by Christina Waters | Feb 29, 2012 | Art |
Chris Cravey and Ari Finkelstein—friends, artists, over-achievers—will take over the Eduardo Carrillo Gallery @ the UCSC Art Department for a week starting March 1. The duo will unleash Collections: Figurative Sculpture, Drawings and Paintings upon a world hungry for enlightened visual culture.
Come take a look. A reception for the artists happens this Sunday, March 4th @ 5pm.
The Carrillo Gallery is an intimate exhibition space adjoining the central quad at the Baskin Arts Complex, across the drive from the Performing Arts Theater, UCSC. For more about the late Art professor emeritus, Eduardo Carrillo, his life and work, go here.
[A. Finkelstein]
by Christina Waters | Feb 28, 2012 | Art |
by Christina Waters | Feb 22, 2012 | Home |
After two weeks of slumbering in 100 proof grain alcohol, my alchemical mixture of Seville orange peels, coriander, fennel seeds, gentian and quassia bark was ready for stage two on the road to becoming orange bitters.
After pouring the alcohol—now tinged a pale orange hue—through cheesecloth, I put it back into a mason jar to rest. Then I took the dry ingredients and muddled them into submission with a wooden spoon. I then added the orange peel mix to a saucepan along with 3 1/4 cups of water, brought it to a boil, let it all simmer (more…)
by Christina Waters | Feb 21, 2012 | Home |
Last week I expected to find disarming French reds (wines, not commies) and inventive rosés, but I’m not sure I was ready for just how polished the kitchen at Soif has become.
New menu, new generously-proportioned attitude, and dishes loaded with comfort flavors and non-tricky presentation.
Here is a spinach and multi-beet salad, with infant turnips and a liberal crown of blue cheese. It was huge and great glorious eating. Ditto a scallop salad with black trumpet mushrooms, and another appetizer of lobster and bitter greens.
Soif — more than simply a stylish, welcoming wine bar. May I use the hackneyed-phrase, “better than ever?” Thanks. I just did.
by Christina Waters | Feb 19, 2012 | Art, Home |
Pina Bausch was one of my heroes. Most of my life I tracked her conceptual innovations in choreography, and the creation of her Tanztheater company in Wuppertal Germany. Moving dance beyond the lexicons of ballet and even Graham’s modern dance tropes, Bausch used the body to explore the archetypes of animality. Her “dances” are in fact small narratives, riddles, myths and gems of erotic psychoanalysis. In the process she created nothing less than a poetics of pain.
In her pieces, at once expressionist, avant garde, and laced with angular angst, Bausch transformed dance into an emotional incantation in which longing and long-limbed velocity were employed to invoke something like redemption. (more…)
