Ballet, roses and ice cream flashed though my mind when I heard the former Soviet republic of Georgia was being occupied by the Russian Army. Most of all, I was concerned that, although Russia's key focus was on the town of Gori, Georgia's capital, Tbilisi, might also be a target of the "Great Bear's" SS-21 missiles.
Dance Review / Zaccho dancers slip through time in Yerba Buena show (San Francisco Chronicle) 19 August 2008Joanna Haigood has staged dances off the side of the Ferry Building clock tower and from the rafters at San Francisco International Airport. By comparison, the site of her new "The Shifting Cornerstone," at the corner of Mission and Third streets, might seem...
ARTS & CULTURE (East Bay Express) 13 August 2008As great a comedy as A Midsummer Night's Dream is, it's easy to get tired of it, if only because there are so many opportunities to do so.
Revel in gaiety of dreamy Bard tale (Contra Costa Times) 08 August 2008Really, love has never been like the Hallmark cards, all hearts, flowers and squishy sentiment.Love, particularly at the beginning, is a wild, mysterious, breathtaking, joyous and frightening ride across bumpy and uncharted territory — Shakespeare knew this when he wrote "A Midsummer Night's
Arts & Entertainment: (Berkeley Daily Planet) 31 July 2008Above a leaf-pattern carpet, the narrow eyes and wry smile of a strange man look out through foliage, a funny portrait above the mantel. Or are the leaves growing from his face? (The painting is King of the Green Men, by Brian Froud.)