Features
Celebrities, Diversity, and Fans – SVCC
The best part of Silicon Valley Comic Con was watching fans getting a chance to interact with some of their favorite actors during spotlight sessions. Jeremy Lee Renner caught a fan off guard when she told him it was her birthday and he ran offstage to give her a hug.
Wozniak Immortalized in Wax – Silicon Valley Comic Con
The Bay Area came out strong this weekend for Silicon Valley Comic Con (SVCC). Long lines had many frustrated during the inaugural event. If anything, the crowd was proof that there was a void that needed to be filled. The Bay Area has long been missing a Comic Con event since WonderCon left for Anaheim in 2012. Eager fans waited patiently as dedicated volunteers scrambled to get answers for guests.
San Diego Latino Film Festival Highlights
I had the opportunity to check out some of the films being showcased at the 23rd annual San Diego Latino Film Festival and I have to say they were all awesome. I have had a great experience so far, after each film there has been a Question and Answer panel with directors, producers, and actors of the films, where they dive deeper into the films I had just seen.
Finding Dory – New Poster
A new poster debuted this morning for the highly anticipated Disney/Pixar film, “Finding Dory” opening in theatres June 17, 2016. Lead voice, Ellen DeGeneres debuted it on her social media platforms.
BAM! presents HAIR
BAM! (Bay Area Musicals), the newest non-profit theatrical organization in the San Francisco Bay Area is presenting their 2nd show, Hair now playing at the Victoria Theatre until March 19th. A classic choice that exemplifies the diversity in our society, one that many theatre’s so desperately lack.
World Premiere: Aubergine at Berkeley Rep
Aubergine, playing at Berkeley Rep is full of life lessons in hope, love, forgiveness and loss. Death is the inevitable finale we will all face one day but living is full of complexities that we can’t deter from regardless of knowing what our fate will be. Ray (Tim Kang) has to face the fact that his father is going to die after being placed in hospice care. A fact he ignored until his caretaker Lucien (Tyrone Mitchell Henderson) said the word hospice out loud, which is when patients are released from the hospital to live out their last days at home.
SX Liquors Presents Trey Songz – NYC/NJ Promo Tour
Grammy Nominated R&B singer, songwriter, and producer, Trey Songz will be hitting up the spots in NYC and NJ from Wednesday, March 2nd through Sunday, March 6th to promote SX Liquors.
San Diego Latino Film Festival
The 23rd annual San Diego Latino Film Festival will take place from March 10-20, 2016 and will be held at both AMC Fashion Valley 18 and Digital Gym CINEMA North Park. The Media Kick-Off party was held at the Quad Ale House in downtown San Diego on February 25th and everyone had a blast catching up with filmmakers and movers and shakers of the film community. A great event to have in San Diego, especially being that San Diegans reside next to a border town that is rich in culture.
Swan Lake at the War Memorial Opera House
“Swan Lake” presented by the San Francisco Ballet is playing at the War Memorial Opera House until February 28. The company performed the first American production of Swan Lake in 1940, this version is choreographed by Helgi Tomasson. He choreographed his first production of Swan Lake for SF Ballet in 1988 and in 2009, he created a new version. This is his first time returning since 2010.