Marcus Crowder

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Author, activist reflects on her artistic journey

Dec 5, 2024 | sfgate.com | Marcus Crowder

Advertising Feature: This article is not produced by the newsroom. It is editorially independent of both the newsroom and any one advertiser. “My sense of myself as an artist unfolded feather by feather,” Oakland-based writer and activist Jewelle Gomez told me. “It wasn’t a great epiphany.”The gradual unfolding 76-yearold Gomez describes has led to an extraordinary creative writing life while balancing that work with civic and social engagement making her a legend in the LGBTQ community.
A Mainstage Milestone

Oct 11, 2024 | sactownmag.com | Marcus Crowder

Ever since its earliest days as an ambitious theatrical upstart, Capital Stage has leaned into thought-provoking fare to carve out its niche in the Sacramento theater scene. Now, as it prepares for its 20th anniversary season, the resilient midtown troupe is taking steps to ensure that its next act is bigger and bolder than ever. It was September of 2012, and Stephanie Gularte expected nothing less than a disaster.
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Oct 1, 2024 | sfjazz.org | Marcus Crowder

October 01, 2024 Music journalist Marcus Crowder spoke to Gil Scott-Heron collaborator Brian Jackson and vocalist Martin Luther McCoy about their upcoming tribute to Scott-Heron with saxophonist Howard Wiley and keyboardist Kev Choice. Tags: Read Interview Article In 1969 David Barnes brought Gil Scott-Heron into the Lincoln University music practice room to meet 18-year-old freshman Brian Jackson.
Herb Jeffries’s Career of Passing, Sort Of

Sep 23, 2024 | altaonline.com | Marcus Crowder

I ’ll always be a cowboy,” declared Herb Jeffries in a 2001 television interview. Throughout his long career in entertainment, Jeffries had definitely looked the part: classically handsome and square jawed; a jaunty bandanna around his neck; western fringe and shiny boots; sepia, sun-browned skin. Beginning in the late 1930s, he was “the Black Singing Cowboy” in films and as a member of Duke Ellington’s band.
Octavio Solis and His Collaborations with Steinbeck

Jun 14, 2024 | altaonline.com | Marcus Crowder

Playwright Octavio Solis has forged a reputation for rising to artistic challenges. Whether he’s telling the necessary stories of growing up a few blocks from the Rio Grande in his hometown of El Paso, Texas, or he’s adapting literature from the Western canon into contemporary dramas, Solis creates characters and situations that audiences intensely respond to.
One Fine Weekend in Foodie Sacramento

May 17, 2024 | diablomag.com | Marcus Crowder

Tickets for the Tower Bridge Dinner, held every September in Sacramento, usually sell out within minutes. There are 80 tickets at $600 for a pair, and the people who get them consider themselves lucky. Rotating teams of all-star chefs come together to strut their stuff, showcasing locally sourced ingredients during a party that hovers over the Sacramento River.
Ashland’s Shakespeare Wars

Mar 29, 2024 | altaonline.com | Marcus Crowder

Ashland sits at the foot of the Siskiyou Mountains where Oregon’s Rogue Valley begins. Founded in 1852 as a gold-mining outpost, the modest city is surrounded by hiking and mountain-biking trails, but its main attraction for the past 89 years has been the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
From local acts to international stars, live music lights up the stage

Sep 22, 2023 | sfgate.com | Marcus Crowder

Advertising Feature: This article is not produced by the newsroom. It is editorially independent of both the newsroom and any one advertiser. Everything to know about visiting SF's Angel IslandSanta Cruz has always maintained a unique and slightly enchanted vibe. It’s a Northern California coastal city close enough to San Francisco that it gets some of the city’s collateral luster yet far enough away (and over a mountain) to be its own specific place.
Creativity, community abounds at Art With Elders

Jul 6, 2023 | sfgate.com | Marcus Crowder

Wanting to know more about the program, Campbell picked up an Art With Elders brochure and called the information number. As luck would have it, the organization was at that moment looking for someone to start a program at Laguna Honda Hospital. “Was Campbell interested?” they asked. “It was kind of a big deal — it’s a huge hospital, and at the time, they had no art program,” Campbell said. “I’d never done anything like this, but we really built the program.
Scott Klier: Stepping into the Spotlight

Jun 23, 2023 | sacmag.com | Marcus Crowder

Earlier this year, on a cold, windy winter day, I walked up Broadway from NoHo in mid Manhattan with Scott Klier. We had just finished a long lunch at the renowned Italian restaurant Il Buco Alimentari & Vineria, and he was accompanying my wife and me to our subway stop. “Alimentari” means “food” or “foodstuffs” in Italian, and lovely pastas along with a decadent short rib sandwich had been consumed. “Vineria” is a wine shop, and a delicious Grenache blend accompanied the meal.