ONSTAGE For those unfamiliar with Fiorello LaGuardia, the friend-of-the-working class Republican who fought Tammany Hall to become the 99th Mayor of New York City, the...
ONSTAGE Here’s something you may not know: There’s a 60-year-old musical about Fiorello La Guardia, who went from being a lawyer to a congressman to...
SCREEN GRABS As if nothing mattered but the Oscars on Sunday (harrumph!), there are no major Hollywood releases this weekend, and few notable arthouse ones....
Read part 1 of our coverage here. Three days ago, anthropologists Seth M. Holmes, Fabian Fernandez, and Levi Vonk returned to UC Berkeley after meeting...
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT Filipinos remember a disaster that hit their country 35 years ago.
This year marks the 35th anniversary of the assassination of Philippine leader...
Shawna Lucey has strong feeling about Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca, which she directs for the San Francisco Opera October 3-30.
“It’s the perfect opera,” she said. “It’s...
SCREEN GRABS While you could say the annual fall sprawl of anticipatory “awards season” has already begun—with the Venice, Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals that...