The Arts

Beethoven, Liszt were two TICO audience favorites

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — A large audience welcomed the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra (TICO), under the direction of David Amos, for the January 31 concert at Tifereth Israel Synagogue. The program featured two audience favorites, Beethoven’s Symphony #5 and the Liszt’s Piano Concerto #2, with Pianist Peter Vinograde. Beethoven’s 5th Symphony, with its […]

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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

‘Late Night’ host Seth Meyers riffs on Trump in Morristown

MORRISTOWN — Seth Meyers once riffed, with Donald Trump in the audience, about Trump someday running for president — not as a Republican, but as a joke. “Some people have actually blamed me for the fact that Donald Trump decided to run,” Meyers said of his 2011 roasting of Trump at the White House Correspondents’

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

McCarthy threatens the press as Sean Spicer on ‘SNL’

The sharp-tongued, sputtering rage actress Melissa McCarthy deploys to hilarious effect in a slew of Hollywood hits turns out to be perfect to lampoon the already toxic relationship White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has with the media. RELATED: Ansari hits ‘lower-case KKK’ backing Trump on ‘SNL’ McCarthy was a surprise performer on this weekend’s

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

SD Jewish Film Festival chair kvells over this year’s selections; 74 films to be screened Feb. 8-19

By Eva Trieger      LA JOLLA, California –“Like a proud mama, showing off her new baby,” crowed Chris Fink, in response to my query about how she felt as this year’s Chairperson for the San Diego Jewish Film Festival.  The 27th annual festival runs from February 8-19, and boasts films from twenty one different countries,

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

Trump Treasury pick Steven Mnuchin sued in revived film fraud case

LOS ANGELES — President Donald Trump’s treasury secretary nominee, Steven Mnuchin, has been sued again by a film financier that accuses Mnuchin and others of fraud related to the collapse of movie and TV company Relativity Media. RKA Film Financing, in an amended complaint filed Thursday in New York County Supreme Court, renewed its claim

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Donald Trump Didn’t Really Want To Win, Says Howard Stern

Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency of the United States might’ve been nothing more than a stunt to get a bigger contract on “The Apprentice,” according to his close friend Howard Stern. The president never actually wanted to win the election, and instead, was hoping there was still a chance his opponent will take over,

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Schwarzenegger to Trump: Let’s Switch Jobs

Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Celebrity Apprentice host and former California governor, on Thursday morning asked President Donald Trump to switch roles, after the commander-in-chief mocked the actor’s low TV ratings while addressing the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C. Related: Trump blasts Apprentice ratings on Twitter, Schwarzenegger fires back “Hey Donald, I have a great idea,”

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Oprah Winfrey joins CBS’ ’60 Minutes’ as a special contributor

Oprah Winfrey is joining the CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes” as a contributor. The talk show host, actress, cable network owner and producer will appear in several segments a year on the program starting this fall, CBS News announced Tuesday. “I’ve been a big admirer of ’60 Minutes’ since my days as a young reporter,” Winfrey

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Orchestra from Prague delights San Diegans

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO– The soft, rippling notes of the flute, entwined with the clarinet, sang forth with ease and authenticity as the PKF-Prague Philharmonia, under the direction of its French conductor, Emmanuel Villaume, began Smetena’s The Moldau at the La Jolla Music Society-sponsored concert January 25. Shimmering strings entered, overlaying the flow of notes

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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County

SAG Awards: A night when politics trumped the prizes themselves

LOS ANGELES — Anyone tuning in to the SAG Awards on Sunday thinking they might be escaping news headlines for a couple of hours was quickly disabused of that notion as winner after winner used the platform to speak out against President Donald Trump’s immigration ban. “This immigrant ban is a blemish and is un-American,”

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Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Jewish Trivia Quiz: Mary Tyler Moore, z”l

By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Mary Tyler Moore, who passed away last week, had a number of connections to the Jewish world, both in her real life (her husband Robert Levine is Jewish) and her performing life (an episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show entitled “Some of My Best Friends Are Rhoda” grappled with

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Mark D. Zimmerman, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Culture and weather in London, Paris, Jerusalem

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — ‘He who tires of London has tired of life,’ wrote Samuel Johnson, and I dare say he had a point. Even in the dead of winter, when the bone-chilling cold really does chill every inch of bone in your body, the place has its pleasures provided you are suitably

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food