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Monthly Archive: November 2015
Progressive International Motorcycle Show in Southern California This Weekend
A massive motorcycle event, The Progressive International Motorcycle Show stops into Southern California this weekend. On its third out of ten stops throughout the country, the Progressive International Motorcycle Show is taking place in Long Beach this weekend, beginning today...
Fifteen Fabulous-Looking Cars at the 2015 LA Auto Show
The Los Angeles Auto Show kicks off tomorrow at the Los Angeles Convention Center and runs through November 29th. While there will be dozens and dozens of automobiles at the LA Auto Show, here are fifteen of them that I...
Black Market Brewing Featured on The Beer Thirty Show
Last night’s episode of The Beer 30 Show featured a brewery from Temecula, as well as getting to hear from a guy who makes prints custom beer glasses. The featured brewery, Black Market Brewing, located in Temecula, CA, was represented...
Nerd-Checking and Ret-Conning Highlights of Panel at Last Week’s Comikaze
Last week, on the final day of the fifth-annual Stan Lee’s Comikaze Expo, one of the panel discussions included one entitled “Who Can Be a Geek? Inclusion in Fandom and the Geek Scene”. Moderated by Bill Watters, the panel featured Rico Anderson,...
For Tenth Episode, “The Joy of Text” Presents a Mini-Episode
For its tenth episode, “The Joy of Text” went with its second ever mini-episode focussing on a Talmudic text. This month’s episode, which was published a week ago, focussed on the following Talmudic text on one of the ways that...
Ambiguities of the Stammaitic פסוקי דזמרא [Talmud Tuesday]
Having written earlier about one rabbi in the Talmud who was recorded as having stated nine religious aspirations, I wanted to briefly look at how the Talmud discusses one of them, in particular. One of them is that his portion is...
Discussion Focusses on The Messiah and Messianic Characters in Entertainment
This week, a panel discussion in Los Angeles took place concerning a somewhat uncomfortable topic in the entertainment industry. Moderated by Jordan B. Gorfinkel, “Heroes, Villains, Faith and the Messiah”, featured panelists David Sacks, Leo Partible, Jeff Schechter, Lisa Klink,...
After a One-Month Break, “The Joy of Text” Discusses Much-Awaited Topic
After a one-month break from its regular monthly podcast, “The Joy of Text” returned last month with a much-awaited topic. Having come up in multiple previous episodes, [male] masturbation was finally discussed. After taking its first month off since it...
Racial Diversity and the Lack Thereof in Entertainment Discussed at Stan Lee’s Comikaze Expo
“Race and Diversity in Entertainment” was the topic of a panel yesterday at the Los Angeles Convention Center that featured a lot of great conversation in a little bit of time. The panel, which took place at the fifth annual...
