The Arts

Center for Jewish Culture tells 2018-19 lineup

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The San Diego Center for Jewish Culture (CJC) housed within the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center (JCC) announced its 2018-19 performing arts season, featuring a diverse group of acclaimed guests, prolific performers, poignant film presentations and much more. Some highlights of this year’s lineup include comedians Sandra Bernhard and Paula Poundstone; folk legend Peter

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San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

‘A Funny Thing’ happened at the North Coast Rep

By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — I can just imagine North Coast Rep’s Artistic Director, David Ellenstein, dancing a jig and high fivin’ his reflection in the mirror after landing one of the most synergistic casts to ever perform on this cozy stage. Sporting 13 actors and four musicians, A Funny Thing Happened on the

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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

‘Girlfriend,’ re-imagined fables enchant Comic- Con

Story and photos by Shor M. Masori SAN DIEGO — Rachel Bloom (Robot Chicken, BoJack Horseman, her own comedic music videos) and Aline Brosh McKenna (The Devil Wears Prada, Morning Glory, 27 Dresses), co-creators of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, told journalists at Comic-Con that the musical dramedy’s final 18 episodes on the CW will deal with “the

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, San Diego County, Shor M. Masori

A Holocaust book for older preteens

What Was The Holocaust? by Gail Herman, Penguin Random House, New York, © 2018, ISBN 978-0451533906, 105 pages, $5.99. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – That there are casualties and atrocities in war for both soldiers and civilians is summed up best by General U. S. Grant, “War is hell!” How about when there is

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, International, Jewish History

San Francisco cookbooks reflect city’s diversity

By Oliver B. Pollak SAN FRANCISCO — Erica Peters, author of San Francisco, A Food Biography (2013) and Appetites and Aspirations in Vietnam Food and Drink in the Long Nineteenth Century (2012), gave a presentation at San Francisco’s three-year-old, gorgeously designed, American Bookbinders Museum in the Yerba Buena district, wedged in between Clementina and Folsom

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Oliver Pollak, Travel and Food

‘The Cakemaker’ is an intense drama of love and lies

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Oren had a wife in Jerusalem and a gay lover in Berlin.  Leaving Berlin for home, he forgot some of his personal belongings, so the cakemaker Tomas (Tim Kalkhof) called him again and again.  But Oren didn’t answer.  Distraught, Tomas investigated, only to learn from business associates that

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Donald H. Harrison, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

A new book for former San Diegan Marilyn Forstot

SAHUARITA, Arizona (Press Release) — More Precious than Rubies by former San Diegan Marilyn Forstot is set during and after the American Revolution. The story follows the life journey of a heroic Jewish woman, Sarah Perez, and her family. The well-researched novel shows early American life from a Jewish perspective and demonstrates the contributions Jews made

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, USA

Bobcat Goldthwait pumps his ‘Misfits & Monsters’ series

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait recently had his premiere of the half-hour television series, Misfits  & Monsters, in which Jewish actor Seth Green played a voice actor whose character Bubba The Bear comes alive.  The Bear proves to be murderously angry at Green’s character for giving him such a stupid

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Survivor Ruth G. Sax impresses Comic- Con audience

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Although Ruth Goldschmiedova Sax of Chula Vista conceded that she didn’t grow up with comics, or even know about Superman, whom she subsequently came to admire, she was clearly the hit of a panel on art and the Holocaust that was held Thursday, July 19, at the Comic-Can

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, USA

The Peace Train: Uniting people across borders

By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — The Peace Train is coming and we can all get high on the Peace Train as Sharon Katz has brought her band to San Diego and Tijuana, starting with Wednesday night’s rousing performance at Makeda Makossa’s World Beat Center. It was so inspiring to see women of various ages

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International, Mimi Pollack, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: July 19, 2018 (3 items)

Ben-Gurion University develops new anti-malware methodology Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) Malware Lab researchers have developed a new method to detect unknown, malicious emails that is more accurate than the most popular antivirus software products. Email messages are widely used by attackers to deliver dangerous content to a victim, such as attachments or links to malicious websites. “Existing email analysis solutions only analyze specific email elements using rule-based methods, and don’t analyze other important parts,” says Dr. Nir

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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Small Press: A little convention within Comic- Con

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Miriam Libicki, a Comic-Con veteran of more than a dozen years, says even though the annual convention “is so huge and corporate,” she keeps coming back because “there are many smaller cons inside comic con.”  In a section of the main exhibit hall that is reserved for

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