by Dan Metz | Nov 4, 2019 | Culture, Events, Featured
Photos by Eddy Garay Barktoberfest 2019 is over; everybody won. Well, we all got to see adorable dogs in great costumes, but only some of those dogs won prizes. Over the course of the evening, ten top dogs won nine prizes for their puppy parents. It was a tough...
by Dan Metz | Oct 29, 2019 | Events, Featured, Living, Pets
Photo credit Eddy Gary Today is BARKtoberfest, so get your costumes and hashtags ready–Downtown Magazine is offering big prizes for the best dog costumes and an equally big prize for our Instagram competition. Don’t miss out on your chance to win. This is...
by Dan Metz | Oct 19, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Theater
Photo credit Chris Loupos It’s an era of economic instability. It’s an era of broken dreams and disaffected youth. A grim isolation that separates us from those we love and traps us in our own world. At least, that’s the way Tom Wingfield remembers...
by Dan Metz | Oct 10, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Theater
Shakespeare was funny, and not the kind of humor that you’d expect from a literary titan. His work often had a Seth Rogan sense of humor, reveling in the crude, crass, and sexual. You’d expect that 9th graders would love The Bard. But then again maybe not. That...
by Dan Metz | Oct 8, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Movies, Music
James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett of Metallica. Image from Murder in the Front Row: The San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Metal Story (2019), picture from IMDB.com If I were writing this review in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early ‘80s, I’d be a dead man. It’s nothing...
