Engineer's Daughter

agenda 11.09.16

TV Club with Royal NoneSuch
Electric Citizen + Horisont + John Gamino at the Starline
Generosity & Service
Third Party at CTRL+SHFT
Watermelon Woman 3.0 at the Center for Sex and Culture
Jenny Hval at the Starline
Lana Williams at Interface
The Last Tiger in Haiti at Berkeley Rep
OM at the Starline
The King and I at the Golden Gate

symphysis

The Mint, San Francisco.  September 28, 2013.

go see this

Now through November 13 - the Dada World Fair.  Like any intelligent person I'm somber and more than a little gobsmacked today, but I am also even more committed than ever to pointing people toward the creative and wonderful things going on in our fair Bay Area.  And it seems especially appropriate to share a recommendation to attend one or all of the remaining events in the Dada World Fair, currently in full swing in a whole host of venues all over San Francisco.  Organized by City Lights to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Dada movement, the World Fair features talks, film, music, secret expeditions, and more.  I was pleased to attend the inauguration of the Dada at Sea installation at the Sea Scout Base in Maritime Park on Saturday, during which a man emerged from the ocean and declared his candidacy for co-presidency of the United States while his cohort flung slices of Swiss cheese at the assembled crowd below.  This just before they activated the on-site orgone accumulator, aimed at the Financial District to help dissipate some of the damage done by consumer culture.  A much-needed dose of whimsy and anarchic good fun.

 

November 10 - TV Club at Royal NoneSuch Gallery.  As part of this ongoing pop culture series at one of my fave Oakland galleries, Nick Wylie will be speaking this Thursday evening about Veronica Mars and iZombie in the age of zombie formalism and then screening episodes of the shows.  Don't miss it.

matokie mix 11.06.16

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seared

Larry Powell, Brian Dykstra, Alex Sunderhaus, Rod Gnapp

Through November 12 - Seared at SF Playhouse.  Theresa Rebeck's gripping world premiere play about the eternal push/pull between creative genius and monetary success raises more questions than it answers and is all the stronger for it.  Set in the kitchen of a small Brooklyn restaurant (and yes several dishes are cooked right on stage before your very eyes), Seared explores the relationship between chef Harry and his business partner Mike at a moment when Mike has brought in a consultant to help their restaurant make better money.  Harry is played to temperamental perfection by the great Brian Dykstra, whose performance as Rooster Byron in SF Playhouse's production of Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth was similarly indelible, and the whole cast delivers Rebeck's whip-smart dialogue with exceptional passion.  Situating the action in the contemporary world of New York foodies was a stroke of genius too, completely relatable to any city with a presence on Eater.com, and I guarantee after the play is over you'll be tempted to go home and whip up your own batch of gnocchi.

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agenda 10.02.16

Christopher Owens + Light Fantastic + Matt Baldwin at the Starline
Into the Inferno
Dada at Sea Inauguration at Maritime Park
Our Enemies at Thick House
Jonas Dahlberg & Nancy Levinson at Headlands
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Ashby Stage

hypogeal

Adhocracy, Istanbul Design Biennial.  November 22, 2012.