Tag: San Francisco

Sony, low-end? For once, it appears to be the case, at least with respect to the company's entry into virtual reality. Silicon Valley-based Meta is coming in at the high end of the range with its second-gen headset, the Meta 2 for $949 (USD, developer kit). Valve's HTC Vive goes for $799. Facebook's much...

The national tour of Wicked couldn’t possibly be less than fabulous. Stephen Schwartz’s score combines the infuriatingly catchy with the beautifully lyrical. His clever lyrics provoke laughs with their well-rhymed mix of real SAT vocabulary words and made-up imitations (confusifying, disgusticified). The whole plot—based on Gregory Maguire’s novel of...

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." What's happening Bay Area? Turns out, a lot. A mind-boggling assortment of a lot. So to make your planning life -- and perhaps to appease Aristotle -- a little easier we've rounded up some...

I go backstage at the Golden Gate Theatre and re-discover some 80's magic.

Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.

Tanya Barfield’s The Call is nominally a play about adoption. As such, the premise (an exploration of a couple’s excitement and doubts about adopting a daughter from Africa) intrigued me. Two of my siblings are adopted from abroad, and I imagined I would connect with the characters’ struggles. In...

"Then I thought, 'Let me take a brief break from eternity, and devote the greater part of a week creating a universe. And, I dunno, kind of just see what happens.'"

Three a cappella group members walk into the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. It’s not the start of a joke; it’s the birth of a musical. Or a rock opera. Or a staged concept album. It’s hard to pin down what, precisely The Unfortunates is, but it doesn’t need to be...

The Orpheum has a history of big lunacy, undoubtedly bearing psychedelic traces that permanently alter the chemistry of the ceiling ornaments so that 'The Illusionists' fit right, in ways that just don’t work in a San Jose venue.

James Beard Award semi-finalists were announced this morning, and, once again, San Francisco is well represented. Usual suspects include Nancy Oakes (Boulevard) and Michael Tusk (Quince) who received nominations for outstanding chef. Acquerello, Foreign Cinema and Restaurant Gary Danko (review), were short-listed in the outstanding restaurant category. Those looking for a new, top-notch dining...