REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: Art league at work Classes at the Palo Alto institution known as the Pacific Art League are being held ‘round the corner at 227 Forest Ave. while the building undergoes major renovations. Exhibi... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Jun 14, 2013 at 11:56 am There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Jun 15, 2013 at 3:41 pm.
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: Unforgettable face Quick. Who do you see?
I focused on the glasses lens and saw Lennon right away, but peer in and McCartney’s there too. Mountain View artist Jay Hill likes to shake things u... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Jun 7, 2013 at 11:19 am
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: Facelift for Stanford totem poles Outdoor art needs special treatment, even when it’s made out of trees. Stanford’s two totem poles carved and painted by Pacific Northwest artists recently got respectful facel... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on May 30, 2013 at 3:50 pm
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: Downtown with Bryan Ida SoCal meets Palo Alto in a new show of 15 paintings by PA native Bryan Ida. On round and rectangular panels, his thick epoxy layers recall his history with Southern California... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on May 29, 2013 at 3:15 pm
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Attorneys + art Palo Alto artist Florence de Bretagne has a team of lawyers backing her up as she creates six big murals at a local school. No, there are no legal issues; these folks are wiel... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Apr 19, 2013 at 10:51 am
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG 'Palo Alto Forest’ seeks new digs Wanted: a new home for a Palo Alto forest. That is, the collection of photos on glass, hung with wood, wire and acrylic, known as the art installation “The Palo Alto Forest.” ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Apr 3, 2013 at 3:19 pm
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: Harp flash mob! On this past day of St. Pat, green-wearing, harp-playing musicians suddenly swarmed audience members heading for a show by the California Pops Orchestra at Foothill College's ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Mar 19, 2013 at 11:00 am
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: 'Wild Heart of One Bird Singing' She lived in a fishing village; she created illustrations of amphipods for the National Museum of Natural Sciences of Canada; she’s rather fond of birds. That’s South Bay arti... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Mar 6, 2013 at 3:43 pm There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Mar 6, 2013 at 4:09 pm.
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: A farewell show Sorry to hear that South Bay painter Terri Hill is leaving Viewpoints Gallery in Los Altos, where she’s been showing her watercolors for several years. In this uber-cycling-fr... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Jan 17, 2013 at 1:37 pm
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: My top 10 arts events from 2012 Some of my favorite arts moments and events this year came from unexpected places. An impromptu piano concert overheard through a door, for instance. Or a phenomenal acting pe... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Jan 2, 2013 at 4:33 pm There has been 1 comment on this topic, the most recent on Jan 4, 2013 at 11:14 am.
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: The floating world A striking image waiting for me in my inbox upon my return from vacation. San Jose artist Kyoko Fischer won first place in the current juried print exhibition at the Pacific A... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Nov 15, 2012 at 3:55 pm
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: Why black and white? Why black and white? Why not, if you can make a ceiling lamp look like a marvelous stained-glass fractal without any color?
Fine-art photographer Cole Thompson, he of the l... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Oct 16, 2012 at 3:55 pm
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: Play in progress So there wasn’t a stunning set to take a photo of. But with a staged reading of a musical that’s still being written, you expect to see the seams. This weekend we caught the t... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Aug 21, 2012 at 10:45 am
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: 'Illumination' My up-close photo of “Illumination,” a 2006 mixed-media work by Menlo Park artist Marianne Lettieri. It’s on display at the Triton Museum, which has truly wonderful air condit... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Aug 13, 2012 at 10:37 am
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: 'Double Take' photo contest There’s another opportunity to get your eagle eye recognized at the spiffed-up Palo Alto Art Center: Submit your best photo of Patrick Dougherty’s whimsical tree sculpture “Do... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Jul 30, 2012 at 10:33 am
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: Last one standing What’s all this I hear about arts being in trouble in the schools? Why, this mural was doing just fine at Hillview Middle School in Menlo Park the other day. At least for the ... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Jul 19, 2012 at 12:30 pm
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: Music in Menlo Is it a scene at the newly renamed Menlo Hub? Looks that way in a story coming this Friday written by my star intern, Maytal Mark. ...
To read the rest of this post (and to... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Jul 18, 2012 at 3:20 pm
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: Autumn in Palo Alto Could this Palo Alto fall be more glorious? I don't know why the colors are so stunning this year, but I'm thankful. Even the crunched-up yellow leaves that are piling up on t... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Dec 1, 2011 at 2:22 pm There have been 4 comments on this topic, the most recent on Jan 19, 2012 at 10:09 am.
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: Mr. Congeniality at the Cantor I have a confession: I get in trouble a lot at the Cantor Arts Center.
I know, arts editors should be setting a good example. But I go into exhibits with my little reporter... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Oct 19, 2011 at 4:32 pm
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: From Emily to Georgia Busy Palo Alto playwright Sharmon J. Hilfinger is having her seventh full-length play produced in the Bay Area. It seems like we just wrote about "Tell It Slant," the play wit... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Sep 23, 2011 at 11:46 am
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: Woodsider at the War Memorial Almanac reporter Dave Boyce wrote a nice story this week about young Henry Phipps, a 12-year-old Woodside resident who's spending his September singing in the San Francisco Op... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Sep 20, 2011 at 2:22 pm
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: Ten years ago, ten years later As I write about the 9/11 memorial events this weekend, I think about the Mozart Requiem concert happening Sunday in Stanford's Memorial Church and imagine how peaceful the ai... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Sep 8, 2011 at 9:43 am There have been 3 comments on this topic, the most recent on Sep 23, 2011 at 11:18 am.
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Keith Raffel: Doubling the odds in book publishing It's not an easy thing to find lasting, lucrative success as a novelist. So this year Palo Alto mystery/thriller author Keith Raffel is trying to double the odds.
After pub... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Aug 12, 2011 at 3:31 pm
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: Music@Menlo: Lovely, lilting Lieder Everyone in theater knows this old saw: "Bad dress rehearsal, good opening night." Maybe the Music@Menlo folks should have worried when the last rehearsal for the Aug. 2 conce... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Aug 4, 2011 at 4:46 pm
REBECCA WALLACE'S AD LIBS BLOG Ad Libs: Art on foot To take a truly informed science-art-nature walk on the Stanford campus, it's nice to have a museum docent, an earth-sciences dean, a curator and a bunch of professors with yo... READ MORE/COMMENT Posted by Rebecca Wallace, arts & entertainment editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, on Jul 20, 2011 at 1:37 pm
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