Month: January 2018

Entertainment
January 24, 2018

A Smooth Jazz Valentine’s Day Concert Starring Howard Hewitt, Jonathan Butler, Michael Lington, & Paul Taylor By Sheryl Aronson

    On February 10th, 2018 Rainbow Productions will present a Smooth Jazz Valentine Day’s Concert from 7:30 pm – 11 pm, starring Howard Hewitt, Jonathan Butler, Michael Lington, and Paul Taylor at the Terrace Theater, Long Beach Performing Arts Center.  Come out and hear these fabulous artists perform the music that will put everyone in the mood for love. You can get your tickets […]

Entertainment
January 24, 2018

City of West Hollywood Lesbian Short Film Series By Sheryl Aronson

  On January 13th, the City of West Hollywood presented the Lesbian Speakers Series showing three short films, Shelby’s Vacation, Nona Hendryx Transformation, and Twenty.  There was a panel discussion afterward conducted by Angela Brinskele, Director of Communications of the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives and the filmmakers.  On the panel were Nancy Beverly, writer/producer of Shelby’s Vacation, Victoria Sampson, Director of Shelby’s Vacation, Lily […]

Accolades
January 18, 2018

2017 Writer’s Digest Award Writing Competition

Greetings once again! Among the ten competition categories, there were over 5,100 entries in total – our judges were very impressed! As you already know, your entry was selected to represent your entries category as a Writer’s Digest 86th Annual Writing Competition Award Winner; and we understand how important bragging rights can be! I won two awards last year for two articles I submitted: Still […]

Entertainment
January 16, 2018

Two Holiday Concerts: Norman Brown’s Joyous Christmas & Keiko Matsui’s Tiding of Jazz and Joy

‘Tis the season for Holiday Concerts and I had the pleasure of covering two excellent ones this past Holiday Season:  Keiko Matsui’s Tiding of Jazz and Joy at the Cerritos Performing Arts Center and Norman Brown’s Joyous Christmas at Yoshi’s in Oakland. Here are my reviews of these lovely gifts of music performed by some of the top artists in the Contemporary Jazz Scene. On […]