By ERIKA MILVY DEC. 1, 2019 3:54 PM PT When Yanna McIntosh takes the stage Sunday for opening night at the Curran theater in San Francisco, she becomes the eighth black actress to play Hermione Granger in “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.” And, as was just
ENTERTAINMENT & ARTS “Mean Girls” tied for the most Tony nominations with 12. Here Cady (Erika Henningsen) faces the lunch trio of Gretchen (Ashley Park), left, Regina (Tony nominee Taylor Louderman) and Karen (Kate Rockwell). (Joan Marcus) BY ERIKA MILVY MAY 2, 2018 5 AM
Khaled Hosseini’s bestseller following two women from strikingly different classes will begin its run Feb. 1 at ACT in San Francisco. By ERIKA MILVY JAN. 19, 2017 6 AM PT In a much retweeted curtain-call speech from the Broadway stage in November, “Hamilton” actor Brandon Dixon conveyed
101 TV Shows to See Before You Grow Up: Be your own TV critic–the must-see TV list for kids (– April 1, 2017) by Erika Milvy (Author) 101 TV shows for kids to discover and for families to watch together, all in one book.
‘Hamilteens’ may not have seen the show, but they know everything about it. Who needs One Direction when you’ve got a musical about the founding fathers? Lin-Manuel Miranda and the cast of Hamilton at Tony awards. Photograph: CBS photo archive/Getty Images Erika Milvy Wed 22 Jun
New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast’s new book, winner of the Kirkus Prize for nonfiction, literally draws on her parents’ declining health and death to tell a story of caregiving. Source: Must Read: Roz Chast’s Graphic Caregiving Memoir – Next Avenue
The past few weeks have seen a surge in activity within the MS community as bloggers and forum posters call one another to action in response what many think is the breakthrough they’ve been waiting for. Source: Possible MS Breakthrough Neglected By American Media | Erika Milvy
MOVIES Bentonville Film Festival pushes diversity message from year one Geena Davis launched a film festival focused on women and diversity in Bentonville, Arkansas, that screened about 75 films. (Jordan Strauss / Invision / Associated Press) BY ERIKA MILVY MAY 13, 2015 3:15 PM PT BENTONVILLE, Ark. —
SF Chronicle Datebook Cover Story Rockin’ With Kids By Erika Milvy The value of mixing booze and babies was memorably extolled by San Francisco native Christie Mellor, who coined the term “The Three-Martini Playdate.” Her 2004 book mocks uber-moms and micromanaged childhoods and extols
‘ The Office’ Wrong for Each Other, Right for the Show Jan and Michael present a blackly humorous contrast to the show’s central romance between the office mates Jim and Pam, which itself echoes the tantalizing will-they-or-won’t-they zigzag consecrated on “Cheers” and “Friends.” Jim and Pam
This is a new essay I wrote for The Motherlode Blog in The New York Times. I’m totally surprised my daughter let me publish it!
The new Exploratorium opens Thursday, April 17, 2013 at Pier 15 along the Embarcadero. Familiar exhibits combine with a new focus on the science of the Bay, with plenty of touching, tinkering, and interactive investigating for curious visitors of any age. Source: Bigger, Better, Snazzier:
Jane Lynch’s characters are often hard-edged, overbearing and even a little scary, but Lynch herself is known for showing up early, working hard and being nice to everybody—not exactly the reputation you would expect from Glee’s Sue Sylvester or Steve Carell’s icky boss in The 40-Year-Old Virgin.
When the audience cheers for the landing helicopter in ”Miss Saigon” or the careening chandelier in ”Phantom of the Opera,” it’s applauding eye candy. When the awkward, bookish schoolgirl Elphaba mounts her broom and takes to the sky in ”Wicked,” our rush of emotion is
ENTERTAINMENT & ARTS ‘Mean Girls’ was a movie before Twitter even existed. How did creators update it to be a modern musical? “Mean Girls” tied for the most Tony nominations with 12. Here Cady (Erika Henningsen) faces the lunch trio of Gretchen (Ashley Park),
If history is written by the winners, the songs are sung by the people. This week, performance artist Taylor Mac embarks on a tremendous feat of physical, mental and artistic endurance in a marathon-length show of gargantuan scope. “A 24-Decade History Of Popular Music” is
Greetings and welcome to We Blog the World, an online travel and lifestyle magazine dedicated to Transformative Travel! Source: South Lake Tahoe Makes a Great Escape From Bay Area • We Blog The World
See how Mike Hindle’s illustrations mix analog and digital. While Mike Hindle’s graphic design is clean-lined, his fine art incorporates some spontaneous chaos. It’s a unique blend of the tactile and the digital. He sprays paint or splotches ink onto paper, digitally captures the results,
You know their songs; now learn their backstory. The Temptations get the Jersey Boys treatment this fall with the world premiere of Ain’t Too Proud, a mus Source: The Temptations get their own jukebox musical at Berkeley Rep this fall
Dorothea Lange needs no introduction: Her iconic photographs of weary migrants in the Dust Bowl are as familiar to us as the Mona Lisa. But a new exhibit on the artist at Oakland Museum of California sees her turn the lens away from the Midwest and onto the World