FRIDAY \u2013<\/p>\n
In sports, there\u2019s women\u2019s pro volleyball with the SAN DIEGO MOJO taking on Dallas at Viejas Arena. They\u2019re giving away beach towels to fans that show up.<\/p>\n
Not sure if you consider frisbee a sport, but it\u2019s the Ultimate Frisbee opening day at MISSION BAY High School, with the SAN DIEGO GROWLERS taking on the Carolina Flyers.<\/p>\n
For classical music fans that want to hear some Beethoven, the SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY will be playing at Jacobs Music Center, Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n
CHEAP TRICK has an aptly named album and tour \u2013 the All Washed Up Tour. It hits Humphrey\u2019s by the Bay in SHELTER ISLAND. They\u2019re all original members, except for drummer Bun E. Carlos, who has been replaced by the guitarist Rick Nielsen\u2019s son Daxx. I\u2019ve seen them with Daxx and they\u2019re still good.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re at Humphrey\u2019s but don\u2019t want to spend the big bucks for Cheap Trick, at their Backstage Music Club is one of my favorite local bands \u2013 THE TIGHTEN UPS. They\u2019ve got a great horn section, and their lead singer is a blast. She\u2019s a great vocalist with a fun sense of humor.<\/p>\n
And on the subject of \u201870s bands, I always wondered what happened to ZEBRA. They had a couple cool tunes (Who\u2019s Behind the Door?, Tell Me What You Want), and disappeared. They\u2019ll be at the Music Box DOWNTOWN.<\/p>\n
SATURDAY \u2013<\/p>\n
SAN DIEGO FC has a home game at Snapdragon Stadium against Portland. You can also listen to the game on San Diego Sports 760 starting at 6pm.<\/p>\n
The SPRING HOME GARDEN SHOW is happening at the DEL MAR FAIRGROUNDS all weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n
SAN DIEGO EARTHFEST is going on at BALBOA PARK. There\u2019s lots of entertainment, food vendors, and more.<\/p>\n
LADY DOTTIE & THE DIAMONDS are at the Grand Ole BBQ in EL CAJON.<\/p>\n
SHEMEKIA COPELAND is at the California Center for the Arts in ESCONDIDO.<\/p>\n
JASON MRAZ is doing an unplugged, benefit concert, at the Bornemann Theatre in SAN MARCOS.<\/p>\n
The only opera I listen to is GILBERT & SULLIVAN, and I am thrilled to see their operetta \u201cTrial by Jury\u201d along with some other gems by G&S, like pieces from \u201cThe Pirates of Penzance\u201d (I\u2019ll be in the crowd yelling for \u201cThe Mikado\u201d) will be performed by the Genesis Opera Theatre.\u00a0Many members from the local San Diego operatic community will also perform. It\u2019s all happening at the Trinity Episcopal Church in ESCONDIDO on Saturday night, and Sunday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
ON STREAMING \u2026<\/p>\n
Stranger Things fans take heart, there\u2019s an animated spinoff, STRANGER THINGS: TALES FROM \u201985 now on Netflix.<\/p>\n
Oscar-nominee Kate Hudson is back as a party girl turned pro basketball team owner in season 2 of RUNNING POINT on Netflix.<\/p>\n
Elle Fanning stars as a college dropout with a new baby who creates an OnlyFans account with advice from her pro-wrestler father (Nick Offerman) in MARGO\u2019S GOT MONEY TROUBLES on AppleTV.<\/p>\n
AT THE MOVIES\u2026<\/p>\n
MICHAEL<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a scene in \u201cMichael\u201d (about the King of Pop) where we see him getting a giraffe, llama, and Bubbles the chimp. So let\u2019s talk about the elephant; the elephant in the room \u2013 the movie didn\u2019t cover ANY of the negative stuff about Michael Jackson. No child molestations, etc. Even how they covered the abuse from his dad Joe Jackson, felt a bit sugar-coated. This is almost as if the filmmakers behind \u201cBohemian Rhapsody\u201d had decided they should stay away from the gay stuff\u2026or if when we saw \u201cThe Doors\u201d movie, it didn\u2019t have any drinking (although it\u2019s odd that Oliver Stone seemed to only want to focus on Morrison\u2019s alcoholism, but I digress). The movie is not only too safe, it tells us nothing we didn\u2019t already know about Michael Jackson. It just wanted to show concert footage, with songs that went on way too long. They wanted to show Jackson as a musical genius, who was basically a saint. Even when he had his scalp burned making a Pepsi commercial, we\u2019d see him visiting children in the burn unit (this was the only way they wanted to show Jackson with little boys\u2026or the scene of him signing autographs and talking to them in toy stores). It\u2019s a shame they didn\u2019t make a better movie because the kid who played the young Michael Jackson (Juliano Valdi) was terrific. The older version was played by Michael\u2019s nephew Jaafar Jackson, and he was terrific. He captured the mannerisms, dance moves, and effeminate nature. And Colman Domingo\u2026well, my wife and I both would be happy just watching him on screen reading the phone book. He\u2019d get an Oscar nomination for this performance if it were a better movie (which is the same reason Val Kilmer didn\u2019t get a nomination for playing Jim Morrison). Janet Jackson was nowhere to be found in this, and if your favorite Jackson 5 member was Tito, you also might be disappointed. On that note, I did like how they showed his loving relationship with his siblings. He\u2019d come back from the toy store with games like Twister, and they would be shooting hoops talking about where they\u2019d be partying that night \u2013 but you could tell they all loved each other and the ribbing was good-natured. We needed a more compelling story here, instead of Jaafar lip-synching, and doing extended concert scenes.\u00a0But it\u2019s the perfect fan service if you\u2019re a big fan.\u00a01 \u00bd stars out of 5.<\/p>\n
MOTHER MARY<\/p>\n
It\u2019s funny, Anne Hathaway is going to be on screen soon in the next \u201cDevil Wears Prada\u201d and this deals with her trying to have a specific dress made, although it\u2019s more like a literal Devil, as there are some scenes with a ghost. Although the ghost is just a huge red garment, making me think this could\u2019ve been titled \u201cThe Phantom Thread.\u201d Hathaway plays a famous singer who had a bizarre incident on stage. She\u2019s now making a comeback, and wants her old friend and dressmaker to design the perfect outfit. She\u2019s played by Michaela Coel, a British writer, director, and actress, who has a very interesting presence on screen. It\u2019s a shame there couldn\u2019t have been a better movie for these two to be in. Hathaway does her own singing, with songs written by Charli XCX and FKA twigs. I\u2019ll give you this warning, though. You\u2019ll hate this movie. It\u2019s a boring, pretentious mess. It\u2019s going on my \u201cworst of the year\u201d list. 0 stars.<\/p>\n
I SWEAR<\/p>\n
I\u2019m going to be the only critic on the planet who felt this way about the movie \u2013 I loved it, but at the same time, had very little sympathy for the main character. Here\u2019s why. He supposedly has Tourette\u2019s Syndrome. That affects only 1% of the population, and his form of it is called \u201ccoprolali\u201d which only effects 10% of that 1% (meaning 1 in 1,000). That causes him to curse. That, I could have sympathy with. But when he decided to show up at the BAFTA film awards (the UK version of the Oscars) \u2013 he yelled the n-word at cast members from Sinners. He yelled an f-word at the gay show host. Well, if he does this, why did he attend that awards show, making it uncomfortable for so many? And why is this a condition doctors don\u2019t even understand? I did a deep dive about it, and it made even less sense. People with this will say entire sentences about somebody, with the most vile language. In the movie, which is a very enjoyable and sad picture, we see him bringing tea to his boss. And he spits in it. He also tells the boss he used a certain bodily fluid for the milk in the tea. Yeah, that\u2019s apparently another part of this condition. Oh, and he punches a dog and an older lady in the face. Why? Well, again, the blame goes to his rare form of Tourette\u2019s. When he finds out his friend\u2019s mom has cancer, he meets her and immediately blurts out, \u201cYou\u2019re gonna die from cancer!\u201d<\/p>\n
When he eats a meal, he is compelled to spit his food in the face of anybody sitting near him. Oh, and he also flips random people off. See why it\u2019s hard for me to have sympathy for a \u201ccondition\u201d like this? You should be in an asylum if this is how you function in life \u2013 punching women in the face, calling random women \u201csluts,\u201d hitting dogs, etc. And as my wife and I both point out \u2013 he should be doing a better job with his apologies or explanations to the random people that are victims of his assaults (whether verbal or physical), instead of him merely saying \u201csorry, I have Tourette\u2019s\u201d and shuffling off with a slight smile on his face. And I have all the sympathy in the world for someone that stutters, or has the form of Tourette\u2019s that causes tics or guttural sounds or yelps\u2026but all the things he does in life \u2013 get out of here! British filmmaker Kirk Jones made one of my favorite movies of 1998 (Waking Ned Devine), and with the casting of Shirley Henderson as the worn-out mom dealing with her son, the son\u2019s being played brilliantly by two different actors (one as a kid, one as an adult), it\u2019s an enjoyable watch. It\u2019s so touching to see his friend’s mom really help John Davidson with his struggles, as well as a man that ends up employing him. It\u2019s also rather touching to see how he\u2019s helping others and became an activist (hence his meeting with the Queen; any guesses on what he says to her?). As I said, it\u2019s a great movie, and I think everyone will enjoy it. 3 \u00bd stars out of 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRIDAY \u2013 In sports, there\u2019s women\u2019s pro volleyball with the SAN DIEGO MOJO taking on Dallas at Viejas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[26,8,37659,37658,37660,37650,37654,37651,37661,74,76,75,37656,37657,37655,37653,37652,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-282301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-california-news","10":"tag-darren-jack","11":"tag-darren-smith","12":"tag-election-news-updates","13":"tag-george-chamberlin","14":"tag-george-noory","15":"tag-ladona-harvey","16":"tag-lou-penrose","17":"tag-san-diego","18":"tag-san-diego-headlines","19":"tag-san-diego-news","20":"tag-san-diego-traffic-reports","21":"tag-san-diego-weather-reports","22":"tag-san-diegos-breaking-news-station","23":"tag-sean-hannity","24":"tag-ted-garcia","25":"tag-u-s-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}