Email Author Jonathan Kiefer

2004 Stories by Jonathan Kiefer

• Emma

  published December 1, 2004

  In the days before sitting around watching MTV and getting high, a group of young friends pass an afternoon in an attic, acting out the tale of... More >>

• 21 Dog Years: Doing Time @ Amazon.com

  published June 16, 2004

  The dot-com time: What the hell happened? It's a question for the ages, especially around here, one most recently taken up by the Berkeley Rep,... More >>

• Master Class

  published June 9, 2004

  One reason people use the word "diva" too often nowadays is that the notion of great women being defined by great performances has made great... More >>

• Hamlet

  published June 2, 2004

  There's still time to catch New Shakespeare's theater-in-the-hexagon staging at the Berkeley Art Center, a show of great vigor: It works up a... More >>

• "The Pinter/Albee Duet"

  published May 19, 2004

  Theatre Rhinoceros mounts a double feature of civil savagery from two modern masters of English dramaturgy. Edward Albee's The Zoo Story... More >>

• A Transylvanian in Silicon Valley

  published May 19, 2004

  Although capped off with a coda of motivational speech, Silvian Centiu's monologue -- about his clamber from Eastern Bloc anguish to upper-level... More >>

• Zoom Lens

  published March 3, 2004

  Every year San Francisco is host to roughly 6 gazillion film festivals (and counting). So it's logical to assume that, for survival's sake, each... More >>

• Up in the Air, Mr. Birdman

  published February 4, 2004

  It isn't easy for people to believe that Telegraph Hill is home to a flock of wild parrots, but the birds do exist -- in fact, there are about 130... More >>

• Zoom Lens

  published February 4, 2004

  As long as there are independent film festivals, there will be independent films about how goddamn hard it is to make it in the film business. Our... More >>