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Sports Festivals
Running: Sport of the Gods
The second week in Athens brought us the dramatic highs and lows that define Track and Field. It seems like no other sport can test both the human body and spirit in such varying degrees of exhaustion and exultation. This can best be seen in the race of all races -- the marathon. More
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Literary Arts
A Celebration of the Possibilities of Language
Now in its second year, The Living Word Festival is an annual community gathering of artists, educators, presenters and performers who take three days each Fall to focus on literacy education and literary performance. More
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Gay
An Unholy Trinity
Coinciding with World AIDS Day, Thom Fitzgerald's cinematic triptych presents three disparate yet complementary stories about how this indiscriminate disease afflicts individuals, communities, and societies on three continents in very different ways. Based on writer/director Fitzgerald's experiences in China, South Africa, and the West (specifically Canada), 3 Needles portrays the AIDS pandemic on a scale that is alternately intimate and sweeping. As a result, the film is irresistibly watchable and ultimately disturbing. More
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Movies
An Unholy Trinity
Coinciding with World AIDS Day, Thom Fitzgerald's cinematic triptych presents three disparate yet complementary stories about how this indiscriminate disease afflicts individuals, communities, and societies on three continents in very different ways. Based on writer/director Fitzgerald's experiences in China, South Africa, and the West (specifically Canada), 3 Needles portrays the AIDS pandemic on a scale that is alternately intimate and sweeping. As a result, the film is irresistibly watchable and ultimately disturbing. More
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Movies
A Vampire’s Paradise
Every year in the northernmost town in the world (Barrow, Alaska), 30 days of darkness descends. This uninterrupted darkness presents problems for many and most head south during this period. However, for certain undead, bloodthirsty tourists, Barrow is the undead equivalent of Hawaii with a Sizzler steakhouse on every corner. The question is just how many of the few humans left in Barrow will survive 30 Days of Night. More
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Music
A conversation with frontman Jared Leto
It's a tough crowd, the music press. Quick to judge and even quicker to dismiss, the critical machine can unfairly and often permanently typecast a band. Imagine the added pressure of being part of one of the most ridiculed sub-genres in music. Imagine being lumped in with the likes of Dogstar, The Bacon Brothers, and Russell Crowe's 30 Odd Foot of Grunts. Imagine being (gasp!) an actor with a band. More
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Movies
A Shot of Testosterone to the Head
300 is like a piece of liquor store candy. It's got no substantive value and two seconds after digesting it you'll forget all about it, but it's tempting and you just can't help yourself. A big budget marketing campaign in which the principle characters are displayed in captivating hues and enthralling poses with the words "Prepare for Glory", and the promise of Frank Miller's artistic genius are all one needs to be lured into the theater. More
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Movies
A Compelling, if Flawed, Western
Despite the sporadic, often misguided efforts by Hollywood to revitalize the Western genre, the Western has all but disappeared from multiplexes over the last fifteen years. From the sixties onwards, fewer and fewer westerns were made and those that fit squarely into the "revisionist" mold, were increasingly violent, skeptical and cynical about the nation’s foundational myths. More
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Movies
Thought-Provoking, Wrenching Drama
An insightful drama set in the waning days of the communist Ceausescu regime of Romania and centered on the efforts of a university student to obtain an illegal abortion, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (“4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile”), won the Palme d’Or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. It’s difficult, if not impossible, to imagine a film as unflinchingly raw and honest as 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days being made in the United States where abortion remains an incredibly divisive, seemingly irresolvable issue. More
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Movies
So many films, so little time...
Spring is here and so is the 47th Annual San Francisco International Film Festival. As the cherry blossom trees flourish with pink buds, the screens of movie theaters all over the Bay Area- the Kabuki, the Castro, the Pacific Film Archive, Brava Theater Center, and Century Cinema- will be lit with films from all over the world in an extravaganza of domestic and world cinema. More
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