Travel and Food

By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — With friends and collaborators like Mel Brooks and Woody Allen, it is not too surprising that Neil Simon turned out so many successful comic shows, including Barefoot in the Park, Plaza Suite, The Return of Max Dugan and The Odd Couple.  What is surprising is how his writing has […]

TEL AVIV (Press Release)— To compensate for erratic shifts and spikes in its neuronal communications, the brain relies on the stabilizing mechanism called “homeostasis” — the ability to maintain relatively stable equilibrium between different elements of its composition — to preserve overall network function. Disruptions in stability cause disorders such as epilepsy, but precious little

By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO–When the Ephron sisters penned Love, Loss and What I Wore, they kept true to form.  Though many of the lines produce audience laughter, there is an underlying thread of the many disappointments suffered through the fabric of the ages and stages of a woman’s life. Melinda Gilb has appeared on

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California  — There are rare occasions when a concert seems so perfect, so moving, so beautiful, that we cannot imagine hearing the works played any better. Such was the definitive, pinnacle performance of the Jerusalem Quartet at Sherwood Hall last Saturday night, Feb. 21,  presented by the La Jolla Music Society.

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Even more so than the Civil Rights movement, second-generation feminism changed the cultural, economic, political, and social dynamics of American life.  Despite the persistence of sexism, we are more aware today about how it can be eliminated or reinforced in child rearing,  government, health care, language, the mass media,

ENCINITAS, California – The Women’s Auxiliary of Seacrest Village Retirement Communities held its 37th Annual Gala, “Emerald City” at the Hyatt Regency La Jolla last Saturday, February 21st with Rusti Bartell Weiss serving as Gala Chair. The event was attended by more than 300 guests and raised over $425,000 to be used for the provision of

By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — Hamas security forces stopped Palestinian writer, Atef Abu Saif, from attending a book fair in Morocco recently where the noted writer and the fiction award finalist had been nominated for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. According to a report in Al-Monitor, Hamas stopped Abu Saif at the Erez