If I’m remembering the family lore correctly, my parents brought three-year-old me to a screening of “Love Story” in 1970,…
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There are talented investigative journalists. There are outspoken activists, and there are those rare, self-sacrificing dissidents. Sometimes, there are those…
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Taking to the open road—and all that implies—is an idea deeply rooted in the American psyche. The beckoning freedom of…
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The Philadelphia Orchestra musicians are together again on the Verizon Hall stage in Philadelphia, in masks or positioned behind Plexiglas…
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Considered as one continuous, contiguous work, August Wilson’s “The Pittsburgh Cycle” (which spawned “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”) constitutes a survival…
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Diablo Ballet Artistic Director Lauren Jonas commissioned Julia Adam to locate her “Nutcracker Suite” in a hotel suite—San Francisco’s Hotel…
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The world premiere of the original and ingenious three-part audio drama, “The Flats,” is a prime example of how to…
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Berkeley’s own creative solo-performer, Josh Kornbluth, has a new and fascinating story to tell, live via Zoom. This engaging and…
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“Move,” a new, five-part documentary on Netflix which began streaming on October 23, offers portraits of a half-dozen working  dance…
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