Joe Dworetzky

Bay City News Foundation Diana Kapp likes Type 2 Fun, the kind of fun that is miserable when you are doing it, but with some distance, you remember it as satisfying. Not everyone looks for fun that isn't fun, but that is what she cares about. "I just…

Diana Kapp likes Type 2 Fun, the kind of fun that is miserable when you are doing it, but with some distance, you remember it as satisfying. Not everyone looks for fun that isn’t fun, but that is what she cares about. “I just love physical…

Diana Kapp likes Type 2 Fun, the kind of fun that is miserable when you are doing it, but with some distance, you remember it as satisfying. Not everyone looks for fun that isn’t fun, but that is what she cares about. “I just love physical…

Arts When Stanford dropout Elizabeth Holmes took the stand on Nov. 19, 2021, in her criminal trial in the U.S. District Court in San Jose, there was no doubt that it would be a newsworthy moment. Holmes was, for a brief, shining moment, the youngest…

San Francisco’s Old Mint is home to two new exhibitions that showcase new ways to experience three-dimensional digital art. The first exhibition is called “Verse: Art of the Future,” and while you might imagine it is announcing a poetry slam, this…

By Joe Dworetzky Bay City News Foundation When Stanford dropout Elizabeth Holmes took the stand on Nov. 19, 2021, in her criminal trial in the U.S. District Court in San Jose, there was no doubt that it would be a newsworthy moment. Holmes was, for a…

Bay City News Foundation When Stanford dropout Elizabeth Holmes took the stand on Nov. 19, 2021, in her criminal trial in the U.S. District Court in San Jose, there was no doubt that it would be a newsworthy moment. Holmes was, for a brief, shining…

When Stanford dropout Elizabeth Holmes took the stand on Nov. 19, 2021, in her criminal trial in the U.S. District Court in San Jose, there was no doubt that it would be a newsworthy moment. Holmes was, for a brief, shining moment, the youngest woman…

Suddenly, I am in a courtroom. A judge is presiding. She is solicitous, but brooks no nonsense. Her English is good, though I can’t place her accent. She greets me by my name. She says I have been accused of a “peculiar crime.” A prosecutor faces me.…

Stock and crypto market values (Photo by Maxim Hopman on Unsplash) NFTs — those magical beans that can supposedly transform the dross of digital artwork into strands of gold — may also have the power to turn a social network into a platform for…

NFTs — those magical beans that can supposedly transform the dross of digital artwork into strands of gold — may also have the power to turn a social network into a platform for creative people to make creative income. The basic economics of social…

They named their son Ulysses. They wanted a name that conveyed an adventuresome spirit, and for a boy who would be joining Brett and Elizabeth Cline, co-founders of San Francisco’s The Lost Church, an adventuresome spirit would come in handy. When…

Larissa Hsia-Wong can thank the San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade for launching an academic journey that has taken her to Georgetown University to earn an undergraduate degree, Harvard University for her master’s and now finds her, at 35, working…

“I love being Deaf,” says Antoine Hunter. “I love helping people. I love being a part of the Bay Area.” Hunter, a well-known Deaf dancer, producer and advocate, is the curator of the “Bay Area Deaf Arts” exhibition at the SOMArts Cultural Center in…

For Lisa Dolby Chadwick, the Post Street art gallery that bears her name has been her life’s work, her calling. When the pandemic hit San Francisco, she did not know what to do. Galleries everywhere were closing down, furloughing their staff and…

If you were trying to draw a good likeness of Jon Casey’s face, you’d start with an oval standing on end. The oval would be boxier than an egg, and slightly triangular at the bottom. You wouldn’t draw age lines or creases — even at 39, Casey has a…

Selected by the Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California chapter, for its 2021 Excellence in Journalism Awards in the category Arts & Culture (print/online small division) (2022): By Joe Dworetzky - Local News Matters

Growing up he pronounced “Cagigal,” his last name, with the “ca” of CAT, the “ji” of JITNEY and “gal” like the “gull” in GULLET, but it wasn’t until he was 21 that Christian realized that Cagigal rhymed with “magical.” By that time, he had been doing…

First Place Online Features, Light Material by the San Francisco Press Club (2021):“ The Olympics for Creative People: Artist and futurist Ty Eckley has presented hundreds of medals to Burning Man participants - By Joe Dworetzky - Local News Matter

(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Corey Hart sat in the shade of the Santa Monica Pier’s carousel building on a hot summer Friday, a clear 5-gallon plastic tub at his side. The tub was filled with perhaps 50 blue slips of paper, each with a…