(Originally published in LA STAGE Times) At this year’s Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival (LAWTF), more than two dozen performers will showcase solo works, five women will receive special awards for their contributions to theater at a star-studded gala, and hundreds of attendees will come together to celebrate the power of women in the arts. It all […]
From the ages of about one to 12, half of my world existed within the confines of my imagination. I spent hours there, drawing inspiration from everyone and everything around me to build vast stories that would occupy my hours of playtime. Once involved in a game, it was tough to leave it. Most summer […]
(Originally published in Palo Alto Weekly) You could say that it was Django Reinhardt, the master jazz guitarist whose 100th birthday would have been this year, who brought guitarist Julian Lage, bassist Jorge Roeder and violinist Victor Lin together. Lage, Roeder and Lin first played as a trio at the Stanford Jazz Festival last year, […]
(Originally published by Stanford News Service) College students counting the days until graduation could take a lesson from the hundreds of students who have signed up for Stanford physics Professor Leonard Susskind’s modern physics classes taught through Stanford’s Continuing Studies Program (CSP), Stanford’s own adult education program. The classes require proficiency in calculus and cover topics that […]
(Originally published by Stanford News Service) With a confidence that would make most wedding planners envious, Stanford Memorial Church Wedding Coordinator Melissa Prestinario reports that of more than 100 weddings that have taken place in the university’s famed sanctuary in the last fiscal year, every single one went off without a hitch. “The wedding day […]
(Originally published in The California Aggie) Disclaimer: I have never read a Twilight book and only saw the first two movies so I could make fun of them. Therefore, what I am about to say may come as a bit of a shock. Twilight isn’t so bad. My change of heart came last Thursday, when […]
(Originally published in The California Aggie) Screenwriters have perfected the art of the great ending over the last 100 years or so. I’ve always been a proponent of learning by imitation, so I think I’ll steal a page from their proverbial book today as I try (probably in vain) to neatly wrap up my career […]
(Originally published in The California Aggie) As my tenure as Aggie editor and columnist winds down, I find myself struck by something that strikes many arts writers at the end of the year: the urge to think back on everything that happened over the last 12 months and judge it mercilessly. Let’s dive right in, […]
(Originally published in The California Aggie) This time next week, the woman who brought us Favorite Things, the Book Club and Tom Cruise jumping on a couch will have officially closed the curtain on the most iconic daytime talk show of the last 25 years. You must know whom I’m talking about. After 25 years, […]
(Originally published in The California Aggie) What do an unemployed New Yorker, an Atlantic City gangster and an English countess have in common? They all made my list of the top seven television characters. I’ll qualify this list by admitting that it is completely biased and not in any way exhaustive of the history of […]
Robin Migdol 