An Evening in Paris with Madeleine Peyroux and the San Francisco Symphony (Review)
Earlier this year a concert by Madeleine Peyroux in the countryside of England was said to fill a church hall with spiritual humanism. Her subsequent…
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San Francisco Jazz: Kim Nalley radiant, at top of her game (Review)
Kim describes this new album as a journey of African Americans in the new world – sacred, profane, good times and bad times.
28,000 attend San Francisco Opera ‘Carmen’ performance at AT&T Park
28,000 people. In a beautiful ball park overlooking the Bay. Enjoying the classic Carmen. By all accounts the annual “Free Opera at the Ballpark” was a…
BTS: ‘Carmen’ at San Francisco Opera (Video)
Love. Lust. Murder.
Heartthrobs: ‘Biggest Boy Band Ever’
A pleasant evening at the Nourse, with San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus.
Thomas Biedegain’s ‘Les Cowboys’ rewards viewer (Review)
Ambitious French film features a working-class family in rural France experiencing great trauma.
A smashing send-off for David Gockley
After ten years as the general director of San Francisco Opera, David Gockley is retiring. To chronicle his contributions to American opera would take a…
San Francisco Opera to honor general director David Gockley with gala
His remarkable 45-year career comes to an end next month. But not without an operatic bang. For David Gockley it seems like a most fitting…
In Photos: Wanderlust along the Embarcadero & San Francisco waterfront
Ocean breeze. Energy everywhere. And views to a kill. It can only be one thing: The San Francisco Waterfront. Over the weekend, I did what…
Elect to Laugh 2016: Again and again
Quick to connect with the audience, Will Durst alternates knowing insults and ego stokes, always taking the audience’s pulse.