The battle over union representation for graduate-student employees at the University of California may be heating up again. The 45-day cooling-off period that interrupted the December strike by grad workers on eight campuses expired this month with no movement from UC administrators. And UC officials continue to stonewall despite recent......
The City Hall system worked last month. That itself is news. Events showed that the city’s substandard general managers can actually be ushered out the door without undue resort to violence. This certainly runs against the dogma according to Mayor Richard Riordan, who has long been snorting that he ought......
Photo: AP/Wide World It would be nice to think that it’s finally over — that with last week’s verdict, the Republicans will finally stand down in their war against Bill Clinton. After all, it’s not as if the yearlong jihad of Ken Starr, and then the House managers, ever altered......
Debra DiPaolo"I've never been much of a joiner," says Tim Hawkinson. Anyone familiar with the 38-year-old artist's works would somehow deduce this. His investigations into the human body intermittently suggest a kinship with Bruce Nauman, Jonathan Borofsky and Kiki Smith, but essentially Hawkinson's work is a universe unto itself. That......
What do German supermodel Nadja Auerman's legs have in common with the Tunisian fat-tailed scorpion, Charles de Gaulle, Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano, and a pair of suicidal Taiwanese newlyweds named Huang Pin-jen and Chang Shu-mei? And what possible connection links the bombing of Hiroshima with The Notorious B.I.G. and an......
A few days after the Sundance Film Festival wound down in Park City, Utah, I traveled to the 28th International Film Festival Rotterdam, which has a growing reputation as one of the most essential international events. From January 27 to February 7, Rotterdam, the world's largest port, hosted 200 features......
SAN FRANCISCO -- On the opening day of the film conference, Park Ki-yong began to realize what it might take to get U.S. financing for his South Korean movie projects. He sat through a two-hour panel discussion at which audience members made minutelong story pitches to production executives. (One such......
Photo by Debra DiPaolo"In Africa, there's a high level of understanding of the magic of sound. Sound is vibration, and all of creation is vibration, and we're all atoms vibrating at various rates, though we have the illusion of solidity. Many African traditions have learned to combine the overtones, the......
Photo by Debra DiPaoloIn the book Sister Outsider, a collection of speeches and essays by the late Audre Lorde, there's an excerpt from an exchange between Lorde and fellow poet Adrienne Rich that first appeared in the magazine Signs. In the conversation, Lorde says she thinks of their dialogue-in-progress as......
Photo by Bob LapinThe Living, Anthony Clarvoe's 1993 drama about the London plague, is a veritable atlas of facts and figures about the 1665 epidemic that claimed 75,000 lives, a breathing work of research that puts tragic abstractions into very human proportions. Clarvoe presents a cross section of Londoners during......
