The Arts

Robert Vaughn, star of ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,’ dies at 83

Robert Vaughn, who became an international TV star in the 1960s playing suave and debonair superspy Napoleon Solo on “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” while also playing a role in the era’s anti-war movement, died Friday. He was 83. Vaughn died after a brief battle with acute leukemia, his manager, Matthew Sullivan, confirmed to The Associated […]

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Leonard Cohen, spiritual musician who stirred a generation, dies at 82

Jewish singer-songwriter and poet, best known for ballad ‘Hallelujah,’ dies month after releasing last album about coming to terms with mortality By AFP , AP and Times of Israel staff Leonard Cohen in concert at London’s O2 Arena, September 15, 2013. (Brian Rasic/Getty Images/JTA) Leonard Cohen, the storied musician and poet hailed as one of

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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

The Mighty Hillary Strikes Out

(With apologies to Ernest Lawrence Thayer) By Laurie Baron The outlook was optimistic for Clinton-Kane just yesterday. The polls showed leads of three points, but narrowing each day. When Comey concluded that she was not to blame. The voters who despised her had nothing to defame. The Donald was campaigning, appealing to white males. Spouting

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Lawrence Baron, Sports & Competitions, USA

Book celebrates 28 of San Diego’s remarkable women

Remarkable Women of San Diego: Pioneers, Visionaries and Innovators by Hannah S. Cohen and Gloria G. Harris; History Press © 2016; ISBN 9781467-118262; 144 pages including index and bibliography, $21.90. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Divided into four time periods that begin in 1850, 1900, 1950 and 2000, this collection of biographical sketches honors

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, USA

Corporate raider drama comes to the L.A. stage

By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — If Lawrence Garfinkle comes to your town, be wary!  And be afraid.  Be very afraid.  Garfinkle, known to his fellow Wall Street stockbrokers as “Larry the Liquidator,” is known to be ruthless, relentless, and rich.  When he comes to town you can be sure somebody’s struggling business is about to be “restructured.”

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Cynthia Citron, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Women play all the parts in SDSU’s ‘ Julius Caesar’

“And we are governed with our mothers’ spirits. Our yoke and sufferance show us womanish.”  –(Julius Caesar, Act 1, Sc 3) By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Years ago, I had an artistic residency with a group of fourth graders doing a condensed version of Julius Caesar. I put to them this question: Who

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San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Concert review: Bob Dylan as you have always � and never � known him

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Ghosts haunted the Belk Theater stage Sunday night during the concert by Bob Dylan and his band. Shades of all the other authors who have won the Nobel Prize for literature, challenging him to sing the complex and poetic lyrics that earned him the award this year. The spirit of Frank Sinatra,

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA

‘SNL’ Skewers the Media’s Role in the Rise of Trump

“Is the whole world insane?” Kate McKinnon played an exasperated Hillary Clinton in the cold open to “Saturday Night Live” this weekend, incredulous at the prospect of holding just a slim lead over Donald Trump despite his unfitness for office. The show placed blame on the media in offering a sketch that mocked network television’s

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

A Ukrainian Jew and her American multi- millionaire

Did You Ever Have the Chance to Marry an American Multimillionaire? by Dora Klinova; DK Corporation; (c) 2016: ISBN 9781533-137852; 245 pages. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — This autobiographical work was fictionalized enough to be classified as a novel, but it closely follows author Dora Klinova’s own progress in San Diego in the

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County