At Alcatraz: Ai Wei Wei’s Art Challenges Oppression
Currently on view at Alcatraz is @Large, an impressive, site-specific installation of the work of 57-year-old Chinese artist and political activist Ai Wei Wei. Ai […]
Category: ARTS & CULTURE
With Selma, Brilliant Film Director Challenges Hollywood’s Ways
Selma. The name, heavy with meaning during the Civil Rights Movement of the 60s, has reclaimed much of its significance with director Ava DuVernay’s recent […]
Zoe Fyfe: A Life Devoted to Dance
In 1995, Zoe Fyfe turned her barn in Vermont into a dance studio and opened it up to adults and children alike. In 1996, she […]
Chunky Move Makes Australian Contemporary Dance Cool
Contemporary Dance. Back in the mid 1900s, the contemporary dance scene in Melbourne, Australia wasn’t much of anything. In America, Paul Taylor was taking the […]
What It’s Really Like To Be a Chef
“What’s the best thing your dad makes?” “I bet you have amazing dinners!” “Do you get really good food at home?” These are just a […]
What Happened on Democalypse 2014?
I anticipated the airing of The Daily Show’s “Democalypse 2014: America Remembers It Forgot to Vote” on Tuesday night, knowing fully that I was in for […]
Keith Haring: Pop Art with a Sharp Social Jab
de Young hours: Tuesdays- Sundays 9:30-5:15 Fridays 9:30-8:45 Keith Haring: The Political Line opened at the de Young museum on November 8, and runs until […]
Brown Sugar Kitchen: Tasty, Great Soul Food in Oakland
I took a seat in the cushioned carmine red chair at the counter and put my hunger aside to scope out the scene around me. It […]
The Transformers Comic is Truly More Than Meets the Eye
The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye made me cry. Yes, it’s about Transformers. No, the title is not a trick. A “sitcom, soap opera […]
Yet Another Film Review: The Good, the Bad, the Weird
Kim Jee-woon’s The Good, the Bad, the Weird is a charming, complex, flawed, and impeccably strange film. The plot twists and turns, sometimes predictably, sometimes […]
