Up-and-coming actress Peli Naomi Woods is ready to speak her voice
“Anything where I’m able to use my skills, my experience to help other people — that’s something I’m really passionate about.”
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Category Archives: A&E
‘I just want to be real’: Local rapper and Haas alumnus Call Me Ace talks motivations, recent album
Ace Patterson sounds just as charismatic over the phone as he does in his music, as I discovered when he picked up my call on a Wednesday around noon.
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Deconstructing Disney
Doors of Perception
I could spout out critiques like “heteronormative standards” and “patriarchal hegemony,” but the foundation of it all is the implied inferiority of Disney’s female characters.
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Custom Made Theater Co.’s ‘Passion’ demands its audience’s attention ‘without reason, mercy, pride or shame’
Interlaced with heart-aching, lilting Sondheim melodies, “Passion” pushes our expectations of love, and a woman’s role in pursuing and receiving love, to extreme limits.
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‘There Is No Feeling Better’ than listening to Mike Adams at His Honest Weight sing about love
Adams’ honesty and passion to tell musical stories drives his idealistic, uplifting music, carrying the listener away through the summer clouds.
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Aurora Theatre Company brings Joan Didion back to Berkeley in ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’
Starring veteran theater actress Stacy Ross and featuring a script written by Didion herself, the interpretation solidly personifies Didion’s prose.
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Our hearts don’t stand a chance against Anderson .Paak’s charm in San Francisco
The audience was left with a sense of renewal and exuberance; with his overwhelming joy and energy, .Paak made all stress and tension melt away.
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‘Midsommar’ is slow-burning, surreal nightmare
As the characters descend into a dark fate, the film’s remarkable setting and cinematography become its greatest strengths.
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Michael Patrick Gaffney highlights his life with hilarity, honesty in 1-man show
Portrayals of serious feelings not overlaid by light jokes are quite rare within the show, which makes Gaffney’s pitfalls in life less emotionally impactful.
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‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ swings for lighthearted, good-for-all-timezones teen drama
Aside from a beginning temporarily unraveled by questionable editing choices, “Spider-Man: Far From Home” is able to spin twisty webs of teen romance and superhero drama.
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