Arts Feature

Martín Perna creates space for collective music-making

He started as an alto. Not a baritone, not a tenor. An alto. In the chorus of a Philadelphia elementary school, singing parts he was told to sing, performing repertoire he found corny and sometimes worse. He liked music. He did not like what they were doing with it. That...
Local artist depicts cycles of Teotl

Local artist depicts cycles of Teotl

The challenges and rewards involved in biological and cultural regeneration churn like undercurrents in the work of Alec Marin. Whether investigating the mechanisms that drive the brain’s neurorehabilitation following a stroke, teaching himself how to paint, or...
Let kids create

Let kids create

Well-known East Bay vocalist Miss Faye Carol was visiting a local prison with her band when she noticed another building going up next door. “You’re moving to a new facility?” she asked an official. “No, we’re doubling the...
Lara Beitz works clips and crowds 

Lara Beitz works clips and crowds 

Los Angeles comedian Lara Beitz has performed her unique brand of dry, accessible and smart stand-up comedy since 2011. Beitz has appeared on Showtime, Comedy Central and The Late Late Show with James Corden. And the best...
Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg interweave trees, time and technology

Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg interweave trees, time and technology

What we now know as Muir Woods became a national monument in 1908. But scientists believe the oldest coast redwood in Muir Woods is at least 1,200 years old. It has stood through the times of the...
TILT: Stories on the Edge comes to the Marsh Arts Center 

TILT: Stories on the Edge comes to the Marsh Arts Center 

If someone gathered together 100 people, they would hear 100 different stories. Coming up on Thursday, Feb. 12, at the Marsh Arts Center is TILT: Stories on the Edge. It’s a collection of storytellers, story slam champions,...
Life saver: Reviewing Jacob Ming-Trent's 'How Shakespeare Saved My Life'

Life saver: Reviewing Jacob Ming-Trent’s ‘How Shakespeare Saved My Life’

So much is said by us theater artists about theater being our sanctuary, and how theater ‘saved us’ by giving us a place to belong.  However, as Jacob Ming-Trent makes clear in his new one-man show How...
Love Power: Wong Kar Wai retrospective lights up BAMPFA

Love Power: Wong Kar Wai retrospective lights up BAMPFA

When the name Wong Kar Wai first lit up stateside screens in the early 1990s, it was as if a bolt of lightning had suddenly struck the Hong Kong film scene, and now its energy was radiating...
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