Email Author Heather Wisner

1996 Stories by Heather Wisner

• Night+Day

  published December 25, 1996

  wednesday december 25 The Lark Lights Up The Lark Theater will be offering a handful of restored film favorites in a weeklong run by... More >>

• Night+Day

  published December 18, 1996

  wednesday december 18 It's a Wonderful Price If the holidays don't bring in truckloads of snow, they can at least promise an... More >>

• Night+Day

  published December 11, 1996

  wednesday december 11 Hearing Voices In Confessions of Madame Psyche, novelist Dorothy Bryant filters the experiences of San... More >>

• Night+Day

  published December 4, 1996

  wednesday december 4 Under Construction Built around a metaphor that would make Bill Clinton proud, the exhibit "Bridges: A... More >>

• Night+Day

  published November 27, 1996

  wednesday november 27 Sibling Revelry Originally intended as a vehicle for the brother-sister team of Fred and Adele Astaire, George... More >>

• Night+Day

  published November 20, 1996

  wednesday november 20 Mission: Possible One week can make all the difference in the world, if what happened to author Victor... More >>

• Night+Day

  published November 13, 1996

  wednesday november 13 Space Cowboy Cyberlove and peeping Toms come to the fore as performance artist Deke Weaver breaks in Potrero... More >>

• Night+Day

  published November 6, 1996

  wednesday november 6 Durst's Mop Will Durst has threatened to shave his head on live TV if Bob Dole doesn't win the presidential... More >>

• Night+Day

  published October 30, 1996

  wednesday october 30 That's Amore Playwright Tennessee Williams still had love on the brain after he wrote A Streetcar Named Desire,... More >>

• Night+Day

  published October 23, 1996

  wednesday october 23 Stimulating Exercise The Toxic Links Coalition leads a very different sort of local sightseeing trip, the kind... More >>

• Leaps and Bounds

  published October 16, 1996

  LINES There are quiet, arresting details in Klang, but for the most part, this new piece by choreographer Alonzo King really moves. Dancers... More >>

• Night+Day

  published October 16, 1996

  wednesday october 16 Go Soak Their Heads Anyone who's ever been slighted by Charlotte Mailliard Swig's swanky party list or jabbed... More >>

• Night+Day

  published October 9, 1996

  wednesday october 9 Hypothalamusly Speaking Neuroanatomist Simon LeVay, who made headlines in 1991 with controversial findings... More >>

• Night+Day

  published October 2, 1996

  wednesday october 2 The Tarnished Touch Inspired by European "Buffoon Theater" and the work of French dramatist Jacques Lecoq, the... More >>

• Night+Day

  published September 25, 1996

  wednesday september 25 Novel Approach The pain of consciousness is author Joan Didion's specialty, from her short story "Migraine,"... More >>

• Night+Day

  published September 18, 1996

  wednesday september 18 Off the Beaten Campaign Trail Two national political figures bypass regular Republican-Democrat party lines... More >>

• Night+Day

  published September 11, 1996

  wednesday september 11 Sharp Shooter There's been lots of talk lately about the plight of Tibetans, who have endured Chinese... More >>

• Night+Day

  published September 4, 1996

  wednesday september 4 Acts of Cruelty Writer/performer Sten Rudstr¯m celebrates the 100th birthday of late theater maverick Antoni... More >>

• Night+Day

  published August 28, 1996

  wednesday august 28 Ring Ding If you're afraid of clowns, steer clear of Clown Alley, and Boss Clown Tom Parish, when Ringling Bros.... More >>

• Night+Day

  published August 21, 1996

  wednesday august 21 Clawing Their Way to the Top Eastern seaboard crabs just feel naked without Old Bay, or so the folks at... More >>

• Night+Day

  published August 14, 1996

  wednesday august 14 Thoroughfare Market Street can be a shopping strip, panhandling zone, or parade route, depending on one's... More >>

• Night+Day

  published August 7, 1996

  wednesday august 7 Talking Heads The poetic refrain "I wandered lonely as a cloud" hovers over the spoken word series "Cloud... More >>

• Night+Day

  published July 31, 1996

  wednesday july 31 Butch Whack Lesbian comedy trio Karla Carmony, Amy Boyd, and Fontana Butterfield sing and interpretive-dance their... More >>

• Night+Day

  published July 24, 1996

  wednesday july 24 Going Underground Nancy Sirkis is taking photography to a lower level. From Hamburg to Haifa, the globe-trotting... More >>

• Night+Day

  published July 17, 1996

  wednesday july 17 They Give Good Phone Don't count the Rev. Larry Poland among the fans of the late Robert Chesley's "pornographic... More >>