REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: My top 10 arts events from 2012 Some of my favorite arts moments and events this year came from unexpected places. An impromptu piano concert overheard through a door, for instance. Or a phenomenal acting pe... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Jan 2, 2013 at 4:33 pm There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Jan 4, 2013 at 11:14 am.
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: The floating world A striking image waiting for me in my inbox upon my return from vacation. San Jose artist Kyoko Fischer won first place in the current juried print exhibition at the Pacific A... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Nov 15, 2012 at 3:55 pm
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: Why black and white? Why black and white? Why not, if you can make a ceiling lamp look like a marvelous stained-glass fractal without any color?
Fine-art photographer Cole Thompson, he of the l... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Oct 16, 2012 at 3:55 pm
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: Play in progress So there wasn’t a stunning set to take a photo of. But with a staged reading of a musical that’s still being written, you expect to see the seams. This weekend we caught the t... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Aug 21, 2012 at 10:45 am
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: 'Illumination' My up-close photo of “Illumination,” a 2006 mixed-media work by Menlo Park artist Marianne Lettieri. It’s on display at the Triton Museum, which has truly wonderful air condit... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Aug 13, 2012 at 10:37 am
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: 'Double Take' photo contest There’s another opportunity to get your eagle eye recognized at the spiffed-up Palo Alto Art Center: Submit your best photo of Patrick Dougherty’s whimsical tree sculpture “Do... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Jul 30, 2012 at 10:33 am
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: Last one standing What’s all this I hear about arts being in trouble in the schools? Why, this mural was doing just fine at Hillview Middle School in Menlo Park the other day. At least for the ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Jul 19, 2012 at 12:30 pm
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: Music in Menlo Is it a scene at the newly renamed Menlo Hub? Looks that way in a story coming this Friday written by my star intern, Maytal Mark. ...
To read the rest of this post (and to... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Jul 18, 2012 at 3:20 pm
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: Autumn in Palo Alto Could this Palo Alto fall be more glorious? I don't know why the colors are so stunning this year, but I'm thankful. Even the crunched-up yellow leaves that are piling up on t... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Dec 1, 2011 at 2:22 pm There have been 4 comments on this topic, the most recent on Jan 19, 2012 at 10:09 am.
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: Mr. Congeniality at the Cantor I have a confession: I get in trouble a lot at the Cantor Arts Center.
I know, arts editors should be setting a good example. But I go into exhibits with my little reporter... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Oct 19, 2011 at 4:32 pm
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: From Emily to Georgia Busy Palo Alto playwright Sharmon J. Hilfinger is having her seventh full-length play produced in the Bay Area. It seems like we just wrote about "Tell It Slant," the play wit... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Sep 23, 2011 at 11:46 am
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: Woodsider at the War Memorial Almanac reporter Dave Boyce wrote a nice story this week about young Henry Phipps, a 12-year-old Woodside resident who's spending his September singing in the San Francisco Op... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Sep 20, 2011 at 2:22 pm
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: Ten years ago, ten years later As I write about the 9/11 memorial events this weekend, I think about the Mozart Requiem concert happening Sunday in Stanford's Memorial Church and imagine how peaceful the ai... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Sep 8, 2011 at 9:43 am There have been 3 comments on this topic, the most recent on Sep 23, 2011 at 11:18 am.
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Keith Raffel: Doubling the odds in book publishing It's not an easy thing to find lasting, lucrative success as a novelist. So this year Palo Alto mystery/thriller author Keith Raffel is trying to double the odds.
After pub... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Aug 12, 2011 at 3:31 pm
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: Music@Menlo: Lovely, lilting Lieder Everyone in theater knows this old saw: "Bad dress rehearsal, good opening night." Maybe the Music@Menlo folks should have worried when the last rehearsal for the Aug. 2 conce... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Aug 4, 2011 at 4:46 pm
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: Art on foot To take a truly informed science-art-nature walk on the Stanford campus, it's nice to have a museum docent, an earth-sciences dean, a curator and a bunch of professors with yo... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Jul 20, 2011 at 1:37 pm
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: A swinging eve on the ave We tried out our best East Coast Swing moves last Saturday eve on the ave (California). One of the best swing bands around, Steve Lucky and the Rhumba Bums, played a free show... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Jul 11, 2011 at 4:57 pm
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: A muse to Matisse, a patron of art The Almanac, one of our sister papers, published a nice arts story this week about Sarah Stein: art collector, art-school patron and leader of art salons in her homes in Paris... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Jul 6, 2011 at 3:58 pm
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: A whole new world If you're a local theater-goer, you might think of James Monroe Iglehart as The Big Bad Wolf from TheatreWorks' 2005 production of "Into the Woods," or you might have seen him... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Jun 2, 2011 at 4:15 pm
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: Trees, Twain and time travel Michal Gavish, an artist whose creative home base is Palo Alto's Cubberley Studios, has a master's in painting and a portfolio that includes watercolors, painted sculptures an... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on May 19, 2011 at 11:18 am There have been 2 comments on this topic, the most recent on May 20, 2011 at 6:48 pm.
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: Hail to the hydrangeas Sometimes, in the clutter and spam of the email inbox, you just want a cushion of lush hydrangeas to rest your eyes on. I have the best job in the world.
Kudos to Viewpoint... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on May 11, 2011 at 4:18 pm
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: Whither water? I love the arcs of this photo: the way they complement each other, with nature mirroring the man-made world, or perhaps the other way around. Although the author and photograp... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Apr 21, 2011 at 3:49 pm
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: The real-deal meal? The basil goes in the side; ginger and limes on the other side; coconuts on top. Twist the dials and the machine spits out real, honest-to-goodness Thai food. You might want t... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Apr 7, 2011 at 12:21 pm
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: Remembering a relief effort "It is no light matter to be in the midst of a starving population and to be only able to feed about 10% of them." So said a relief worker during the effort to alleviate a wid... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Mar 30, 2011 at 3:41 pm
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: More trucks and cheese, please This is one of those Fridays when I'm left with several interesting tidbits that I wish could've made it into the print edition this week. Paper stretches only so far, especia... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Mar 25, 2011 at 4:37 pm
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