Organic Epicure
‘Technically Food’: how big tech puts new foods on our plates
Food coverage is supported by a generous donation from Susan and Moses Libitzky. Once you know Larissa Zimberoff’s backstory, it’s easy to understand how…
Act Two
I’m tired of singing alone. Bring on the whole-iness of choirs!
After more than a year of singing all by myself — muted during Zoom rehearsals or recording in solitude for virtual choral pieces — my world is opening up…
Books
'It deserves to exist': Stanford prof on Roth biography controversy
Books coverage is supported by a generous grant from The Milton and Sophie Meyer Fund. A Stanford University history professor and author of a…
Books
Grieving her dad, she wrote a novel and began swimming in the bay
Books coverage is supported by a generous grant from The Milton and Sophie Meyer Fund. When Rebecca Handler’s father died from Alzheimer’s in 2013, there…
Bay Area
How this Jewish musician from Berkeley found belonging in Germany
Max Hirtz-Wolf had a pretty typical Berkeley Jewish upbringing. He attended Tehiyah Day School, had a bar mitzvah, the usual. But after graduating from…
Dance
Outdoor Israeli dancing (masks required) attracts multicultural crowd
On a recent sunny Sunday afternoon in Palo Alto, about 20 people of various ages, complexions and body shapes gathered in the concrete bowl at Mitchell…
Obituaries
How Marin's Anna Halprin challenged biases through dance
This piece first appeared in the Forward and is reprinted with permission. Anna Halprin, the leading Jewish American dancer and choreographer and educator…
Theater
Tackling Shylock, and audience expectations, in San Jose show
Actor Doug Brook is not portraying the infamous moneylender Shylock in Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” next month in San Jose. Rather, he is…
Columns
Drake upstaged by toddler; Dylan turns 80; Judge Judy retires; etc.
Eurovision voters say no to Israeli There was no trophy for Eden Alene, the 21-year-old representing Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest this year. She…