Drugs! B&E! Murder! Ahhh… wow, okay. This really is slightly different then filming at Opera San Jose, Berkeley Rep, or at A.C.T. We go inside the remarkable Shakespeare program at San Quentin.

Here’s a short reel from a recent Star Chefs gala. I make the rounds at the marquee fundraising and culinary event of the year and also spend time talking with Nancy Oakes, the Gala Chairwoman extraordinaire.

The light from the moon shines through the mist of Yosemite Falls, creating a rainbow.

Why are sports writers and political pundits able to stir up active online debate whereas their counterparts in theater cannot?

“It’s so real.” she kept repeating, an echo taken up by others, as if being real made the violence preferable to other alternatives.

Perhaps the greatest compliment one can give this production of the Tony Award-winning musical is that one forgets that it’s “community theatre.”

One thing that becomes readily apparent is that theater, arts, culture coverage is one of the most difficult (possibly eternally impossible?) beats to achieve return on investment.

Features works by Omar Chacon (Colombia), Lisa Chou (Taiwain), Ati Maier (Germany) and Jose Sarinana (Mexico).