Art Review: SFAI MFA Students Overtake the Old Mint in 'Currency'
Source: KQED
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-19 06:10:02 -0700 | arts-culture-news
MFA Students Overtake the Old Mint in 'Currency' Geoffrey Traxler, Untitled , 2013. With its MFA exhibition in a new venue every year, the San Francisco Art Institute challenges both its graduate students and the final exhibition's audience to rethink...
Theater Review: Everybody's Helen of Troy at EXIT Theatre's DIVAfest
Source: KQED
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-18 06:05:20 -0700 | arts-culture-news
You can catch up on the discussion on blogs such as Works by Women San Francisco and the Counting Actors Project ...There are just two full plays: Melissa Fall's black comedy You're Going to Bleed and The Helen Project ,...
The Bay Bridged: Mixtape: San Francisco's Newest Psychedelic Sounds
Source: KQED
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-16 06:32:30 -0700 | arts-culture-news
San Francisco's Newest Psychedelic Sounds Date Palms Listen to the new Bay Bridged mix of Bay Area psych-rock, featuring Lumerians, Disappearing People, Golden Void, Coo Coo Birds, Barn Owl, and more. It's almost 18 months since we last did a...
Theater Review: 'Black Watch' Reveals War is Hellish, and Aesthetically Dynamic
Source: KQED
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-15 14:01:48 -0700 | arts-culture-news
Black Watch' Reveals War is Hellish, and Aesthetically Dynamic Scottish bagpipes, Scottish song, bonnets and kilts appear out of place on a battlefield in Fallujah where war is fought with 21st-century assault weapons and high tech artillery. In Black Watch...
Yadegaran: Fight multiple sclerosis with Napa's Counter Punch
Source: San Jose Mercury News
Santa Barbara :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-13 17:22:02 -0700 | arts-culture-news
The only difference is that Hare had no fortune or vineyards, just a decadeslong dream to start his own winery and no idea what the second paragraph of his business plan would say. In an industry fast becoming a monoculture...
Pop Culture: 'My Drunk Kitchen' and YouTube's Self-Deprecating Goddess
Source: KQED
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-11 07:45:14 -0700 | arts-culture-news
My Drunk Kitchen' and YouTube's Self-Deprecating Goddess In the mood for a cooking show?...The show is a YouTube cooking and comedy series created by Hannah "Harto" Hart, a native San Franciscan and Japanese translator living in New York City. The...
Five wines for Mother's Day
Source: San Jose Mercury News
Santa Cruz :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-10 12:58:21 -0700 | arts-culture-news
According to the Wine Institute, women represent 52 percent of the adult population but they purchase nearly 60 percent of wine consumed at home in the United States. How much of that is enjoyed after a day of soccer practice,...
Easter breads celebrate the holiday with yeasty, buttery goodness
Source: San Jose Mercury News
Rome :: Italy | updated 2013-05-09 13:35:02 -0700 | arts-culture-news
All the dietary deprivations of Lent give way to indulgent celebration on Easter Sunday -- and we're not just talking chocolate bunnies. Many European cultures that celebrate Easter do so with a rich, yeasty bread that stops the show, whether...
Noise Pop: May 2013
Source: KQED
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-08 13:43:40 -0700 | arts-culture-news
May 2013 Deafheaven Listen to the Noise Pop mix of red-hot tunes for May, featuring Twigs, Cayucas, Chance The Rapper, King Tuff, Deafheaven and more. Maybe it was the week of freakishly hot (for San Francisco) weather and the start...
Perfect breakfast fare for Mother's Day
Source: San Jose Mercury News
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-07 16:40:52 -0700 | arts-culture-news
Mother's Day has become nearly synonymous with breakfast in bed, a late morning repast prepared by loving children and served, stickily, with a side of blossoms. And if that breakfast spread includes blackened toast or strangely crunchy eggs ... well,...
Review: Martinez's Barrel Aged serves fine comfort food
Source: San Jose Mercury News
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-07 14:48:03 -0700 | arts-culture-news
The Martinez gastropub looks and feels like the fictitious Regal Beagle, from the locals-only vibe to the groovy, crescent-shaped red leather booths. But there are plenty of modern things to love about this comfort food spot, including the charming service...
Top chef Curtis Stone tells you 'What's for Dinner?'
Source: San Jose Mercury News
San Jose :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-06 18:05:33 -0700 | arts-culture-news
05/06/2013 05:17:45 PM PDT Curtis Stone has spent a lot of time in American home kitchens. For two years, the now-famous Australian chef would ambush female grocery shoppers and offer to cook dinner for their family that night with the...
Glazing, what good vegetables deserve
Source: San Jose Mercury News
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-05-06 17:38:16 -0700 | arts-culture-news
They buy hand-forged Japanese chef knives, seek out $50 bottles of olive oil and spend hours preparing elaborately composed dishes from "The French Laundry Cookbook" or "Eleven Madison Park." But a lot of them have never even heard of one...
On Wine: Wines of Uruguay
Source: San Jose Mercury News
Canelones :: Uruguay | updated 2013-05-06 12:22:57 -0700 | arts-culture-news
PDT A lot of Californians probably aren't even sure where Uruguay is (southern South America, bordering Brazil and Argentina), let alone that it's the continent's fourth-largest wine producer. Not many of the country's wines make it here, and the signature...
'Bottle Rock': Alabama Shakes cocktail, anyone?
Source: San Jose Mercury News
San Jose :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-05-06 12:22:55 -0700 | arts-culture-news
Font Resize With its heady mix of wine, food and rock 'n' roll, Napa Valley's Bottle Rock music festival has become quite the hot ticket. Sixty bands -- including Kings of Leon, Alabama Shakes, The Flaming Lips and The Black...
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