Archive for Justine Beed

(‘17, Anthropology/Creative Writing, Multimedia Editor) is a hopeless wanderer hailing from Moscow, Windhoek, Maryland, Mexico City, Asunción, Tokyo, Cairo, and now Palo Alto, California. She loves good movies and music. Writing and film is her thing, but dammit she can’t sing.
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Cheryl Strayed, Heartbreak Kid

Strayed uses the material world, the observable, the touchable world to break the heart of the reader. Break it in a way that doesn’t leave us feeling empty. She breaks it in a way that makes us feel full.  Read more…

Pippin 2__418 Sasha Allen as Leading Player and the cast of the National Tour of PIPPIN. Credit Terry Shapiro

‘Pippin’ brings circus to the Golden Gate Theater

Slinky hat and cane Fosse dances to songs about gore and death, a time-stopping back-flip through a hula hoop, and the impossibility for any character to remain dead are all part of the magic, the colored lights, the circus tent, the fantastic spectacle. Nevertheless, the show’s second pulse, the display of the ordinary as extraordinary and vice versa gives it an emotional life. Read more…

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