San Francisco Weekend: Uncorked! Wine Festival
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.…
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San Francisco Symphony’s centennial season launches September 7-13
The week of celebrations include an opening gala to be filmed by PBS, a centennial exhibition at the San Francisco Public Library and an all-star…
1934 LaSalle Series 350 wins best of show, new McLaren unveiled in Marin
The eagerly awaited 2012 McLaren MP4-12C English sports car, touted by the industry as a competitor to the high-performance category ruled by Ferrari and Lamborghini,…
30th Anniversary Concert: SFSYO rules!
This performance highlighted the strengths of this very special group and brought home the point that they need to be included in any conversation about…
A Novel Idea: Copious Dance Theatre
All attention was focused upon Jeffrey Van Sciver, a mesmerizing black dancer with impossibly long arms and legs. Transitioning from sharply articulated moves to movements…
San Francisco: Cutting Ball Theater announces 2011-12 season
Acclaimed SF theater celebrates 12th season with two World Premieres, new translations, Risk is This…The Cutting Ball New Experimental Plays Festival, and celebration of Strindberg.
Volti – ‘Singing without a Net’
One side offered up the lyrics of the poem, while the other repeated a figure over and over, with tones ranging from breathy to keening,…
Bartok and Holst: Chatting with Nathan Chan of SFSYO
Chen explains, “what sets us apart is the time and care we put into addressing exactly that. Others focus entirely on giving a perfectly technical…
Silk Stockings – Successful return of a forgotten musical
It’s been twenty years since the fall of the Iron Curtain, and despite its undeniable shortcomings, capitalism as an economic model has been widely embraced…
ARRRRRG… A Most Notorious Woman
One could not help but be impressed with how effectively Augello uses the space around her, dipping behind a downstage sail to converse with another…