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Top Ten Theatrical Moments

Alicia Coombes — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 05:55:01 +0000

As a theater professional, I’ve seen more plays than I can count. Picking favorites is tough since I base my opinion on a number of considerations: the experience as a whole, technical elements, various aesthetic choices…The list goes on. Therefore, it is almost impossible for me to tell people which shows they should see since [&hellip

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Interview with Poet erica lewis

Alicia Coombes — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:55:30 +0000

Poet erica lewis’ third publication, murmur in the inventory, was released this month. murmur in the inventory is lewis’ first published book project that isn’t part of a collaboration with an artist and does not contain a visual arts pairing, letting the poetry stand alone in a way that it has not before. A graduate of Northwestern [&hellip

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Interview with Shiloh Sophia McCloud, founder of Cosmic Cowgirls

Alicia Coombes — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:24:00 +0000

Shiloh Sophia McCloud has dedicated nearly two decades of her life to practicing and sharing the creative arts. Six years ago, she founded Cosmic Cowgirls, INK – a multi-faceted woman-owned company consisting of a magazine, university and publishing house. McCloud has worked with tens of thousands of women online and in person through interactive journals, [&hellip

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Feature: Your Body Is Not A Shark

Alicia Coombes — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 21:30:01 +0000

Choreographer Cid Pearlman and her collaborators don’t see limitations as being negative. Pearlman and three other women — Denise Leto (poet), Maya Barsacq (musical director) and Joan Jeanraud (composer/cello) — recently came together to create Your Body is Not a Shark, a performance piece that combines dance, live music and sound collage. The piece plays off of [&hellip

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Interview: Christine Young of Works by Women SF

Alicia Coombes — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 21:18:00 +0000

Christine Young, the Theatre Program Coordinator at the University of San Francisco and director who specializes in new play development, has recently headed up the launch of a new website called Works by Women SF. Based on the grassroots feminist movement in New York called 50/50 in 2020, a movement that promotes gender parity in [&hellip

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Review: Laura Cunningham’s “Before California”

Alicia Coombes — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 06:10:28 +0000

Laura Cunningham’s Before California exhibit at the Hazel Wolf Gallery in Berkeley is small but information-packed. A few walls showcase less than a dozen oil paintings and photographs side-by-side, opening up into a larger room dominated by sketches of native flora and a mural of a grizzly bear, two condors and an elk. Condors, elk and [&hellip

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Interview with Kimberly Rose Wendt and Eloisa Bravo of Bitchslap!

Alicia Coombes — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 08:10:33 +0000

Despite the long-running success of many female comedians, the world of stand-up has been traditionally dominated by men, and comedians from Johnny Carson to Adam Corolla have declaimed women for not being funny. However, comedians Eloisa Bravo and Kimberly Rose Wendt know that these naysayers are wrong. After sharing a stage several times and running [&hellip

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Interview with Cake Artist Michelle Cockle-Persoff

Alicia Coombes — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 03:11:20 +0000

Michelle Cockle-Persoff is a versatile artist who paints, sculpts and designs. She just happens to do so through the edible medium of cake and pastries. Cockle-Persoff’s creations range from large wedding-style cakes to small birthday cakes and everywhere in between. Raised in a tiny town in Colorado, she received a BA in Music at Fort [&hellip

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Review: NW by Zadie Smith

Alicia Coombes — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 05:45:47 +0000

It is a rare occasion to read a book and feel it messing with your head: such is the case with Zadie Smith’s newest novel, NW. Titled after the postal code of northwest London in which it is set, NW gives readers a glimpse into the lives of four people — Leah, Keisha (renamed Natalie [&hellip

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Morgan Thorson’s Spaceholder Festival

Alicia Coombes — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 04:01:36 +0000

What do an auctioneer, an archaeological dig, your trash from last year and repetitive movement have in common? Choreographer and 2010 Guggenheim Fellow Morgan Thorson might have an answer in her latest dance performance piece, Spaceholder Festival, playing at the ODC Theater in San Francisco on October 5, 6 and 7. After reading some of [&hellip

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