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[Pretty Sure]
"My Jewish Museum" (Olios;
May 2008) *New*
[Review]
Word for Word Theatre
Production Brings A lone spotlight is ignited and the bare stage of the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre lights up with the anonymous glow of a city street corner: “I read about in the paper, in the subway, on the way to work. I read it, and I couldn’t believe it, and I read it again.” >>>Read more
[Pretty Sure]
"Tales of Dietary Madness" (Olios;
March 2008)
[Comment]:
Virtual Fence Fails Border Test, by Jeff Myhre, PhD. The Bush administration and a great many Americans had been counting on a “virtual fence” along America’s border with Mexico to dramatically reduce illegal immigration into the US. Those hopes were dashed yesterday when the Heimatschutzministerium’s spokesman Gregory L. Giddens announced, “we . . . have delayed our deployment as we work through the issues on Project 28. >>>Read more
[Essay]:
Starbucks: A Beauty that is Skin Deep, by
Christopher Gerber. Yesterday, while walking on Market Street in San Francisco, I came across a Starbucks between Stockton and Grant. Sure, this is nothing unusual, because we do find a Starbucks on almost every other corner these days. I entered the shop and was engulfed by the familiarity of my environment. >>>Read more
[Review]
Herbie Hancock Receives
two 2008 Grammies: Looking back at his San
Francisco Performance at the Masonic, November
11th, 2007, by Steven Mayers In a ceremony that usually snubs the jazz and classical worlds, the Grammies, Herbie Hancock was awarded the “Best Album” and “Best Contemporary Jazz Album” awards last Sunday for his 2007 album, The River: The Joni Letters, beating out Amy Winehouse, Kanye West, and the Foo Fighters. >>>Read more
[Comment]:
Predictions for 2008, by Jeff Myhre, PhD. Now that the ball has dropped in Times Square and 2008 is officially here, a few predictions about the year ahead are in order. >>>Read more
[Pretty Sure]
"The Redemption of Michael Vick" (Olios; December 2007) *New*
[Review] Dynamics: The Ahmad Jamal Trio at the Herbst Theatre on Sunday, October 27, 2007, by Steven Mayers The Herbst Theatre fills up just before seven with almost all of the seats taken, and the band – James Cammack on bass and James Johnson, a Lincoln Center drummer, filling in for Idris Mohammad – takes the stage pick up their instruments, the members of the trio nodding to each other, and Ahmad Jamal is off on a lingering robatto introduction to the first song, a new ballad, full of trickling descents and ascents of chromatic staircases and steep climbs and falls up and down diminished shoots, only the crashing breaks bringing the band together out of the ever-changing tempos. >>>Read more |
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