Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Notes from the woodcutter: Sandy Koufax

Editor’s Note:  Loren Kantor often chooses Jews and Jewish themes as topics for his woodcuts.  He’s agreed to share images from his work–and the stories behind them– with San Diego Jewish World.  Dodger pitching great Sandy Koufax is the second in this series. By Loren Kantor STUDIO CITY, California — Hitting against Sandy Koufax is […]

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Sports & Competitions

Who was the better artist: DaVinci or Michelangelo?

 By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO— The rivalry between Da Vinci and Michelangelo was a big deal back in 1504, Florence. Imagine pitting these two art giants of the Renaissance, one against another in a painting duel? Michelangelo was an up and comer and Da Vinci was already a well-established inventor, musician, writer and painter of

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Notes from the woodcutter: Lauren Bacall

  Editor’s Note:  Loren Kantor often chooses Jews and Jewish themes as topics for his woodcuts.  He’s agreed to share images from his work–and the stories behind them– with San Diego Jewish World.  Actress Lauren Bacall is the first in this series. By Loren Kantor STUDIO CITY, California — Lauren Bacall  and Humphrey Bogart were one

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

“R-e-s-p-e-c-t, A Musical Celebration of Women” rocks Lyceum

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—OK, You want some respect, ladies? Head down to the San Diego Repertory Theatre and pop in to Dorothy Marcic’s Respect, A Musical Celebration of Women and you will get an earful! Four local and highly respected musical talents, Nancy Snow Carr, Leigh Scarritt, Lisa H. Payton and Kelsey Venter sing

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‘The Marvelous Wonderettes’ provides a nostalgic trip through the songs of the ’50’s

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO— (If) life could be a dream, Sha-Boom we could all go back to our high school days and relive the past, ‘Hey nonny ding dong, alang alang …’ Roger Bean’s The Marvelous Wonderettes with musical arrangements by Brian William Baker and Michael Broth’s orchestrations is currently being given a “Sugar

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‘Some Lovers’ premieres at Old Globe

 By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—Burt Bacharach and Steven Sater have given San Diego audiences a new holiday show. The jury is still out as to whether it will become an annual happening like, say, How The Grinch Stole Christmas. It is after all based, loosely, I might add on the classic O. Henry tale The

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Jews, God and Music: A Klezmer Concert Review

By Stanley Tiger SAN DIEGO–The concert started more or less promptly at 8:00 pm. Titled in the program flier, “An Evening of Klezmer Music with Yale Strom and Hot Pstromi,”  it was a well attended fundraiser for Tifereth Israel Synagogue, opening first with Havdalah prayers, lead by Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal with audience participation. Immediately following,

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County

‘Great American Trailer Park Musical’… Not everyone’s cup o’ beer

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — Call me a snob, it matters not. Trailer Park humor was never high on the list of ‘tickle my funny bone’ laugh o’ meter comedy scale. Some nights it just doesn’t pay to get dressed, leave the warm fuzzy comfort of my home sweet home, fight the downtown traffic (that

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Tharp’s choreography, Sinatra’s voice star in ‘Come Fly Away’

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO–It’s not that I haven’t seen this show, Come Fly Away before, because I have. It’s not that I don’t love Frank Sinatra. I do love his voice. It’s because of the above-mentioned Sinatra voice and Twyla Tharp’s absolutely stunning choreography that I love this show. Once in Vegas was not

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‘Gypsy’ overcomes small theatre space

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO–No it’s not Ethel Merman, Rosalind Russell, Tyne Daly or even Patty LuPone. It’s our own Linda Libby who heads up the first ever big-time musical, or musical for that matter, staged by ion theatre in the company’s BLKBOX space in Hillcrest. Libby, whose credits stretch from stage to TV, is

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Social protest in ‘Hair’ at Civic, and outside by ‘Occupiers’

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — It didn’t take the observations of a rocket scientist to see the comparisons between the ‘Occupy San Diego’ movement outside the Civic Theatre and the 44-year-old (but revised) smash hit of the late 60’s Hair. Here’s what the young folks protesting the Vietnam war in the 60’s were railing

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West Side Story sequel needs some retooling

By Carol Davis   SAN DIEGO—Somewhere between reality and romanticism is the space in which the Candelaria Family lives. Somewhere is also the title of one of Leonard Bernstein’s reflective ballads from his popular West Side Story and it is also the title of Matthew Lopez’s brand new world premiere comedy drama now being given a

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