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NEW YORK " David Bowie, the other-worldly musician who broke pop and rock boundaries with his creative musicianship, nonconformity, striking visuals and a genre-spanning persona he christene…
After a sold-out run in the fall, "Star Trek Live! Mudd's Women" is back at Oasis, and what could be a better intergalactic kickoff to 2016? The spoof in the »
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Erudite ex-Nerves/Plimsouls anchor Peter Case, whose great new solo recording is called "Hwy 62," also is the author of a scrappy autobiography, 2007's "As Far As You Can Get Without »
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In "Mother's Milk," a tender tribute to his late mother, performer Wayne Harris so beautifully embodies her as a character that you may find yourself loving her just as he »
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With a title like "Date Night at Pet Emergency," Lisa Rothman's one-woman show at the Marsh in Berkeley sounds like a wild affair filled with goofy gags and nonstop laughs. »
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LOS ANGELES " Natalie Cole, the daughter of jazz legend Nat King Cole, who carved out her own success with R&B hits like “Our Love” and “This Will Be” before …
Musically, 2016 seems like it will kick off with a bang, beginning with the long-awaited release of "Leave Me Alone," the jagged, jangling debut from Spanish all-girl quartet Hinds (formerly…
Remove Adele from the equation, and 2015 was a rather uneventful year in music. Taylor Swift still reigned supreme over everything, on a sweeping tour that included a cavalcade of »
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WEDNESDAY, DEC. 30 Sonny & The Sunsets, Shannon & The Clams: Two favorite Bay Area pop rock bands co-headline a couple of festive end-of-the-year gigs. [9 p.m., Great American Musi…
In 1998, Dean Wareham's alt-rock outfit Luna started a tradition of playing New Year's Eve concerts, which ended with the band's splintering in 2005. He and his wife Britta Phillips »
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For Seth MacFarlane, singing traditional pop songs with the San Francisco Symphony is an ideal way to spend New Year's Eve. Last year, he was asked to appear with the »
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Canadian artist Janet Cardiff's sound installation "The Forty Part Motet" lasts just 14 minutes, but the experience is so profound that visitors will be thinking about it for long after. …
Concrete Blonde mainstay Johnette Napolitano tracked her latest self-released solo effort "The Naked Album" in her secluded cabin in the Mojave desert. For skeletal, bluesy new numbers like …
Headlining the 23rd annual Kung Pao Kosher Comedy this week at San Francisco's New Asia Restaurant, Wendy Liebman is holding a record " topping the holiday bill (of Jewish comics »
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Portland-raised artist Grace Mitchell quietly celebrated her 18th birthday in August by having dinner with a good friend at a restaurant in Hollywood, a city she has been visiting since …
In England, alt-rock combo Swim Deep has issued two critically lauded albums " 2013's "Where the Heaven Are We" and this year's more adventurous "Mothers" " and has been hailed »
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Jasper Patterson's got an excellent seasonal vocation. He gets to be the villain clown in "Mittens and Mistletoe." "It's been fun the past two years," says Patterson, of his role »
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"Holidays are about family, about friends, fun and hopefully about relaxing," says Brian Stokes Mitchell, "though they never seem to be that way for me since I am always working »
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His bandmates in X are calling it their own "X-mas miracle." It's hard to downplay the triumphant stage return of founding guitarist Billy Zoom, who was sidelined this summer by »
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For more than 70 years, the Blind Boys of Alabama have remained at the forefront of gospel. Led by founding member Jimmy Carter, the vocalists who met as children at »
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As a child, X Ambassadors bandleader Sam Harris was an extra in Ridley Scott's "Gladiator," and he even got to meet Scott and star Russell Crowe, thanks to his father »
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Though it may seem counterintuitive that a hoary American short story should provide the basis for an innovative new opera production, that is the case with San Francisco Opera's U.S. »…
Christopher Swan has inviting words for theater patrons attending the musical "A Christmas Story," particularly for the many who love the charming 1983 film on which it's based: "It's going …
Bay Area rockabilly revivalist Chris Isaak is proud of his latest release, "First Comes the Night," which he recorded mostly in Nashville with country producers Dave Cobb and Paul Worley. &#…
In the multi-Tony-winning musical "A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder," the show-stopper occurs when the "gentleman" in question, Monty Navarro, is accepting a marriage proposal from …
