Email Author Silke Tudor

2008 Stories by Silke Tudor

• Promise Fulfilled

  published December 31, 2008

  Despite John Guare's early critical success with House of Blue Leaves, which won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best... More >>

• Corteo’s Clown Comes Home

  published December 24, 2008

  Last year, Jeff Raz took a year-long sabbatical from the Clown Conservatory, which he founded, to play the central role in Cirque du Soleil's... More >>

• The Art of Zen (Honk!)

  published December 24, 2008

  If a clown honks his nose in the middle of a forest and no one hears it, is the clown still funny? Such questions would have been welcomed at the... More >>

• An Animated Holiday

  published December 24, 2008

  In Geoff Adams’ short film Birdbeat: fugue, a group of cheeky little songbirds is intimidated throughout their meal by a big,... More >>

• Merry Fucking Christmas

  published December 10, 2008

  San Francisco delights in the observation of anti-holidays -- the burning of love letters on Valentine’s Day, the allocution of Native... More >>

• Genre-Defying Dance

  published December 10, 2008

  Speaking about gravity’s effect on postmodern dance, experimental choreographer and contact improvisation guru Steve Paxton said, “If... More >>

• St. Nick, Reporting for Duty

  published December 3, 2008

  Christmas did not always mean stampedes on Black Friday, though perhaps that was back when the Ferry Building was as busy as London’s Charing... More >>

• Slap That Ass

  published November 26, 2008

  Upon finding delight in the corporeal world, most infants express it by slapping, clapping, stomping, thumping, and vocalizing. This same... More >>

• Slap That Ass

  published November 26, 2008

  Upon finding delight in the corporeal world, most infants express it by slapping, clapping, stomping, thumping, and vocalizing. This same... More >>

• Making Waves

  published November 19, 2008

  Pirate Cat Radio must be the most visible underground radio station in the country. Transmitting unlicensed from its bright, shiny corner cafe in... More >>

• Excavating the Canyon

  published November 12, 2008

  San Francisco has always been a nexus for independent thinkers, but the 1960s saw a wholesale, albeit brief, rejection of the cultural mainstream... More >>

• Chickundead

  published July 9, 2008

  How often have you pondered the unearthly mystery of a McChicken Sandwich slathered in special sauce? Leave it to low-budget-movie impresario... More >>

• Creaky Machines

  published July 2, 2008

  Some believe Stonehenge was built as a massive analog computer to forecast coming eclipses, in essence a very long-term clock. But to maintain... More >>

• The Grindermen

  published June 25, 2008

  To the devoted skateboarder, the sound of trucks grinding is already music to the ears. Canadian sound sculptors Christian Nicolay and Sam... More >>

• Tube Time

  published June 25, 2008

  The Cardboard Tube Fighting League now has chapters in Seattle, San Francisco, and Sydney; given that founder Robert Easley, is from Santa Cruz,... More >>

• Roller Girls Play Dirty

  published June 18, 2008

  At the height of professional roller derby, San Francisco’s own Ann “Banana-Nose” Calvello was known for outlandish makeup,... More >>

• A Black Mark On Your Record

  published June 11, 2008

  Alan Black is the heart and soul of the Edinburgh Castle. If not for him, far fewer San Franciscans would have tempted the fate of their... More >>

• I Don't Think They Play at All Fairly

  published June 4, 2008

  It is said that nothing except tobacco smoke spread through the British Empire as rapidly as croquet. But since its formal introduction in 1851,... More >>

• Do Not Attempt Sober

  published May 28, 2008

  To celebrate its love for acetate, the Film on Film Foundation presents two movies which may be respected in retrospect, on copious amounts of... More >>

• Hotter Than a Pepper Sprout

  published May 28, 2008

  In its three short years of existence, the Stars and Garters Theatre Company has woven a love spell around this city. Its first offering, The... More >>

• Trust the Carny

  published May 21, 2008

  Paul Cesewski was a perfect candidate for the S.F. Recycling & Disposal Artist-in-Residence Program. For years, he has been a master of... More >>

• Figaro Figaro Figaro

  published May 21, 2008

  Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, ossia la folle giornata ( The Marriage of Figaro, or the Day of Madness), is one of... More >>

• Murder by Death: Mountain Menace

  published May 14, 2008

  If Red of Tooth and Claw, the latest album by Indiana quartet Murder by Death, were a movie, its opening sequence would be a... More >>

• Be A Wolf

  published May 14, 2008

  Ask any beat cop or ex-boyfriend -- no two people view the same event identically. Add a few years and you'll get a few more versions of the... More >>

• Weil Away

  published May 14, 2008

  Eight months ago, Mark Weil, the director of Ilkhom Theatre, was murdered in the Uzbeki capital of Tashkent. Many believe that Weil was killed for... More >>