Sexy, sassy soul singer Karyn White didn’t look like she has spent 17 years out of the spotlight at Thursday’s opening gig of a three-night run at the Rrazz Room. Alluring in black – tank top, skin-tight pants and sparkling stilettos – White crooned, growled and belted late-1980s-early ’90s hits and new tunes from her 2012 release “Carpe Diem.”
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On May 16, celebrity chef Alex Guarnaschelli will be in Pleasanton on a panel judging a cooking contest sponsored by Safeway. The winner gets a chef position in Safeway Culinary Kitchens, and the winning dish will be sold in Safeway stores. Entries must be received by March 7. Visit www.facebook.com/Safeway for details. Will you be judging professionals or home cooks? Anyone can enter.What are the competition’s parameters? We’re looking for a good, simple meal that mixes natural ingredients, is a recipe that is accessible and can be made in one skillet.
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The characters all go to hell, the work lives on.
That is the case in the fifth canto of "Inferno" in Dante's "Divine Comedy" and Tchaikovsky's "Francesca da Rimini," as well as in Yuri Possokhov's new "Francesca da Rimini,” which the San Francisco Ballet premiered on Thursday’s Program No. 3.
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Disney On Ice skater Kristine Gardner is having the time of her life portraying one of pop culture’s biggest icons, Barbie.
“There wouldn’t be another role that would suit me better or that I would enjoy more,” says the performer, on the phone from Stockton during a recent tour stop of “Disney On Ice presents Disney-Pixar’s Toy Story 3,” which comes to the Bay Area next week.
The 26-year-old Canadian skater relishes the part because it’s a big contrast to Violet of “The Incredibles,” a character she previously played for four years.
Describing the difference as “nigh
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Second Wind Productions has a winner of a show in “Vigilance,” a gripping drama about friendship, modern living, revenge and justice. The show, onstage at the Phoenix Theatre, is directed by San Francisco playwright Ian Walker, whose deft, realistic dialogue brings his social and political themes to life.
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Second Wind Productions has a winner of a show in “Vigilance,” a gripping drama about friendship, modern living, revenge and justice. The show, onstage at the Phoenix Theatre, is directed by San Francisco playwright Ian Walker, whose deft, realistic dialogue brings his social and political themes to life.
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Rossiter Drake, a movie and sports lover who wrote about film for The San Francisco Examiner and other Bay Area publications, has died of an apparent heart attack. He was 34.
Drake — whose email addresses were “sanfranmovies” and “savefenway” — was found at his Alameda apartment Sunday morning.
A huge fan of New England sports teams, Drake, known to friends as Ross, grew up in Norwalk, Conn. He came to the Bay Area after graduating from Oberlin College, where he studied English and film and was editor of the Oberlin Review.
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Teatro Vagon’s new production of the 1950s classic “Twelve Angry Men” features primarily Hispanic actors as the titular characters, and the casting works to excellent effect.
The show, onstage at Brava Theater Center, is directed and co-produced with care by David Acevedo, founder of Teatro Vagon, a troupe with a mission to tell Latino and multicultural stories.
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What “Bring It On: The Musical” lacks in originality and depth, it almost makes up for in volume and energy.
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“Sex Rev: The José Sarria Experience” isn’t just a wildly fun and compact musical about a pioneer of gay culture. It’s a riotous history lesson, too.The Theatre Rhinoceros show, extended through the weekend at CounterPulse, tells the story of José Sarria, one of the country’s first gay activists. The fact that he ran for San Francisco supervisor in 1961, long before Harvey Milk was in the public eye, is one of many interesting tidbits in the fast-paced piece.
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Nigerian musical maverick Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s life story is thrilling, if not entirely clear, in the national touring production of “Fela!” onstage at the Curran Theatre.
Innovative dance maker Bill T. Jones directed, co-wrote the book and won a Tony Award for his choreography for the lively show, in which the main character serves up details from his own life story in an amazingly energetic, often captivating chat with the audience.
The setting is the Shrine, the club in Lagos, Nigeria, that Kuti set up as headquarters for his music and political work.
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On Friday’s opening night of “Totem” in San Francisco, real human drama complemented, and nearly trumped, Cirque du Soleil’s ethereal thrills and chills.When one of five amazing unicyclists — who were tossing bowls and catching them in stacks on their heads — had a mishap and had to leave, the tension was palpable as her fellow performers went on with the show.
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On Dec. 31, after more than a decade, Teatro ZinZanni is closing up shop on San Francisco’s piers 27 and 29.Art and food lovers who haven’t yet experienced this one-of-a-kind dinner theater may want to take the opportunity to check out “On the Air,” the final show at the location.
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The coolest thing about the national touring production of "Hair" onstage at the Golden Gate Theatre is that it doesn't feel like a period piece.Gleefully dancing and writhing in skin-tight, bell-bottomed jeans and fringe vests, the hippies at the center of the groundbreaking 1967 rock musical about peace, love and war seem as real and relevant as they did decades ago.
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A reorganized, highly charged Lorraine Hansberry Theatre opened its 31st season in a new space with a thought-provoking, if not completely successful, program of two one-act plays — one a classic of black theater, one new.
Steven Anthony Jones — artistic director at the helm in the wake of the 2010 deaths of company co-founders Stanley E. Williams and Quentin Easter — directed both: Douglas Turner Ward’s 1965 satire “Day of Absence” and Marcos Barbosa’s “Almost Nothing.”
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