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Stark Insider TV: Singer-Songwriter Michelle Schmitt (VIDEO)

BY LONI STARK — 11.07.2013

Michelle Schmitt has been making music since she was 12 years-old. After motherhood, she supercharged her creative energy. The result: 9 albums and a blossoming…

Food & Wine

San Francisco: Party French-style with great food and wine at La Soirée

BY JANICE NIEDER — 11.05.2013

Roaring 20’s food and wine extravaganza for a great cause.

Food & Wine

San Francisco Restaurant Watch: TBD opens

BY MONICA TURNER — 11.04.2013

New concept, spearheaded by AQ Chef Mark Liberman, focuses on open-fire grilling, smoking, rotisserie, and hearth-baking methods

Culture

42nd Street Moon does Rodgers and Hart

BY CY ASHLEY WEBB — 11.04.2013

In many ways, this is the best of Rodgers and Hart, impeccably scripted and consciously paced for maximum effect.

Food & Wine

PinotFest lures Pinot lovers with top notch West Coast wines

BY MONICA TURNER — 10.28.2013

PinotFest is billed as San Francisco’s original, all-Pinot Noir "bacchanalia." Or as organizers also refer to it as: a public tasting of a sexy wine.

Culture

San Francisco Theater: Full cast list for ‘The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess’ announced

BY MONICA TURNER — 10.28.2013

The classic story is set in Charleston’s fabled Catfish Row, where the beautiful Bess struggles to break free from her scandalous past, and the only…

Culture

Monday Night PlayGround opens with Barbara Oliver Tribute

BY MONICA TURNER — 10.18.2013

Barbara Oliver joined the PlayGround Company and began directing for PlayGround in 2004, shortly after stepping down as Founding Artistic Director of Aurora Theatre Company.