CORONADO (Press Release)–Sanford Lakoff, PhD, will deliver lectures Dec. 14 in Coronado and Dec. 19 in Carlsbad on the situations in Iraq and in Israel. Lakoff’s lecture will take place in the Winn Room of the Coronado Library on December 14 at 10:30 am. Five days later he will speak on the same subject […]
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By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—Ion Theatre Company, under the leadership of Claudio Raygoza and Glen Paris (who were named Producers of the Year by the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle in 2011), has gone and done it again. First the little theatre that could mounted the memorable Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim musical Gypsy:
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Stanley Tiger SAN DIEGO–The concert started more or less promptly at 8:00 pm. Titled in the program flier, “An Evening of Klezmer Music with Yale Strom and Hot Pstromi,” it was a well attended fundraiser for Tifereth Israel Synagogue, opening first with Havdalah prayers, lead by Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal with audience participation. Immediately following,
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego CountySAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The San Diego Center for Jewish Culture has announced its first ever year-round performing arts series titled “Look & Listen.” It is dedicated to connecting the community to cultural experiences through music, theatre, comedy, dance and the collaborative arts. The headliners for the season are: COMEDY: January 14, 2012 at 8:00pm –
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San Diego CalendarSAN DIEGO (Press Release) — For the 31st year in a row, San Diego’s oldest Jewish and United Methodist congregations will celebrate Thanksgiving together with an interfaith service, this year at First United Methodist Church of San Diego. Dr. Jim Standiford, senior pastor of First United Methodist, and Rabbi Michael Berk, senior rabbi of congregation Beth
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San Diego CalendarBy Carol Davis OCEANSIDE, California—-You will recognize Tom Andrew. He has been George Bailey in It’s A Wonderful Life, the holiday radio play at the Cygnet Theatre, for the past five years. But Tom is a song and dance man of the highest quality and lucky for us, he gets to strut his stuff in
College can be proud of its ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’ Read More »
Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — Call me a snob, it matters not. Trailer Park humor was never high on the list of ‘tickle my funny bone’ laugh o’ meter comedy scale. Some nights it just doesn’t pay to get dressed, leave the warm fuzzy comfort of my home sweet home, fight the downtown traffic (that
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By Donald H. Harrison CHULA VISTA, California — I’d have expected my grandson Shor to relate most closely to either the characters of Peter Van Daan (Mitchell Pfitzmeier), Anne Frank (Lucia Vecchio), or Margot Frank (Rachel Throesch) as he watched the play, The Diary of Anne Frank at the Onstage Playhouse because Shor
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Carol Davis, Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Carol Davis LA JOLLA, California–UC San Diego’s School of Theatre and Dance is mounting a very aggressive rendering of S. Ansky’s The Dybbuk translated by Joachim Neugroschel with direction under the firm hand of Joshua Kahan Brody. One might ask why The Dybbuk? One might even question why a two and one half hour
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast-Staff Report- SAN DIEGO — Anne Frances Ratner, one of the matriarchs of San Diego’s Jewish community, was eulogized Friday, Nov. 11, at a crowded service at Tifereth Israel Synagogue on Friday–her 100 years lauded as having been filled with leadership, philanthropy and devotion to family. Ratner, who died Wednesday, Nov. 9, helped to start
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San Diego CalendarBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO–It’s not that I haven’t seen this show, Come Fly Away before, because I have. It’s not that I don’t love Frank Sinatra. I do love his voice. It’s because of the above-mentioned Sinatra voice and Twyla Tharp’s absolutely stunning choreography that I love this show. Once in Vegas was not
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Carol Davis, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Carol Davis CHULA VISTA, California–“It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything that people are truly good at heart”. “It is utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastSAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The College Avenue senior center, operated by Jewish Family Service inside Beth Jacob Synagogue at 4855 College Avenue, has announced its schedule of events for December. They are as follows: Brain Fitness Registration: The College Avenue Center offers the popular and fun PositScience, Brain Fitness program for the January session. Do
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San Diego CalendarBy Joel A Moskowitz MD and Arlene S Moskowitz JD LA JOLLA, California– The son of Ariel Sharon was the opening attracton for the San Diego Jewish Book Fair at the Lawrence Family JCC. On a table to the left of the lecturn was a single lit candle fronting a photo of Ariel Sharon. Before
Ariel Sharon’s son says despite coma, his father is responsive Read More »
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