Twenty-four years ago, Emily Rooney whose long-running media-criticism program, "Beat the Press," on which I was a panelist, was canceled last week by GBH News was just beginning a new phase of her career, as host and executive editor of the news and public-affairs program "Greater Boston." I wrote a piece for The…
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An appeals court ruled against dismissing lawsuits filed by Solana Beach Mayor Lesa Heebner and a local developer in a defamation case involving conflict-of-interest allegations made by a political rival, a campaign manager and an alter ego.
The lawsuits, which were filed in 2017, will return to the Superior Court for a jury trial.
The case stems from the 2016 Solana Beach City Council election, when psychiatrist Ed Siegel was one of six candidates vying for three at-large seats.
According to court documents, Siegel received a text in August 2016 from his campaign manager, Brian Hall, saying that they needed “retaliation” against Heebner, who said during a Democratic Party Central Committee meeting that Siegel was “not electable.” Heebner, who once owned a kitchen design business, had been on the City Council since 2004 and announced earlier that year she would step down at the end of her term.
Theater critics Jacquinn Sinclair and Ed Siegel selected their favorite theater productions from the year, including David Byrne s American Utopia, Ma Rainey s Black Bottom on Netflix, Mala from the Huntington Theatre Company and Hamilton, which is available to stream on Disney+. (Courtesy)
Theater gave up what many consider its essence in 2020 the communality of gathering together to experience the benediction of artistic expression along with the challenge of confronting our inner demons and social transgressions together.
That didn’t, however, stop artists from bringing us together in unique digitally-enhanced groupings, often through Zoom. ARTery critic at large Ed Siegel found himself sitting on a jury with Mikhail Baryshnikov and Jessica Hecht in “State vs. Natasha Banina” from the Arlekin Players while ARTery theater critic Jacquinn Sinclair had a one-on-one telephone experience curled under her dining room table in the dark in “Baby Jessica’s Well-Made P