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By Steven Short on Dec 13 2011 - 12:57pm
Speedway Meadow in Golden Gate Park is set to become Hellman Meadow if the Recreation & Park Department approves the plan unanimously passed last week by the San Francisco County Board of Supervisors. The name change would honor Warren Hellman, the financial and spiritual force behind the three...
By Erica Mu on Dec 7 2011 - 5:49pm
Long before Beyonce decided to redefine “diva” for pop culture, the term was associated with high culture. Nevertheless, divas of then and now have maintained a reputation, as late comedian Anna Russell explains, “…you would need to be a glorious-voiced, independently wealthy, sexy, politically...
By Molly Samuel on Dec 6 2011 - 6:38pm
The Berkeley theater company Shotgun Players started performing 20 years ago in the basement of a Berkeley pizzeria. Now it’s got its own building, but the company has stuck with its founding principles: taking on little-known or brand new plays, and working hard to create theater for...
By David Ross on Dec 6 2011 - 6:19pm
It was a special time for jazz in the Bay Area. For most of the ‘70s and the early ‘80s, a small club called Keystone Korner presented a dazzling array of jazz greats from around the world. The interest in the jazz genre that the Keystone generated still is felt today and recalled in a new book of...
By Charlie Mintz on Nov 24 2011 - 6:28pm
It makes sense why comedy flourishes in the Bay Area. To a lot of people, the region itself is a kind of joke. On the right, we’ve got Bill O'Reilly calling us a modern day Gomorrah –
BILL O’REILLY: As we reported, the far left is emboldened now that Barack Obama has been elected president,...
By Chris Connelly on Nov 24 2011 - 6:10pm
When it comes to making it big at anything, you’ve got to do some hard work. Behind every rock star, there are thousands of hours of practice, touring and rocking out. Of course, to rock out, you don’t actually need to know how to play an instrument – at least not at the San Francisco Regional Air...
By Hana Baba on Nov 24 2011 - 5:10pm
Marilyn Pittman is one of San Francisco's first openly gay comics, rising to fame during the AIDS crisis, and known for bringing hilarity through her blunt, "tell it like it is" comedy.
But in 1997, tragedy struck, when her father murdered her mother, and then committed suicide. After that, Pittman...
By Sandip Roy on Nov 16 2011 - 3:52pm
If you grew up in the US, you’re probably well-acquainted with fairytales in which real animals behave like people; whether it’s pigs, wolves, rabbits or turtles. But in India, children grow up hearing about half-monkey gods and 10-headed demon kings.
Those are old friends to animator Sanjay Patel...
By Molly Samuel on Nov 11 2011 - 8:10am
The Jewish Theatre in San Francisco is closing at the end of its current season. In its 34 years, the company has produced original plays and reproductions ranging from works inspired by Yiddish poetry and Biblical traditions, to plays about the experiences of German Jews between the world wars,...
By Max Pringle on Oct 11 2011 - 4:58pm
If you take a look at the list of contributors to the San Francisco-based novel, No Rest for the Dead, it reads like a mystery writers’ hall of fame: Jeffrey Deaver, Diana Gabaldon, John Lescoart, Faye Kellerman, R.L. Stine, Alexander McCall Smith, Kathy Reichs, Michael Palmer…
All of these writers...
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