Time Warner Cable Announces San Diego’s “50 Best Moms” 2012 Winners

Time Warner Cable’s “Best Moms” To Be Honored Mother’s Day Weekend 11th Annual Event to Showcase 50 Essay and Video Finalists San Diego, California-All moms deserve recognition for the sacrifices and dedication they make each day for their children and families.  This coming Mother’s Day weekend, 50 “stand out” moms will receive acknowledgement they deserve [...]

Review of “CATS” in San Diego — Play Near End of Its Nine Lives.

Watching  “CATS”, the play by Andrew Lloyd Webber, was reminiscent of sitting in front of the television set and watching an old black and white movie like in the good old days; simple plots, no gimmicks, and compelling human talent. However, if you keep in mind that “CATS” is celebrating 30 years as one of [...]

The 2011 Oscars: Boring, flat and uncomfortable

It took all of my energy to sit through the entire broadcast of The 83rd Academy Awards, but I did. I kept hoping it would pick up the pace with the next award, but it let me down most of the time. The show was slow, the musical numbers unnecessarily solemn, and though the hosts, James [...]

Parents Television Council Launches Site with Study on Sexualization of Teen Girls

I was privileged to be part of a conference call this morning with Tim Winter, PTC president, Dr. L. Monique Ward, PhD, professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, and member of the American Psychological Association’s Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls, Nicole Clark, director of the documentary film Cover Girl Culture and former Elite International fashion model, Jeff McIntyre, director of national policy, Children Now and chair of the Children’s Media Policy Coalition, and Melissa Henson, director of communications and public education for the Parents Television Council, along with reporters for the Los Angeles Times, Hollywood Reporter and yours truly, among others, were made aware of this organization's call to

Movie review: 'Welcome To The Rileys'

If you are like me, you probably hadn't heard of Kristen Stewart before “Twilight”.  But if you have teenagers (and even if you don't), after the vampire craze got out of hand, you most likely had enough of seeing Bella's angst-stricken, love-sick face on everything but your corn cereal.  Now that the young actress has [...]