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Charlie at the Gates of Hell

Charlie at the Gates of Hell

Father’s Day, 2022. Lindsey’s taken us to Stanford, which is either the most perfect thing she could have done or the cruelest, depending on how you look at it. This is the place where my father taught. Where I grew up. Where I went to school. Every corner of this campus is a ghost, a […]

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Alonzo King LINES Ballet Deep River

Alonzo King LINES Ballet Deep River

Photographing live performance? You get one shot at it. No retakes, no mulligans, no “can we do that again but with better light?” The thing happens once, in real time, and you either capture it or you don’t. That’s it. So I’m at YBCA, dress rehearsal for Alonzo King’s Deep River. But there’s an audience, […]

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Bolinas Morning

Bolinas doesn’t want you to find it. The locals keep tearing down the highway signs, a middle finger to the hordes from San Francisco who’d otherwise choke this place with their Range Rovers and organic kombucha stands. It’s deliberate, this obscurity. And I respect the hell out of it. You wake up at five-thirty. It’s […]

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Bolinas Morning
Chocolate Heads at Stanford’s Cantor Museum

Chocolate Heads at Stanford’s Cantor Museum

Don’t go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. They are ecstasy machines. Jerry Saltz The Cantor sits there on Stanford’s campus like every other institutional temple to dead things under glass, all that marble and hush and carefully calibrated light designed to make you whisper and feel appropriately small. […]

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November 19, 2021 · Collusion

La RΓ©union (again) with LINES Ballet

La RΓ©union (again) with LINES Ballet

I don’t do second takes. I don’t revisit. The world’s too big, too full of places I haven’t screwed up yet, haven’t disappointed myself in. But La RΓ©union? La RΓ©union gets a pass. First time around, I barely scratched the surface of this French-African-Indian Ocean fever dream floating off Madagascar’s coast. This time, I’m back […]

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Gallery Exhibit Dance

Gallery Exhibit Dance

How funny things are! You go to those museums and galleries and think what a damned bore they are and then, when you least expect it, you find that something you’ve seen comes in useful. It shows art and all that isn’t really waste of time. W. Somerset Maugham, Theatre Adji Cissoko, moving through a […]

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Roble Dance Rehearsal

Roble Dance Rehearsal

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.Friedrich Nietzsche Chocolate Heads’ rehearsal in Roble dance studio…

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