A Georgia appellate panel said Wednesday that a hospital facing a lawsuit over a surgery patient's injuries can't arbitrate the claims, because the hospital's reissuance of an arbitration agreement, which the patient refused to sign, invalidated a previous arbitration agreement the patient did sign.
This week’s selection of albums starts off with a dynamic new album from Gaelle Buswel, whose new album should grab the attention of blues-rock fans. The other albums in this column span psychedelic pop, blues and power pop and are just as worthy of attention.
I’m
David L. Coddon,
and here’s your guide to all things essential in San Diego’s arts and culture this week.
Among the films to be screened during the first-ever San Diego International ShortsFest is
“The Roads Most Traveled,” an emotionally involving 24-minute retrospective of the work of photojournalist Don Bartletti.
Bartletti spent 40 years in a distinguished career that took him from the Vista Press, to the bygone Oceanside Blade-Tribune, to the then-San Diego Union and eventually to the Los Angeles Times, where he would win a Pulitzer Prize for his photojournalism in 2003.
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The focus of “The Roads Most Traveled,” directed by Palomar College’s Bill Wisneski, is Bartletti’s visual documentation of the migration of Central Americans to the U.S. This includes a harrowing and heartbreaking experience riding atop freight cars bound for El Norte with his camera and little else, “an assignment,” Bartletti says in the film, “that change
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When the title character of Richard Farrell’s debut novel, “The Falling Woman,” survives a plane crash, she lands on an epiphany. Farrell knows how that feels. The epiphany part, anyway.
In the case of the fictional Erin Geraghty, the change of heart comes when the plane that is supposed to take her from Washington, D.C., to San Francisco explodes in midair. Everyone on the plane dies except for Erin, who uses her second chance to rethink her whole life.
In the case of the man who created Erin, the miracle also happened in midair. In 1992, the Massachusetts native had begun Primary Flight Training at the U.S. Navy’s flight school in Pensacola, Fla., making good on his childhood dream of becoming a pilot. But after he had an epileptic seizure during training, Farrell was told he would never be able to fly again.