LA JOLLA, California (Press Release) – The 18th Annual San Diego Jewish Book Fair, presented by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture launches the largest Jewish Book Fair in the U.S.on November 3, 2012. Spanning nine days, Nov. 3 – 11, the fair is open to the public with tickets available online at http://www.sdcjc.org/sdjbf/index.aspx […]
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By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — So much wonderful theatre to see this month that it’s difficult recommending one above the other. In one of San Diego’s little treasures, Moxie Theatre Company, tucked away in a strip mall shopping center in the East County, Naomi Wallace’s 1999 The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek is being
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—There is something about sitting in the front row of a 49-seat theatre and being up close and personal with the actors. It puts you in the center of the story. That’s how I felt recently when I found myself almost in the living room set of Claudio Raygoza’a new play,
Ion’s world pemiere, ‘Julia’ is riveting. Read More »
Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — Darn, I wish I had paid more attention in my high school Spanish class, or taken some courses when I moved here, or was fluent in a second language. If that were the case, I would have been better prepared to understand a good portion of the dialogue in
Bilingual drama tells of women of different stations Read More »
Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastSAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The Women of Reform Judaism Sisterhood of Temple Emanu-El will hold its Fourth Annual Holiday/Hanukkah Bazaar on November 4, 2012. It will start at 9:30 am and runs through 1:30 pm at 6299 Capri Drive near SDSU. Vendors will sell photographs, jewelry, pottery, scarves, purses, glassware, polymer clay artistry, kimono pillows, two local books,
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San Diego CountyBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO– God? Sex? Religion? “This play is not suitable for viewers who find any of the following objectionable: Gun violence! Bang! Bang! Women in the workplace! Yea! Soccer moms discussing scientific method! Criticism of Fox News! Candid discussions on religion and politics! Priests defending the Holy Trinity using perplexing analogies! Plane crashes!
‘Exit Interview’ is the Rep at its zaniest Read More »
Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastAs the Psychologist Sees You Southwestern Jewish Press, February 22, 1957, Page 5 By Irving R. Stone, Psychological Consultant Honesty The birthday of a famous man is being celebrated on the day this issue reaches your home or office. George Washington is known for many things–first commander-in-chief of our armed forces, first president, and first
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Adventures in SD History, Jewish HistoryBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—Playwright Davis Lindsay-Abaire (Rabbit Hole, Fuddy Meers and Kimberly Akimbo was born and grew up in South Boston many moons after I left Massachusetts to move to San Diego. How eerie now for me now to see his latest Good People that is set in South Boston bringing back memories of
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO— Broadway/San Diego is launching a 25-city tour of the revival of Jekyll & Hyde that is expected make its way to Broadway where it will open in April at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. A pre- tour preview in San Diego garnered yet another standing ovation from opening night audiences. This
If you treasure your hearing, hide from this ‘Jekyll’ Read More »
Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Carol Davis LA JOLLA, California–Forget the good. Mamet deals in the bad and the ugly. In his Glengarry Glen Ross now in a fast paced production at the La Jolla Playhouse with Christopher Ashley directing, real estate is the name and the real politics of real estate is the game.Anyone in sales knows that
Closing the deals at La Jolla Playhouse Read More »
Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—It’s a comedy! It’s a tragedy! It’s a satire! It’s a tour de force! Noooo! It’s all of the above and #1 comedian Phil Johnson makes it work to those ends! Mistakes Were Made, Craig Wright’s San Diego West Coast Premiere one-man play is now having a fine showing under Shana
The theatre lines are great, but baaaa otherwise Read More »
Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—Just recently my four-year-old grandson asked me if he would be wearing a space suit when he went into space as an astronaut. He didn’t ask if I thought he could become an astronaut. He assumed he would. For him, the world is his oyster. In a few years he will
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastLA JOLLA, California (Press Release)– In a preview for the 2012 San Diego Jewish Book Fair, national Presidential campaign analyst, and UCSD Professor, Sam Popkin presents his in-depth and timely insights from his new book: The Candidate- What it takes to Win- and Hold the White House. Lecture and discussion begins 7:00pm in the Samuel
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San Diego CalendarSAN DIEGO (Press Release) — San Diego Mesa College will host The Courage to Remember, a traveling exhibit produced by the Museum of Tolerance from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, November 5 through 16, 2012. Admission to the exhibit is free and the public is invited to attend. After more than 20 years of international acclaim and a
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