Art is Life, Not to Mention Food, at Tamarine

It just so happened that in a bout of nostalgia I watched Jean Eustache's "The Mother and the Whore" one day, and discussed it...

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Q: For the last three years, I used to party on New Year's Eve at a friend's house. Every time, I meet this company of people there...

The Monterey Jazz Fest Celebrates its 50th at Cal Performances

The Monterey Jazz Festival's 50th Anniversary Tour stops at Cal Performances on Saturday, January 12, 2008 at 8 p.m. in Zellerbach Hall ...

Dead Sea Scrolls at the Legion of Honor

'Treasures from the Holy Land,' at the Legion of Honor from February 9 to August 10, 2008, will include rotating examples of Dead Se...

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Q: When I complimented a woman I work with on her new jewelry, she told me she bought it on her Christmas bonus. It upset me, because I ha...

Cal Performances Awashed in Sounds of Music

An amazing array of star musicians is lining up for winter stints at Cal Performances, notorious for seeking and finding the ultimate best i...

Gilbert & George Makes its American Debut at the de Young

The first major retrospective in more than twenty-five years of the art of Gilbert & George arrives at the de Young Museum February 16, ...

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Q: This is that dreadful time of year when I have to go home for the holidays and face my family. I am in my mid-thirties, I have a great h...

New West Coast Design at SF Museum of Craft+Design

'New West Coast Design: Contemporary Objects' is on view January 18-April 27, 2008 at the San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design , 550...

Yes, Virginia, There Is Free Lunch in America, Courtesy of Manischewitz

'Simply Manischewitz ' live cook-off at the Hilton San Francisco Financial District (750 Kearny Street) on December 20 will feature ...

Mark Morris' The Hard Nut is Easy to Digest

As almost every year since its premiere in 1996, Mark Morris Dance Group's delightful "The Hard Nut"-- the "Nutcracker&qu...

'A Photographer's Life' Presented in Full at the Legion

Annie Leibovitz A Photographer's Life, 1990–2005 will be on exhibit at the Legion of Honor March 1–May 25, 2008. It's a retrospect...

Try Russian Recipes for a Change this Holiday Season

Russians are used to freezing temperatures, cold winds, and lots and lots of snow. All of a sudden, all those fatty holiday delights make mu...

Countertenor David Daniels at Cal Performances

David Daniels , proclaimed one of the top ten trailblazers in classical music today, will sing a recital on January 13, 2008 at 3 p.m. in He...

Satisfaction Guaranteed at Isa

When your dear friend, visiting from your sweet hometown, mutters self-consciously, "Yeah, it would be a crime to leave San Francisco a...

Cirque du Soleil Opens "Kooza"--A Little Box of Treasures--in SF

Take your spouse/partner, your kids, your cousins, and your house guests from colder states to AT&T Park in San Francisco, where Cirque...

Berkeley Rep to Broadway, Fast Lane Style

After it's world premiere at Berkeley Rep, an extended off-Broadway run at The Public Theatre , and winning four Audelco Awards , the ro...

Dark Boxes From Cornell, Light Boxes From Wall, and Smoke and Mirrors From Eliasson--All Seasonal Gifts at SFMOMA

Stepping into the SFMOMA atrium these days, tourist couples from Iowa and Wisconsin get this great idea about buying a fan in Wal -Mart and...

Marie-Antoinette's Private Retreat at the Legion of Honor

In a world-exclusive exhibition "Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles ," contents of the guillotined queen's p...

"Wishful Drinking" ticket information

The show begins previews in Berkeley Rep’s Roda Theatre on February 8, 2008, opens on February 13, and runs through March 30. Tickets to see...

Princess Leah's Wishful Drinking at Berkeley Rep

"The hottest ticket in town just went on sale! This February, as part of its 40th birthday festivities, Berkeley Repertory Theatre welc...