JPlate: Metukah
Our theater and restaurant critic Sandi Masori recognizes sweet things quite easily. She spotted this license plate, which means “sweet” in Hebrew. It may refer to the car to which it was fastened. [SDJW staff]
Sandi Masori
When she’s not covering stories for San Diego Jewish World, Sandi Masori helps people self-publish memoirs and business authority books. In her free time, she hangs out with her kids and hunts for the best sushi in town.
Her books, available on Amazon, include:
*Book It: How to Write, Publish Your Business Authority Book, Without Going Crazy, So That You Get More Speaking Gigs, Get Media Attention, Attract Better Clients, and Make More Money
*The Balloon Bible for All Seasons: How to Wow Your Friends and Impress Your Relatives with Amazing, Easy Balloon Decorations
*The DIY Balloon Bible Themes and Dreams: How to Decorate for Galas, Anniversaries, Banquets and Other Themed Events
*The DIY Balloon Birthday Bible: How to Decorate for Birthdays, Picnics, Family Parties and Any Other Fun Event
*The DIY Balloon Hat Bible: How to Wow Your Friends and Impress Your Relatives with 40+ Amazing, Easy Balloon Hats
*The Event Planner’s Essential Guide to Balloons
*The Ultimate Guide to Inflating Your Tradeshow Profits: How to Increase Branding, Recognition, Visibility, Customer Loyalty & Attract More Attention with Balloons
*The Balloon Bible for All Seasons: How to Wow Your Friends and Impress Your Relatives with Amazing, Easy Balloon Decorations
*The DIY Balloon Bible Themes and Dreams: How to Decorate for Galas, Anniversaries, Banquets and Other Themed Events
*The DIY Balloon Birthday Bible: How to Decorate for Birthdays, Picnics, Family Parties and Any Other Fun Event
*The DIY Balloon Hat Bible: How to Wow Your Friends and Impress Your Relatives with 40+ Amazing, Easy Balloon Hats
*The Event Planner’s Essential Guide to Balloons
*The Ultimate Guide to Inflating Your Tradeshow Profits: How to Increase Branding, Recognition, Visibility, Customer Loyalty & Attract More Attention with Balloons
She also contributed to:
*There’s Money in This Book: 17 Secrets from a Marketing Mastermind
Hadestown is One Helluva Show
One would think that a play based on a Greek tragedy would be heavy and slow, but that is not the case with Hadestown, now playing at Broadway San Diego. With charismatic characters and ear-wormy tunes, it feels a bit more like a celebration than a tragedy. [Sandi Masori]
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San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & BroadcastFormer Israeli Diplomat Shahar Azani Tells JNF-USA Crowd to Remember Personal Stories of 10-7 Victims
Shahar Azani, a former spokesman for the Israeli consulate-general in New York City, said the deaths of four soldiers killed at a Golani Brigade base near Binyamina, Israel, and another 60 people injured on Sunday, Oct. 13, in a drone attack by Hezbollah, the Lebanese terror group, are the direct result of Iran’s arms. [Donald H. Harrison and Sandi Masori]
‘Kimberly Akimbo’ an Upbeat Musical about Living with a Terminal Disease
Who would have thought that a play about a terminal disease could be whimsical and fun? And yet that’s exactly what we get in Kimberly Akimbo, by David Lindsay-Abaire, now playing at Broadway San Diego. [Sandi Masori]
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San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast‘Primary Trust’ Is a Thoughtful Play About Neuro-Divergence
The very quick version of the plot is that a 38-year- old neuro-diverse Kenneth (Caleb Everhardt) loses the job he’s had at a bookstore for 20 years. He breaks up with his imaginary friend (James Udom) as he starts a new job working at a bank and encounters elements of the real world for the first time. He befriends a waitress (Rebecca S’manga Frank) at his favorite bar and starts to interact more with real-life people. [Sandi Masori]
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Sandi Masori, Science, Medicine, & Education, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & BroadcastTodd Salovey on Getting More Jewish Stories to the Stage
They take the script to various theaters to see if there’s any interest. If a theater expresses interest in it, then they offer the theater what’s called an “enhancement fee” towards production costs. This is money that offsets the costs of producing it as a part of the theater’s regular season. [Sandi Masori]
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San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & BroadcastAlthough It Was Just a Reading, It Had Lage Emotional Impact
Back in the beginning of the summer I had the opportunity to attend a Jewish Italian culture night through San Diego JFest. Part of that event was a reading of an excerpt of Ali Viterbi’s play In Every Generation. In that reading, Marco Barricelli and his real-life wife Beatrice Basso read the parts of Davide and Paola in the scene that depicts them as post-World War II, newly-married immigrants to America, exploring their new freedom to publicly practice Judaism without fear of pogroms or Nazis. [Sandi Masori]
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Jewish Fiction, San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & BroadcastHandlery Hotel Shows Off Its T&T Knowledge–Tequila & Tacos
On a warm Sunday afternoon enthusiasts of Tequila and Tacos gathered at the Handlery Hotel for the first of an annual tasting event. General manager and Jewish community member Albert Kreimerman said that they put the event together so they could engage with the community and showcase executive chef Miguel Diaz and some of their vendors. [Sandi Masori]
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California, International, San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Travel and Food‘Dracula’ at Old Globe Provides a Laugh a Minute
As October sneaks up on us, you may notice the streets are becoming adorned with the macabre and the shows getting spookier and spookier. Not to be left out of the fun, the newest show at The Old Globe is Dracula, but this is unlike any Dracula you may have seen before, for this one is “a comedy of terrors.” [Sandi Masori]
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San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & BroadcastRevenge is Unusually Tasty in ‘Sweeney Todd’
It’s that time of year when the days are shorter, pumpkin spice everything begins to appear, and the season focuses on death and dying. So, of course. it’s the perfect time for theaters to produce shows with more horrifying subjects than they might be the rest of the year. [Sandi Masori]
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Sandi Masori, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & BroadcastCygnet’s ‘Rocky Horror Show’ Prompts Happy Audience to Dance
Newly engaged couple Brad Majors (Drew Bradford) and Janet Weiss (Audrey Deubig) break down in the middle of nowhere and find themselves seeking a phone and shelter in a creepy castle. There they meet Dr. Frank n’ Furter (Nathan Madden) who, like the Dr. Frankenstein he is based on, has a laboratory where he’s making creatures out of parts, except he’s trying to create the perfect romantic/ sexual partner. [Sandi Masori]
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San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast‘Orient Express’ Train Set Almost Steals The Show From All-Star Cast
For those unfamiliar with the story by Agatha Christie, it’s a classic who-dunnit set in 1934. Eclectic guests from around the world board a luxury train in Turkey bound for London. One of the guests is murdered and everyone is a suspect. [Sandi Masori}
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San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast‘Velour’ Educates While Entertaining at the La Jolla Playhouse
Sasha Velour comes out swinging from a harness in a fantastically sparkly holographic bodysuit. What’s all the glitz and glamour about? Well, it’s drag. Not a drag but drag as in drag queens and kings. [Sandi Masori]
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San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast‘Derecho’ Dramatizes Conflict Between Assimilation and Loyalty to Immigrant Culture
Playwright Noelle Viñas tells of the struggle of first-generation American Eugenia (Ashley Alvarez) to balance her desire for upward mobility and achieving the American dream against her responsibility to her people and heritage, especially as she prepares to run for local office. [Sandi Masori]
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