ARTS & LIFE
‘On Your Feet!’ contains romping celebration of Cuban and Latinx artistry
“On Your Feet!” is a biographical jukebox musical of 26-time Grammy Award-winning duo of Gloria and Emilio Estefan, featuring music...
Read more9 Acts to check out at Treasure Island Music Festival
In less than a week’s time, I will be heading to the Treasure Island Music Festival (TIMF) as it kicks...
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Powell and Pressburger portray two wonderful worlds in ‘A Matter of Life and Death’
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger began shooting their film “A Matter of Life and Death” in September 1945. A month...
Read more‘Dystopian Dream’ is an aggressively digestible dance piece
“Dystopian Dream” was performed at Memorial Auditorium on Friday and Saturday night, featuring dance Wang Ramirez (Honji Wang and Sébastien...
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In ‘The Awful Truth,’ McCarey crafts a comedy about class
The awful truth is that husband and wife Jerry and Lucy Warriner love each other, but, as Lucy notes, there’s...
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In ‘El Sur,’ Victor Erice contemplates childhood
If, as the writer Charles Baudelaire asserted, “genius is childhood recalled at will,” then the Spanish director Victor Erice is...
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ACT’s ‘Sweat’ is a masterclass in contemporary American theater
ACT’s production of “Sweat” is some of the finest Bay Area theater you might ever see. Founded in Lynn Nottage’s...
Read moremilo’s alpha and omega
In light of the announcement that milo is over following the release of his most recent (and therefore ultimate) album...
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