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‘Employee Dharma Handbook’: The Scourge of Caste Discrimination Showcased in a Play by TheaterWorks
1+ hour, 40+ min ago (251+ words) TheatreWorks Silicon Valley kicked off Season 56 with the world premiere of “The Employee Dharma Handbook” in the second week of July at the Lucie Stern Theater in Palo Alto. TheatreWorks is an artistic community committed to dramatic and musical theatre…...
I Watched ‘The Odyssey’ First Day, First Show: The Liberties Christopher Nolan Takes With Homer’s Epic Are Real, And They Are Brilliant
1+ week, 23+ hour ago (336+ words) Walking out three hours later, I did what every movie lover does after a great one: reached for comparisons. “Mad Max: Fury Road.” “The Lord of the Rings.” “Oppenheimer.” This one beats them all for me — not only because of…...
Hollywood’s India Odyssey: Christopher Nolan, Matt Damon, and Tom Holland Bring Homer to Mumbai — and Make History Doing It
1+ week, 4+ day ago (789+ words) At 2:30 in the afternoon on Friday, July 11, 2026, the manager of Olympia Coffee House — a storied, decades-old café in the Colaba neighborhood of South Mumbai — found three unexpected guests waiting outside his door. The staff, he later recounted in a post…...
The Public Intellectual After the Age of Visibility: Thought, Authority, and the Strange New Reader in Our Midst
3+ week, 6+ day ago (1637+ words) I. A Note from the Summit The note arrived without preamble. The note said two things. First: you have not been writing in the leading newspapers and magazines. Nor are you written about. Second: no one becomes a leading public intellectual…...
Berkeley Repertory Theater’s ‘The Lunchbox’ Combines Heart, Humor and Hope
3+ week, 6+ day ago (319+ words) Ritesh Batra’s internationally acclaimed film, “The Lunchbox,” adapted into a musical with the same name is presented by the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Playing at the Roda Theater in Berkeley, the musical combines heart, humor and hope. The story is set…...
Secret Lives of Parents: ’The Whistler’ is a Testament to Ann Patchett's Mastery of Setting and Sensory Detail
1+ mon, 22+ hour ago (645+ words) American Kahani...
Here’s to Raising a Toast of Provençal Rosé to My Mother in the Heart of the Artichoke
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (198+ words) Yet, I could not help but smile at the whimsical imagery of the poets who saw them so differently. In his free-form verse, Pablo Neruda beautifully personified the vegetable as a proud, tender soldier: The artichokeWith a tender heartDressed up…...
Marjane Satrapi: ‘Guns May Shoot, and Knives May Carve, But We Won’t Wear Your Silly Scarves"
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (552+ words) “I had lost some of my relatives in a revolution… I had survived a war… and it’s a banal love story that almost got me.” Reading these words by Marjane Satrapi today feels tragically prescient. In her lifetime, Marjane survived…...
Sky of Hope: The British Pakistani Artist Who Designed the Most Audacious Part of the Obama Presidential Center
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (350+ words) The Sky Room: Idris Khan’s Hand-Stamped Ceiling The commission came about through the center’s curatorial team. Curator Shore, as Galerie Magazine described it, contacted Khan having concluded he would be the right artist for the museum’s highest space. Khan noted…...
‘The Lunchbox’: The Transformation of Beloved Film Into a Musical Play is Nothing Short of Magical
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (306+ words) “We forget things if we have no one to tell them to.” This poignant line from Ritesh Batra’s acclaimed 2013 film “The Lunchbox” stayed with me long after the curtain closed on its world-premiere musical adaptation at Berkeley Repertory Roda Theatre....