Just as the U.S. presidential candidates begin to blanket the airwaves with promises that we doubt they can keep, along…
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.
As a special treat to keep your winter blues at the doorstep, PBS’s Masterpiece Theatre is presenting six of Jane…
The last time there were hordes of foreign visitors on Italy’s Mount Grappa was during the First World War. Now…
Brimming with the finest English actors, directed with great skill, finished with high production values and based on the entertaining…
The first all-new ninety-minute series of Inspector Lewis airs on PBS’ Masterpiece Mysteries, The Men of Mystery, Sunday evenings beginning…
A grand new production of Sense and Sensibility marks Masterpiece Theatre’s best and last of its series, The Complete Jane…
The Tudors, an exuberant and engrossing series about young King Henry VIII, begins on Showtime on April 1st at 10:00…
Six episodes of a new television version of the popular Chicago Public Radio/Public Radio International show, This American Life, will…
Good News—Season Two of The Tudors, the engrossing and lavish series about King Henry VIII, begins on Showtime on…
The fourth series of the applauded British ITV series, Foyle’s War, recently aired on PBS’ Mystery, now joins the first…
I don’t know many people who list Denmark as their absolute favorite tourist destination, yet with its modern design aesthetic,…
San Francisco Fine Arts Museum Legion of Honor March 1 – May 25, 2008 http://www.famsf.org/legion/exhibitions/exhibition.asp?exhibitionkey=818 The exhibition of Annie Leibovitz’s…
San Francisco Fine Arts Museum de Young February 16, 2008-May 18, 2008 http://www.famsf.org/deyoung/exhibitions/exhibition.asp?exhibitionkey=805 Gilbert & George are idiosyncratic artists who…
As someone old enough to have been aware of Richard Serra’s career for most of the forty years this show…