Tag: San Francisco

Stark Insider Weekend Picks: 'Antigone' at Cutting Ball, 'The Lake Effect' at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, and the 'Off the Grid' street food festival are just a few things that should be on your San Francisco short list.

One of the most highly anticipated tours of 2015 touches down in San Jose later this year. Organizers have announced that Madonna will perform at the SAP Center on October 19. The Rebel Heart tour kicks off in Miami, and is scheduled for a total of 35 cities, including New York,...

Dystopic though it may be, there’s forward energy here, if only out of the struggle for more lines, and the rights to those lines.

Schiff’s intense concentration in the slow beginning – not ponderous, but deliberate, taking time to deliver the maximal impact of every note – provided the perfect contrast for the technically complex, bombast section that followed.

This could be real stagy stuff, but Schiff is too much the magician for that. Rather that forcing a dramatic overlay, he just stays centered in the notes, not anticipating, not giving anything away. The result is a frothy delight.

The hit you get off of this one is almost as big as all our collective histories.

Every lighting cue and every sound cue work to heighten this realism and transform the Berkeley Rep’s thrust stage. In lesser hands, this hyperrealism could feel mechanistic and antiseptically cold, but here, it’s so well done that it only pushes the story forward.

Annual Zinfandel Experience coming to San Francisco. Here's the details, schedule and a video featuring Nadia G from Bitchin' Kitchen.

Kornbluth’s got the law firm culture down – a world in which even summer associates trump the admins and paralegals who really keep the place running. By playing all the roles himself, he keeps the story close to his chest, which makes it look far smarter than the movie.

With the increased value of rare wines -- notable DRC and Napa Cult Cabs -- should collectors and investors be turning to technology to help protect investments?