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See how Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Fiore finds his inspiration for his weekly political online animation.

In this segment, we follow choreographer Jacinta Vlach and saxophonist Howard Wiley as they start work on a new dance th... Read more

Art figures into the work scribe-in-residence Julie Seltzer creates at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in more ways than ... Read more

Decidedly unsilent, the San Francisco Mime Troupe's gadfly theater, played for free in city parks and spaces, has long d... Read more

In an age of lightning-fast and celebrity-obsessed media, a time when a single subject can be photographed and transmitt... Read more

Master ceramicist and singer-songwriter Ron Nagle claims to have little patience. But to anyone familiar with the painst... Read more

For more than 20 years, the Jewish Music Festival has brought eclectic music from every corner of the Jewish diaspora to... Read more

Pianist Rebeca Mauleón grew up in San Francisco listening to Carlos Santana. When she started playing professionally in ... Read more

Fletcher Benton moved from a small town in Ohio to San Francisco in the late 1950s to pursue his dream of becoming a pai... Read more

A dirty kitchen, a motionless man watching a flock of birds taking flight, a woman disappearing around the corner of a m... Read more

Cultures collide in the work of Julio Cesar Morales, an artist offering hisinterpretation of a post-apocalyptic city bas... Read more

When Shotgun Players was looking for a playwright from the Bay Area to write a play about South Berkeley, it was Marcus ... Read more

"When I do a project, I never know where it's going to lead me. It all has to do with what kind of junk I'll find," Amio... Read more

"The work I make is showing this messed-up system that's perpetuated by the media that makes girls want to conform and b... Read more

Spark visits with Ikeda in his studio and at a "noborigama" in Napa County, which is a 30-foot wood-burning kiln that is... Read more

Tracey Snelling's miniatures are little tributes to ordinary American settings. Her small-scale renderings of run-down, ... Read more

Installation artist Chris Cobb's "There Is Nothing Wrong in This Whole Wide World" involved reclassifying the books at t... Read more

As the host for the Dancer/Musician Improv Extravaganza at the Margaret Jenkins Dance Lab in San Francisco, Kara Davis c... Read more

After closing its doors for three years, the de Young Museum reopened in a spectacular new building in October 2005. Sin... Read more

Kid Beyond (aka Andrew Chaikin) is a one-person band -- using his mouth as his only musical instrument. He can produce t... Read more