In Progress

…Interactive! Comments have arrived to KQED Arts & Culture, where you can explore the red-hot simmering local scene in art, music, theatre, film and books. Join us for a sandwich and a review (you bring the sandwich, we’ll bring the review) of exciting new local artists and acts written by some pretty awesome Bay Area writers. We are ALL waiting to hear from you!

Just click on a post, read to the end, click on the link “Comments,” and give us a talkin’ to.

Meet the Contributors
TIMOTHY BUCKWALTER will always answer your question “Who do you like better, Elvis or The Beatles?” with “the Dead Kennedys.”
KRISTIN FARR rocks the art world inside and out and will introduce you to galleries you never knew existed.
MICHAEL FOX is the enlightened film professor you never had that would have inspired you to go out and learn about the world through film, if you’d only taken his damn class.
EMMANUEL HAPSIS consumed far too many spanakopita as a child and suffered several unfortunate experiences with ouzo, but still manages to turn up gems in Bay Area theatre, film and music.
Spirit guide to your slumbering inner art history major, CYNTHIA HOUNG writes provocative coverage of art galleries and showings in the Bay Area
SUZANNE KLEID, whose daily grind at City Lights has honed her instinct for the best in new books, will make you want to read anything she reviews, just to see if she’s right. And she is.
Given enough time, REBECCA KROUNER will convert all of you into opera aficionados, one review at a time.
KEITH LAIDLAW‘s charmingly idiomatic British writing style will force you to agree with any observation he makes about the role of music in one’s life.
CLAIRE LIGHT will show you how art, culture, and activism interact around the Bay Area.
BEN MARKS covers the best in the arts scene from the South Bay by way of a tangled history with lobsters, scallops, and blown glass.
If you ask very nicely, PHILIP MAYARD will take you to the theatre, otherwise he’ll just give you a long review that makes you wish you’d been there.
JEFF PALFINI will take you inside all the shows at various SF venues you meant to go to this year but flaked on.
MARK TAYLOR is our illustrious editor who will flay you alive if you don’t meet your deadline, produces/manages more stuff at KQED Interactive than is humanly possible, and who somehow finds the time to write reviews too.
TOBY WARNER will turn up at the Literary Death Match one day and tell you where to find werewolves in LA the next.
As for me, DEEPTHI WELARATNA, I’m still neck-deep in French pop, UK grime, and German neo-soul, with the occasional theatre/film/book review thrown into the mix.
Thanks for reading, and hope you’ll continue!

Posted on April 11th, 2008 by DeepthiW
Filed under: Media, Uncategorized