Emily S. MendelArt & ArchitectureSan Francisco,
After six endlessly long months of closure, four San Francisco Museums, the de Young Museum (opening September 25, 2020), the Asian Art Museum (October 3, 2020), SFMOMA (October 4, 2020), and The Contemporary Jewish Museum (October 17, 2020) are re-opening to the public. All are permitting only reduced capacity ...
Lynne FriedmannTheaterSan Diego,
Speaking truth to power takes on profound new meaning when the parties involved are abolitionist Frederick Douglass and President Abraham Lincoln. Here’s your chance to be a fly on the wall as these great men meet in “Necessary Sacrifices,” a west coast streaming premiere by North Coast Rep. ...
Emily S. MendelArt & ArchitectureOakland,
"The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the object. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be." — Dorothea Lange In a serendipitous ...
Emily S. MendelTheaterSan Francisco,
Talented playwright Madhuri Shekar won the “2013-14 Kendeda Graduate Playwrighting Contest” for the engaging rom-com “In Love and Warcraft,” and it has been successfully produced around the United States ever since. The tender two-act play (2 hours, including one 10-minute intermission) follows a slice of college life, focusing on ...
Karren LaLonde AlenierFilm
Prejudice, procreation, and mixed marriage form a comic triangle in The Last Conception by director Gabriela Ledesma. The story centers on a 30-year-old Indian American woman whose immigrant parents insist that she must marry and produce a child to carry on their lineage. Their only other child, a daughter, ...
Paula FarmerFilm
Never have the stakes seemingly been so high for the ACLU than the last few years. Since Donald Trump took office in 201, the already thinly stretched staff of the ACLU, have been working overtime tackling key, high profile cases, clocking in a whopping 173 lawsuits against the Trump ...
Emily S. MendelFilm
This compelling, emotionally-charged, human, and humane documentary follows four recent and critical legal cases and the dedicated and driven American Civil Liberties Union attorneys who fight for the victims behind the headlines. The ACLU, a 100-year-old nonprofit organization, is not immune to controversy, nor should it ...
Todd B. GruelEtc
The Makings of an Article (Plus Living Will) Forgive the bold introduction. But it hurts. As a willing writer, my back, bank account, and odds for salaried employment within the arts all hurt the same. After devoting the last five years to a barrage of writing ...
Emily S. MendelTheaterBerkeley,
One of the ironies of living through a pandemic is that when we most need to be engaged, enlightened, and entertained by live theater, we can’t be. Although our local theaters are dimmed, they are nevertheless working hard to provide entertainment and education to their constituents. ...
Lynne FriedmannTheaterSan Diego,
Two couples utilize the services of a fertility clinic. Good news: There’s now a baby on the way! Bad news: Couple A’s embryo was mistakenly given to Couple B. To the already high emotional stakes, add this wrinkle: One couple is mixed race and liberal; the ...
