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Mark MacNamara - March 7, 2013

Online education has become not only relevant, practical, and popular, but gradually more respected.

Mark MacNamara - March 7, 2013
Audium Theatre
Audium Theatre

In San Francisco, on Bush St., there stands Audium Theatre with 49 seats where listeners are surrounded by speakers in sloping

Mark MacNamara - March 7, 2013

March 7. Thursday. (Tonight). 8 p.m., Freight and Salvage Coffee House, Berkeley. Jewish Music Festival. The always terrific, the legendary Theodore Bikel, along with Bosnian accordionist Merima Kljuco and, from Amsterdam, singer of Yiddish, Shura Lipovsky. Journeys through Yiddish and Bosnian/Sephardic cultures. Is this for kids?

Janos Gereben - March 5, 2013

It's a bizarre item about Turkish basketball stars being ordered to attend a classical concert in Istanbul, there exposed to music that was putting them to sleep until the orchestra struck up a well-known pop song, and there was a flash-mob scene, the entire audience singing, waving team flags, and shouting their support for Anadolu Efes, their team.

Janos Gereben - March 5, 2013
Amit Peled
Amit Peled

The acclaimed young Israeli cellist Amit Peled is playing a recital in Aptos o

Janos Gereben - March 5, 2013
Te Kanawa, to the Abbey Photo by John Swannell
Te Kanawa, to the Abbey
Janos Gereben - March 5, 2013
Scene from Abhinaya's production of Gandhi
Scene from Abhinaya's production of Gandhi

The Abhinaya Dance Comp

Janos Gereben - March 5, 2013
Pavel Dmitrichenko as Ivan the Terrible
Pavel Dmitrichenko as Ivan the Terrible

The incredible, "only in the movies" story at the Bolshoi Balle

Janos Gereben - March 5, 2013
Robin Sutherland
Robin Sutherland

Robin Sutherland's ponytail may be getting shorter, but his indefatigable attitude to music is — if anything — e

Janos Gereben - March 5, 2013
Napa Valley Opera House to have its first opera since 1880
Napa Valley Opera House to have its first opera since 1880

When Michael J.