Review: Jamie Foxx delivers a hilarious, heartfelt ... - Datebook
Dec 10, 2024 · Review: Jamie Foxx delivers a hilarious, heartfelt explanation of his medical crisis in ‘What Had Happened Was …’ The Oscar- and Grammy-winning comedian’s Netflix special is equal parts stand-up routine, mini-concert and church.
Halloween in the Castro to return after 17-year hiatus. Here
Oct 11, 2023 · San Francisco’s Castro district is preparing to revive its Halloween festivities for the first time in 17 years. But organizers are adopting a fresh approach for this year’s celebration. Scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 28, Halloween in the Castro will emphasize community involvement and family-friendly activities during the day in contrast to the rowdy adult-only street parties that ...
Notorious ‘Snow White Oscars’ of 1989 captured spirit of S.F.
Mar 2, 2024 · Ahead of this year’s 96th Academy Awards, I’d like to revisit one of my favorite moments in the show’s history that is often ranked as one of its biggest flops.It’s a musical number so kooky and surreal that it had to have a San Francisco connection. The moment became so famous that the 1989 broadcast is often referred to as the “Snow White Oscars.”
Rebecca Black to release new single after free S.F. DJ set
Dec 3, 2024 · Rebecca Black is planning to release a new song hours after her upcoming Downtown First Thursdays show in San Francisco.. The “Friday” singer performed in the city in September for her Portola Festival debut, and is plotting her return on …
A sweet celebration of Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, still moving
Jan 24, 2024 · For a guy who’s never stopped moving, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott has put down a vast and world-shaping web of musical roots. A master of folk blues and various fingerstyle and flatpicking guitar idioms, he’s the direct link between American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie, with whom he apprenticed and toured as a teenager in the early 1950s, and the legendary Bob Dylan, whose early sound ...
Bay Area actress Connie Nielsen back in ancient Rome in
Nov 18, 2024 · Every day, Connie Nielsen is reminded why she’s stayed in the Bay Area for more than two decades, and why she has no plans to leave. “I look out the window, there’s a view of the Golden Gate Bridge and the entire bay — Angel Island, downtown,” the star of the new blockbuster “Gladiator II” told the Chronicle. “Then I walk my dog up the top of the hill, and there I see the whole ...
Four years before Grateful Dead’s birth, lyricist Robert Hunter was ...
Oct 9, 2024 · The concepts of “lost” and “found” take on a different meaning when glimpsed through the cosmic prism of the Grateful Dead. Recognized today as one of history’s seminal rock groups, the band and its timeless lyrics and epic live jams have birthed a fan base of Deadheads that’s remained utterly devoted to the group for 59 years and counting.
How Rob Marshall, master of the musical, reimagined Disney’s …
May 21, 2023 · Marshall, 62, a former dancer and choreographer, has as a director become the Vincente Minnelli of our era. And just like Minnelli (“An American in Paris,” “The Band Wagon”) needed the structure and the resources a big studio like MGM could provide to realize his vision in the 1940s and ’50s, Marshall is thriving at Disney, where he …
Review: Punching and tearing are aphrodisiacs in ACT’s
Sep 19, 2024 · A Champagne coupe on the veranda. Silken evening gowns and silkier dressing gowns. Droll lines like, “What is so horrible is that one can’t stay happy,” delivered by people so much more glamorous than you that it seems preposterous they can’t just enjoy themselves.
Review: Esa-Pekka Salonen keeps S.F. Symphony on course in
Oct 5, 2024 · With his signature flair for the theatrical, Shostakovich ups the ante in the concerto’s linked third and fourth movements. As Salonen and the Symphony laid the groundwork for the Passacaglia’s variations, Shoji offered a nostalgic glance, both melodically and temperamentally, back toward the Nocturne.