Allison Schroeder was on the playground in 1986, chasing a friend around the slide, when the space shuttle Challenger exploded. As a first-grader, she was confused by the blast visible from her neighborhood, just 30 minutes south of the launch pad in Cape Canaveral. So she looked toward her teacher, who’d begun to cry. That’s
LOS ANGELES — The nominations for the 89th Academy Awards were revealed Tuesday morning in Los Angeles. “La La Land” did what 800-pound gorillas are supposed to do: dominate the Oscar nominations tally, pulling down 14, including actor, actress, director and picture. Ava Duvernay’s “13th” joins “O.J.: Made in America” among best documentary feature nominees,
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Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — The ninth season of Jewish Poets–Jewish Voices, opened Tuesday, January 17, in the Astor Judaica Library of the Lawrence Family JCC, with a stellar trio of local poets who came from three different regions of the world and shared poetry in Hebrew, English and Yiddish. Israeli poet, Ilana
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eileen Wingard, San Diego County“Nothing is perfect in Nature. Nature is perfect imperfection.” -PI Tchaikovsky By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO–When Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky listened to birdsong, he noticed that they were just a little less than perfect, but these imperfections made them more beautiful. And so he threw some “wrong” notes into his arpeggios, making them more natural
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Eric George Tauber, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — In The Great Tchaikowsky, Hershey Felder’s latest piece, which is breaking sales records at the Lyceum Theatre in downtown San Diego, Felder does Tikun Olam, working to repair the world, by sensitizing us to the suffering of the gay Russian composer and casting a light on the persecution of the
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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & BroadcastAfter harsh backlash and much buildup, singer Jackie Evancho — who is a mere 16 years old — was finally given the chance to perform the national anthem at Donald J. Trump’s inauguration as the 45th president of the United States. The Friday performance was a beautiful and graceful rendition. Evancho did not miss a
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA“Saturday Night Live” writer Katie Rich has come under intense criticism in the last 24 hours after she made a joke about Barron Trump that many felt was in poor taste. Barron, the young son of President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, has been the subject of lots of Internet attention as he
Story by Donald H. Harrison; photos by Sky M. Masori SAN DIEGO – LEGO artist Nathan Sawaya has solved one of Balboa Park’s greatest problems: how to see as much as possible in an hour or so. With 18 museums of varying size and subject matter to tempt them, San Diegans know that it takes
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Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, USAIn his first film “Hedi: a Wind of Freedom” Mohamed Ben Attia shows us what life is like for young Tunisians after the Arab Spring. Lives which are caught between the desire to live and the weight of conventions, like the young man who has to go through an arranged marriage. One look is enough
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Middle East, Theatre, Film & BroadcastThe long saga over the rights to the Beatles catalog entered a new phase on Wednesday when Paul McCartney sued music publisher Sony/ATV over the rights to 267 songs that he penned for the band with co-writer John Lennon. The suit, filed in the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, is the latest turn
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsLOS ANGELES — Miguel Ferrer, an actor with a long list of credits ranging from “Twin Peaks” to his current role on CBS’ “NCIS: Los Angeles,” died of cancer Thursday. He was 61. A fixture on TV and in movies since the 1980s, Ferrer’s reputation as a scene-stealer began with 1987’s “RoboCop,” where he played
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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & BroadcastWhile 18-year-old Jackie Evancho goes on-stage at President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, her transgender sister Juliet will be going under the knife. RELATED: Singer performing National Anthem at Trump’s inauguration sees HUGE gains since the announcement According to TMZ, 16-year-old Juliet will be undergoing gender reassignment surgery in Philadelphia on Friday so that she can “finally
Latinos were shining bright at the People’s Choice Awards 2017 tonight. Our Bronx-diva Jennifer Lopez was honored for her work on “Shades of Blue” with the award for Favorite TV Crime Drama Actress. JLo beat out Lucy Liu, Mariska Hargitay, Pauley Perrette and Sophia Bush. Winning in the Favorite Comedic TV Actress, Sofia Vergara took
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & BroadcastWomen’s health is an important issue for singer Noura Mint Seymali. Breast cancer awareness, specifically. Noura Mint Seymali is from Mauritania, in West Africa. And she wants to make sure women, especially women in Africa, get their annual screenings. Noura Mint Seymali is pictured here before her evening performance in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, in
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