84 stories by "Leslie Katz"
Smuin Ballet has begun its 22nd season with a joyful, contemporary yet classic program including ready-to-watch again world premieres. Among them is choreographer-in-residence Amy Seiwert's …
San Francisco city officials and veterans gathered on Wednesday to celebrate and rededicate the War Memorial Veterans Building, the Civic Center's historic 1932 Beaux Arts structure newly gl…
On Saturday, a thoroughly bloody affair supplanted Friday's tragic affair at San Francisco Opera's first production of "Sweeney Todd." Unlike the relatively pale staging of the previous even…
The title of lesbian comic Karen Ripley's solo show "Oh No There's Men On The Land" comes from her remembrances of attending the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival decades ago. It »
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Bay area stages will be filled with performing artists of local, national and international acclaim — dance, sing and play on! Chick Corea: SFJAZZ opens its season with the piano »…
The Bay Area's ultra rich theater community presents old favorites, Broadway hits, world premieres, comedies, musicals and more. Amélie: Samantha Banks (of "Les Miserables" fame) stars in t…
Guitar great George Cole's upcoming gig at Yoshi's centering on the music of Nat King Cole stems from a suggestion made by mandolin master David Grisman. "My day job is »
The post Georg…
Edgy arts presenter CounterPulse is on a big journey, moving from its scrappy home at Mission and Ninth streets to a spiffy renovated site in San Francisco's Tenderloin. Earlier this »
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by Leslie Katz
High anxiety appealingly fuels every page of San Francisco's writer Vendela Vida's new novel "The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty."
The journey of a 30-something woman, …
