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Those Russians Have a Mighty Claim on the Symphony

By Ken Herman | May 4, 2013 |

We know the end of the San Diego Symphony season is near when Music Director Jajha Ling brings out the Russian Romantic warhorses. This weekend’s program offered Tchaikovsky’s heart-on-the-sleeve Fourth Symphony and Olga Kern as the winning soloist in Rachmaninoff’s First Piano Concerto.

Survivors in Old Globe Theatre’s Other Desert Cities

By Welton Jones | May 3, 2013 |

The California legacy of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan included a moneyed class of staunch GOP regulars who ran Southern California from their estates in the posh neighborhoods of Beverley Hills, etc. When evolving political power marginalized them, many said “screw it” and moved to Palm Springs, etc.

Gritty ‘Billy’ still dazzles; demise of ‘Iron Lady’ adds extra punch

By Kris Eitland | May 3, 2013 |

A motherless child trades boxing for ballet – sigh. At first glance, the only thing missing from the uplifting production “Billy Elliot the Musical,” is a cuddly dog. It has all the right stuff: talented kids who can really sing, dance, and act, little tykes in tutus, a grizzled grandmother, and a lonely boy who overcomes …

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