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MCASD’s “Lifelike” Exhibition is Fun for All

By Kraig Cavanaugh | March 17, 2013 |

A drip of black paint that is, in reality, made from an actual black diamond, several cardboard boxes that are not really made of cardboard, and a loud film of a downpour of rain that actually features no actual rain are all included in the exhibition “Lifelike” now on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (in La Jolla). For art connoisseurs to kids, this exhibition is a fun-for-all-ages crowd pleaser. The idea behind this exhibition is called trompe l’oeil, which in French literally means “to fool the eye”; and oh, what fun it is being fooled when…

Gallic Wit and German Substance from the Symphony

By Ken Herman | March 16, 2013 |

On a March weekend indulging in St. Patrick’s Day parades and revels, the San Diego Symphony chose the Gallic over the Gaelic, featuring Francis Poulenc’s Concerto for Two Pianos in D Minor, with Music Director Jahja Ling and his concert pianist wife Jessie Chang as soloists. James Gaffigan was the guest conductor. While most singers respond effusively to the music of this early 20th-century French composer—his ample catalogue of song cycles and choral works touches the heart and lifts the spirit—symphonic players and their audiences have a more modest appreciation of this composer’s gifts, in part because he wrote so…

Mountaintop Engages But May Not Satisfy

By Bill Eadie | March 10, 2013 |

What if you knew that this evening was your last on earth? What would you do? And, to complicate matters further, what if you were the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and you had this information? That’s the premise of Katori Hall’s play, The Mountaintop, now through March 31 at San Diego REP’s Lyceum Space. Full of twists and turns, this West Coast premiere may not entirely satisfy, but it will engage.

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