Tag: San Francisco

Conspiracies, suspicions unnerve in superb ‘Ideation’ (Review)

A new play starring ... corporate consultants? Can it possibly work? A resounding yes and yes.

Stark Insider TV: California Hang Gliding (GoPro Video)

Join Loni Stark as she soars along the California coast in the tandem hang gliding experience of a lifetime.

American Conservatory Theater in final stretch to raise capital to re-build Strand Theater

A.C.T. enters public phase of capital campaign to build The Strand Theater in San Francisco’s Central Market neighborhood.

San Francisco named best culinary destination

Readers of Saveur magazine discover what we already know. Gourmet by the Bay, don't you know.

San Francisco: ‘Buyer & Cellar’ a delicious romp (Review)

These old timey shoppes are taken straight out of Streisand’s 2010 book "My Passion for Design", which one imagines the diva dictating and photographing while in an extremis Martha Stewart moment.

SF Symphony brings on Beethoven Revolution (Review)

This motiv count changed the listening experience, as it forced you to listen through the often dense texture to pick up on repetitions happening deep in the music.

Mighty Mojos tripping through history, powdered wigs and all

The Naked Empire Buffoon Company (Sabrina Wensky and Cara McClendon) could give John Belushi’s killer bees a run for their money. These two combine the petulance of an ill-mannered child with the wiles of a Chechen terrorist.

Hot Time in the Summer: A Jazzy Night at SF Symphony (Review)

Jazz pianist Makoto Ozone joined the Symphony to reclaim Rhapsody in Blue back from United Airlines and a thousand dreary elevators.

Portland’s Finest: Pink Martini & The von Trapps at Davies (Review)

Going from improbable to even more so, they performed Hushabye Mountain from “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.” However, for all practical purposes, Dick van Dyke never saw this version. Thomas Lauderdale was right in saying that it sounded crossed with Mozart’s Requiem.

Bedazzled: San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus (Review)

From the high camp of Nancyboy (topped with a fascinator and moving gracefully in towering platforms) riffing off Joel Grey to an exquisitely nuanced “Send in the Clowns,” the artistic caliber of these two hundred and fifty hunky sweaty guys left nothing on the table.