Janos Gereben
Janos Gereben From refugee scholarship in Helena, MT, and Atchison, KS, Janos worked his way up from copy boy to the copy desk at the NY Herald-Tribune of blessed memory. When the Trib went under, he worked for TIME-LIFE, UPI Audio, then switched coasts, published the Kona Torch, was a reporter for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, and taught journalism at UH-Manoa. He received an Alicia Patterson Foundation fellowship, reported from the European political and cultural scene for a year. In the S.F. Bay Area, he worked as arts editor of the Post Newspaper Group/East Bay for 20 years, writes about performing arts and films for the S.F. Examiner, continues writing for the S.F. Classical Voice which he joined when Robert Commanday established this first professional online publication about music and dance. He also participated in the work of CultureVulture in the publication's first years.
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Writes in: Art & Architecture, Destinations, Etc, Features, Film, Music, and Theater.
FilmSan Francisco,
Sixty years doesn't seem a great length of time, but as the San Francisco International Film Festival is turning 60, it's holding a unique distinction of being the oldest such event in the Americas. (The world record ...
Art & ArchitectureSan Francisco,
The two great Sanskrit epic poems - "Ramayana" and "Mahabharata" - and Divali, the Hindu festival of lights, are treasured in most of Asia, and they have a universal appeal. Divali this year is observed as an official holiday on ...
TheaterSan Francisco,
October 11, 2016
Here's a play that could have turned into a yawner, but ended up as the opposite - engaging, vibrant, fascinating. The world premiere of Theresa Rebeck's "Seared" at the San Francisco Playhouse (http://sfplayhouse.org/sfph/2016-2017-season/seared/), which commissioned ...
DestinationsSan Francisco,
September 30, 2016
Renzo Piano's magnificent "all-glass see-through" California Academy of Sciences ([http://www.calacademy.org) in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park (across from another architectural wonder, Herzog & de Meuron's de Young Museum) had its eighth birthday three days ago. The ...
MusicSan Francisco,
The superbly melodic operas of Gaetano Donizetti represent a triumph of the human spirit over extreme adversities. Long before syphilis and bipolar disorder drove him into an insane asylum and then early death at age 51 in 1848, he had ...
MusicSan Francisco,
Ethnic support for opera in multi-ethnic San Francisco is a subject worth scholarly research, which is certainly not being offered here. These are only a few broad observations, leading to a point to be made soon.
Italians ...
FilmSan Francisco,
Ruan Ling-yu was among the biggest Chinese silent-film stars, acclaimed, adored, and compared to Greta Garbo. Her brief life - ending in suicide before turning 25 - seems just as mysterious as that of the great "I vant to ...
FeaturesSan Francisco,
San Francisco's Merola Opera Program does a world of good for super-talented young singers about to launch their careers, but this time an event might have given them an incorrect impression about what to expect from music directors.
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Film
The Great Raid is solid value - an honest, well-crafted, engrossing story. What can an obscure World War II episode offer six decades after the fact? A great deal when it's done as well as it is here. ...
Film
Click the poster to buy at MovieGoods.com Junebug is a quirky, moderately entertaining, mildly depressing, altogether frustrating work, with director Phil Morrison's many sudden stops in the action to contemplate an interior empty scene that has nothing ...