State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970 | February 29 to June 17, 2012 | Berkeley Art Museum | Berkeley Since October 2011, a large number of art institutions in Southern California have been overtaken by Pacific Standard Time, an unprecedented, Getty Foundation-financed orgy of exhibitions and events dedicated to postwar Californian art (1945-1980). [...]
Thursday, January 26, 2012 By Nathan Cranford
This weekend at Davies Hall, the celebrated violinist, violist and conductor Pinchas Zukerman will be sitting in for Michael Tilson Thomas to lead the San Francisco Symphony in an evening of works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the great 20th Century German composer, violist and pedagogue, Paul Hindemith. Beginning with Mozart’s Adagio in E Major [...]
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 By Adam Sawyer
In the Bay Area, rain in the winter just isn’t a good enough excuse not to go out. On a wet January 20th at the New Parish in Oakland, the LA-based Races opened for El Ten Eleven, with whom they’re currently on tour. The southern California sextet released their Big Broom EP in November 2011 and will [...]
Like Coachella for music fans, or Sundance for filmgoers, Bay Area comedy enthusiasts have the SF Sketchfest to look forward to every year. In addition to the eclectic lineup of stand-up acts, tribute shows, live podcast tapings and inspired one-off collaborations, the festival is usually good for a reunion or two, which came this year [...]
Monday, January 23, 2012 By Julia Glosemeyer
The Forgotten Space by Allan Sekula and Noël Burch, San Francisco Art Institute, January 25, 7:30pm. If you don’t believe that a film about the shipping industry can be interesting and engaging, think again. The Forgotten Space, based on Sekula’s long-term photographic project, Fish Story, is a timely exploration of the effects of globalization and [...]
Monday, January 23, 2012 By Joey Pangilinan
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The weekly Popscene show at Rickshaw Stop last week ended up being quite the double treat. Opening act The Good Natured put on a great show, and Katy B made her highly anticipated San Francisco performance debut with great success. The Good Natured. Photo by Joey Pangilinan. Fronted by songwriter Sarah McIntosh, her brother Hamish McIntosh [...]
Monday, January 23, 2012 By Lucia Chung
When I walked into The Forum at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts for Dean Moss’s latest piece, Nameless forest, the dancers were already mingling with the audience, looking for people who would be willing to join them on stage for the duration of the performance. Sari Nordman, one of the dancers, approached my [...]
Thursday, January 19, 2012 By Joey Pangilinan
Dance music could not get any hotter than it did in 2011. A big part of San Francisco’s local scene saw the emergence of dance label Our House Records. Daniel Gomez and Austin Jacobsen, otherwise known as Realboy, founded Our House Recs for the same reasons many other musicians do: to make good, quality music [...]
Thursday, January 19, 2012 By Lucia Chung
Wine and beer, here we come! Seeing as how February is also the month of Valentine’s Day, look forward to a separate list of events that are geared specifically towards that occasion next week. In the meantime, feast your senses on the fabulous beer and wine events that are quickly coming up. Summer Down Under: [...]
Thursday, January 19, 2012 By Nathan Cranford
This weekend at Davies Symphony Hall, principal conductor Michael Tilson Thomas will be handing the baton to young Spanish conductor Pablo Heras-Casado, who will be leading the San Francisco Symphony in a diverse evening of music by 20th-century composers from Russia, France, Italy and Spain. (The Dumbarton Oaks Mansion in Washington D.C.)
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012 By Julia Glosemeyer
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