RAJI WRITES

Short Takes on two plays, a few Oscar-nominated movies, and an irresistible cake! Theater A Streetcar Named Desire (by Tennessee Williams) I watched a bare bones production (by design) of Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece A Streetcar Named Desire at ACT-SF’s Toni Rembe theater. I had last watched Streetcar as an opera, commissioned by the San Francisco Opera. My friend Sunita, her mother Lulu and I managed to snag $10 tickets, standing room only at the

What a fascinating city is New Orleans! The music, the food, the people, the history, the terrain, the trees, the bodies of water all around. While I’ve been to “The Big Easy” in the past for conferences, I never really had the opportunity to spend much time there. I was quite excited at the prospect of attending JazzFest for the first time in April/May of this year and spending 10 days in NOLA, my first longish stint in a southern city. And that too, the birthplace of its mo