Monica Turner

What's Happening

San Francisco: Tony-award winning mime troupe opens season with ‘2012 – The Musical!’

BY MONICA TURNER — 05.30.2011

What is Rand’s plan to convince people to vote for an openly corporate candidate? Can Theater BAM! survive without corporate money, or should they stifle…

Michael Schwab commemorative ring poster

Culture

Famed Bay Area artist Michael Schwab creates commemorative ‘Ring’ poster

BY MONICA TURNER — 05.27.2011

Schwab's work is easily recognized by his signature use of large, flat areas of color, dramatic perspectives and bold, graphic images of archetypal human forms.

Food & Wine

Coming to San Francisco: A new concept in afternoon tea

BY MONICA TURNER — 05.26.2011

Three-flight afternoon “pop-up” tea event to debut at the Burritt Room in San Francisco on June 25.

Aratani/Japan America Theatre at the Japanese American Community and Cultural Center.

Culture

San Jose Rep donates to Japan earthquake relief

BY MONICA TURNER — 05.25.2011

Founded in 1973, the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California has been serving the community for over 35 years.

The Kronos Quartet. Photo by Zoran Orlic.

Culture

Kronos Quartet and Wu Man bring ‘A Chinese Home’ to San Francisco

BY MONICA TURNER — 05.25.2011

The program also includes Tan Dun's Ghost Opera. Since its west coast premiere at YBCA in 1995, the work has been performed around the world…

News

California preacher: “He did come, he did come!” – still takes mulligan

BY MONICA TURNER — 05.24.2011

Family Radio, of course, comes out ahead. Camping knows publicity, and repeatedly prophesying doom has earned his ministry (aka - a highly profitable business) a…

Former Ringling star and Bay Area native Alex Ramon dazzles audiences with "Alex Ramon Magic."

What's Happening

Bay Area native and Ringling star Alex Ramon tours Bay Area

BY MONICA TURNER — 05.21.2011

At age 18, Alex Ramon received the coveted Lance Burton Award and was named National Stage Magic Champion by the World Magic Seminar in Las…

News

San Francisco Weekend: Uncorked! Wine Festival

BY MONICA TURNER — 05.20.2011

Over fifty wineries, including some of Napa and Sonoma's finest, will be pouring at the event. Stark Insider recommendations: Etude, Michael Mondavi Family Estate, St.…

Culture

Stark Insider TV: This … is … Opera Idol!

BY MONICA TURNER — 05.20.2011

“Opera is the greatest art form created by the human mind,” Lotfi Mansouri, a judge and former general director of the San Francisco Opera, tells…

Debi Durst (back) as Madame Arcati and Nicole Martin (front) as Elvira.

What's Happening

Palo Alto Players to end season with Noel Coward’s ‘Blithe Spirit’

BY MONICA TURNER — 05.20.2011

Coward wrote the play in 5 days in 1941 during a holiday that he took with actress Joyce Carey to the coast of Wales.