Email Author Silke Tudor

2009 Stories by Silke Tudor

• Chinese Spectacular

  published December 30, 2009

  During last Chinese New Year, Shen Yun made headlines when people walked out of its Radio City Music Hall performance. The objection? Woven into... More >>

• Mad Moshe

  published December 30, 2009

  Moshe Cohen returns home again with his lyrical, insightful, and altogether mirthful clowning masterwork, Mr. YooWho’s Holiday,... More >>

• Welcome to Paradise

  published December 30, 2009

  When Tim Barsky first staged The Bright River: A Mass Transit Tour of the Afterlife in 2004, it was like the act of a drowning man... More >>

• Yes They Can

  published December 16, 2009

  Whether you mix peppermint schnapps in your cocoa or prefer your chocolate straight and cold with a sidecar of cookies, it’s a good guess you... More >>

• A Really Big Shew

  published November 11, 2009

  As a variety show, Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In reveled in that brief go-going-gone moment between the girdled rigidity of the American... More >>

• Work Out the Kink

  published November 11, 2009

  It’s amazing how quickly one becomes disenchanted with porn. After that preliminary rush, poring over a catalogue annotated by cheerful,... More >>

• Mission Art Goes Uptown

  published October 28, 2009

  From the deconstructed superheroes of Aaron Noble to the politic salvos of Balmy Alley, the artistic legacy of the Mission District is rich enough... More >>

• Rupa and the Multimedia Project

  published September 30, 2009

  For decades, neurologists have been prescribing music for diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. There’s no doubt that Rupa... More >>

• Slavic Soul Party

  published September 9, 2009

  In remote Russian villages, seasons are marked by boisterous celebrations such as the winter Koleda and summer Kupala, where young and old join in... More >>

• Stingray Lifts Off

  published September 9, 2009

  Mars ain’t what it once was, but the dusty outpost still offers live nightly entertainment and enough empty space for a guy to shed his past.... More >>

• Running with the Bulls

  published August 19, 2009

  The bullfight has been celebrated in art and literature as the embodiment of man’s ability to overcome his fear of death. In Spain, the... More >>

• Holiday in Cambodia

  published August 19, 2009

  In 2003, Dengue Fever captured the heart of San Francisco by performing the compilation Cambodian Rocks in its delirious entirety. This was... More >>

• One Day, One Night

  published August 12, 2009

  In the video created for “Un Día” — the title track from Juana Molina’s exquisite fifth album — the face of... More >>

• Zowie

  published August 5, 2009

  There was something a little uninviting about the dancefloor during the mid-'90s. Not that swing dancing didn’t look like fun, but if white... More >>

• Masters of Puppets

  published July 29, 2009

  Imagine Motörhead’s Lemmy with a talk show. Now imagine him as a drug-addled, sex-obsessed puppet named Red Orbach who takes pleasure in... More >>

• WTF, USA?

  published July 29, 2009

  After the Dustbowl, America needed John Steinbeck to give starvation and deprivation human faces to ponder. But as America’s nationwide... More >>

• They Know They Can Do It

  published July 29, 2009

  Nearly two decades after the New York drag-night documentary Paris Is Burning pushed the Vogue beyond Harlem ballrooms, Madonna’s... More >>

• Dames on the TL

  published July 15, 2009

  Urban developers can dress her up and change her name, but the Tenderloin’s preferred eau de parfum will always be fortified wine and... More >>

• On the Erudite Air

  published July 8, 2009

  We know of ages when intellectual discourse was considered the height of fashion, and so it seems, after years of slacker-ennui and delirious... More >>

• A Smoking Opera

  published July 8, 2009

  The story of the Crucible is a bit like an urban fairy tale. In 1999, it opened its first class with a paltry $1,750 grant and staged the earliest... More >>

• Fighting to Work

  published July 1, 2009

  Seventy-five years ago, San Francisco was brought to a standstill after police fired into a crowd of striking longshoremen and their sympathizers.... More >>

• Art Operations

  published July 1, 2009

  During the 2003 gubernatorial contest, out-of-state media turned Nao Bustamante — sister of Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante — into a... More >>

• Everybody Gets a Sign!

  published June 24, 2009

  Frank Chu holds the Guinness world record for the longest successive protest, according to Frank Chu, and he has logged more miles than the March... More >>

• But “Frisco” Tattoos Are Fine

  published June 24, 2009

  Visitors should understand that civic disdain for the epithet “Frisco” stretches back as far as 1872, when Joshua Abraham Norton,... More >>

• Happy Ending

  published June 3, 2009

  Thrillpeddlers, well-known for blowing dust and gristle off Grand Guignol plays from early-20th-century Paris, have set their sights a bit closer... More >>