{"id":40839,"date":"2025-11-06T14:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/40839\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T14:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:36:08","slug":"star-trek-actor-brings-panda-trial-play-to-san-diego-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/40839\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Star Trek\u2019 actor brings \u2018Panda Trial\u2019 play to San Diego \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"

This past July, San Diego\u2019s New Fortune Theatre Company<\/a> presented\u00a0\u201cAmerican Monkeys,\u201d<\/a> an immersive daylong theater and activations event at a Point Loma church that re-created both the the fiery religion-versus-science debate that took place during the famed 1925 \u201cScopes Monkey Trial\u201d and the circus-like atmosphere that surrounded it.<\/p>\n

On Monday, New Fortune is co-presenting with the San Diego Library Foundation a follow-up theatrical event that tackles the same issue, which is the teaching of evolution in American public high schools. But the real-life trial that inspired this play occurred just 20 years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cStar Trek\u201d actor John \u201cQ\u201d De Lancie and Kristen Tregar will co-star in\u00a0\u201cThe Dover Panda Trial,\u201d the radio-style play they wrote based on the real-life 2005 trial where a Pennsylvania high school board was sued for teaching religion-based \u201cintelligent design\u201d alongside Darwinian evolution.<\/p>\n

The performance<\/a> will take place at 6 p.m. Monday at San Diego Central Library 330 Park Blvd., downtown. A $20 donation is requested onsite.<\/p>\n

\"Rams\u00e8sRams\u00e8s Noriega, work is featured in a new exhibit \u201cFragmentos Del Barrio\u201d at the Chicano Park Museum. (Alejandro Tamayo \/ The San Diego Union-Tribune)
\nVisual art<\/p>\n

Readers of The San Diego Union-Tribune in recent months may have noticed our new visual arts series created and authored by Michael James Rocha, who is the U-T\u2019s digital creative director, as well as the former arts and entertainment editor and an award-winning writer.<\/p>\n

In Rocha\u2019s \u201cIn the Curator\u2019s Words\u201d series, he visits San Diego County museums and galleries to explore new art exhibitions, and he interviews the curators and museum directors for a discussion on how the exhibit came to be, what is featured in the show and what visitors can learn from it when they arrive.<\/p>\n

This week\u2019s \u201cIn the Curator\u2019s Words\u201d story<\/a> is an interview with Rafael Barrientos Martinez, who curated a 30-year retrospective exhibition of works by 81-year-old Chicano artist and activist Ramse\u0301s Noriega of Los Angeles. Titled \u201cFragmentos Del Barrio,\u201d the exhibit is on now on display through Feb. 28 at the Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center in San Diego\u2019s Barrio Logan.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a link<\/a> to the archive of Rocha\u2019s other \u201cIn the Curator\u2019s Words\u201d and other stories.<\/p>\n

\"FoodFood photographer Eric Wolfinger at Addison by William Bradley restaurant in San Diego on Thursday, February 10, 2023. (Hayne Palmour IV \/ For The San Diego Union-Tribune)
\n\u00a0Film festival<\/p>\n

Photographer and La Jolla resident Eric Wolfinger<\/a>, best known for his photography in chef Chad Robertson\u2019s James Beard Award-winning 2010 cookbook \u201cTartine Bread,\u201d is now also an award-winning filmmaker.<\/p>\n

His independent short film \u201cLinda Dahl: Blessed by Grace\u201d will make its San Diego premiere Sunday at the Coronado Island Film Festival. The documentary recently won two awards at the Indy Shorts International Film Festival.<\/p>\n

The film tells the story of chef and restaurateur Dahl, who discovered that cooking was a healing force for her after her son, Justin, was murdered by a backpack thief in the 1990s. Dahl eventually moved to Sedona, Arizona, and opened her first restaurant, Dahl & DiLuca, in 1995. She now owns six restaurants. All of them are dedicated to Justin\u2019s memory.<\/p>\n

Wolfinger\u2019s film will be one of three shorts featured in the Culinary Cinema series<\/a> at 1:30 p.m. Sunday in the John D. Spreckels Center at 1019 7th St., Coronado. Tickets are $25.<\/p>\n

\"AA still from \u201cLuxo Jr.,\u201d one of the first computer animated films ever made. It was featured in 1986 at \u201cSpike & Mike\u2019s Festival of Animation.\u201d (Pixar)
\nMore movies<\/p>\n

Back in the early 1980s, a few friends and I would drive to La Jolla every year to attend what was then known as \u201cSpike & Mike\u2019s Festival of Imagination.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was an hour-plus screening of a diverse mix of short films in all styles of animation from all over the world.<\/p>\n

As I remember, one of the co-founders, either Craig \u201cSpike\u201d Decker and Mike Gribble, would talk to the audience before each screening about how they selected that year\u2019s films.<\/p>\n

Some of the films were great, some not so much. But one I\u2019ll never forget was \u201cLuxo Jr.,\u201d a visually stunning short of a baby lamp bouncing around on a desk and playing with a ball as his much larger daddy lamp watched. It was the first computer-animated film ever made by some of the men who later founded Pixar Studios. The little desk lamp that started it all became Pixar\u2019s official mascot.<\/p>\n

Now billed a Spike & Mike\u2019s Animated Extravaganza, the annual festival carries on to this day. The first screenings for 2025 were held over Halloween weekend, but there\u2019s still time to see the 2025 edition of new, cutting-edge animation. There are two\u00a0screenings of the 2025 edition at 4 p.m. Sunday and 6 p.m. Wednesday at\u00a0 Edwards San Marcos Cinema<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Storytelling<\/p>\n

Storytellers of San Diego<\/a> is gearing up for its annual Tellabration event, a free afternoon event of storytelling from 2 to 4 p.m. Nov. 15.<\/p>\n

Tellabration is an annual worldwide event where storytelling events are held on the same day and sometimes at the same time. The purpose is to celebrate and sustain the art of oral storytelling.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s event, at Bethany Church in Ocean Beach, will be curated and emceed by Mindy Donner and Fred Laskowski and will feature storytellers Patti Christensen and James Nelson-Lucas, Marilyn McPhie, Fred Laskowski, JT Moring, Emily Stamets, Jim Dieckmann, Lisse e Ryan, and Aunt Li-Anne.<\/p>\n

The program is best suited for ages 12 and up.<\/p>\n

Other U-T stories you may have missed this week
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