The Grateful Dead
Checking out Día de los Muertos at Maude Kerns Art Center
If the dead come back it’s usually not to picnic. But that’s how Melissa Sikes represents skeletons back from the dead in one of her … Continue reading
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Having it All
Grammy award winner Jason Mraz talks his upcoming tour, new musical endeavors and farming coffee
Jason Mraz is walking through his farm in Southern California, harvesting figs and dealing with the occasional weed as he talks on the phone to … Continue reading
Guerillas in the Mist
Talking open-heart surgery and plant cognition with New York’s Guerilla Toss
Guerilla Toss play music that could only come from the urban environs of New York City — over-stimulated and arty, crowded with ideas, and existing … Continue reading
State of Emergency
VLT tilts at Trump with a production of Sinclair Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here
“Problematic” is one of the more overused and hence meaningless words in the critical/academic lexicon, denoting, with a shrug that is at once coy and … Continue reading
Hell and High Water
Two men descend into madness in Robert Eggers’ brilliant psychodrama The Lighthouse
Far, far less interested am I in revealing the content of The Lighthouse than in praising the sheer artistic audacity and emotional wallop of this … Continue reading
Persuasive Synth
Com Truise brings emotional synthwave to the WOW Hall
Seth Haley, who emits slow-motion computer pop under his alias Com Truise, seems to beam his music from a neo-futurist spacecraft tucked away in the … Continue reading
Waxing Comedic
Another take on Cottage Theatre’s current comic production of Shakespeare (Abridged)
Expectant chatter filled the scantly renovated Cottage Theatre this past weekend for the Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), their first production since last spring. … Continue reading
World In Collapse
Monos reminds us why Hollywood expectations should shatter
All art is global and universal, but cinema — with its full dimensions of sound, image, language, worlds within worlds — is particularly so. The … Continue reading
Latinx Voices
In its second season of existence, the dance ensemble Company Movimiento has sharpened its focus to take on the broad topics of social justice for … Continue reading
Get Happy
Stop worrying and listen to Cory Wong
Cory Wong was put on this Earth to make you happy. “Every artist has a North Star that drives them — their passion, their motivation,” … Continue reading