The Arts

Star Trek 50: 10 Times William Shatner Was the Funniest Person in the Galaxy

For today’s 50th anniversary of Star Trek, we could have compiled a list of best and worst episodes, but that’s kind of been done before. Instead, we wanted to pay tribute to the comic genius of the original Captain Kirk, who has been regaling fans with his Kaufmanesque style of humor for almost as long […]

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Star Trek 50th anniversary celebrated in ‘For the Love of Spock’ from Leonard Nimoy’s son

When you grow up with Spock as your father, chances are your life will take some out-of-this-world turns. This Friday, cinemagoers will get a chance to see the life of the late Leonard Nimoy from the inside, as his son, Adam Nimoy, unveils “For the Love of Spock,” a documentary not only about his father’s

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Author Jennifer Weiner to launch S.D. Jewish Book Fair

LA JOLLA, California (Press Release) – To launch San Diego’s 22nd Annual San Diego Jewish Book Fair, a preview event will be held at 7 p.m., Thursday, October 20 with #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner, author of soon-to-be-released, Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing.  The event will be held at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center in

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, San Diego Calendar

Ex-pope Benedict says he wasn’t much good at governing the Vatican

Rome (dpa) – Former Pope Benedict XVI says he struggled with “practical government” at the Vatican, according to advance extracts from a book due out on Friday which were published by Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. “A weak point of mine is perhaps my lack of resolve in governing and taking decisions,” Benedict says in

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International

Raising thrifty and generous children

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Press Release)–From piggy banks to that first savings account, many children are taught the value of saving from an early age. But as they grow to adolescence, following parental advice sometimes gives way to peer or media influences, and those once-thrifty children are now teenagers in a consumer-driven world where spending, not saving,

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, USA

Santa Clarita Valley is a part of ‘Star Trek’ lore

LOS ANGELES—The mission, from the day “Star Trek” premiered on America’s televisions on Sept. 8, 1966, was ambitious: “to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.” Where did Gene Roddenberry’s TV series go to find that world? Often as not, it

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food, USA

Hamelin’s tour de force at the La Jolla Music Society

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California –Marc-Andre Hamelin was one of the stars of the La Jolla Music Society’s 2016 Summerfest this past month. The entire concert on August 24 featured the Montreal native in multiple roles, as a piano virtuoso, a chamber musician and a composer. I was familiar with Hamelin’s name from the

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

Hugh O’Brian, TV’s Wyatt Earp, dies at 91

Hugh O’Brian, the star of TV’s “The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp,” died Monday. He was 91. O’Brian died in Beverly Hills, Calif., according to a statement on the Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership Foundation website. Handsome, square-jawed and athletically fit, the dark-haired O’Brian appeared in a string of movies and TV anthology series in

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Jewish trivia question: Gene Wilder, z”l

By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — The great Gene Wilder, star of such wonderful movies as Blazing Saddles, The Producers, The Frisco Kid, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, and Young Frankenstein, passed away last week. How did Wilder describe the role of Judaism in his life? A. I’m not at all religious, although I am certainly Jewish–which, to me, means that

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Bad behavior at a London concert

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson LONDON, England –Proms? What Proms? Anyone looking for an uplifting musical experience should steer clear of the famous Prom concerts in London’s Albert Hall. The hall itself is enormous and impressive, seating several thousands at a time. In addition, especially cheap tickets are sold as standing room only in the center of the

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

‘Porn is for losers’: Pamela Anderson pens op-ed condemning porn as ‘the dark side of adult sexuality’

After the New York Post leaked photos on Monday from yet another sexting scandal involving Anthony Weiner, his long-suffering wife Huma Abedin promptly announced their separation, leading some of the world to fly up in arms about the damaging effects of porn. Weiner’s sexting habit and porn might not appear to have an obvious correlation,

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

German soldier’s WWII story screens at GI Film Festival

By Donald H. Harrison CORONADO, California – The Unimaginable Journey of Peter Ertel,” a documentary showing another side of World War II – that of a pacifistic German drafted into Hitler’s army—will be screened Thursday, Sept. 15,  at the Village Theatres in Coronado. The 104-minute documentary will be one of the offerings of the G.I.

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Theatre, Film & Broadcast