Grotto Works Rocks
The first-ever Grotto Works celebration was hot--literally--thanks to the 300 or so guests who packed our sweltering, surprisingly under-air conditioned offices on a warm Saturday night. Everyone crowded in to the conference room for two rounds of reading--first at ...Monday, June 26th, 2006 · Misc. · 1 Comment »
When a friend of mine who edits San Francisco State's alumni magazine asked me to interview the Photorealist painter Robert Bechtle, I couldn't resist. By coincidence, I had just seen the mesmerizing Bechtle retrospective at the San Francisco Museum ...
Thursday, June 8th, 2006 · Misc. · No Comments »
Welcome! You?ve arrived at the website of author, arts journalist, book reviewer, and dance critic Rachel Howard (that?s me on the right at eight, in the poufy tutu). Once a steady blog on dance and writing, this website ...
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006 · Misc. · No Comments »
Welcome! You?ve arrived at the website of author, arts journalist, book reviewer, and dance critic Rachel Howard (that?s me on the right at eight, in the poufy tutu). Once a steady blog on dance and writing, this website ...
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006 · Misc. · No Comments »
Greetings
If you've alighted on this site thanks to my A-Z dance guide (and editor Joe Brown's generous plug) in the SF Chronicle, welcome! My website Footnotes went live in July 2004. I use this blog to fill out my ...Sunday, January 29th, 2006 · Misc. · No Comments »
I came down with a nasty flu Wednesday, am still suffering it today, hope to be well by Monday, and am sure glad I finished several Chronicle assignments well before deadline last week, though I've now lost two days I ...
Friday, January 13th, 2006 · Misc. · No Comments »
The New Yorker recently ran a "Talk of the Town" item on the woman who would not rest until Rod Stewart had his Walk of Fame star: "In October, when Rod Stewart made an appearance on Hollywood Boulevard to unveil his ...
Tuesday, January 10th, 2006 · Misc. · 1 Comment »
An Office of My Own
I?ve started the new year off with a new space by joining the SF Writers Grotto. It?s a collective of all kinds of freelance writers?journalists, novelists, poets, screenwriters?who rent office space together in order to counterbalance the solitary nature ...Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006 · Misc. · 2 Comments »
It's time for year-end lists, and my memoir "The Lost Night" has thus far made two, named a best book of 2005 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Rocky Mountain News. In dance matters, my list of most memorable dance ...
Wednesday, December 21st, 2005 · Misc. · No Comments »
Spotted recently on the marquee of a Tenderloin porn shop: INFLATABLE DOLL LOVE SOMEONE WHO LOVES YOU BACK There's a poem in there, if only I were a poet.
Thursday, December 15th, 2005 · Misc. · No Comments »
