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On tour with her rock quartet Bully, bandleader Alicia Bognanno follows a code that's her own spin on the Golden Rule: "Always be nice to other people and treat them »
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There is probably no greater venue to see Icelandic ensemble Of Monsters and Men than Berkeley's Greek Theatre. The band's whimsical, traditional-lore-steeped folk rock — on its 2011 d…
Three dynamic performers comprise "Heromonster," a one-of-kind production, both earthly and other-worldly, in the chapel at San Francisco's Fort Mason Center. The piece is the latest creatio…
TREASURE ISLAND MUSIC FESTIVAL Where: Treasure Island When: Noon to 11 p.m. Oct. 17-18 Tickets: $95 to $315 Contact: www.treasureislandfestival.com Note: A free shuttle runs from Bill Graham…
Don't get Lauren Mayberry started on the best-laid plans of mice and men. The Scottish lass had huge career aspirations in college, aiming for a degree in law. But she »
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Britain's Drenge, a duo of brothers, created a brutal wall-of-sound racket on its self-titled 2013 debut in tracks such as "Dogmeat," "Face Like a Skull" and "I Want to Break »
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Comedian Margaret Cho doesn't find anything funny about police brutality, violence against women — whether perpetrated by Bill Cosby or ISIS — and homophobia in Russia. They all …
Resistance, a rallying cry for any number of sociopolitical groups in the Bay Area, gets a new twist in choreographer Risa Jaroslow's West Coast premiere of "Resist/Surrender," opening at OD…
After San Francisco Opera opened its 2015-16 season with "Luisa Miller," in which a meddlesome man interferes with the happiness of his relative, and proceeded to the musical thriller "Sween…
British electronic outfit AlunaGeorge will be premiering at least two thumping new songs " "Heartbreak Horizon" and "In My Head" — from its upcoming, as-yet-untitled sophomore album wh…
If you've ever been a teenage girl, you're likely to identify with at least one of the three 14-year-olds who comprise the trio "the Skanks," in Lachlan Philpott's "Truck Stop," »
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Choreographer Rosy Simas admits that "We Wait in the Darkness," a solo piece based on her grandmother's struggles as a Native American, isn't happy. Yet the process of telling its »
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The two short stories by San Francisco writer Lysley Tenorio, "Monstress" and "Save the I-Hotel" (from his collection "Monstress"), which are adapted for the American Conservatory Theater st…
Garbage chanteuse Shirley Manson downplays it as "just a little treat for the fans to support a foundation that I really care about." But it was quite the event when »
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Stephanie Blythe is popping up all over San Francisco lately. She made a surprise appearance at the San Francisco Symphony gala opening last week. She's also spent the last month »
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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 15 When: 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday-Sunday Where: Hellman Hollow, Lindley and Marx meadows, off John F. Kennedy Drive, Golden »
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Percussionist-lyricist Louie Perez still remembers that fateful night in the early 1980s, when his then-more-Mexican-folkloric band Los Lobos was thrown, last minute, onto an Olympic Auditor…
Scottish singer-songwriter Greg Holden was seeking transformational wisdom two years ago when he trekked high into the Indian Himalayas to meet the Dalai Lama in his temporary hometown. Yet …
With two mutable characters and one cameraperson who tracks them, Mugwumpin's multimedia "Blockbuster Season" is an intriguing, funny and at times confusingly disjointed devised-theater piec…
Mention the term "renaissance" to Duran Duran frontfop Simon Le Bon " referring to "Paper Gods," the band's new comeback for Warner Bros. — and his English wit kicks in. »
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In "Fred's Diner," each of the three women working long hours in dead-end jobs in this roadside diner cherishes hopes for the future. So do the diner's two regular customers. »
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A love story with unorthodox, yet real, characters is a rare thing " and "Dogfight" is one of them. San Francisco Playhouse began its 13th season ("It's our bar mitzvah," »
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Stars and show tunes sparkled in Davies Symphony Hall on opening night of the San Francisco Symphony's 104th season. While festivities typically are high and programs are light at the »…
Now entering its second decade in a new format, Tuesday Night Live! Comedy is an extraordinary hybrid. "We don't have a drink minimum and the audience faces the stage," says »
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Reality-TV fans might remember Ty Taylor as the spunky, mohawk-sporting contestant on the 2005 show "Rock Star: INXS," in which the Australian outfit sought a replacement vocalist for late f…
