Datebook | San Francisco Arts & Entertainment Guide
WEBBy Elena Kadvany, Caleb Pershan. The easiest way to get into S.F.’s House of Prime Rib without a reservation — plus more insider tips. By Elena Kadvany. Datebook is the San Francisco Chronicle’s guide to arts & entertainment in the Bay Area, combining award-winning news with a curated events calendar.
Bruce Lee would have turned 80 this week. What if the Bay
WEBNov 25, 2020 · But as we approach what would have been the San Francisco native’s 80th birthday, Lee seems as fresh and relevant today as he was in 1973, when he died at 32. “In a way, there’s a renaissance of looking at Bruce Lee that’s been going on for a long time,” said Bao Nguyen, the director of the feature-length documentary “Be Water ...
Review: S.F. Symphony welcomes back a long-absent violinist, with ...
WEBFeb 24, 2024 · San Francisco Symphony: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 24; 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 25. $25-$169. Davies Symphony Hall, 401 Van Ness Ave., S.F. 415-864-6000. www.sfsymphony.org. How that plays out in person is anyone’s guess, but the onstage results were impeccable and often exhilarating. In the concerto’s first movement …
A timeline of San Francisco Symphony music directors
WEBJan 9, 2019 · Henry Hadley, first San Francisco Symphony music director. Photo: Chronicle / file photo. Henry Hadley (1911–1915) The orchestra’s inaugural music director was an American — a rarity among prominent conductors then as now — and best known as a prolific composer. The orchestra played some of his five symphonies, and he later …
Review: All hail BroadwaySF’s ‘Six,’ about wives of Henry VIII
WEBFeb 23, 2023 · More Information. "Six": Written by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss. Directed by Lucy Moss and Jamie Armitage. Through March 19. 85 minutes. $66.50-$263.50. Orpheum Theatre, 1192 Market St., S.F. 888-746-1799. www.broadwaysf.com. Follow: Lily Janiak. Lily Janiak joined the San Francisco Chronicle as theater critic in May 2016.
Review: 'Better Days' escaped Chinese censorship to become
WEBNov 5, 2019 · N“Better Days”: Drama. Starring Jackson Yee and Zhou Dongyu. Directed by Derek Tsang. In Chinese, with subtitles. Theaters and showtimes. (Not rated. 135 minutes) Cary Darling. Cary Darling Cary Darling is the arts and entertainment editor at the Houston Chronicle. Derek Tsang’s film is a heartbreaking tale of bullying and suicide in a ...
The Chronicle's 15 best books of 2021 - Datebook
WEBDec 22, 2021 · By María José Ferrada (translated from Spanish by Elizabeth Bryer) (Tin House; 180 pages; $19.95) In this moving, buoyant novel, a woman looks back on life in 1970s Chile, when the country was ruled by a despot. Featuring a memorable cast of eccentrics and dissidents — among them a photographer determined to expose the …
Review: In ‘Fragile Things,’ a web of lies unravels amid ... - Datebook
WEBFeb 16, 2021 · Set amid the wreckage of San Francisco, as well as a fictional mining town near San Mateo called “San Rafaela” and Tucson, the novel explores the ways that private suffering can intersect with collective grief in the wake of a natural disaster, an emotional territory that feels eerily familiar at a time when a pandemic has killed more than 2 …
Datebook | San Francisco Books News & Events
WEBReview: Blend of memoir and science reminds us: You can’t hear if you don't listen. Datebook is the San Francisco Chronicle’s guide to Books in the Bay Area, combining award-winning news coverage with a curated events calendar.
Review: S.F. Symphony gets the new year off to a ravishing musical ...
WEBJan 12, 2023 · San Francisco Symphony: 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Jan. 13-14. $40-$170. Davies Symphony Hall, 201 Van Ness Ave., S.F. 415-864-6000. www.sfsymphony.org. Joshua Kosman Joshua Kosman is The San Francisco Chronicle’s music critic. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @JoshuaKosman. A dynamic conducting debut, a …
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