By Eva Trieger CARLSBAD, California — We generally view grief as a mitigating factor. Death is a harsh clarion signaling a divide between what was once vibrant and dynamic to something silenced and static. New Village Arts turns this concept on its head with Guadalupe in the Guest Room. This beautiful 90 minute one-act play […]
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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Jewish TV commentator’s speech ‘postponed’ by Rutgers Lisa Daftari, a Jewish American of Iranian descent, had been invited by Rutgers University to give a speech on Tuesday, but now the appearance is “postponed”–and according to Daftari “cancelled”–by the university after Muslim students charged Daftari with Islamophobia. Daftari, who frequently appears as a commentator on Fox
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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
So God created humanity in his own image. In the image of God he created him: male and female he created them. (Gen 1:27) By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — For most of us, gender distinction is pretty clear-cut and we live our lives accordingly. But for some, the picture is more complicated. And
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Eric George Tauber, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Once again, the San Diego Shakespeare Society filled our ears with verse at the 17th Annual Celebrity Sonnets held at the Old Globe. Local personality Richard Lederer, clad in a velvet doublet and melon breeches, read an original sonnet in memory of the society’s founder, Alex Sandie, The
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Pamela Pollack-Fremd SPOKANE, Washington — Creative people have magnetism, a force, an affect all their own. Antonio Lopez, a fashion illustrator and trend setter, was that kind of person. Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex, Fashion & Disco, a documentary directed and written by James Crump and produced by James Crump and Ronnie Sasson, introduces us to
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San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — It is a very good thing that North Coast Rep’s Theater School Director, Benjamin Cole, is far more intrepid and persistent than any of his three detectives in this world premiere of The Gorilla. In 1925, a parody was written about a crooked business executive threatened by a
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Eva Trieger, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Eva Trieger OCEANSIDE, California — What do you get when you combine an aging melodramatic actress, a volatile writer, their two self-absorbed adult children and four unwitting guests? A riotous collection of awkward moments, flaring tempers, emotive displays and loads of fun. Mira Costa College Theater School Director, Eric Bishop, brings us Noel Coward’s delightfully
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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
German court dismisses appeal against Kuwaiti Airways discriminatory policy A German court in Frankfurt on Tuesday rejected an appeal by an Israeli passenger barred from boarding a Kuwait Airways flight because of the airline’s strict policy of banning all Israelis. The case had been brought by the Israeli, represented by The Lawfare Project, after he
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International, Lawrence Baron, Middle East, San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and FoodBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — The Joyce Forum Short Film Festival is triply new. It will screen on October 6th and 7th at the David and Dorothea Garfield Theatre of the Lawrence Family JCC separately from the San Diego Jewish Film Festival becoming the first Jewish shorts film festival in the world. As the
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Lawrence Baron, San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – In an irony of modern history, the marauding, barbaric, and pillaging destroyers of culture who came to be known collectively as ISIS inadvertently may have shed light on the story behind a shrine to the biblical Jonah as well as upon an ancient king of Assyria. Such
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Scaffolding, a Hebrew-language film with English subtitles, is a story of Asher (Asher Lax), a troubled 12th grade student, whose temper gets him in trouble with teachers, administrators, and other students alike. Asher has no respect for boundaries, nevertheless he has about him an innate sense of justice.
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Intelligent Lives, a documentary by Dan Habib, scheduled for release September 21. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Intelligent Lives, a documentary by Dan Habib about the high potential of people with mental disabilities, is scheduled for New York City release Sept. 21 and around the country thereafter. Narrated by Chris Cooper, whose son
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Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – “Time Enough at Last,” one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes, starred Burgess Meredith as a bank clerk who wanted nothing more than time to read. He was down in the bank vault doing just that when the world ended for all those aboveground. After he recovered from
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Donald H. Harrison, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Ken Stone Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — A Brazilian Jew, a San Diego substitute teacher and a black British ex-model walk into a bar. What do you get? If drinks are served at the WorldBeat Cultural Center in Balboa Park, it’s the inaugural San Diego World Comedy Jam. Set for Oct. 12-14,
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International, Ken Stone, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA