Amateur Fight Night Comes To San Francisco’s Irish Cultural Center
Irish lads from the hurling clubs of Michael Cusacks & Éire Óg face off at San Francisco’s Irish Cultural Center on Saturday, June 1st at … Read more
San Francisco Playhouse Closes Season with “Cabaret”
San Francisco Playhouse announced casting for Cabaret, the Tony Award-winning musical that will close the company’s 2018/19 Season. Susi Damilano will direct, with music direction by Dave Dobrusky and … Read more
Japan’s 19th-Century Tattoo Culture Featured at Asian Art Museum
A cursory look around at fellow ferry passengers on any given day will reveal that scores of them are rather elaborately “inked” in some fashion … Read more
California Historical Society Examines Railroad’s Legacy of Ambition and Failure
With California’s high speed rail project—a proposed bullet train promising travel between Los Angeles and San Francisco in two hours and 40 minutes—now in jeopardy, … Read more
SFO Summer Season: A Darker “Little Mermaid”
If most ferry riders are able to attend only one performance of San Francisco Opera’s summer season, our pick is Rusalka, which is about a … Read more
Book Club of California to host author of “The White Devil’s Daughter” in June
Ferry riders who have paid a visit to Angel Island well know about the shameful treatment given to quarantined immigrants from China in the 19th … Read more
Shostakovich Trilogy Returns to SF Ballet
Alexei Ratmansky’s Shostakovich Trilogy returns to San Francisco Ballet (SF Ballet) closing the Company’s 2019 Repertory Season at the War Memorial Opera House. Called a “fascinating, thrilling, bewilderingly ambiguous … Read more
Early Rubens Comes to The Legion
Now on exhibit at San Francisco’s Legion of Honor through September 8, 2019 is “Early Rubens.” In 1608, after a period of intense artistic study … Read more
Björk is Back at SF Ballet
Arthur Pita’s Björk Ballet celebrates the theatricality of Björk and her music, setting songs spanning her discography, from 1993’s Debut to Utopia from 2017. Pita’s choreography for twenty-two total dancers mixes … Read more
New Exhibition Catalogue Shows Monet in Full Bloom
While one could hardly describe Claude Monet as a late bloomer (he was one of those rare painters who had won widespread recognition in youth), … Read more