A while back I had the opportunity to photograph a few Marin County painters in their studios and write a short piece for Marin Magazine about the curiosity the artist’s studio holds for most of us who earn our keep in more prosaic ways. This allure is one reason for the success of open-studio...
While the Marin County Fair is months from now the deadline for the many competitions is less than two weeks away. Do you have the best cheesecake recipe or are you an especially talented artist? There are many different categories to enter- everything from livestock competitions to painting to cookie baking - the deadline is...
It’s a busy time of year at Mill Valley’s Marin Theatre Company, which was established in 1966 and has since become known as one of the top theater establishments on the West Coast. Congrats to Samuel D. Hunter, winner of the MTC’s 2011 Sky Cooper New American Play Prize, and Andrew Dolan, who won...
If you’ve been wavering about seeing the much-talked-about musical Rock of Ages at the Curran–you’ve only got a few more days. The show ends here in San Francisco on the 9th of April. The consensus is that it’s not one for the kids, but if you grew up with–or have a fond affection for–the...
The bay area’s natural beauty is front and center in conservation photographer Ian Shive’s new book, The National Parks: Our American Landscape. Shive, whose award-winning photos have been featured in publications like National Geographic and Outside Magazine, spent four years capturing shots of national parks across America, giving extra attention to local favorites such...
Academy of Art students work on their wreaths San Francisco’s Academy of Art University is getting into the holiday spirit– but not with traditional Christmas trees and Santa suits. Instead, 18 students from AAU’s School of Fashion used recycled material– everything from inflatable pool toys to old coffee cups–to create beautiful and humorous wreaths....
Congrats to Marin filmmaker Tiffany Shlain whose feature documentary “Connected” and short film “Yelp: With Apologies to Allen Ginsberg’s Howl,” have been selected to screen at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011! We recently profiled Shlain in November’s “Marinterview” and wish her the best of luck.
We chose the unfortunate date of October 27 (first game of the World Series) to see West Side Story at the Orpheum Theater in San Francisco. However, as soon as the curtain went up, and performers lept on stage to perform the famous dance of culture clash between the two rival gangs, the Jets...
This winter, the de Young Museum in San Francisco is bringing Paris to the city with their latest exhibit, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay. The exhibit, which will be open until January 18, 2011, is the second of two exhibits that are traveling the world from Musée...
Just across the Golden Gate Bridge, the School of Fashion at the Academy of Art University has over 2,500 designers-in-the making (and some live or grew up in Marin). Recently, several of their alumni jetted off to the Big Apple for an amazing opportunity— to have their collection appear on the runways on the...
