By Sheryl Aronson I’ve been traveling the roads of New England and New York State for over 30 years. I must have slept in a thousand hotels and motels – eaten in some of the finest and worst Yankee restaurants from the coast of Maine down to Rhode Island. I’ve seen the development of the highways and parkways as I drove tens of thousands of […]
by Sheryl Aronson George would always challenge me to basketball games because I would beat him every time. “Come On Sheryl, let’s play today,” and I would have to comply since I didn’t want to hurt his feelings. This afternoon we were at it again and I was hot – hitting the basket 15 feet out. George looked mad, but then again he always had […]
(This is a short inspirational essay I wrote published in The MoJo Manual written by Jacqui Brown.) When I was in 5th grade and they asked the question: What do you want to be when you grow up? I had two answers; the first female baseball player and a writer. Although a career in baseball was not in my future (I had to switch to softball and still […]
The Hollywood 360 covered two prestigious events for the WGAW in February. On February 1st, The WGAW held a panel discussion of the Film Nominees for the Screenwriter’s Awards. The screenwriters that were nominated included Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor (The Shape of Water), Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird), Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick), James Mangold and Michael Green (Logan); Scott […]
On Sunday, February 18th, the Hollywood NOW (National Organization of WOMEN) sponsored a production of The Vagina Monologues to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the V-Day organization, a global activist movement to end violence against all women and girls(cisgender, transgender and gender non-conforming), bringing widespread attention to issues of harassment, rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation, and sex slavery. “As a community, we are dedicated […]
On February 21st, the organization Hands4Hope held Press Day to welcome media and guests to visit their facility that houses the program and to also talk about the upcoming 18th Annual Serenade Benefit Concert on March 10th. Lydia Floyd, Founder of Hands4Hope and Jacki Smith, Chairperson for the Serenade Benefit Concert were on hand to greet all the guests. One of the first people […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘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 […]