Pride needs you. Volunteer!
The regular busy bees in the many and varied organizations within the LGBT community are finalizing their preparations for the Pride weekend. We will certainly never forget last year. It was fantastic. As the deluge continued throughout the parade and afternoon, we kept on with full participation and enthusiasm. The spirit and emotion were a…
Hearing set for man who allegedly carjacked a teenager with HIV infected needle
A June 2 preliminary hearing was set for a suspected carjacker who allegedly held a hypodermic needle with HIV to the neck of a 17-year-old boy. Thomas Johnson, 36, is also charged with kidnapping Branik Brown and forcing him to drive Johnson around March 28. In an interview with KGTV (Channel 10), Brown said the…
City Council declares Spice, bath salts illegal
The synthetic drugs in bath salts and Spice, which have caused hundreds of overdoses downtown and in Hillcrest, were banned Monday in an 8-0 vote by the San Diego City Council. The drugs are sometimes sold in smoke shops or other small stores and also sold on the street. Some bath salts are sold under…
Endorsements, false endorsements overtake District 3 race
What a difference a week makes in local politics. Last week San Diego Council District 3 candidate Anthony Bernal was riding high on the endorsement of Mayor Kevin Faulconer. By Tuesday of this week, Bernal was defending revelations that his campaign has claimed endorsements from people who say they have not endorsed him. One of…
Todd Gloria should endorse Chris Ward
As many of you know, LGBT Weekly does not endorse candidates because we believe that our readers are smart and when informed make the proper decision. Last week, many in the LGBT community were shocked by Mayor Faulconer’s endorsement of District 3 candidate Anthony Bernal, a Democrat, running against candidate Chris Ward, also a Democrat…
The City: Top to Bottom
thursday, may 26 Stupid F**King Bird In this irreverent, contemporary, and very funny remix of Chekhov’s The Seagull, award-winning playwright Aaron Posner wages a timeless battle between young and old, past and present, in search of the true meaning of it all. An aspiring young director rampages against the art created by his mother’s generation….
‘We must not be silent!’
We at MCC San Diego (The Met Church) have given voice to justice for the LGBT community here in San Diego since 1970. We are proud to be partners within a vibrant LGBT Community in America’s Finest City. I echo this sentiment as expressed so well by Rev. Durrell Watkins of Sunshine Cathedral MCC in…
The City: Top to Bottom
thursday, may 19 Barry Rothbart Barry Rothbart is one of the young rising stars in comedy today, appearing recently on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, starring in the new season of MTV’s “Punk’d” and landing a role as “Ben” on TNT’s “Men of A Certain Age”. He also co-wrote and starred in the IFC…
Meet Janis Ian
The musical force behind chart-topping hits “Society’s Child” and “At Seventeen” provides a glimpse at her playlist for her San Diego concert, her career, Bill Cosby and history’s arc A telling story. Sunday, Nov. 26, 1967, Janis Ian, formerly Janis Eddy Fink, was asleep backstage on the set of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. She…