Reaa Puri edits footage from her narrative short film "Cycles of Lune" in a film lab at University of California, Berkeley. Puri is both a documentary and narrative filmmaker in her last semester of studying...
By: Stephanie LaRue
Jacques Whitfield was 16 years old when he and his friend from hip-hop dance class went to their first ball. The vibe was intense and chaotic. Performers ran around the hall scrambling...
By: Stephanie LaRue
I’m going to let you in on a secret. It’s a big one, too. It’s a secret that could damage my credibility. It might even get my writer’s card revoked.
I’m not...
By: Stephanie LaRue
My writing “career” started when I was 14 years old. I kept a notebook of what I called poetry, but was really prose about boys and why they didn’t like me. It was a composition...
By: Stephanie LaRue
At 11:30 a.m., the fenced-in slope a block up the hill from the Bayview’s busy Third Street didn’t turn any heads. After a few hours of dirty work in the beating sun, patches of...
