By Pamela Pollack-Fremd SPOKANE, Washington — I was munching on leftover pumpkin pie for breakfast as I began to watch the documentary Chef Flynn. So, perhaps I am not the best person to review a movie on a child prodigy, genius chef. My food standards are too low. However, it is amazing to watch the […]
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The San Diego Museum of Natural History, familiarly known as “The Nat,” began attracting new visitors last July when it installed an Escape Room on its bottom floor, with the idea of inducing gamers to come to the museum. Escape Rooms grew out of video games, only instead
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Signature Thai, 6185 Lake Murray Boulevard, La Mesa, California 91942 By Sandi Masori LA MESA, California — We were greeted promptly upon walking into Signature Thai, and were invited to sit wherever we liked. They have a couple of booths, some tables and some half bench, half chairs tables. The decor is done in muted colors
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Editor’s Note: This is the 38th in a series of stories researched during Don and Nancy Harrison’s 50th Wedding Anniversary cruise from Sydney, Australia, to San Diego. Previous installments of the series, which runs every Thursday, may be found by tapping the number of the installment: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,8, 9, 10, 11, 12,13, 14,15, 16, 17, 18,19,20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37
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By Donald H. Harrison CORONADO, California – Three years after she converted to Judaism, actress Marilyn Monroe made the Billy Wilder comedy Some Like it Hot in 1959 with Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. Now, almost 60 years later, this city across the bay from San Diego still remembers her vividly. The Hotel del Coronado, where
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and FoodBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Something was amiss. The next morning the White Sands bus was leaving at 9 a.m. to visit the Carlsbad desalinization plant. I always sign up for such trips and always look forward to new adventures, except this time I didn’t. I don’t feel like going, called a
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Natasha Josefowitz, Travel and FoodAJC seeks court reversal of decision against anti-BDS law The American Jewish Committee (AJC) in an amicus brief, is asking the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to reverse a lower court’s decision blocking implementation of an Arizona law barring the state from contracting with participants in a boycott of Israel. “Arizona
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