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The expansive gray space of the Berkeley Art Museum nearly trumps the small paintings of Forrest Bess that line a section of its walls. Don’t let that description fool you — “Seeing Things Invisible” requires exactly that of the viewer. These are works in conversation with each other, evoking Bess’
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The doors wouldn’t open for another 20 minutes, but a swarm of gallery goers clad in black had already gathered outside. Without them, it would have been easy to miss the Hashimoto Contemporary gallery altogether. Nestled between an independent coffee shop and an apartment building on Sutter Street, Hashimoto Contemporary’s
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The tagline for “Watch Dogs” is “Hacking is your weapon.” It’s not. Your main weapon is your silenced pistol. “Watch Dogs” wants to build itself around the modern surveillance state and a world where we are constantly watched through our webcams, cellphone cameras and every other device with a camera.
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Voices and laughter could already be heard at the top of the stairs of the gallery space as various pictures of Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac greeted visitors of the Beat Museum Tuesday night, the night of what would have been Irwin Allen Ginsberg’s 88th birthday. Museum founder, Jerry Cimino
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**WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD! READ ONLY IF YOU HAVE WATCHED EPISODE 9** “How do 102 men stop 100,000?,” Jon Snow (Kit Harington) asks his brother Crows. Season 4 Episode 9, “The Watchers on the Wall” answers that very question in an episode that is as awesome and exciting as it is heart
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If you haven’t already marathoned the second season of “Orange in the New Black” in its entirety, please note that this article contains spoilers for the first episode. Piper Chapman’s (Taylor Schilling) world is falling apart with a bang and a whimper. Again. This time, the WASP-cum-convict is leaving Litchfield
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Animated-comedy guru Seth MacFarlane made his auspicious directorial debut with “Ted,” which received the distinction of being the highest-grossing R-rated comedy. As he has established himself as the forerunner of Hollywood’s raunchy comedy genre, his second film follows a similar model of foul-mouthed eccentric characters — but this time in
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It was in a seventh-grade classroom in South Central Los Angeles that I was first introduced to Maya Angelou. I still remember how the words constructed lyrical melodies that bounced like notes, luring the reader to read it as a dance. Every piece of Angelou’s work carries a certain rhythm
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This is the signal. If you hear it, you’ve been chosen. “The Signal” is a journey into the wild. Expect the unexpected. Be ready to not be ready. Throughout this ever-mutable chain of intertwined and yet disparate events, the viewer’s mind will crawl, walk, run, fly and, probably, explode. This
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Welcome to the apocalypse. The world is at war. In “Edge of Tomorrow,” Earth has been invaded by a vastly superior alien army that threatens to consume human existence. All seems to be lost. There is hope, however, in the form of humanity’s Bellerofonte — pyrrhic prowess and the mech
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