Books
Sophie (Gia Carides) writes fabulously erotic novellas about women on holiday and godlike Greeks and white-washed huts and wind-blown sex, but has this habit of reading her work out loud.
Aug. 15, 1997
Movies
“Son of a Gun” is a derivative crime thriller that sputters when it should propel, skims when it should probe.
Jan. 22, 2015
High School Sports
Andrea Koman SCHOOL: Canyon SPORT: Volleyball YEAR: Senior SEASON AT A GLANCE: Koman, an outside hitter, has been at the forefront for Canyon, which has jumped to an early lead in the competitive Foothill League.
Oct. 11, 1995
Entertainment & Arts
Audiences needn’t be disturbed when they sit down for this weekend’s San Diego Symphony Orchestra concert and see a harpsichord and only 22 musicians on stage.
Dec. 13, 1985
Sports
Professional baseball players routinely catch balls speeding faster than cars on the freeway -- repetitive impact that can cause serious damage to catchers’ receiving hands, a new study has found.
July 4, 2005
California
The runners you may see encircling Fashion Island in Newport Beach on Sunday will be “racing for a cure” for breast cancer.
Sept. 23, 1995
It takes a brave writer to attempt a musical biography of one of the hottest writing teams in the history of musical theater.
Oct. 4, 1986
Jacek Eisner, the young hero of “War and Love” (citywide), seems to have many more lives than a cat in his determination to survive, first, the Warsaw ghetto, then Auschwitz.
Sept. 21, 1985
Elzbieta Czyzewska, the Polish film and stage star who provided the inspiration for Oscar-nominated Sally Kirkland’s title role in “Anna” a few years back, has a leading role herself in Louis Yansen’s “Misplaced” (Monica 4-Plex), a warm and incisive independent production of modest budget and impressive impact.
Sept. 21, 1990
World & Nation
A Warsaw appeals court acquitted Poland’s leading dissident intellectual, Jacek Kuron, of charges that he refused to leave a Solidarity May Day march, and it overturned his three-month jail term.
May 26, 1985