Much-admired Berkeley-based artist and designer Masako Miki is the 273rd artist in the MATRIX Program for Contemporary Art at the…
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.
An innovative, ambitious, and multilayered world premiere musical, “Paradise Square,” about the companionable life of Irish immigrants and free blacks…
“She is an artist’s artist, with a unique vision,” said Neal Benezra, director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern…
The national tour of “Dear Evan Hansen,” a contemporary, yet multi-generational, poignant yet uplifting musical show just rocketed into San…
“Holiday Sauce” is an amazing musical show by the super-talented Taylor Mac, who dazzles the audience with Mac’s unique personality,…
Often novels don’t translate well to the stage or screen, but Jonathan Safran Foer’s acclaimed 2002 debut novel “Everything is…
The significant new show at the de Young Museum (one of the San Francisco Fine Arts Museums, “FAMSF”) explores the…
The interrelationship between art and science in the first half of the 20th century is fascinatingly explored in the Berkeley…
Ever since His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah Al Thani of Qatar visited in 2009 the “Maharaja: The Splendour of…
In 1869, one-armed Civil War veteran Major John Wesley Powell, with nine other men and four wooden boats, explored the…
When the names of husband and wife, Charles Eames (1907-78), and (Bernice) Ray Eames (1912-88) are mentioned, most think of…
There are only a few more weeks left to see Aurora Theatre Company’s intense and moving production of “Detroit ’67,”…