Video: The Great Kugel Kook-Off in San Diego
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Holocaust, San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Travel and FoodSandi Masori
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When she’s not covering stories for San Diego Jewish World, Sandi Masori helps people self-publish memoirs and business authority books. In her free time, she hangs out with her kids and hunts for the best sushi in town.
Her books, available on Amazon, include:
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*Book It: How to Write, Publish Your Business Authority Book, Without Going Crazy, So That You Get More Speaking Gigs, Get Media Attention, Attract Better Clients, and Make More Money
*The Balloon Bible for All Seasons: How to Wow Your Friends and Impress Your Relatives with Amazing, Easy Balloon Decorations
*The DIY Balloon Bible Themes and Dreams: How to Decorate for Galas, Anniversaries, Banquets and Other Themed Events
*The DIY Balloon Birthday Bible: How to Decorate for Birthdays, Picnics, Family Parties and Any Other Fun Event
*The DIY Balloon Hat Bible: How to Wow Your Friends and Impress Your Relatives with 40+ Amazing, Easy Balloon Hats
*The Event Planner’s Essential Guide to Balloons
*The Ultimate Guide to Inflating Your Tradeshow Profits: How to Increase Branding, Recognition, Visibility, Customer Loyalty & Attract More Attention with Balloons
She also contributed to:
*There’s Money in This Book: 17 Secrets from a Marketing Mastermind
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Pomegranate Restaurant Has Dream-Worthy Chicken Dish
When we asked her what the best Georgian dishes on the menu were, she recommended the Chakhokhbili – which they called Georgean Eagle in the menu – It’s a Georgean chicken stew with tomatoes, basil, parsley, mint and cilantro. And the Chakapuli – which is a Georgian lamb shank stew with white wine, sour plum, onions, tarragon. Both were delicious. [Sandi Masori]
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International, San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Travel and Food‘Beauty Queen’ Wonderfully Acted, But Not My Favorite Type of Entertainment
Backyard Renaissance theater often picks plays that make you think or question your perceptions. Its printed program describes this as “art to the gut.” The current production, The Beauty Queen of Leenane is a good example of that. [Sandi Masori]
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San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast‘The Color Purple’ is Powerful, Emotional, and Well Worth Seeing
I think that The Color Purple, now playing at New Village Arts theater in Carlsbad may just be the best play I have seen there yet. The cast is uber talented and cohesive, and wow! what powerful voices. [Sandi Masori]
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San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & BroadcastComedy for Koby: Laughter Helps Victims of Terror to Heal
All three of them did a fair amount of crowd work, and I’ll admit I was relieved not to be in the “splash zone” of the first few rows. I especially liked Liberman’s riffing on the Jewish holidays. How do you explain Sukkot to someone who’s not Jewish? [Sandi Masori]
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Israel, Jewish History, Philanthropy & Volunteerism, San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAJFest: ‘Italian Jews Through The Generations’ Sweet, Intimate Event
Did you know that the history of the Italian Jews goes all the way back to the Maccabees? It is, in fact, one of the very oldest diaspora Jewish communities, and while there may only be 27,000 Jews left there, their history and culture is interwoven with the fabric of the country itself. [Sandi Masori]
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International, Jewish History, San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & BroadcastSongs in ‘Johnny and June’ Memorable, but Narration Lacks Something
Basically, the show takes us through both Johnny and June’s beginnings, the way they met, how they started touring together and eventually fell in love, though both were married to others at the time. [Sandi Masori]
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & BroadcastMany Laughs Per Minute at ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’
McClure and Lakis are real life husband and wife. As he quipped, the secret to their successful marriage is that they’ve been getting divorced every night for six years. [Sandi Masori]
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Sandi Masori, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & BroadcastMandy Patinkin Concert: Controversial for Some; Entertaining for Others
The show was part concert, part stand-up, part story-telling. It was just Patinkin and an accompanist on piano. After spending a bit of time heckling the late comers in the audience, he spent some time singing some songs from Broadway musicals, old Jazz hits, and even a surprising rendition of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody.” [Sandi Masori]
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast‘Vanity Fair’ Confusing in First Act, Redeemed in Second Act
The play is cute once you figure out the various players. The only actors that don’t play multiple parts are Macias and Austin, so it does take a bit in the beginning to follow the fast character changes (illustrated by costume changes or putting on a smock or shawl). Dagmar Krause Fields for example, is the narrator, Miss Matilda Crawley, and Lord Steyne. [Sandi Masori]
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San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & BroadcastJPlate: WMENSCH
We’re not sure what the “W” stands for, perhaps “woman,” or “winner,” or a first name or surname. But we do know what “mensch” means, and we’re glad that Sandi Masori spotted the car lauding the concept of a wonderful human being. [SDJW staff]
David Landis, Shira Ehrlich in the Hunt for Broadway Jimmy Awards
Only 10 male-identifying leads, and 10 female- identifying leads are chosen to compete from all the high school theater departments in San Diego County. From there, one student from each category will be chosen to go to New York to compete in the Broadway Jimmy Awards. [Sandi Masori]
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San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USALegally Blonde is now in session at San Diego Musical Theater
For those who haven’t seen the 2001 movie starring Reese Witherspoon, the basic plot is that California sorority girl Elle Woods (Johnisa Breault) gets jilted by her boyfriend Warner (Eli Wood) because she’s a “Marilyn” when he needs a “Jackie” and decides to follow him to Harvard to prove how serious she is. [++
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San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast‘Stir’ Brings Smellovision to the Globe.
Mariana (Lopez) and Henry (Perez) are siblings who live in different parts of the country and are doing what so many of us did during the pandemic, they’re having a video chat on Zoom. Henry, who lives with their father Papi (Al Rodrigo), wants to know how to make his late mother’s Cuban black beans and Mariana is trying to talk him through it. [Sandi Masori]
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