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Body Awareness at Ion Theatre
It's "Body Awareness Week" at Shirley State College in Vermont. Speakers and installations will promote physical diversity. Also on campus: Frank Bonitatibus. He's a house guest of Phyllis and Joyce, partners for the last three years. Frank photographs naked women …
Cinema Under the Stars
On a beautiful Thursday evening with a temperature of 71 degrees, I had planned on watching the classic Alfred Hitchcock film, Vertigo. Cinema Under the Stars is located at 4040 Goldfinch Avenue in Mission Hills. When walking towards the theater, …
Peer Gynt at La Jolla Playhouse
Henrik Ibsen's evasive masterpiece (1867) has five, hour-long acts, around 50 characters, and more locations than most movies. At the La Jolla Playhouse, director David Schweizer has trimmed the play - really trimmed it - to two hours and five …
Fire in Hillcrest
News helicopters are circling above and the streets are blocked off around Vermont St. and University Avenue in Hillcrest, where a building is on fire. It began around ten minutes ago, and firefighters are still in the process of subduing …
San Diego Is Turning into Its Own Little Montmartre
On Friday evening, July 1, people paid three dollars each to view art by local artists at the San Diego Art Institute in Balboa Park. As soon as I entered the exhibit, an artist by the name of Larry Knight …
June Bugs Emerging
June Bugs are emerging as summer's warmth is finally upon us. The green June beetle, only one of some 300 species of scarab beetles found in Southern California, flashes a metallic green underbelly as its buzzes about erratically. The mature …
The Show Must Go On
Years ago, my brother Michael was an actor at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis (at left in the photo, as Lucky in Waiting for Godot). When I told him Our Town was playing in San Diego, he recalled his first …
Magnolia in Bloom
Magnolia, the southern-U.S.-native commonly planted as a decorative street tree in many of San Diego's older neighborhoods, continues to bloom this month. Its grandiose description in some botanical books as the "queen of the flowering broadleaf evergreens," accurately gauges its …
Ironic Independence Celebration
So, I'm tooling through a neighborhood I only recently learned is called Middletown, and I come across a banner at Shakespeare Pub & Grille advertising their 4th of July brunch. Aroo? I'd always been under the impression that "we the" …
San Diego Heats Up
The heat of summer will most likely reach its feverish peak in inland San Diego County during the coming month of July. (Coastal San Diego is different: since its weather is greatly affected by the slowly warming mass of ocean …
Much Ado About Nothing at Old Globe
When Shakespeare wrote his "merry war" between Beatrice and Benedick, intelligent women were in vogue. Men still kept an eye on dowries and external attractions, make no mistake, but female courtly wits had an - all too brief - appeal. …
Party Too Hard, Pick Up Trash
During this holiday weekend, if you party too hard in Pacific Beach, Mission Beach, or Mission Bay and find yourself with only a ticket to show for it, the City of San Diego may waive the citation if you agree …