The Arts

Ex-IDF general to boost security at Cannes film fest

France is gearing up security for the Cannes film festival set to kick off this week with bomb sweeps, hundreds of extra police and the help of a former Israeli general, as the country faces its highest-ever terror threat. The 69th Cannes Film Festival comes six months after Islamic State jihadists launched coordinated attacks in

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International, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Where Anne Frank’s ‘Grimm’s Fairy Tales’ Will Go

A copy of Grimm’s Fairy Tales once owned by Anne and Margot Frank, their names inscribed atop the title page, sold at auction Thursday for $62,500 (including the buyer’s premium). The New York City–based Swann Auction Galleries said that “the sale represents the first major offering of Anne Frank material at auction in over two

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History

Another view of Second C’mndm’t

By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — As I write this the AOL news feed has forty-two items – fourteen of which are about the activities of  various “celebrities” – including the clothing they wear (and malfunctions thereof), their romantic/marital escapades, legal and criminal entanglements, as well as their political opinions.  Why a “celebrity’s” political opinion is

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Morgan, playwright and historian, adapts Faulkner story

By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California – Now, I may have been mistaken, but I’m fairly certain I saw the ghost of William Faulkner give a standing ovation at the final curtain of Way Downriver, currently extended at North Coast Repertory Theater in Solana Beach.  Well, maybe it was another erudite Southern gentleman with sad eyes

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Eva Trieger, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Sacha Boutros entertains polyglot SDCE audience

By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — Mid-City Center is an oasis in the heart of City Heights. It is the main center for the English as a second language, which is part of San Diego Community College District’s Continuing Education Program. The six continuing education centers offer a variety of free classes, including ESL, computer, citizenship

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County

Play offers a debate between a feminist and a homemaker

By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO -If you’re old enough to remember Virginia Slims cigarettes, then “Rapture, Blister, Burn” will be a great blast from the past. Clearly, playwright, Gina Gionfriddo, did her homework, and delivers a well-researched, detailed time line of the Feminist Movement.  It is no surprise that she was awarded the Susan Smith Blackburn

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Eva Trieger, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Suppose you were invited to dine with Marlene Dietrich

By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO –If you had a chance to dine with celebrities and bigwigs, would you feel delighted, intimidated … or both? This was a once in a lifetime opportunity offered to Eric Hanes, the late father of Dr. Ann Charlotte Harvey, Professor Emerita of SDSU’s School of Theatre, Television and Film.

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Eric George Tauber, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Survivors reunite, deal with memories in ‘To Life’

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Fifteen years after their liberation from Auschwitz, three female survivors have found each other and decide to celebrate their reunion at the French beach resort of Berck-sur-mer, in To Life, a film by Jean-Jacques Zilbermann. Although the women want to simply enjoy the moments, their repressed memories from

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Donald H. Harrison, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Playwrights Project tells stories in prisoners’ words

By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — The Playwrights Project has once again proved that it does not shy away from weighty or unpopular topics.  “I’M GOOD: Incarcerated Men Getting  Over Obstacles Daily,” is the collaborative effort of the playwrights of the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility.  Partnering with the SDSU School of Theater, Television and Film,

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Eric George Tauber, Eva Trieger, Theatre, Film & Broadcast