Inspiration for Your Next House Party (or TED talk) by Svea Vikander A “Pop-Up Magazine” event is a cross between a TED Talk and the drunk people in the kitchen at a good house party. “Pop-Up” is a touring variety show from the publishers of the California Sunday Magazine that hits S.F. and Oakland…
Lisa Ramirez Returns Humanity to the Dehumanized by Jennifer Ann Charron In today’s increasingly tribal world, we are constantly primed to see others as “like us” or “not like us.” We seek safety in like-minded groups, alienating ourselves from other viewpoints, other realities. By dehumanizing others, we lose sight of real people and their…
Cardona, Collins Expose Exploitation on the Street by Robert M. Gardner In “American Jornalero,” director Tioni Collins takes a harsh and revealing look at the lives of four day- laborers who gather on a bleak street to look for work. Only a cell phone and a graffiti-covered pay phone connect them to the world. …
Marcus Gardley: Poet of Dysfunctional Love by Robert M. Gardner Marcus (talented Michael Curry) recites poetry as he fumbles through puberty and on to adulthood, the mediator for his fractured family. Ubuntu Theater’s “Dance of the Holy Ghosts” by Marcus Gardley uses the talents of an all-Black cast to tell a powerful Oakland story…