Anne Schrager May 23, 2021
NASA special projects manager and retired Army Sgt. James Schwab lays a wreath at last year’s Memorial Day ceremony at the San Francisco National Cemetery. Photo: Lea Suzuki, The Chronicle 2020
Celebrated on the last Monday in May (this year, May 31) Memorial Day arrives with outdoor services and presentations to honor American soldiers who have made the ultimate sacrifice for their country. To mark the occasion, Bay Area organizations plan to host wreath-laying ceremonies, cemetery-side memorial services and more events to attend in person or to view online.
Along with the solemnity of the federal holiday, the three-day weekend in late spring is also full of opportunities to relax and enjoy as summer approaches.
Review: A âParty in the Bardoâ for a City in Transition
At the Park Avenue Armory, Laurie Anderson and Jason Moran gathered fellow artists to conjure a sonic environment haunted by the pandemic.
Laurie Anderson and Jason Moran gathered fellow artists to perform “Party in the Bardo” in the Park Avenue Armory’s drill hall.Credit.Amr Alfiky/The New York Times
May 9, 2021
New York City is in a liminal state: partially vaccinated while still in the grip of Covid-19; beckoning cautiously masked people outside with the blossoming spring; and reopening indoor performance venues at last, but with caveats that color every show with reminders of the continuing pandemic.
Five Poets That Yusef Komunyakaa Returns to Again and Again
Credit.Jillian Tamaki
Jan. 28, 2021
“I’ve read Neruda, Walcott, Brooks, Lorca and Hayden multiple times everything they have written,” says the poet, whose collection “Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth” will be released in March. “Over and over, and yet I continue to discover something new.”
What books do you have on your night stand?
I don’t have books on my night stands, but I have a few books on an upholstered bench at the foot of my bed: “Tough Love,” by Susan Rice; “Year of the Dog,” by Deborah Paredez; “Fugitive Atlas,” by Khaled Mattawa; “I,” by Toi Derricotte; “A Promised Land,” by Barack Obama; “Act V Scene I,” by Stanley Moss; “Deacon King Kong,” by James McBride; “Arias,” by Sharon Olds; “He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box,” by Adrienne Kennedy.