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Movies  |  Sep 02, 2010

Try all the Shakespeare offerings at the Pacific Film Archive over the next two months and then check your findings against whatever the younger you once scrawled in the margins of those now yellowing Signet Classics. By Jonathan Kiefer   

 

The Writers' Block  |  Sep 01, 2010

Tinkers

Paul Harding reads a passage from Tinkers, this year's winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. By Paul Harding   

Theater Review  |  Aug 31, 2010

Dreamgirls

Now it can be sung! Dreamgirls tells the story of the egos behind those afros (and beehives). By Erika Milvy   

Previously in KQED Arts

Gallery Crawl | Aug 30, 2010

The Hess Collection

In August 2010, Gallery Crawl took a road trip to Napa, California to view The Hess Collection located in a museum on the Hess Winery properties. The robust collection features emerging artists as well as a wide range of notables, including Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Anselm Kiefer, Andy Goldsworthy, Lynn Hershman Leeson, and Francis Bacon.   

Event | Aug 29, 2010

Preview of ODC's Theater

Get a sneak peak of ODC's new building before it opens on September 30, 2010. By Marie K Lee  

Event | Aug 28, 2010

A Farewell to From Monument to Masses

From Monument to Masses play their final show tonight at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. By Ben Van Houten  

NPR Film | Aug 27, 2010

Meet Mesrine: Half A Gangster Epic, Totally 'Killer'

John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd -- Hollywood has long had a love affair with real-life gangsters. Now, says critic Bob Mondello, France's Jacques Mesrine gives his better-known American rivals a run for their cinematic money. (Recommended)   

NPR Film | Aug 27, 2010

A Sword-And-Sandals Yarn, Emphasis On The Former

Neil Marshall, director of horror movie The Descent, offers up a noisily bloody, new chase-sequence of a film set during the second-century conquest of Britain. Michael Fassbender and Dominic West star.   

NPR Film | Aug 27, 2010

'Takers': They Shouldn't Make 'Em Like This Anymore

A crew of heist artists tries to do one last job -- with more money at stake than ever. The Wire's Idris Elba co-stars with Matt Dillon in an ensemble action flick that's slickly packaged but otherwise a by-the-numbers exercise.   

Movies | Aug 26, 2010

Dark In August: Rare Vampire Films

The undead, by definition, are with us forever. Lucky for them, filmmakers never tire of making them feel welcome. By Michael Fox  

The Writers' Block | Aug 25, 2010

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

David Mitchell reads a passage from The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet about an earnest young clerk whose life plans are shaken when he meets the daughter of a Samurai in 18th century Japan. By David Mitchell  

Music Review | Aug 24, 2010

Grass Widow: Past Time

Recently signed to the same label as like-minded female punk-rock outfits Bikini Kill and Sleater-Kinney, SF natives Grass Widow have made an album their predecessors can be proud of. By Emmanuel Hapsis  

Art Review | Aug 23, 2010

Pixar: 25 Years of Animation

Viewing this collection is like ripping away at the movie screen to find what's on the other side. Instead of a brick wall, we're led into a playground of whimsical sketches and colorful drawings... By Nikki DePaola  

NPR Topics: Arts & Life
  • Rapper T.I. And Wife Arrested On Drug Charges

    The rapper and his wife, singer Tameka Cottle, were arrested in Los Angeles Wednesday night after police smelled what appeared to be marijuana coming from their car on Sunset Boulevard.

  • 'The American': An Abstract, Angst-Filled Art Thriller

    Anton Corbijn's paranoid thriller stars George Clooney as an anonymous international assassin constantly on the run. Critic David Edelstein says the spare movie "cast a spell" over the audience -- as they entered the mind of a man with no past or future.

  • Three Books For The Self-Help Skeptic

    Plenty of folks are wary when it comes to self-help, but if you're not going to help yourself, then who will? Writer Lisa Unger says: Silence your inner snark and read these three books -- they will clear your mind and change your life.

  • Learning Who You Are Through What You Eat

    The long Labor Day weekend marks the end of summer for many in the U.S., but it's also a time when ethnic churches hold massive food festivals to celebrate their origins. For food writer Michele Kayal and her young daughter, Syrian festivals -- and the preparations for them -- are an enduring link to the past.


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