DIGITAL RENAISSANCE; ARTISTS CREATE DISPLAYS WITH TECHNOLOGICAL AND SCIENTIFIC TOOLS
* WHAT: “High Tech/Low Tech Hybrids: Art in a Digital Age” * WHERE: Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Civic Drive at Locust Street, Walnut Creek * WHEN: 5:30-7:30 p.m. public reception today Through June 16. Gallery hours are noon-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Sundays, 6-8 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and…
LOCAL AWARD NOMINEES RESERVE THEIR OSCAR SEATS
Honor. Recognition. Esteem. Validation for one’s craft. Tedious. A popularity contest. Self-centered aggrandizing. Regardless of which opinion, if not both, one might hold about the Academy Awards, the question is: Would you go if you were invited? With perhaps the notable exception of best actor nominee and Ross resident Sean…
SWEET MAGIC OF SPIELBERG’S ‘E.T.’ IS STILL THERE
Twenty years is far too long an absence between friends. Much of the ink on the 20th anniversary re-release of “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” has been on its legacy. It gave director Steven Spielberg the courage to pursue later projects such as “The Color Purple,” “Schindler’s List” and “Saving Private Ryan.”…
VOICES OF PASSION AND VISION; COSE DISHES OUT HARD TRUTHS, DELIVERS ENCOURAGING NEWS
San Francisco White men feel sexually threatened by them. White women covet them. Black women try to hang onto them and children hunger for their love. Or so it is written in Toni Morrison’s 1973 novel “Sula.” “And if that ain’t enough,” Morrison writes, “you love yourselves. Nothing in the…
BREAKING THE MOLD; GET WITH DEPROGRAM AND RESIST BRIDAL BRAINWASHING
Marriage may be an institution, but bridedom is a cult. The cult has long led a bride to believe she is doomed to drop from the sky, wearing a polyester-taffeta parachute, into a circle of attendants in matching mauve. She then will toss a bouquet equivalent in cost to the…
POUNDSTONE: FORGIVENESS AFTER THE FALL
[MRF1] KARL MONDON/Times [JEN2] See POUNDSTONE, Page 2 “You don’t stand up for a felon, you idiots.” Bay Area audiences may not have the fine manners to show up on time for an 8 p.m. show, but they do have the heart to forgive. Stepping on-stage to a sold-out, standing-ovation…
THERE’S NO SHAME IN BEING A “FLOWER” CHILD
I AM ABOUT to make a shameful admission. I have never seen “Miss Saigon” or “Madame Butterfly” — nor do I care to. I have seen “Flower Drum Song” — maybe two, maybe five times. A public confession like this compromises me on several fronts: my integrity as a pop…
REVIEW: FOR A VAMPIRE STORY, “QUEEN” IS A BIT ANEMIC
“Queen of the Damned” tells you what it’s like to be a vampire. Actually, it gives you a sense of what it’s like to sleep 200 years in a crypt. Despite blood-slurping, a Goth rock score and even the chilling resurrection of Aaliyah as the title character, this third installment…
The show must go on: Hollywood resurrects deceased stars
Buried in a silver-plated coffin, Aaliyah Dana Houghton will be revived in movie theaters nationwide Friday in “Queen of the Damned,” in what must be one of the more macabre roles a dead star can have: a vampire. When an overburdened twin-engine Cessna 402 crashed last August during take-off from…
I SEE DEAD ACTORS; THE SHOW MUST GO ON: HOLLYWOOD RESURRECTS DECEASED STARS
BURIED IN A silver-plated coffin, Aaliyah Dana Houghton will be revived in movie theaters nationwide Friday in “Queen of the Damned,” in what must be one of the more macabre roles a dead star can have: a vampire. When an overburdened twin-engine Cessna 402 crashed last August during take-off from…