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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: New art takes shape on Newell Road
Curious people are already peering into artist Patrick Dougherty's new environmental sculpture on the Palo Alto Art Center grounds, and it's not scheduled to be finished for a... |
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on Feb 26, 2011 at 11:06 am by FutonSandwich, a resident of Stanford |
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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: Lend me a tenor
There was a great story this week in the Vancouver Sun about hapless singers from a Canadian choir standing out on a freezing bridge in their tuxes, trying to recruit more ten... |
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on Apr 3, 2009 at 2:18 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: A requiem for summer (but in a good way)
I am now officially a proud choral-music geek, because I have not one but two favorite requiems. Very pleased to get to sing both the Durufle and the Faure last night with the... |
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on Jul 15, 2010 at 3:23 pm by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly |
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Ad Libs: Imagining arias on El Camino
Here's what downtown Menlo Park should do with all those gaping spaces on El Camino Real that used to hold car dealerships. Opera.
An enterprising company called Overtone I... |
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on Jul 8, 2010 at 1:34 pm by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly |
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Ad Libs: Prize-winning Peninsula Photos
When I was in college, I bought Sierra Club engagement calendars every year, because of their remarkable photos. In between my scribbled, highly crucial appointments ("Meet Ed... |
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on Feb 26, 2010 at 10:05 am by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly |
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Ad Libs: A photographer's vision in oil
About four years ago, Edward Burtynsky's titanic and disturbingly beautiful photos made up the most powerful exhibition I've seen at the Cantor Arts Center. Mining and refinin... |
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on Nov 19, 2009 at 9:28 am by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly |
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Ad Libs: Being outside inside at CSMA
Yesterday a.m.: a morning for growing ant strength and carrying my desk into an open field. In June it can be physically painful to be stuck inside.
Since desk wouldn't bal... |
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on Jun 9, 2009 at 3:13 pm by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly |
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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: 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: Mighty sculptures from little saplings grow
I am already looking forward to an interview that's five weeks away. Wouldn't you, if the artist made giant fanciful sculptures from tree saplings?
Environmental sculptor P... |
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on Dec 19, 2010 at 9:17 pm by Art Lover, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood |
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Ad Libs: Menlo woman opens new art gallery
If I have to write about another art gallery in this area closing, I might dump a bucket of paint on my keyboard. And I wouldn't even get anything artistic out of the splashes... |
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on Nov 1, 2010 at 12:47 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Ad Libs: Powerful profiles
Doug Fort fell into the gang life at age 13, after, he says, "crack came into our community." Today he works in violence prevention.
His is one of five stories told in vide... |
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on Oct 22, 2010 at 4:28 am by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Ad Libs: Brave new work
Yesterday, I caught the last performance of the in-development indie-rock musical "Fly By Night" at TheatreWorks, and you'd have to consult the program to believe the show was... |
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on Aug 24, 2010 at 11:57 am by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Ad Libs: Have cello, will travel
He bills himself as "the wildest beatboxing cellist in the West." Now Cello Joe (aka Joey Chang) is perhaps aiming for a broader geographic title. He's about to embark with a ... |
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on May 6, 2010 at 8:07 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Ad Libs: 'Let's Build a Squadron of Dirigibles in Lenin's Name'
No, I'm not running for office. (And I'm not sure what kind of office one runs for with dirigibles.) In fact, the above slogan was one of the catchiest ones in an exhibit I sa... |
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on Apr 29, 2010 at 4:26 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Ad Libs: 'Art without inhibitions'
To find the new home of Art For Well Beings, you have to wander a bit. The little art center is, as director Judy Gittelsohn says, "tucked in behind" a cluster of buildings of... |
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on Oct 13, 2009 at 5:23 pm by Cynthia Handy, a resident of the Ventura neighborhood |
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Ad Libs: New M-A theater: It sure beats J Building
Which is worse: sweltering in a stifling theater, or having a key moment in a play ruined because an old air-conditioning system came roaring on at the wrong moment and drowne... |
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on Sep 27, 2009 at 1:45 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Ad Libs: Fridays at the Cantor Center: 'Metaphysics'
Every Friday, a different musician climbs the stairs to the Cantor Center balcony to play Mark Applebaum's experimental work "The Metaphysics of Notation." I had previously w... |
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on Aug 15, 2009 at 8:00 pm by Barbara Haas, a resident of Menlo Park |
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Ad Libs: Photographer wins global honor
Another well-deserved honor for Menlo Park photographer Mark Tuschman, whose sensitive and beautifully lit photos let us peer into worlds we otherwise might never see. He won ... |
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on May 13, 2009 at 6:03 pm by sharon, a resident of the Midtown 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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