“Let Me Touch Your Mind” Interview Archive 2015

December 28, 2015 Marc & the Casuals and Papa Culture at the Chapel; Brother Bruno (from the archives); Janine Moganam, San Francisco Public Library

December 21, 2015 Marga Gomez, New Year's Eve party at Brava; Alvon Johnson, blues show at Yoshi's; Beth Clarke, “Mittens and Mistletoe”; Lisa Geduldig, “Kung Pao Kosher Comedy”

December 14, 2015 Lara Price at Biscuits & Blues; Unique Derrique, “Fool La La” at The Marsh; Lawrence Helman, Tom & Jerry Holiday House

December 7, 2015 L. Peter Callender & Sherri Young, “Cinderella” at African-American Shakespeare Company; Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis, Jr, “Colors of Christmas” at Davies Symphony Hall; Jerome Joseph Gentes & AJ Davenport, “Sheherezade's Last Tales” at the Exit Theatre; Flynn deMarco, “The Nutcracker of Oz” at YBCA

November 30, 2015 Martha Wash, “Help Is on the Way for the Holidays” at the Marines Memorial; Anita Monga, “A Day of Silents” at the Castro; Heklina, “Golden Girls” at the Oasis; James Jeske, San Francisco Public Library

November 23, 2015 Traci Lewis, The Gubbio Project; Lisa Rothman, “Date Night at Pet Emergency” at The Marsh in Berkeley; Matthew McCoy & Brendon North, “How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying”

November 16, 2015 Viet Le, Southeast Asian Film Festival at ATA; Peaches Christ, “Addams Family Values” at the Castro, OutLoud at the Oasis; Darren Charles, “Odysseo” at the AT&T Big Top

November 9, 2015 John Fisher, “Shakespeare at War” by Theatre Rhino; James Sasser and Vince Burwell, “Bottle Shock: The Musical” at Muse Gallery; Megan Timpane, “Having Cancer Is Hilarious” at The Marsh

November 2, 2015 Don Malcolm “The French Had a Name for It” at the Roxie Theatre; Wayne Harris, “Mother's Milk: a Blues Riff in Three Acts” at The Marsh in Berkeley; Janine Mogannam, San Francisco Public Library

October 26, 2015 Tucker Hiatt, Wonderfest's “Skepticism and the Supernatural, a Halloween Dialogue” at the Brava Theatre; Rachel Rosen, Doc Stories Festival at the Vogue Theatre; Ken Levin, Amanda Sylvia, and Matthew McCoy, “Peter Pan” at the Berkeley Playhouse

October 19, 2015 Russell Blackwood, “Shocktoberfest 16: Curse of the Cobra” at the Hypnodrome; Lady Bianca, CD release party; Ava Roy and Nathanial Justiniani, “Heromonster” at Fort Mason

October 12, 2015 Kelly Carlisle, Black Farmers & Urban Gardeners Conference at Laney College; Geoff Brosseau, Bay Area Stormwater Management Agencies Association; Lou Demtteis, “The Other Barrio” at Brava Theatre

October 5, 2015 Andre Thierry, Creole United Festival in Sausalito; Paige Rogers, “Life Is a Dream” at Exit on Taylor; Leigh Crow & D'Arcy Drollinger, “Star Trek Live” at Oasis and “Rocky Horror Picture Show” at the Victoria; Rio Yañez and Andrea Juarez, “Today Is the Shadow of Tomorrow“ at SOMArts

September 28, 2015 Lisa Mezzacappa, “Glorious Ravage” at the Brava Theatre; Noah Tarnow, “The Big Quiz Thing” at Neck of the Woods; James Jeske and Carla Kovak, San Francisco Public Library

September 21, 2015 Patricia Milton, “Moments of Truth” at the Royce Gallery; Ophelia Coeur de Noir, “Game of Thrones Live” at Oakland Metro and Hubba Hubba Revue's “Asylum” at DNA Lounge; Julia Jackson, “Worst. Boyfriend. Ever.” at Stage Werx Theatre

August 31, 2015 Timothy Beagley, “Eat the Runt” at the Alterena Playhouse; Anthony Agresti, Sango Tajima, Caleb Cabrera, and Logan Ellis, “Water by the Spoonful” at the ACT Costume Shop; James Jeske, San Francisco Public Library

August 24, 2015 Marc Capelle, Marc & the Casuals and The Donkeys at The Chapel; Katy Fox, “We Are Movement”; Devin O'Brien, “xxx” at the Aurora Theatre

August 17, 2015 Esther Landau and Brian Melvin, FOG benefit concert at the Pomeroy Recreation & Rehabilitation Center; Karen Ripley, “Oh No, There's Men on the Land” at The Marsh in Berkeley; Fudgie Frottage, SF Drag King Contest at Oasis

August 10, 2015 John Fisher, “Breaking the Code” at the Eureka Theatre; Stuart Elwyn Hall and Geoffrey Grier, “Two Trains Running” at Gough Street Playhouse; Susie Kantor, “Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art” at Yerba Buena Cultural Center

July 27, 2015 D'Arcy Drollinger, “Champagne White and the Temple of Poon” at The Oasis (note: missing first 30 seconds); Elliot Levine, “I Wake Up Dreaming” at the Castro Theatre

July 13, 2015 Sean San José, Youth Speaks collaboration with Anna Deavere Smith, “Notes from the Field” at Roda Theatre; Morgan Ludlow et al, “Zero Hour” and “I Saw It” at the Exit Theatre

July 6, 2015 Christian Frock, Emory Douglass, and Melorra Green, “Making a Scene” at SOMArts

June 29, 2015 Michael Gene Sullivan, “Freedomland” by San Francisco Mime Troupe; Jeff Burandt, author, “Odd Schnozz & the Odd Squad” Suzanne Sakai, San Francisco Public Library;

June 22, 2015 Debora Simcovich, Orquesta Victoria 4-city San Francisco Bay Area Tour; Jenni Olson, “The Royal Road” at Frameline; Esther Landau and Lynn DeBoer, art show at Pomeroy Recreation & Rehabilitation Center

June 15, 2015 Birdie-Bob Watt and Russell Blackwood, “Club Inferno” at the Hypnodrome; Tyra Fennell and Nate Watson, Bayview Pride; Sammy Wegent, “Speechless” at the Public Works; Ken Levin and Joel Roster, “Fiddler on the Roof” at the Berkeley Playhouse

June 1, 2015 Darlene Weide, Community Boards; D'Arcy Drollinger, “Sex and the City” at the Oasis; Suzanne Sakai and James Jeske, San Francisco Public Library

May 25, 2015 Gifford Boyce-Smith and John Mitchem, NAMIWalk; Connie Champagne, Evan Kaminsky, and Stephanie Rapa, “Barbary Coast Revue” at Balançoire

May 18, 2015 Anita Monga, San Francisco Silent Film Festival; Eddie Muller, Czar of Noir

May 11, 2015 Devorah Major, Regina Calloway, Elektra Schmidt, and Allison Lovejoy, The San Francisco Inernational Arts Festival; Rosario Sammartino, Anna Halprin's Blank Placard Dance

May 5, 2015 Echo Brown, “Black Virgins Are Not for Hipsters” at The Marsh Theatre; Erica Felsh, Smuin Ballet's “The Unlaced Dance Seeries” at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; James Arthur, “The Facts of Life” at The Oasis

April 27, 2015 Scott Barry, “Rise” at the Exit Theatre; Larry Hancock, “The Magic Flute” at Opera San Jose; James Jeske and Lyn Davidson, SFPL

April 20, 2015 Paul Koudounaris, “Memento Mori; The Dead Among Us”

March 30, 2015 Aní Yeni Komshian, “Memory of Trees” at SOMArts; Greg MacKellan, “Nick and Nora” at 42nd Street Moon; James Jeske, San Francisco Public Library

March 23, 2015 Nicole Hall, Jennifer Villatore, Eric Crowell, & Fran Osborne, “DIS/PLAY: Art and Disability” at SOMArts; Russell Blackwood, “Jewel of Paris” at the Hypnodrome; Razteria & Sol Atash, Empress Unification at Ashkenaz and The Independent

March 16, 2015 Marc Capelle and Karina Denike, “Springtime Soul Celebration” at the Chapel; Ryan Kamamoto, “The Phoenix and the Immortals: Eclipse” a graphic novel; D'Arcy Drollinger, “Sex and the City” at the Oasis

March 9, 2015 Ava Roy & Patrick Gillespie, “A New Deal: Continuing the Legacy of Maritime Art in the Park” and “Ondine at Sutro” by We Players; Celia Fushille, “Untamed” dance series by Smuin Ballet; Justin Jacobs, “Breaking the Code” at the Eureka Theatre

February 23, 2015 Nnenna Ozobia and Laura Potter, Bridge HIV; A.J. Harper, “Tales of Urban Horror”; James Jeske, San Francisco Public Library

February 16, 2015 Jabari Brisport and Katherine Renee Turner, “The Convert” at the Marin Theatre; Dennis Chowerhill, Leah Abrams, and Angela Dant, “Crooked” at The Flight Deck and “How the World Began“ at The Custom Made Theatre Company; Alex Rodriguez, “You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown” at the Berkeley Playhouse; Leroy Moore and Keith Jones, Krip-Hop Nation

February 9, 2015 Anthony Wayne, Kendrell Bowman, and Stacie Powers, “Mighty Real” at Brava Theatre; Daniel Levenstein, Renaud Capçuon and Khatia Buniatishvil, Chamber Music San Francisco; Michael Hunter and Jamie Lyons, “the Balcony” at the Old Mint; Larry Hancock, “Where Angels Fear to Tread” at Opera San Jose

February 2, 2015 Aaron Aikins, “Into the Coal” at The Marsh; Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe, “The Lyons” at the Aurora Theatre; Mike Keegan, 17th Annual San Francisco Indie Film Festival

January 26, 2015 Tony Asaro, “Cable Car Nymphomaniac” at Z Below; Josh Kornbluth, “Haiku Tunnel” at The Marsh; James Jeske, San Francisco Public Library

January 19, 2015 Lyz Luke & Will Magid, “Undercover Presents a Tribute to Sly & the Family Stone's Stand”; Micaya, “Dancegasm” at ODC

January 12, 2015 D'Arcy Drollinger & Steven LeMay, “Shit and Champagne” at the Oasis; Eddie Muller, Noir City Film Festival at the Castro Theatre; Mike Gaines, The Edwardian Ball at the Regency

January 5, 2015:
Johanna Poethig and Jess Young, “Glamorgeddon” at SOMArts Cultural Center; John Fisher, “The Anarchists” at the Eureka Theatre

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