The spotlight will be on The City’s local music scene tonight at the Independent at the ING Bay to Breakers Battle of the Bands. Four groups are vying for the honor to open ING Footstock, the concert/party that follows this year’s May 18 running of San Francisco’s favorite race.
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Dora Morrow and Jack Schnepp are pleased with the way their chorus is portrayed in the new movie "Young@Heart" "It’s great! Nice," says the 85-year-old Morrow, about the documentary, which opens Friday.
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Decades into a career boasting proto-punk roots and characterized by pop songs often too smart for the general public, Nick Lowe's got a gorgeous new, quiet album, "At My Age," on which he philosophizes about life as a grown-up.On a second swing through San Francisco in less than a year, the 59-year-old songwriter played evocative tunes from that CD in concert Saturday at the Fillmore featuring fellow Brit Robyn Hitchcock as the opener.
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According to the National Confectioners Association, today is National Licorice Day. Nelson is the former chief manufacturing officer of
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The actress, who grew up in Half Moon Bay, stars as Gabriella in the national tour of Disney’s "High School Musical," which opens Tuesday and runs through April 27 at San Francisco’s Orpheum Theatre and appears June 10-15 at the San Jose Center for Performing Arts. What’s it like to play an iconic character in such a popular show? It’s great for me. I love playing a role-model character that’s such a positive influence on all of the girls who come to the show.
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"Hotshot" offers an inside view of life with crystal methamphetamine, and it looks pretty realistic.The show, the first production presented by Guerilla Rep, a nonprofit troupe focusing on works by new, local playwrights, is onstage through April 26 at Mama Carlizo’s Voice Factory, a space dedicated to nurturing gay performers.Not for youngsters or for the socially conservative, "Hotshot" — described by the author as a "tragicomedy" — tells a graphic yet claustrophobic tale of three gay men whose lives are torn apart by their addiction and destructive behavior.
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The Brisbane-based director is making a series of documentaries about the Bay Bridge sponsored by Professional Engineers in California Government.
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"The joke’s over," admits San Francisco independent filmmaker Mark Decena.Yet "Unflinching Triumph: The Philip Rockhammer Story," his spot-on mockumentary about the competitive sport of staredown, is getting a boost with, appropriately, an April Fool’s Day DVD release.
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Today at 7:30 p.m. on Channel 9 in San Francisco, KQED launches the second season of its ultra-cool, Northern California-based multimedia science and environment show, "QUEST."Those who can’t be in front of a TV on Tuesday evenings can see the show online at www.kqed.org/quest or hear it on the radio at 6:30 and 8:30 a.m. Mondays on KQED FM 88.5 beginning April 7.
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Some of the Bay Area’s best comic actors appear in American Conservatory Theater’s new production of Nikolai Gogol’s "The Government Inspector," and, unfortunately, they’re not all that funny. Although the translation and adaptation by Britain’s Alistair Beaton give the language in the play a slightly contemporary feel (words such as "slut" are included), the story of a 19th-century Russian town whose officials take extreme measures to please a visiting government inspector remains static in this two-hour, 45-minute show.
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Starting up again in June, Bette Midler is putting on a really big show at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
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Lorraine Hansberry Theatre is closing out its 27th season, its last in its downtown Sutter Street location, in grand style with August Wilson’s Pulit
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Several years ago, Marin-based choreographer Deborah Slater saw an untitled painting of three women between two bathrooms at Delancey Street restaurant in San Francisco and decided she wanted to make a dance based on it.
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"Under the Same Moon" is extraordinarily sentimental and exciting at the same time.The independent, Spanish-language film directed by Patricia Riggen tells the story of 9-year-old Carlitos, a resourceful Mexican boy who crosses the U.S./Mexican border — by himself on a search for his mother.
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The Rrazz Room celebrated its grand opening Monday night in San Francisco’s Hotel Nikko with a lineup of giddy singers who reveled in their art — the art of cabaret.
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