We\u2019ll find out what the new season has in store for us, but it\u2019s been a turbulent off-season for \u201cSaturday Night Live.\u201d<\/p>\n
Most of the show-related headlines in recent weeks had to do with the departure of popular cast members, among them Heidi Gardner, Emil Wakim, Devon Walker and Michael Longfellow. This shouldn\u2019t have made headlines because \u201cSNL\u201d has welcomed and bade farewell to its comedy players throughout the history of the show.<\/p>\n
So what curiosity about \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d that still exists resides in new members of the cast and whether any of them, over time, will become stars.<\/p>\n
Bad Bunny, who was recently named the half-time entertainer for Super Bowl LX in February, will be trying to shake off what was termed a \u201ccredible death threat\u201d in his native Puerto Rico recently.<\/p>\n
Once \u201cLive from New York, it\u2019s Saturday Night!\u201d is shouted out on Saturday, a new season will begin with hopes high. Even if they\u2019re not met right away, it\u2019s a long season \u2014 and there\u2019s always the dependable \u201cWeekend Update\u201d segments with Jost and Michael Che to stay up late for.<\/p>\n
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The cast of Lamb\u2019s Players Theatre\u2019s \u201cArms and the Man,\u201d playing Oct. 1 through Nov. 16 at the Coronado Theatre. (Nate Peirson)
\nTheater<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been 10 years since the Old Globe produced George Bernard Shaw\u2019s \u201cArms and the Man,\u201d which Shaw himself subtitled \u201cAn Anti-Romantic Comedy in Three Acts.\u201d It is that for sure, and besides casting a jaundiced eye on romance, Shaw demonstrates his complete distaste for war in this biting play set in the 19th century.<\/p>\n
Now, Lamb\u2019s Players Theatre in Coronado is presenting \u201cArms and the Man.\u201d<\/a> It\u2019s a second go-round for Lamb\u2019s, having produced it way back in 1982.\u00a0 Deborah Gilmour Smyth, who starred in that 1982 staging as the heroine, Raina, is directing this time. The new Raina is Megan Carmitchel. Fellow cast members include\u00a0 MJ Sieber, Manny Fernandes, Melissa Fernandes and Katie Karel, among others. Visit lambsplayers.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n The theme of this year\u2019s San Diego Italian Film Festival<\/a>, under way and running through Oct. 11, is \u201cCourage: The Art of Fearless Storytelling.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s something that all dedicated filmmakers hold dear, and we could all function more easily with a little more courage inside us, right?<\/p>\n SDIFF, which is marking its 19th anniversary this year, is screening feature films, documentaries and shorts, all drawn from Italian cinema at its most ambitious. Films will be shown at both the Museum of Photographic Arts at the San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park (site of the festival\u2019s culminating \u201cfeSta\u201d gala on Oct. 11) and at the Digital Gym Cinema downtown. Visit sandiegoitalianfilmfestival.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n There was only one Jimi Hendrix, but the guitarist who emerged after Hendrix\u2019s death in 1970 whose sound reminded me most of him was Robin Trower. It wasn\u2019t until after Trower left the band Procol Harum and struck out on his own that he came to true prominence, breaking big with the \u201974 album \u201cBridge of Sighs.\u201d It\u2019s still in my personal collection, on both vinyl and CD.<\/p>\n More than 50 years after \u201cBridge of Sighs,\u201d Trower is still rocking (and loudly at that). He\u2019ll bring that raging guitar of his to the Magnolia Theater in El Cajon on Tuesday night at 7. I don\u2019t expect him to have slowed down. magnoliasandiego.com\/shows<\/a>.<\/p>\n You\u2019re familiar with so-called theater of the absurd? (Think \u201cWaiting for Godot,\u201d et al.) How about comedy of the absurd? That could well describe musician-comedian Reggie Watts who\u2019s known for getting on stage and performing without a net, seemingly making it up as he goes.Watts, who was the bandleader on the bygone \u201cThe Late Late Show with James Corden,\u201d will perform Saturday night at UCSD\u2019s Epstein Family Amphitheater in an ArtPower at UCSD presentation. Multi-instrumentalist Lindsay Olsen, better known as Salami Rose Joe Louis \u2014 now that\u2019s a name \u2013 will open the show. artpower.ucsd.edu\/event\/reggie-watts\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n UCTV<\/p>\n University of California Television<\/a> invites you\u00a0to enjoy this special selection of programs from throughout the University of California. Descriptions courtesy of and text written by UCTV staff:<\/p>\n \u201c\u2019From Ground Zero\u2019\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Mona Damluji and Elisabeth Weber join moderator Bishnupriya Ghosh to discuss \u201cFrom Ground Zero,\u201d a 2024 anthology film composed of 22 short works by Palestinian directors reflecting life in Gaza amid war. Each piece, ranging from documentary and fiction to animation and experimental forms, offers intimate, often urgent perspectives on displacement, loss, resilience and daily struggle. Conceived under fire by Rashid Masharawi and produced via the Masharawi Fund for Films & Filmmakers in Gaza, the project amplifies voices in the midst of conflict. In this conversation, they reflect on how cinema from Gaza shapes a new vision, urging us to listen, witness and respond as informed viewers to a society under siege.<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/sut-l-movies-sdiff.jpg\")
The poster for the 2025 San Diego Italian Film FeStivale. SDIFF
\nFilm Festival<\/p>\n![\"British](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/sut-l-music-robin-trower.jpg\")
British blues rocker Robin Trower will perform Tuesday at The Magnolia in El Cajon. (Robin Trower)
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Comic Reggie Watts will perform Saturday at UCSD. (Reggie Watts)
\nStandup comedy<\/p>\n