Pianist Justin Kolb, one of the classical music world’s most well-traveled soloists, performs Beethoven/Liszt’s Symphony No. 5, Op. 67 and Nieto’s Gran Sonata. The concert is at 4 p.m. Sunday at Old First Presbyterian Church, 1751 Sacramento St., San Francisco. Tickets are $12 to $15. Call (415) 474-1608 or visit www.oldfirstconcerts.org.
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Today: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s Artists Gallery presents "City Life."WHEN: 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.WHERE: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Artists Gallery, Building A, Fort Mason Center, Buchanan Street and Marina Boulevard, San FranciscoPRICE: Admission is freeINFO: Call (415) 441-4777 or visit
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The Presidio Officers Club has on view a one-of-a-kind art exhibit titled "Remembered Light: Glass Fragments from World War II. The McDonald Windows," which took eight years to create. Yet its origin was decades ago, when Army Chaplain Frederick McDonald collected shards of stained glass from damaged European churches at the close of World War II. In more recent years, 13 artists from Europe and the U.S. incorporated the shards into 25 contemporary pieces of art.
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If it were possible to rein in a meteor shower and shove the glittering chaos that paints a beautiful night sky into a contained space — say, into a very large jar — it would call to mind the work of abstract artist Michelle Grabner.The Chicago-based artist currently enjoys her first solo exhibition at San Francisco’s Gallery 16 through April 7.Chaos and control work with and against each other, in a harmonious way, in Grabner’s show, a beautiful exhibition that is both a study in process art and also an unusually feminine demonstration of abstract art.
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Has Lindsay Lohan reverted to her pre-rehab ways? The hard-partying actress is reportedly sober following a successful stint at the Wonderland treatment facility. But when the diva DJ’d at NYC hot spot Plumm, fellow partygoers allegedly saw her hit the sauce. Thursday night, La Linds was the club’s guest of honor, and rocked the DJ booth along with celeb spinster Samantha Ronson, singing and dancing. But an online report claims it wasn’t all good clean fun.
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The American Conservatory Theater’s play of the future — the coming world premiere of Philip Kan Gotanda’s "After the War" — is about San Francisco’s past.
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It’s nerve-racking to put together a first home-season performance that undoubtedly will garner both public and critical attention. It’s even more nerve-racking when what you are creating is more than just a choreographic routine.For its inaugural season at Cowell Theater this weekend, Carmen Carnes Dance Ensemble is cooperating with Gamelan Anak Swarasanti orchestra from Santa Cruz, moving sculpture artist Sha Sha Higby and poet Emily Kischell.
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You can spot that "model" smile a mile away. All-knowing, taking in everything around her, yet warmer than today’s crop of glassy-eyed runway walkers. Her face lights up. She catches you in her aura. There’s a twinkle. And you know, just as if she reached out and put a convivial arm around your shoulder, that you’re in the presence of a friend.
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Adrian is dead, but cheesesteak-eating boozehound Paulie is still alive and kicking? Where’s the logic in that? Regardless, "Rocky Balboa" is the last chance for Sylvester Stallone to milk the "Rocky" franchise until someone decides to make a "Rocky" prequel of his younger years starring the dude who looks exactly like him from "Survivor: Fiji."
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"Resistance and Dreams," the second installation in the three-part project "World Factory" at the San Francisco Art Institute, responds to tough issues raised by globalization, including uneven economic development, poverty, urbanization, population displacement, migration and pollution. The thesis is that the global free-market economy leads to social structures that bind peoples’ lives, create huge economic disparities and present opportunities for people to resist through visions of alternative ways of living.
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