by Dan Metz | Oct 10, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Theater
Shakespeare was funny, and not the kind of humor that you’d expect from a literary titan. His work often had a Seth Rogan sense of humor, reveling in the crude, crass, and sexual. You’d expect that 9th graders would love The Bard. But then again maybe not. That...
by R Couri Hay | Oct 10, 2019 | Doctors, Featured, Health
By Fallon Harrington Photos courtesy of Holy Name Medical Center Dr. Sharyn Lewin The Lewin Fund to Fight Women’s Cancers was founded in 2014 by Dr. Sharyn Lewin, a renowned gynecologic oncologist and Castle Connolly Top Doctor in New York...
by Alice Teeple | Oct 9, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Music
By Alice Teeple Photos by Alice Teeple Jimmy Dudding of Jimmy and the Band The final act of the night at Bowery Electric opens with a Greek chorus, asking the crowd what art means to them. Suddenly two statuesque dancers in mesh shirts and hot pants part the crowd,...
by Downtown Magazine | Oct 9, 2019 | Art, Culture, Featured
By: Teresa Fisher Photos courtesy of Bentley Meeker Bentley Meeker Light X Design Light, in its many facets, is to artist Bentley Meeker what music is to Philip Glass. “Light is the most powerful tool we have to create any feeling,” says Meeker....
by Dan Metz | Oct 8, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Movies, Music
James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett of Metallica. Image from Murder in the Front Row: The San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Metal Story (2019), picture from IMDB.com If I were writing this review in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early ‘80s, I’d be a dead man. It’s nothing...
by Downtown Magazine | Oct 8, 2019 | Dining, Events, Featured
By Fernanda Mueller Image Courtesy of Clay Williams Downtown’s food festival, ‘Taste of the Seaport,’ will return for the 10th year of food, fun, and fundraising on Saturday, October 19th. Taste of the Seaport brings together over 40 of the best...
