311 stories from The San Francisco Examiner
MEDINA, Minn. " Scott Weiland, the former frontman for the Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, has died. He was 48. The singer’s manager, Tom Vitorino, confirmed the death to …
Gospel, carols, folk tunes, show tunes, jazz and rock fill stages and concert halls: GLIDE Annual Holiday Jam-Love Matters: Valerie Simpson, Justin Vivian Bond and Youth Speaks join the GLID…
Singer-songwriter Aimee Mann can't remember who first suggested the concept of an annual Christmas tour eight years ago. But it started as a little joke that quickly grew into a »
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What a day for a daydream, indeed. The Magic Bus takes off in a cloud of bubbles. It's 1967, the Summer of Love. Our guide, "Gaia," dressed à là Janis »
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It's been awhile since San Francisco's Word for Word, the inventive troupe that stages literary works verbatim, has produced a holiday-themed show. Now, "Holiday High Jinx: Bums, Broads and …
Bugs Bunny at the Symphony II: George Daugherty conducts the orchestra in a fun animated holiday season program featuring beloved cartoon snippets such as "What's Opera, Doc?" and "The Rabbi…
The members of Icelandic outfit alt-rock outfit Kaleo experienced culture shock when they recently moved (on four-year visas) to Austin, Texas to track their forthcoming debut album with pro…
If creating a musical based on a vintage film has become a common, if unpredictable, theater practice, it might stand to reason that creating one based on a 65-year-old black-and-white »…
Bay Area dancers, pros and students alike, perform the seasonal classic — or something new. The Velveteen Rabbit: For the 29th year, ODC/Dance presents its adaptation of the children's…
Ebenezer Scrooge will be onstage for the season, which also offers sassy comedy, musical revues and visits to foreign lands. Beach Blanket Babylon: Steve Silver's popular San Francisco revue…
John Lydon of Public Image Limited painted the cover of his 10th album "What the World Needs Now…" with a picture of a harlequin-attired fool inspired by a traditional Hopi »
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When it comes to official tour merchandise, few artists can match the swag of Nashville renegade Nikki Lane. She parlayed a World War II-era fighter-pilot's patch " featuring a Posada-stark …
New York playwright Tanya Barfield's "Bright Half Life," now in a Magic Theatre West Coast premiere, is the kind of two-hander that is so specific and detailed in all the »
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In "Stage Kiss," a kiss is more — much more — than just a kiss. Sarah Ruhl's giddy comedy, making its regional premiere at San Francisco Playhouse, brings together two »
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Pioneering American psychologist Helen Thompson wrote, "In riding a horse, we borrow freedom." And in watching "Odysseo," we experience the incredible freedom of spirit between horse and hum…
Wagner's "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" is perhaps the most quintessentially nationalistic of German operas, and at about five and a half hours, is one of the longest in the repertoire &#…
Bay Area Musicals! founder and artistic director Matthew McCoy admits that he hasn't undertaken the sanest endeavor, but he's quite positive about the future of his new local theater troupe.…
Formerly missing-in-action pop-R&B stylist JoJo has essentially finished, but not yet released, her long-awaited third album. In the meantime, the singer (born Joanna Levesque) has issu…
Boy & Bear bandleader Dave Hosking believes artists should write what they know, so he followed his gut instinct when composing the Aussie outfit's new third album, "Limit of Love," …
With the Paris attacks on everybody's mind on Friday the 13th, it seemed an especially significant opening night for American playwright Ayad Akhtar's powerful, Pulitzer Prize-winning drama …
There's a moment in Aurora Theatre Company's production of "The Monster-Builder" in which the title character " one of the world's top architects " is struck by inspiration: the central …
It's been three decades since British outfit The Cult released its landmark Goth-chiming "Love." But the band isn't living in the past. Its upcoming "Hidden City" is one of its »
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It’s the 21st century, and Elizabeth seems to have it all. She's actually Liz and Beth, and she's the protagonist of "If/Then," the pleasant if somewhat perplexing new musical onstage …
Sometimes hitting rock bottom can be a blessing in disguise, as was the case with Charlatans UK bandleader Tim Burgess, who wa penniless when he returned to his native England »
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Leif Ove Andsnes is convinced that the great musicians of the recent past had neither the freedom nor the digital techniques to bring the classical repertoire to today's utmost standards. &#…
