Travel and Food

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

By Cynthia Citron NORTH HOLLYWOOD, California — Now that nearly 13% of Americans are over 65, filmmakers no longer need to cater solely to an audience of 12-year-old boys.  More often they have been choosing to bring seniors back from invisibility and making them the focus of their literary work.  As playwrights have been doing all