Travel and Food

By David Amos  SAN DIEGO — The next presentation of the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra will feature the music of the greatest composer of Jewish music in the Twentieth Century. Ernest Bloch gave us some of the most beloved orchestral music on Hebraic themes, but he also composed secular orchestral music of great depth and

By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — “We all got destiny.  We all got stories already been written.” If you’ve ever taken a psych class, you’ve heard the name “Oedipus.” Playwright Luis Alfaro is known for his adaptations of Greek tragedy including Electricidad and Oedipus el Rey, recasting them in the Spanglish of the barrio. This

By Eva Trieger LA JOLLA, California — As nearly 500 youngsters took their seats in the Garfield Theater of the Lawrence Family JCC, Pied Piper Joey Landwehr greeted them and gave some pointers on being the perfect audience.  He engaged the viewers to define “focus” and “respect” so that the show would be most rewarding for

  By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California – Curators Larry and Debby Kline have pulled together a multi-religious,  multi-media exhibition in which religious symbols are conflated with symbols from other human arenas to produce an exhibition which may inspire some, anger others, but get everyone to think. Titled “Seeing is Believing: A Reinvention of