February 2009
3 posts
Simple gifts of Shrinky Dinks
It may be bad form for a journalist to say she’s sick of bad news. But in the car yesterday, I’d had enough of the recession, and put on Bernstein and the NY Philharmonic instead. “Appalachian Spring” cheers you right up. It made me wonder why anyone didn’t think of playing the actual “Appalachian Spring” at the inauguration, rather than that tepid spin...
Councilman Cohen's canvases
Some folks in Menlo Park take their local politics reeeeally seriously. I covered the city beat for the Almanac a few years back, and I can still picture that crowd squeezed into a kitchen on election night in 2004, and the roar after it looked like Andy Cohen had won a City Council seat. People expected Kelly Fergusson to win — and they both did — but it was Andy’s victory that...
Visual art in Palo Alto: I'm still here
Weren’t there a lot more places in Palo Alto to see visual art when I started this job in ‘05? I used to visit the hip British canvases at the Chelsea Art Gallery (now closed) . And my old English teacher Joseph Fuchs’ oils of Venice at Voshan Gallery (also closed). And Susan Kraft’s powerful paintings at the ART21 Gallery (you get the idea). Lament. For now I take our...
