The media has been wringing its hands for more than a year, trying to figure out how to challenge Donald Trump while still retaining journalistic integrity. Where does aggressive fact-checking end and bias begin? So far, reporters have for the most part played it safe, and now we’re less than two months away from the […]
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAThe Beatles’s legacy looms so large over the music industry that, despite proclamations from the likes of Oasis, no other musical act will likely ever be bigger than the Fab Four. But, as it turns out, few other acts can claim to be louder than The Beatles either. Data shared exclusively with Newsweek suggests that
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts“Snowden,” Oliver Stone’s biopic about the world’s most famous National Security Agency whistleblower, certainly deals with an urgent and important issue: state surveillance, and how far is too far for the government to go. Edward Snowden’s personal story — a hero to some, turncoat to others — is as compelling as they come, too. It’s
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Cruel Beautiful World by Caroline Leavitt; Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill; © 2016; ISBN9781616-203634; 354 pages; $26.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – This is a story of two sisters and their “aunt” who are thrown together after the parents of the two sisters are killed in a car crash. When the younger sister,
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By Sandra Silverstein SAN DIEGO– The San Diego Italian Film Festival will host a party Oct. 9 to celebrate the film Shores of Light: Salento 1945-1947 which tells the story of Holocaust survivors awaiting immigration to Palestine in displaced persons camps in Puglia – the closest point to Palestine by sea: The Aliyah Bet. The San Diego
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San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastJiang Chengbo looks at an ancient book in his bookstore(R). Two customers pick up books in Jiang’s bookstore (L). [Photo/Yangtze Evening News] A 90-year-old man who runs a 117-year-old antique bookstore inherited from his grandfather has become an internet celebrity, Yangtze Evening News reported. Jiang Chengbo, the owner and third generation successor of the bookstore,
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, InternationalBy David Amos SAN DIEGO — This has been a busy, but fascinating summer for us. In celebration of my 75th birthday and of our 50th wedding anniversary, we and the immediate family went on a cruise of the Baltic Sea, and many of its fascinating ports of call. The week before this cruise, we
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Travel and FoodSan Diego Jewish World’s eulogy series is sponsored by Marc and Margaret Cohen in memory of Molly Cohen, and by Inland Industries Group LP in memory of long-time San Diego Jewish community leader Marie (Mrs. Gabriel) Berg. Comments intended for publication in the space below MUST be accompanied by the letter writer’s first and last name
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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — One of the cultural attractions provided by the La Jolla Music Society’s Summerfest is the plethora of free offerings, which are designed to engage the community. During the three weeks of the festival, there were five open rehearsals at Sherwood Hall; three encounters, at the Athenaeum Music and
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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego CountyNehemiah: Statesman and Sage by Dov S. Zakheim, Maggid Books., New Milfored, CT, ©2016, ISBN 978-1-59264-369-1, p. 246, $27.95 By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – In 586 BCE, Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar, overlooking the city of Jerusalem, capital of the Judean monarchy, standing on Mt. Scopus, the present home of the Hebrew University, watched as his
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The Wondering Jew: My Journey into Judaism by Ellen Brazer; TCJ Publishing; ISBN 9780693-739945; 188 pages including book club questions, $12.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Novelist Ellen Brazer (Clouds Across the Sun; So It Was Written; Hearts of Fire) has authored a primer on the Jewish religion, perhaps as much for her
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish ReligionThe opening scene of Sully, the new Tom Hanks/Clint Eastwood movie about the “Miracle on the Hudson,” takes place in a midtown Marriott, in the mind of U.S. Airways Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, and the image is pretty much what every New Yorker expects when they see an airplane flying way too low over Manhattan.
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Fascinating: The Life of Leonard Nimoy by Richard Michelson, illustrated by Edel Rodriguez; Alfred E. Knopf publisher; ISBN 9781101-933329; 28 pages, including author’s note, $17.99. SAN DIEGO – With all the ongoing celebrations of Star Trek’s 50th anniversary, the youngsters in your life may be wondering what all the hoopla is about. This short well-illustrated
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Theatre, Film & BroadcastFor 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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