FridayEating Food: Light, stylish entrees at lunch and dinner make way for delectable desserts at Elizabeth Falkner’s Citizen Cake, which has a happy new home in Pacific Heights.DrinkingMeet Your Mixologist: Brian Williams enjoys the views, creating drinks and meeting people at Perry’s. The establishment in the Hotel Griffon is related to the famed Perry’s on Union Street.On the town Read More

San Francisco Ballet’s current revival of “Giselle” is of a 12-year-old production, and it’s aging well. The performance by the Sunday matinee cast was a formidable presentation of one the greatest “white ballets” of all time. The original 1841 Jean Coralli-Jules Perrot choreography, in Marius Petipa’s 1884 version, has survived all this time and is still produced today around the world. But San Francisco has something different. Read More

The new year is going to rock Bay Area theaters — literally. Two of the most exciting stage offerings are bona fide rockers, and many of the other noteworthy shows involve music. So warm up those vocal cords and haul out your air guitar. It’s going to be a tuneful 2011.‘Rock of Ages’ Read More

Sometimes, a year rockets by so fast, it seems impossible to parse it down to minute musical moments. So went 2010. Justin Bieber continued his immaculately coiffed scaling of the charts. So did Lady Gaga, until she passed critical mass and embedded herself in the zeitgeist of snarky talk-show monologues. Kanye West and Taylor Swift both came out swinging, creatively, but not at each other. Read More