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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: BBB coming to RWC
Funny, I was just making a snarky remark about the Park Theatre still being a yawning hole in downtown Menlo Park. It's lovely to hear that the neighboring theater to the nort... |
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on Jul 22, 2010 at 11:24 am 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: 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: 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: Pop go the props if the actors don't stop
For my story this week about TheatreWorks' play "Opus," about life in a string quartet, I chatted with writer Michael Hollinger and cellist/advisor Kris Yenney. It's illuminat... |
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on May 28, 2010 at 10:22 am by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly |
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Ad Libs: My top arts events from 2010
Every year I sew together a patchwork of my 10 favorite local arts moments and happenings from the past 12 months. A little bit of this, a little bit of that from the mix of s... |
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on Dec 30, 2010 at 12:09 pm by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly |
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Ad Libs: Au revoir, Arthur
So saddened to hear about the passing of Arthur Krakower, the 88-year-old wunderkind Peninsula artist. A call or email from Arthur was like a small gem, bright in the palm. He... |
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on Jul 31, 2009 at 10:16 am 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: But will she shave her head?
Los Altos actor and TheatreWorks regular Molly Bell has quite the cast of characters on her resume: the girl who romanced "Bat Boy," a Victorian-era teacher and the young spel... |
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on Sep 22, 2010 at 3:56 pm 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: 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: Summer in the studio
An intriguing note in the Foothill College newsletter about music instructor Paul Davies. As if teaching today's sprightly youths about music theory, composition and the Beatl... |
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on Aug 12, 2010 at 5:42 pm 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: '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: Where's our downtown theater festival?
You can't complain about an evening of Balkan-Yiddish-gospel-postmodern music, really. World Music Day sounds pretty cool (except that you can't call it WMD without thinking o... |
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on Jun 12, 2009 at 2:10 pm by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly |
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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: Still a party in the pressroom
Last night I went to my only party of the season that features fudge made by the district attorney. It was the annual holiday fete in the pressroom in the county Hall of Justi... |
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on Dec 9, 2009 at 4:50 pm by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly |
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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: An evening with Adams
It was a true pleasure to hear the composer John Adams speak last night at the Cantor Arts Center. Kronos Quartet violinist David Harrington conducted a free-flowing interview... |
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on Apr 7, 2009 at 10:25 am by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly |
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Ad Libs: The art of buttercream
We theater people have plenty of superstitions. Just because I'm a Wallace doesn't mean I'm brave enough to speak the name of the Scottish play. But I don't think there's any ... |
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on Jun 9, 2010 at 12:47 pm by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly |
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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: Up there on the air
Hey, the California Pops Orchestra is doing a radio-style show. Perfect for the entire family -- since it's a radio format, you don't have to look up, so the kids can text the... |
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on Jan 26, 2010 at 12:15 pm by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly |
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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: On the beach
I didn't expect to feel serene in an exhibit about beach trash. But when you've picked up nearly two tons of discarded plastic at your favorite oceanside spot over the last de... |
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on Apr 14, 2009 at 9:32 am by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly |
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