Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

So you think you can dance? Check out ‘Burn The Floor’

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — Broadway/San Diego’s Burn The Floor will only be at the Civic Theatre for a short while longer. That’s a shame. It’ s a dance enthusiast’s paradise watching the company move at incredible speed with impeccable precision and style. Burn the Floor is dubbed an international ballroom dance extravaganza. It includes […]

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Carol Davis, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Songs keeps comin’ at ‘Smokey Joe’s Cafe’

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO –One thing about the musical revue Smokey Joe’s Café there isn’t much not to like about it. For those of you who might never heard the names Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, for sure you’ve heard their music. Think “Hound Dog”, “Stand by Me”, “There Goes My Baby”, “Jailhouse Rock”, “Fools

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Carol Davis, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

‘100 Voices: A Journey Home’ explores Poland’s cantorial past

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO–On Tuesday, September 21, the movie 100 Voices: A Journey home will air across the country at 488 select theatres, including seven movie complexes in San Diego County. It’s a must see movie for Jews and non-Jews alike, but bring tissues. The documentary traces an historic trip to Poland by no

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Carol Davis, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

The Greene Line: Klezmers and terrorists could have mixed in Paris

By Norman Greene PARIS–Is there a connection between Klezmer music and Islamic terrorism? I was afraid I might find one here in Paris My wife Bobby and I were spending eight days in Paris this fall bemoaning the precipitous decline of the American dollar and generally enjoying the French escape from their recession. Actually, if

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Travel and Food

Albert meets Pablo in a turn-of-the-century haunt for geniuses

By Carol Davis CARLSBAD, California–New Village Arts Theatre in Carlsbad is currently mounting Steve Martin’s (yes THAT Steve Martin of Roxanne, Father of the Bride and The Jerk) 1993 intellectual fantasy Picasso At The Lapin Agile about two earthmovers who meet, discuss and predict the future.Just for starters the characters at the center of Martin’s imaginary

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Carol Davis, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Viterbis give $1 million to San Diego Opera

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– San Diego Opera has announced a $1 million gift from Erna and Andrew Viterbi. The first $500,000 of the gift  will be used to underwrite the “Community Conversations on Faith  and Freedom” lecture series in conjunction with Verdi’s opera Nabucco, the second opera in the San Diego Opera 2010 season. Portions of the gift will also

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast