This terrific new ten-part HBO series, part dark comedy, part cautionary tale, explores a geopolitical world crisis…
Emily S. Mendel
Emily S. Mendel, a writer, and photographer, has been a regular contributor to culturevulture.net since 2006, where she concentrates her reviews on San Francisco theater and art. As a native New Yorker (although now a long-time San Francisco Bay Area resident), Emily grew up loving and studying theater, from Off to On Broadway, as her multi-volume Playbill collection attests. Ending her 30-year law practice has given Ms. Mendel the time to indulge in her love of travel and the arts.
Soon Aidan Turner will join other Masterpiece hunks and heroes as the new heartthrob of the PBS set, as the…
Mera and Don Rubell, prominent art patrons of the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, visited China six times in the…
Finally, a film about the life of iconic blues singer, Bessie Smith (1894 – 1937) will air…
We often wonder why tragedies occur, particularly when they affect good people. It’s a question as old as the story…
Celebrated author Lanford Wilson (1937–2011) won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for “Talley’s Folly,” a tender two-person, one-act romantic…
HBO’s award-winning “Veep” has reached new heights of political fun and games in the upcoming fourth season. The fabulous creative…
Two new excellent exhibitions about 17th- to 19th-century Japanese art and culture grace San Francisco’s well-respected Asian Art Museum, the…
The U.K.’s newest mystery hit from ITV makes its first U.S. appearance on Masterpiece in six episodes starting January 18….
An extremely entertaining Season 5 of “Downton Abbey” continues the spellbinding costume drama created and written by Oscar-winning writer Julian…
The brilliant film “Mr. Turner” examines the great, albeit, peculiar, British Romantic landscape and seascape painter, Joseph Mallord William Turner…
An intimate power struggle between Robert Mugabe, the President of Zimbabwe, and Dr. Andrew Peric, a white Zimbabwean psychiatrist, is…