The Arts

Donald Trump Wants To Eliminate The National Endowment For The Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts, the independent federal agency that promotes and funds art in American communities, will be eliminated if the Trump administration has its way, the Hill reported Thursday. The NEA provides direct grants to art agencies and artists throughout the country. In 2015, the agency awarded grants in every Congressional district,

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Jeff Zucker, CNN president, attacks Donald Trump’s attempts to ‘delegitimize journalism’

CNN’s president says the incoming U.S. commander in chief is trying to “delegitimize journalism.” The rift between President-elect Donald Trump and CNN was highlighted once again on Wednesday with the publication of a New York Magazine interview with Jeff Zucker. The piece prompted attacks against Mr. Trump after the writer revisited reporting on unverified intelligence

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International, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Former ‘Apprentice’ contestant accuses Trump of unwanted advances, files defamation suit

LOS ANGELES — A former contestant on TV’s “The Apprentice” on Tuesday filed a defamation lawsuit against President-elect Donald Trump, whom she has accused of making unwanted sexual advances toward her. Summer Zervos announced the lawsuit at a downtown Los Angeles news conference with her attorney, Gloria Allred, three days before Trump’s inauguration. Zervos, who

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Some great thoughts to learn and unlearn

  By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — We are faced with contradictions on a daily basis; some are generational, some cultural, some familial. When we have believed in one way of acting and then are faced with new medical or scientific findings or a deeper understanding and recognize that the opposite way is

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Natasha Josefowitz, Science, Medicine, & Education

Film contest for Israel lovers

LOS ANGELES (Press Release)—The Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation has announced the details of its second annual “Inspired by Israel” video contest, which it launched in partnership with the 12Tribe Films Foundation. Hosted on Israelvideonetwork.com, the contest asks entrants to submit videos that entertain, educate and inspire people about Israel. A total of $20,000 in

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Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

‘Pee Pee’ Puns, Putin: ‘SNL’ Takes on Trump Conference

In Donald Trump’s America, the jokes seem to write themselves. The president-elect gave “Saturday Night Live” writers a tall task this week: how to parody a press conference that already offered its own macabre humor, from “golden shower gate” to Trump’s plan to barely-not-really separate himself from his businesses to his insults directed at the

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International, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA

Dick Gautier, best known as Hymie the robot on ‘Get Smart’, dies at 85

To some, he was the voice of Rodimus Prime on the mid-1980s animated TV show “The Transformers,” or Serpentor on the animated “G.I. Joe.” But for baby boomers, Dick Gautier was best known for his deadpan performance as Hymie the robot in the ’60s spy spoof “Get Smart.” Gautier’s daughter Denise told the Hollywood Reporter

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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Famed ‘Exorcist’ author, filmmaker William Peter Blatty dead at 89

WASHINGTON, January 14, 2017 – Screenwriter and novelist William Peter Blatty, who won widespread fame as the author of “The Exorcist” (1971), died Thursday morning, January 12 at a hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, the Washington, D.C. suburb where he lived. He was 89. William Friedkin, a longtime friend and colleague who directed iconic 1973 film

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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Jennifer Holliday pulls out of Trump inauguration

Friday, Tony and Grammy-winning singer Jennifer Holliday defended her scheduled performance at President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. Now she’s had a change of heart. Holliday wrote an open letter obtained by the entertainment website The Wrap, in which the “Dreamgirls” star called her decision to take part in Trump’s inauguration a “lapse of judgment” and said

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA

3 Jewish artists to be featured at S.D. History exhibit

  SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The artwork, lives, and Jewish heritage of three San Diego artists are explored in a new fine art exhibition Art & Heritage opening January 28 at the San Diego History Center in Balboa Park. The works of featured artists Belle Baranceanu, Maurice Braun, and Harry Sternberg will complement a

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Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego Calendar

Trump’s team releases list of performers at next week’s inauguration

After weeks of speculation, Donald Trump’s inaugural committee has shared its list of performers for next week’s celebrations. Country music star Toby Keith, rock band 3 Doors Down and patriotic staple Lee Greenwood join a roster that includes “America’s Got Talent” runner-up Jackie Evancho, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Bruce Springsteen cover band the B Street

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA

Lunch with ‘Bad Jews’

By Jana Mazurkiewicz SAN DIEGO — Cygnet Theatre organized an informal lunch conversation earlier this month about Joshua Harmon’s comedy Bad Jews that will premiere in San Diego on January 12th. The meeting gathered journalists, theater enthusiasts, and cultural activists representing Jewish organizations based in San Diego. Cygnet Theatre’s artistic director, Sean Murray, and the marketing director, Autumn

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San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Movie review: ‘Patriots Day’ is blunt, but effective

“Patriots Day,” Peter Berg’s film about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, lands with all the subtlety of one of the deadly explosions that claimed three lives and injured 264 others. Terrorism, bad. Law enforcement, first responders, marathon runners and onlookers — as embodied by the fictional, Boston-proud composite character played by Mark Wahlberg who just

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA