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“Walter Cronkite is Dead’ plays out at Ronald Reagan Airport

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO–The trouble with airport waiting rooms and flight delays is that everyone at one point or another is sitting next to someone they don’t know, don’t want to know about and really don’t care about. For reasons beyond their control, they are all in the same boat and conversations have a […]

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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Son of Ariel Sharon headlines S.D. Jewish Book Fair

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The 17th Annual San Diego Jewish Book Fair, with continuing support from Founding Benefactors The Viterbi Family Foundation and presented by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus, will run November 3-13, 2011. A complete schedule of Book Fair speakers

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Mame thrives at the North Park Birch Theatre

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO–Jerry Herman’s Mame is one of those oldies but goodies that hasn’t been around the San Diego musical theatre scene for over thirty years. With book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, and based on the novel by Patrick Dennis and the play Auntie Mame Herman’s familiar music (Hello Dolly

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Carol Davis, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Welk’s ‘La Mancha’ still pleases after decades

By Carol Davis ESCONDIDO, California — It mattered not that the actors in the Dale Wasserman (Book), Mitch Leigh (Music) and Joe Darion (Music) mega musical hit of the 1965 Broadway Production, Man Of La Mancha, based on the 1959 teleplay I, Don Quixote, by Wasserman were also the musicians in this current offering of

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Carol Davis, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Teens vote philanthropic dollars to three local organizations

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Thirteen teens from throughout San Diego County participated in this year’s Philanthropy Leadership in Training, in partnership with the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, which culminated in three significant grant awards to Jewish Family Service, Second Chance and ARTS – A Reason to Survive. Twelve years ago, the Jewish Community Foundation

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Edward II couldn’t be diverted from his gay lover

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO —  Diversionary Theatre in the Hillcrest neighborhood is presenting Christopher Marlow’s epic work Edward II, with Richard Baird directing. Somehow epic and Baird go together naturally. Baird founded Poor Players whose mission it was to produce the works of Shakespeare. In fact between his directing and acting some 20 or more

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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, August 24,1956, Part 1

Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Report From Israel Southwestern Jewish Press, August 24, 1956, Pages 1, 4. By Albert A. Hutler Executive Director of United Jewish Fund of San Diego TIRAH, Israel – This is a sleepy little Arab village. Down its cobbled, twisting, narrow lanes go camels, donkeys, berobed men, women balancing

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L.J. Playhouse produces ‘audio play’ at S.D. Botanical Gardens

By Carol Davis ENCINITAS, California.— Here’s a twofer for you: a trip and tour of San Diego Botanical Gardens and a chance to listen to a new audio play at the same time. The La Jolla Playhouse’s WoW Project, (With out Walls) is presenting a new theatre experience, (It is the first of a four

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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

‘Lend Me a Tenor’ well worth up to five tenners

By Carol Davis SOLANA BEACH, California—I can’t remember when the last time was that I had such fun in the theatre as I did the night I attended the North Coast Repertory Theatre’s production of Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me A Tenor. I know, it’s supposed to be funny. It is after all a farce. But

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Carol Davis, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

‘Liberation Moment’ at Miramar N.C. honors American ex-POWs

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—The first monument at the Miramar National Cemetery, which one day will be the final resting place for nearly a quarter million veterans, was dedicated on Friday, Sept. 16, in honor of American Ex-Prisoners of War. Unveiled was a 15-foot-tall, seven-ton-statue, named “The Liberation Moment,” sculpted by Richard Becker

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Festival Sept. 18 to kick off Beth Israel’s 150th anniversary celebrations

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Congregation Beth Israel, the oldest synagogue in Southern California, kicks off a year-long commemoration of its 150th anniversary with an opening celebration Sept. 18 at the temple in La Jolla. Free and open to all is the afternoon of fun and festivities, including appearances by San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders,

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