UP FRONT
Big river
'Restless Spirits' aims to be an epic 'quest,' as multiple streams funnel into a swift-moving current of tales, images
By James Hebert
ARTS WRITER
To hear Sam Woodhouse strive to sum up the San Diego Repertory Theatre's latest play is to sense that the exercise is like trying to grab onto a ghost. The work, “Restless Spirits,” is in fact about ghosts – and a lot more as well: local ethnic communities, the meaning of myth, regional history, recent news, ancient legends, music, love, death, rebirth ...
NIGHT LIFE
Match points
There's more to the Davis Cup than the action on the court
By J. Fred Sidhu
For the United States Davis Cup tennis team, the road to the championship begins in San Diego as it faces Romania in a first-round match Feb. 10-12 at the La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club.
VISUAL ARTS
'More' than meets the eye
Photographer Laura Letinsky uses still lifes as a springboard for the imagination
By Robert L. Pincus
ART CRITIC
The still life is about the fragility of all things, including us. But it is also a way of thumbing a symbolic nose at mortality. The fruit stays ripe forever, the tablecloth is always pristine, the flowers remain in bloom and the picture that depicts all of the above has the potential to outlive the artist.
