Performance – The Shared Universe

Wonder Woman to perform at Yoshi’s San Francisco

Jesse Russell — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 17:24:56 +0000

Wonder Woman is going to be performing at Yoshi’s in San Francisco! Well, sort of. Lynda Carter, who popularized Wonder Woman in the live action television series, will be performing at Yoshi’s on April 9 and 10 with her All-Star Band. Music was one of Carter’s first passions before being crowned Miss World USA and […]

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Last Chance to See: ‘Lasso of Truth’ at the Marin Theatre Company

Jesse Russell — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 14:43:29 +0000

Regrettably, I only found out about Marin Theatre Company running a production of Carson Kreitzer’s “Lasso of Truth” on Friday. The show, which tells the story of Wonder Woman’s creator William Moulton Marston, debuted on February 20 and runs until March 16. The story follows a woman who grew up with Wonder Woman untangling how […]

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Neil Gaiman and Eddie Campbell bringing “The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains” to San Francisco

Jesse Russell — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 21:24:31 +0000

Neil Gaiman will be at San Francisco’s Warfield on June 25 performing his short story “The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains.” The author will be reading his short story while illustrator Eddie Campbell (illustrator on Alan Moore’s From Hell) draws and the FourPlay String Quartet perform an original score. Gaiman, Campbell, and […]

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Last Gasp’s Ron Turner to be roasted at LitQuake

Jesse Russell — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 00:16:04 +0000

When I wrote about comic related events at San Francisco’s LitQuake this year I made one glaring omission: LitQuake’s 2013 Barbary Coast Award Roast of Last Gasp’s Ron Turner. Last Gasp is perhaps one of the most well known “comix” publishers from the 1970s. Many other underground publishers were hit hard by a 1973 Supreme Court ruling that local communities […]

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Bay Area zombies invade Mythbusters

Jesse Russell — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 00:51:05 +0000

Mythbusters has posted the trailer for their “Zombie Special” which was filmed on the grounds of Alameda’s retired Navel Air Station using many zombies from the Bay Area. The episode will explore zombie myths with the help of Michael Rooker who played “Merle Dixon” in AMC’s The Walking Dead. The Mythbusters zombie special comes out […]

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Performance: Cartoonist Jim Woodring with Beautiful Dreamers Trio

Jesse Russell — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 15:00:48 +0000

Ignatz and Harvey Award winner Jim Woodring will be joining Bill Frissell’s Beautiful Dreamers jazz trio onstage at the SFJazz Center on September 14. Woodring, who is best known for his surrealist comic book Frank, will be creating illustrations live while the trio perform music from their self-titled debut. In 2006, Woodring and Frissell collaborated […]

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