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Power, corruption, and lust: A timely ‘Tosca’ at SF Opera

Shawna Lucey has strong feeling about Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca, which she directs for the San Francisco Opera October 3-30.  “It’s the perfect opera,” she said. “It’s...

Hold, please, for Text Me Records

ALL EARS The first thing you hear when you call Patrick Brown is “please enjoy this ringback tone,” followed by Louisiana rapper Kevin Gates belting...

Screen Grabs: Mill Valley, SF Dance, Drunken Film Fests ….

SCREEN GRABS It’s a starry as well as busy week in Bay Area filmgoing, with major openings including the new Bradley Cooper/Lady Gaga A Star...

Art Haus brings playa magic to Symphony’s ‘Rite of Spring’

With its driving, swooning rhythms and primal energies, Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring remains one of the "bad boy" pieces of the symphonic...

Party Radar: Quick ‘n dirty guide to Folsom 2018

PARTY RADAR It's that time, almost! Time to coordinate your leather-chic looks, eat whole grains, polish up your spurs, and tackle that jumble of raw...

‘Bel Canto’ director on the unity of different voices

In Bel Canto, Ann Patchett’s acclaimed 2001 book—and now a movie by Paul Weitz (About a Boy, Grandma, American Pie), currently in theaters— people...

Screen Grabs: Joan Jett, Hola Mexico, Hong Kong Cinema …

SCREEN GRABS This week brings a whole lot of mini-festivals to various Bay Area screens. The Roxie has the Hola Mexico, a three-day touring edition...

Fall Arts aflame! The 50+ best things to do this season

FALL ARTS PREVIEW The light is deepening, the food is getting heartier, harvest is bringing much good grape and green, and fall arts season is...

Screen Grabs: I Am Not a Witch, Iranian Film Fest, Blaze …

SCREEN GRABS While you could say the annual fall sprawl of anticipatory “awards season” has already begun—with the Venice, Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals that...

Making noise and empowering girls: 15 years of Women’s Audio Mission

ALL EARS For 15 years, the sound engineers at SoMa neighborhood-based Women’s Audio Mission have been applying their skills to one of the field’s trickiest...