311 stories from The San Francisco Examiner
When the auction began onstage at the Orpheum Theatre on Wednesday, the Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera" had just completed its 11,474th performance. M…
Killers bandleader Brandon Flowers believes that an innate sense of curiosity is a songwriter's strongest attribute. "It's something I've honed in on as I've gotten older " I need to »
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Last year, Daryl Hall, 69, had it all: an adventurous solo career (he's preparing to record his eighth album); a slew of monster hits as one half of the Rock »
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The kids are not all right in East Coast playwright Lila Rose Kaplan's world premiere, "1 2 3," part of San Francisco Playhouse's Sandbox Series of new works. Kaplan's three »
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Making theater is a risky business. Doing so successfully for 75 years is an accomplishment and Hillbarn Theatre celebrates that as it launches its diamond jubilee season this week with …
Rita Ora, who last appeared in The City at the Regency Ballroom in October 2012, is a Kosovo-born, British-based Renaissance woman busy overseeing her vast empire, which extends from acting …
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 »
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LeAnn Rimes signed her first label deal at 11, and by 13 had won two Grammys for her country breakthrough hit "Blue," which earned her comparisons to Patsy Cline. But »
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"West Side Story" is a classic — so much so that five productions are now playing or will open around the Bay Area before summer's end. Happily, the version at »
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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 Tom Lanham
As the self-proclaimed artist Emmy the Great, Emma-Lee Moss had hit a dead end last year after two solo albums. So for her new EP "S" " and a forthcoming, as-yet-un…
by Robert Sokol
San Jose Stage Company wraps its current season with a smorgasbord of outstanding local talent in a sparkling two-snaps-up musical production of "The Addams Famil…
by Robert Sokol
One of the most perfectly formed musicals of Broadway's golden age, "My Fair Lady" has a heavenly score " music by Alan Jay Lerner and lyrics by Frederick Loewe …
by Anita Katz
Foreground is background, background is foreground and static images appear to shift when the viewer moves in front of them in British painter Patrick Hughes' explo…
by Tom Lanham
In all his years with The Doobie Brothers, singer-guitarist Tom Johnston " who founded the group in 1970, left for a temporary solo career in 1977, then rejoined a …
by Janos Gereben
San Francisco's Asian Art Museum's new exhibit "28 Chinese" showcases the fruits of Don and Mera Rubell's labors, which began 51 years ago when they got married,…
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French musician Colleen is performing atmospheric, melodic pop music from her latest album, "Captain of None." [7 p.m., Exploratorium, Pier 15, S.…
by Tom Lanham
There are moments of sheer folk-pop bliss on Ingrid Michaelson's latest CD "Lights Out," such as the single "Girls Chase Boys," with a video that spoofs Robert Palm…
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Who's in town
Harvard public-policy professor Robert D. Putnam is leading a discussion about the wage gap and vanishing opportunities for American youths. [7 p.…
by Janos Gereben
San Francisco Opera Music Director Nicola Luisotti sounds like a proud midwife, talking about this week's world premiere of "Two Women" ("La Ciociara") in the Wa…
by Staff Report
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Best-selling author Neil Gaiman speaks about the way stories become legendary over the years. [7:30 p.m., Castro Theatre, 429 Castro St., S.F.; sol…
by Tom Lanham
When she was young, before she acted on TV's "Moesha" and in films such as "Holiday Heart," Los Angeles-bred Jess Reynolds remembers an unusual and inspiring game h…
by Janos Gereben
"What joy!" were the first words the chorus sang when the curtain went up Sunday afternoon in the War Memorial Opera House on the first complete production of He…
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Philosopher, lawyer and atheist Nancy Ellen Abrams reflects on the possibility of finding something in the universe "worthy of the name God." [6 p…
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Something to read
In the Unlikely Event By Judy Blume ($27.95)
The icon of young-adult fiction is talking about her latest book, which chronicles a series of my…
