designed the costumes for Auntie Mame, Casablanca, 42 Street and several of Bette Davis’ most iconic roles: Jezibel, Dark Victor, and The Letter. This career makes him important, but he was also…
“Butch” apologized for being late. “I overslept,” he explained. I didn’t mind. He was only fashionably late and I was sitting at the wood slab bar sipping an Orderville India Pale Ale (IPA) ($7) while soaking in the ambience of One Door North. The high-ceilinged space, with a nod to discovery and adventure, has an…
On Netflix Baz Luhrmann’s long-gestating period musical series about a rag tag group of kids in the Bronx coming of age during the late 1970s birth of Hip-Hop showcases the best of Luhrmann and the problems of extending his aesthetic across the many hours of a TV series. The musical scenes, featuring ecstatic dancing and…
thursday, aug. 11 Mark Normand Mark Normand is known for his “relentlessly punchy writing and expert delivery” (The Laugh Button) that has made him an internationally known touring comedian. 2016 has included multiple appearances on Louis CK’s Horace and Pete, and an upcoming appearance on Seeso’s “What’s Your F@%king Deal?!” and return appearances on Comedy…
Detransitioning happens; there are detransitioners who regret decisions they made while identifying as transgender and transitioning. Their numbers are relatively small, but even in relatively small numbers – compared with the size of the larger trans community – these detransitioners add up to thousands of people. Carey Callahan, in her blog entitled Maria Catt, posted…
The drooping sails of an anchoring fleet The shadowy city at our feet With the Mountains’ proud peaks so lofty and still ’Tis a picture worth seeing, from Golden Hill. This poem, written back in 1887 by Daniel Schuyler, paints a picture of the then lovely setting that was to become the neighborhood known as…
The Republican and Democratic Party Conventions are now in the books. What did we learn? Two Americas. In 2004, Sen. John Edwards described an America divided between the wealthy and those who lived paycheck to paycheck. In 2016, the choice is between Michelle Obama’s mutually supportive country struggling to become more perfect and Donald Trump’s…
