Tag: San Francisco
Theater Review: Big hats, big laughs at ‘Beach Blanket Babylon’
San Francisco! San Francisco! Just about everything gets spoofed with zealous energy, except, of course, our hometown which gets plenty of crowd pleasing, pride pumping pomp and circumstance.
And why not? At Steve Silver's Beach Blanket Babylon it's all about big hats and big laughs. It's a formula that works....
10th anniversary ‘Teatro ZinZanni’ a memorable evening of sexy cirque, cabaret
Fine dining with a twist. Yes, indeed, the brochure has it right. And what a twist... or twists would be more like it. Teatro ZinZanni is part cabaret, part circus, part improvisational comedy. All together, it's a wild evening of non-stop entertainment.
When the four-hour evening came to a rousing...
Theater Review: ‘An Accident’ at Magic Theatre, San Francisco
Magic Theatre brings a strong season to a close with An Accident, a visceral and emotional story about recovery, memories and, even discovery of the self. Introspective at times, and often seething with cynical humor, the production by playwright Lydia Stryk is uncompromisingly human in its portrayal of a...
Gordon Biersch – SF Brewery Experience
I moonlight as a travel photographer and get to publish web pages for a couple of travel oriented web sites. As such as often as I can, I tend to go back to places I've previously visited and written about, to get an update. Today I happened...
Urban Forest Map: One San Francisco tree at a time
Today the Urban Forest Map non-profit project and web site launches. It's quite fascinating for several reasons. First the goal of identifying and logging every tree across the hilly town, while entirely possible, smells of crazy-fun ambition—the type you only find in a free-thinking town like San Francisco. Second...
Review: ‘Sandy Hackett’s Rat Pack Show’
This is a trip back in time for those of you who remember "The Rat Pack" allegedly so nicknamed by their 5th member's wife. We had the opportunity on Saturday night to visit "The Sands Hotel" as it was on a similar night in 1940. For just...
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast comes to San Francisco
This just in from SHN SF. A special engagement of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, produced by NETworks, comes to life in San Francisco at the Golden Gate Theatre August 17-29, 2010 as a part of the 2009-2010 Citibank Best of Broadway series under the direction of Carole Shorenstein...
Intersection for the Arts to launch new programs, gallery, screening room, event space
On May 19th, 2010 Intersection for the Arts will launch new programs and a new satellite gallery, screening room, and event space - called Intersection 5M - in collaboration with partners Hub Bay Area, TechShop, and others.
Intersection 5M is the beginning of a radical cross-sector collaboration with entrepreneurs and...
Marin History Museum hosts 75th anniversary garden party
In celebration of its 75th Anniversary, the Marin History Museum is hosting a Victorian-inspired Garden Party at the historic Boyd Gate House. This fun filled event will feature activities dating back to the early 1900’s such as croquet, maypole dances, badminton and springtime arts and crafts.
There will be a...
Casting announced for the U.S. premiere of J M Barrie’s ‘Peter Pan’
The cast for the U.S. premiere of J M Barrie's beloved story PETER PAN flies into San Francisco landing in a state-of-the-art theatre tent erected especially for this production at Ferry Park on the Embarcadero, opposite the Ferry Building. PETER PAN is the first major theatrical production to...
