The Google Glass effect on romance
At a clerk’s office in the Superior Court building last week, Charles Head was waiting in line when an older woman in front of him told the clerk she wished to file her will.
“I’m sorry, ma’am,” said the clerk, “but we can’t file your will here until you’re dead.”
In other lifestyle news, having delved further into the Sergey Brin-Anne Wojcicki split, People magazine is putting the blame on technology.
Amanda Rosenberg, Brin’s alleged other woman, is a Google Glass marketing manager.
She sent Brin “repeated messages throughout the day,” the magazine says, and those messages soon became personal. “Because Brin used Google Glass, a wearable computer, those messages ‘ were in front of his eyes at all times,’ ” says People. (“Are those your Google glasses in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?”)
Oh sure, “Macbeth” is a pretty good play and the playwright was a guy with some talent. But in the We Players production at Fort Point, which we saw on Thursday, opening night, the Bard’s words share the stage with the staging. With the rumbling of Golden Gate Bridge traffic above, the wind grabbing the actors’ syllables and tossing them into the air, the setting, music, singing, lighting, choreography — for audience as well as players — are sensational rivals for attention.
I’d seen previously the dagger I saw before me, I’d fretted, too, over the spot that wouldn’t come out, I’d cowered before over the sound and the fury. But what I hadn’t ever before experienced was the solemn walk, in groups led by flag bearers, across the Fort Point yard, as musicians played a dirge; the sound of drums and knocking rattling one’s bones after the first blood is shed; the three witches moaning in three rooms, one smashing raw eggs, one plunging a knife into innocent potatoes, one shredding gooey fleece with sticky fingers; the banquet table stretched out under the brick arches, where the audience, sharing snacks, gasped as Macbeth leaped up and paced its length.
The play will be there through Oct. 6. Take a warm coat.
1Helena Bonham Carter, whose
partner, Tim Burton, is in San Francisco making “Big Eyes,” went shopping — with a couple of her kids — at Lilith on Fillmore.
And on Fillmore and O’Farrell, a Virgo Birthday bash planned for all day Sept. 14 will raise money to pay jazz musicians who perform at the farmers’ market there. The Fillmore Community Jazz Fund is to benefit from the 10-yearold program, in which bebop may be a beet backbeat.
Congratulations on your recent 54th birthday,
Jeff Adachi. The San Francisco public defender marked the day by posting a Facebook picture of himself with his daughter and a birthday cake. Also prominent in the pic, in which he’s wearing a singlet (there’s no way anyone wants to describe a San Francisco public official as wearing a wifebeater), his super-buffed biceps and triceps and his dragon tattoo (guess he takes that “defender” part of his title literally).
Society queen Denise Hale, basketball star Kobe Bryant and venture capitalist Chris Sacca were at Marianne’s, the insiders’ “club” in the back of the Cavalier, in the same week, perhaps working on a new app that could combine all their names into one item.
A large contingent of Cuban-born San Franciscans, including at least five San Francisco Ballet dancers ( Lorena Feijoo, Joan Boada, Taras Domitro, Carlos Quenedit and Jorge Esquivel) will be at a screening of filmmaker José Enrique
Pardo’s documentary, “Cubamerican,” at the Vogue on Thursday. Among the fellow Cuban Americans also expected: District Attorney George Gascón, NBC Bay Area anchor Jessica
Aguirre, Sonoma State University President Ruben Armiñana, and designer Orlando DiazAzcuy, who is one of the evening’s hosts. A first showing is by invitation; an open-to-the-public showing is at 8:30 p.m.
The movie includes interviews with 20 Cuban-born immigrants, including the Bay Area’s Diaz-Azcuy and Feijoo (whose sister, Boston Ballet principal dancer Lorna Feijoo, is featured, too).