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Yousif Kassab on May 2, 2018
Some of Silicon Valley’s most talented percussionists will be pounding on very big drums this weekend as a part of the Stanford Taiko Spring Concert. The university’s 18-piece resident taiko ensemble has prepared a brand new show to celebrate the season. Titled “Wavebreak,” the concert will feature new arrangements from the group’s…
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Nick Veronin on May 2, 2018
What price do we pay for the longer lives modern science can give us? It is a question that has haunted humanity since Mary Shelley’s seminal speculative horror novel, Frankenstein. Today, 200 years since Dr. Frankenstein’s monster first sprang to life on the page, artists and thinkers continue to grapple with many…
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Jaleny Reyes on March 15, 2018
Those who picture Ringling Bros. camp, creepy clowns and animal cruelty when thinking about the circus obviously haven’t spent much time in French Canada. In addition to the world-renowned Cirque du Soleil, Quebec is also home to Machine de Cirque. Founded in 2013, this compact troupe aims to engage the imaginations of…
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Watch this acclaimed 1998 film while a live orchestra plays its Oscar-winning score live. The movie, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Carlo Cecchi and Sylvia Chang, tells the tale of a mysterious—and perhaps supernatural—red violin. From its birth in 17th century Cremona, to a stint in Vienna, on through to Oxford, and then…
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André Jaquez on November 9, 2017
Where there is truth, there is bound to be humor, and comedian Samantha Bee’s bare-all approach is representative of that. The hyperaware Bee, fearlessly exposes the hypocritical nature of the elite on her TBS comedy show Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. Her witty, razor-tongued jabs explore the most glaring topics of our…
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It’s been 100 years since Vladimir Lenin led his Bolshevik Party to overthrow the czarist autocracy. The Russian Revolution deposed Nicholas II, left the enigmatic mystic Rasputin dead and ushered a new socialist order into the halls of power in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The revolution also paved the way for some…
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Yousif Kassab on July 27, 2017
The jazz is coming back to Palo Alto as the Stanford Shopping Center hosts the 31st annual Summer Jazz Concert Series, produced by SFJAZZ. This Thursday, the Oakland-based horn ensemble Brass Magic takes the stage. Informed by a wide range of musical styles, including world jazz, pop, hip-hop and electronic, Brass Magic…
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Karla Kane on December 9, 2015
Forty years ago, the Palo Alto-raised, Stanford-educated Will Ackerman would often play his guitar for passersby under an archway at the Old Union building on campus, where the acoustics were just right. “I never meant to draw an audience, but when I would open my eyes I’d find that four, then 15,…
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False flags, chemtrails, second gunmen and perpetual surveillance. Conspiracy theories are as American as apple pie and have been an integral part of the fabric of this country since before our Founding Fathers even began drafting the Declaration of Independence. At least that’s what Darcy James Argue and Isaac Butler want you to…
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In 2014, the Russian Federation sent troops into Ukraine and annexed the strategically significant Crimean peninsula. As was the case with the Russo-Georgian crisis of 2008, the fracas temporarily caught the attention of the American mainstream media, before fading from view. DakhaBrakha, an experimental folk band from the Ukraine wants to ensure…
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