Heterogeneous Spectacles(Jamie Lyons News) ❖ Jamie Lyons

October 18, 2016 · Industries

Performers Under Stress Black River Falls

Performers Under Stress presents the West Coast Premiere of BLACK RIVER FALLS by Bryn Magnus.

October 11, 2016 · Individualism

Betty Reid Soskin at The California Studies Association

Betty Reid Soskin at ninety-four, ninety-four, standing there receiving an award named after Carey McWilliams, and the only thing more beautiful than the image is knowing she didn’t wait for permission to make history happen. She made it happen, hustled it into existence, because that’s what you do when the official story is a lie […]

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October 4, 2016 · Collusion

The Adventuress: How Inga Weiss Crossed the Wall and Made Dance Mean Something

The fight is won or lostfar away from witnesses –behind the lines,in the gym,and out there on the road,long before I dance under those lights.Muhammad Ali Inga Weiss was the real deal in a world drowning in polite academic horseshit. This woman looked at post-war Germany, her good parents in Ansbach, the comfortable life, all […]

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September 22, 2016 · Collusion

Before Anyone Fucked It Up: Christening Roble’s Virgin Stage

Look at them. Amber and Judy. First ones on the Roble Theater stage (now the Harry J. Elam Jr. Theater) in this space that still smells like fresh paint and possibility. You know what that means? That means there’s no roadmap. No one’s fucked it up here yet. No one’s nailed it yet either. Just […]

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Before Anyone Fucked It Up: Christening Roble’s Virgin Stage

September 12, 2016 · Speculation

She Made Reflection Look Like Destiny

Mirrors in metal, and the masked Mirror of mahogany that in its mist Of a red twilight hazes The face that is gazed on as it gazes. Jorge Luis Borges, MIRRORS Light poured through those high windows like it had somewhere to be, turning everything gold, everything impossible. The mirrors, smudged, honest and ancient, caught […]

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September 3, 2016 · Industries

We Players Romeo & Juliet

My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy. Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 1.5 We’re all so fucking scared of being earnest that we’ve turned every production into a knowing wink, a deconstructed […]

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August 5, 2016 · Collusion

Chocolate Heads: Ghost Architecture opening Roble Gym

I get it. They did what they always do, what they’ve been doing to everything worth a damn since some MBA sociopath figured out you could monetize nostalgia and sell it back as “progress.” They took something old, something with actual soul (remember soul?), something that had earned every water stain, every crack in its […]

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