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Sep 2, 2020

More Than a Book Club

Kimberly Ford believes that a book club is a fine and wonderful thing for those who love to read. But she wants local book lovers to know that what she does is not a book club.
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Sep 2, 2020

Stand Upload

Like nearly all performing artists, stand-up comics are laboring to figure out how to connect with audiences during the pandemic, when the tried-and-true dynamic of live performance is denied them. It is a brave new world where the iconic brick wall of the comedy club has been replaced by the online Zoom room, forcing the working class of comedians to make an uncomfortable choice.
Aug 12, 2020

Portrait of a Broken System

These figures are included in a new book with the lapel-grabbing title The Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech by William Deresiewicz. Ek's remarks could have indeed served as a kind of publicity campaign for Deresiewicz's book, a big-picture narrative drawn from interviews of about 140 artists across a variety of artforms that attempts to map out the daunting prospects for making a living as a creative artist in today's tech-dominated world.
Mar 11, 2020

Steel Betty at Carriage House Theatre

Straight out of the musical hotbed of Austin, Texas, comes Steel Betty, an all-acoustic trio of multi-instrumentalists who reflect the crazy quilt of today’s...
Mar 11, 2020

Dreamers’ Circus at Bing Studio

Dreamers’ Circus is a trio out of Copenhagen, Denmark that fuses classical music and Nordic folk (with jazz influences as well), a formula that...
Mar 11, 2020

Dreamers' Circus at Bing Studio

Dreamers’ Circus is a trio out of Copenhagen, Denmark that fuses classical music and Nordic folk (with jazz influences as well), a formula that...
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Mar 11, 2020

All Talk, No Sense

From where stand-up comic Colin Quinn sits, the American paradox circa 2020 is pretty clear: We are drowning in opinion, yet starved for honesty.
Mar 4, 2020

‘They Promised Her the Moon’ at Lucie Stern Theatre

This latest production by TheatreWorks Silicon Valley—a Northern California premiere—tells the story of Jerrie Cobb, an accomplished aviator who might have become America’s first...
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