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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... |
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on Jan 4, 2013 at 11:14 am by LaurieN, a resident of the Charleston Meadows neighborhood |
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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... |
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on Nov 15, 2012 at 3:55 pm by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly |
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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... |
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on Oct 16, 2012 at 3:55 pm by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly |
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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... |
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on Aug 21, 2012 at 10:45 am by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly |
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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... |
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on Aug 13, 2012 at 10:37 am by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly |
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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... |
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on Jul 30, 2012 at 10:33 am by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly |
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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 ... |
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on Jul 19, 2012 at 12:30 pm by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly |
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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... |
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on Jul 18, 2012 at 3:20 pm by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly |
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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... |
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on Jan 19, 2012 at 10:09 am by Bill, a resident of another community |
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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... |
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on Oct 19, 2011 at 4:32 pm by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly |
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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... |
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on Sep 23, 2011 at 11:46 am by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly |
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Ad Libs: Back in Bach
Teenage Bach aficionado Hilda Huang is on the scene again, this time soloing with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in a San Francisco concert in January. When I sent a repor... |
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on Sep 23, 2011 at 11:21 am by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly |
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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... |
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on Sep 23, 2011 at 11:18 am by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly |
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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... |
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on Sep 20, 2011 at 2:22 pm by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly |
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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... |
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on Aug 12, 2011 at 3:31 pm by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly |
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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... |
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on Aug 4, 2011 at 4:46 pm by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly |
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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... |
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on Jul 20, 2011 at 1:37 pm by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly |
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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... |
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on Jul 11, 2011 at 4:57 pm by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly |
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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... |
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on Jul 6, 2011 at 3:58 pm by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly |
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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... |
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on Jun 2, 2011 at 4:15 pm by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly |
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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... |
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on May 20, 2011 at 6:48 pm by Freddy, a resident of the Downtown North neighborhood |
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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... |
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on May 11, 2011 at 4:18 pm by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly |
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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... |
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on Apr 21, 2011 at 3:49 pm by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly |
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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... |
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on Apr 7, 2011 at 12:21 pm by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly |
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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... |
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on Mar 30, 2011 at 3:41 pm by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly |
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