Subject: Rick Martin

• Re-Enacting History

  The election of Barack Obama imbues The America Play with new meaning.

  December 3, 2008

• Off the Wall

  One-act opera is every bit as didactic as the mural from which it takes its title, but lacks the same punch

  May 16, 2007

• Sketch Released of Alleged Assailant in Fatal SOMA Mugging -- And He Looks Like Mario Van Peebles

  The man on the left is the suspect for a fatal April mugging; at right is his buddyPolice on Wednesday released the above sketch of the mugger who may be responsible for the death of 63-year-old Helen Canafax, and the alleged mugger's pal (right). SF Weekly has written a bit about Canafax, a woman known for her lifelong generosity to the homeless. Several weeks after a violent purse-snatching in front of 680 Folsom Street, she died on May 2 after a blood clot became lodged in her heart; the pulm

  June 18, 2009