Email Author Silke Tudor

2012 Stories by Silke Tudor

• Sleigh Bells Sing

  published November 28, 2012

  The days are shorter, the nights are darker, and even those of us in temperate climes feel a natural need to hunker own, share food, and sing... More >>

• Rabbit Habbit

  published November 14, 2012

  The conceit of toys with rich internal lives has entertained generations from Pinocchio to Toy Story but none as beautifully as... More >>

• The World's a Stage

  published November 7, 2012

  In 2006, over 1,000 players, ranging in age from 10 to "don’t ask," gathered in New York for the inaugural Come Out & Play festival.... More >>

• It's Easy Bein' Green

  published October 31, 2012

  In the West, yoga refers to an hour-long class that usually starts with downward dog, but the term, coming from a Sanskrit word meaning... More >>

• Antinomial Syzygy

  published October 24, 2012

  At the turn of the 20th century, Alfred Jarry produced the most compelling plan for a time machine yet published. This, and Jarry’s habit of... More >>

• Shack Up!

  published October 17, 2012

  Long before shots were fired during Halloween in the Castro, the perils of idiocy, belligerence, and a general lack of style had driven us far,... More >>

• Maker's Mark

  published October 10, 2012

  As home to Maker Faire, not to mention a lot of counterculture and counterintuitive invention, the Bay Area is no stranger to D.I.Y., but it... More >>

• Zombie Mine

  published October 3, 2012

  Did the season premiere of Walking Dead leave you with a craving? Not to worry. The fine folks of San Francisco Theater Pub have your back.... More >>

• Indie-Pop Ballet

  published September 26, 2012

  Returning from sold-out shows and rave reviews in New York, Smuin Ballet brings the inventive, much-lauded, and uncomfortably resonant... More >>

• Edgy Art

  published September 19, 2012

  In the 1950s, the destination spot of Niagara Falls, N.Y., was also a hotbed of industry made of petrochemicals, paper, plastics, rubber, and... More >>

• 77 Going On 17

  published September 5, 2012

  Pacifica Tribune columnist Lynn Ruth Miller started warming up for her comedy gig at the age of 67, with the release of an autobiographical... More >>

• Sound Mind

  published September 5, 2012

  Since 2006, Silicon Valley’s ZERO1 Biennial has offered guided tours of the Möbius strip running through art and technology. During the... More >>

• The Nose Knows

  published August 29, 2012

  Remember the boys in your class with Pee Chee folders who used to draw their foes getting mutilated? Italy’s "Little Duck" (a.k.a. Laurina... More >>

• Rock the Boat

  published August 22, 2012

  The 21st summer season of WestWave Dance is upon us -- in one night. Historically, this carefully curated festival has lasted between one... More >>

• Cyberpunk Soothsayer

  published August 22, 2012

  William Gibson is not the first science fiction author to be given the hyperbolic label of prophet -- writing in the mid-1800s, Jules Verne... More >>

• Bewitched

  published August 15, 2012

  In June, a 700-year old “vampire” skeleton was found entombed in a Bulgarian church near the Black Sea. It had been stabbed through... More >>

• Step It Up

  published August 15, 2012

  The Dance Films Association has been around since the mid-’50s, but most of us didn’t even know a “dance film” genre... More >>

• Fortune Telling

  published August 8, 2012

  Before Oksana Marafioti was 15, she had touched the Siberian tundra and the Mongolian desert, enjoyed the privileges of performing royalty... More >>

• Let's Be Frank

  published August 8, 2012

  For the last 100 days, the Exploratorium has posted pictures and quotes by particle physicist Frank Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer wasn’t... More >>

• Pinoy Pride

  published August 1, 2012

  With the largest Filipino population of any of state, the trials of tinikling are woven into the fabric of California childhood as surely as... More >>

• Bug Off

  published August 1, 2012

  Israeli artist Tamar Assaf grew up on the edge of a small town, watching critters roam among wildflowers and orange groves. Quite quickly, though,... More >>

• Case on Point

  published July 25, 2012

  Even for people with an aversion to bun-heads, it is difficult to resist the beauty and elegance of professionally trained ballet dancers in a... More >>

• Here's Johnny!

  published July 25, 2012

  The narration in 1967’s rollicking exploitation film Mondo Teeno: Teenage Rebellion is delivered with the seriousness of an STD... More >>

• Sinsational

  published July 25, 2012

  For most people, prayer and meditation, even in a group setting, is a singular and solitary experience, and public confession would be nigh... More >>

• Knitty Gritty

  published July 25, 2012

  Leave it to the country that invented origami to completely transform how we view fabric. "Fiber Futures: Japan’s Textile Pioneers"... More >>