Category: Arts
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SAG-AFTRA National Board Approves New Contract; Members Begin Voting Tuesday
Spencer Morgan holds a placard as he and other SAG-AFTRA members walk the picket line on the 100th day of their ongoing strike, outside Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni A tentative three-year contract between SAG-AFTRA and Hollywood’s studios has been approved by the actors union’s national board of directors, who are encouraging their…
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Famed Actor Sir Patrick Stewart Sets Course for San Diego with Focus on Memoir ‘Making It So’
Sir Patrick Stewart. Photo by Anders Krusberg / Peabody Awards Accomplished actor – and now author – Sir Patrick Stewart comes to San Diego’s Balboa Theatre next month to discuss his long-awaited memoir, Making It So. “An Evening with Sir Patrick Stewart” takes place at 7 p.m. Dec. 7. Tickets are go on public sale at 10…
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San Diego Weekend Guide: Nov. 10-12 – Veterans Day Edition
The Veterans Day Boat Parade, part of Fleet Week, is one of several ways to celebrates veterans this weekend. Photo credit: www.fleetweeksandiego.org/ There’s a couple of themes this San Diego weekend. Veterans, for sure, for Veterans Day is Saturday. Sports too, because one season kicks off, while another concludes. Enjoy tasty bites and some throwback…
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Nature and ‘The Nat’: A 149-Year Partnership and Counting
The San Diego Natural History Museum. Photo by Richard Benton How time flies. In 1874, the San Diego census recorded about 3,000 people — just a little larger than the enrollment of San Diego High School today. That was just 15 years after Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, and the telephone hadn’t…
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Hōkūleʻa Canoe, on Pacific Tour from Hawaii, to Be Part of Star of India Birthday Sail
Say aloha as the traditional Polynesian voyaging canoe Hōkūleʻa is set to arrive at the Maritime Museum of San Diego on Wednesday afternoon as part of a Pacific tour. The visit – its arrival is expected at 4 p.m. – is part of the Polynesian Voyaging Society’s four-year Moananuiākea Voyage, a circumnavigation of the Pacific…
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Little Amal, the 12-Foot Refugee Puppet, Delights San Ysidro Crowd and Vice Versa
Little Amal, the 12-foot puppet completing a North American tour, was greeted with wonder and delight in her first San Diego stop Saturday. But the feeling was mutual. Magically moved by two walking puppeteers and veteran performer Sebastian Charles inside her bamboo torso, the representation of a 10-year-old refugee girl from war-shattered Aleppo, Syria, acted…
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Review: Martin Scorsese’s Epic and Deeply Serious ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’
Let me start with what everyone’s secret worry regarding Martin Scorsese’s new historical drama Killers of the Flower Moon. Based on my own personal experience this past weekend, if you carefully schedule and use the restroom right before your showtime, you might be able to sit through the giant 205 minutes. But if you really…
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Local High School Students Put Trade Skills to Test on YouTube Series ‘Skills Jam’
A new docu-series that chronicles the journey of five high school teams vying for a unique championship has debuted on YouTube and it includes San Diego County students. The end game? Making it to the annual SkillsUSA National Leadership and SkillsConference in Atlanta. Skills Jam, a three-part docuseries, is produced by the Skilled Careers Coalition…