Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Art of the Holocaust lecture topic at CBI Feb 20

SAN DIEGO — Guri Stark, chief executive officer of the brain imaging company CorTech Labs, will present a program on the art of the Holocaust at a 6:30 p.m. buffet dinner Wednesday, Feb. 20, sponsored by the Beth Israel Men’s Club at Congregation Beth Israel, 9001 Towne Centre Drive. Stark for the last 15 years […]

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

Rafael Mareyna art exhibit: ‘Art is Time’

By Mimi Pollack LA JOLLA, California — “Art is Time, Time is Life” is the name of a new exhibit by Rafael “Fallo” Mareyna that is currently on display at the La Jolla Library. Both “Art” and “Time” have played important roles in Mareyna’s life.   He has had a talent for art, but didn’t really have

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International, Mimi Pollack, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County

Editor’s E-Mail Box: January 21, 2019 (3 items)

TICO to combine for concerts with Jewish Men’s Choir and pianist Jessie Chang The Jewish Men’s Choir, directed by Ruth Weber, will share a “Piano and Voice” program with pianist Jessie Chang, who will perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto #3 at two concerts with the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra. The first will be held at 4

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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego Calendar, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

SDIJFF Preview: ‘Good Words, Good Deeds’

Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds: The Conductor Zubin Mehta, a documentary directed by Bettina Ehrhardt, English, German, Italian, 2016, 89 minutes, final movie of San Diego International Jewish Film Festival, to be shown at Reading Cinemas Town Square, 4665 Clairemont Drive, San Diego, on Sunday, February 17, 7:45 p.m. By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO

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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Lawrence Halprin’s West Coast kibbutz: The Sea Ranch

By Oliver B. Pollak SAN FRANCISCO — In 2004 my law partner and I went to Washington DC for a conference. Our sightseeing included The Watergate, Jewish War Veterans Museum, and the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial on the Mall. The Memorial first conceived in 1960, authorized in 1974 with Lawrence Halprin’s winning design went unfunded

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish History, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Oliver Pollak, Travel and Food, USA

SDIJFF Movie Preview: ‘It Must Schwing’

It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story, a documentary directed by Eric Friedler, English, German, 115 minutes, to be shown during the San Diego International Jewish Film Festival at Reading Cinemas Town Square, 4665 Clairemont Drive, San Diego on Thursday, February 7, 7:00 p.m. and Wednesday, February 13, 7 p.m., and at Edwards San Marcos Stadium

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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

San Diego County: America’s animal capital

Story by Donald H. Harrison; Photos by Shor M. Masori and Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – San Diego County is the animal capital of the United States, and possibly the world. I say this without reservation or qualification after a 10-day vacation period during which my son David and grandchildren Brian, 10 and Sara,

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Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, The World We Share, Travel and Food

Editor’s E-Mail Box: January 2, 2019 (7 items)

Barbara Bry announces candidacy for San Diego Mayor in 2020 election Barbara Bry, one of two Jewish members of the nine-member San Diego City Council, has announced her candidacy for mayor of San Diego in the 2020 election.  The incumbent mayor, Kevin Faulconer, will be termed out. “Instead of making decisions designed to preserve a

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International, Jewish Religion, John McCormick, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County, USA

Art Review: Delacroix at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

  By Sam Ben-Meir NEW YORK — The current exhibition of Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art – the first of its kind to be mounted in North America – is indeed an extraordinary revelation. Delacroix was one of the great creative minds of the nineteenth century: an artist who embodied

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Sam Ben-Meir, USA

Shimmering Lights bright at SDSU concert

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — A highlight of the Hanukkah week in San Diego was the Broken Consort concert December 4, at Smith Hall, on the campus of San Diego State University. The program was entitled, “Shimmering Lights,” and was based on the newly released album by klezmer violinist Yale Strom, his wife, vocalist

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

Tim Shaw exhibit contrasts with peaceful Balboa Park

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree… By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson SAN DIEGO — The words of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem could well apply to San Diego’s stately Balboa Park, with its landscaped grounds, and 17 museums dedicated to different subjects, as well as centers for music, theater, recreational activities, and of course

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: December 4, 2018 (4 items)

National broadcast planned of concert for Tree of Life Synagogue massacre victims PBS will broadcast nationally WQED’s locally-produced Tree of Life: A Concert for Peace and Unity, a free community event, presented and hosted by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra to honor the Tree of Life Synagogue victims and first responders. The performance, featuring Itzhak Perlman at Pittsburgh’s Heinz

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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA