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‘Girlfriend,’ re-imagined fables enchant Comic- Con

Story and photos by Shor M. Masori SAN DIEGO — Rachel Bloom (Robot Chicken, BoJack Horseman, her own comedic music videos) and Aline Brosh McKenna (The Devil Wears Prada, Morning Glory, 27 Dresses), co-creators of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, told journalists at Comic-Con that the musical dramedy’s final 18 episodes on the CW will deal with “the […]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, San Diego County, Shor M. Masori

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County

A Holocaust book for older preteens

What Was The Holocaust? by Gail Herman, Penguin Random House, New York, © 2018, ISBN 978-0451533906, 105 pages, $5.99. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – That there are casualties and atrocities in war for both soldiers and civilians is summed up best by General U. S. Grant, “War is hell!” How about when there is

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, International, Jewish History

‘The Cakemaker’ is an intense drama of love and lies

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Oren had a wife in Jerusalem and a gay lover in Berlin.  Leaving Berlin for home, he forgot some of his personal belongings, so the cakemaker Tomas (Tim Kalkhof) called him again and again.  But Oren didn’t answer.  Distraught, Tomas investigated, only to learn from business associates that

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Donald H. Harrison, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Bobcat Goldthwait pumps his ‘Misfits & Monsters’ series

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait recently had his premiere of the half-hour television series, Misfits  & Monsters, in which Jewish actor Seth Green played a voice actor whose character Bubba The Bear comes alive.  The Bear proves to be murderously angry at Green’s character for giving him such a stupid

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Survivor Ruth G. Sax impresses Comic- Con audience

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Although Ruth Goldschmiedova Sax of Chula Vista conceded that she didn’t grow up with comics, or even know about Superman, whom she subsequently came to admire, she was clearly the hit of a panel on art and the Holocaust that was held Thursday, July 19, at the Comic-Can

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, USA

The Peace Train: Uniting people across borders

By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — The Peace Train is coming and we can all get high on the Peace Train as Sharon Katz has brought her band to San Diego and Tijuana, starting with Wednesday night’s rousing performance at Makeda Makossa’s World Beat Center. It was so inspiring to see women of various ages

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International, Mimi Pollack, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, USA

Small Press: A little convention within Comic- Con

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Miriam Libicki, a Comic-Con veteran of more than a dozen years, says even though the annual convention “is so huge and corporate,” she keeps coming back because “there are many smaller cons inside comic con.”  In a section of the main exhibit hall that is reserved for

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County

Dance, carvings, geysers high points of Maori village

Editor’s Note: This is the 20th 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,

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Travel and Food

Suicide’s memoir indicts the Gur sect of Hassidim

Doing His Will (Osah Kirtzono) by Esti Weinstein, published in Hebrew by Kinneret, Zmora-Bitan, Dvir, 2016. By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson  JERUSALEM –The poor woman who wrote this book (and eventually committed suicide) was born into a specific sect, tantamount to a cult, of ultra-Orthodox Judaism known as the Gur Hassidim As a child and teenager the author

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Jewish Religion, Middle East

IDF participates in numerous multi- lateral exercises

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Israel and the Iroquois Nation came together this week — In Israel — at the Lacrosse World Championship. The Iroquois Nation team was subjected to enormous pressure to boycott, but they steadfastly refused to be swayed. The Iroquois, who invented Lacrosse in about 1100 CE, know a thing or two

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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA