Charles Darwin Meets Gilbert and Sullivan
Posted on March 27, 2009 - Filed Under Video, Entertainment, Tech & Science | Leave a Comment
If it ever comes to your neighborhood, as it did ours last night at San Francisco’s Jewish Community Center, see Richard Milner’s “Charles Darwin: Live and In Concert.” Milner combines his love of musical theater, especially Gilbert and Sullivan, with his scholarship as an anthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History to do Darwin [...]
Read More..>>What Would Hopper Paint?
Posted on March 14, 2009 - Filed Under Culture | 1 Comment
I wondered what American Realist painter Edward Hopper would paint if he were alive today. One possibility I came up with after horsing around with Photoshop:
Read More..>>Edward Hopper and Company: The American Landscape
Posted on March 14, 2009 - Filed Under California, Culture, Photography | 2 Comments
Too often we look at cultural and physical landscapes of places we visit as tourist brochures: America as the massive architecture of New York City and Chicago, quaint New England villages, the Bridge and Bay in San Francisco and pinkish western landscapes. One of the best examples of cliché America is a propaganda film called [...]
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