Datebook | San Francisco Arts & Entertainment Guide
WEBBy Andrew Gilbert. Photos: Latin culture takes center stage at Bay Area music, dance and art festival. By Warren Pederson, Yalonda M James. Datebook is the San Francisco Chronicle’s guide to arts & entertainment in the Bay Area, combining award-winning news with a curated events calendar.
Review: In ‘Mediocre,’ the ‘pyramid scheme’ of white male culture
WEBNov 24, 2020 · Ijeoma Oluo untangles that charged irony in her searing new book, along with its perilous implications. “Mediocre” continues the work of Oluo’s 2018 bestseller “So You Want to Talk About Race?”. She reveals the levers and pulleys of systemic racism in America. As she outlines vividly in each book, “White supremacy is, and always has ...
San Francisco Pride Parade 2022: What to know about city’s
WEBJun 1, 2022 · The San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Celebration — its official name — is a festival and parade that has taken place every year in the city for five decades. The June event is a rainbow-colored valentine to the LGBTQ community and its allies. LGBTQ Pride 2022 events from S.F. Bay Area arts organizations.
S.F. Opera House renovation complete in time for ‘Tosca
WEBAug 18, 2021 · War Memorial House, 301 Van Ness Ave., S.F. 415-864-3330. sfopera.com. Joshua Kosman Joshua Kosman is The San Francisco Chronicle’s music critic. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @JoshuaKosman. After more than a decades' worth of redesign and upgrade, the interior of the venerable War Memorial Opera House in San …
Josiah Thompson is back to tell us what really happened to
WEBApr 5, 2021 · Josiah Thompson is back to tell us what really happened to JFK in 1963. Author Josiah Thompson, a former private investigator, walks on the grounds of his home in Bolinas. In his new book, “Last Second in Dallas,” Thompson uses modern scientific means to look at the John F. Kennedy assassination in 1963.
Review: Tiny Tim documentary lifts curtain on misunderstood singer
WEBApr 21, 2021 · Directed by Johan von Sydow. (Not rated. 78 minutes.) Showing Friday-Sunday, April 23-25, and April 30-May 2, at the Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St., in San Rafael. The film will also be available to stream via on May 21, and video on demand Aug. 6. 'King for a Day' makes it clear: There was never anything like Tim, whose '60s …
Netflix’s ‘Lead Me Home’ shows unhoused people as real
WEBNov 26, 2021 · A scene from San Francisco’s Tenderloin shows the severity of street life in the new 2021 documentary “Lead Me Home,” depicting homelessness in the Bay Area, Los Angeles and Seattle. Photo: Netflix. Concrete and dirt stretching for blocks strewn with tents and trash. A pregnant mom crying as she tells a shelter counselor all she wants is ...
A 1969 timeline: Turbulent year signaled major societal change
WEBNov 27, 2018 · But here is a selected cultural timeline gathered from online sources and the nonfiction account “1969: The Year Everything Changed,” by Rob Kirkpatrick, that takes you through the year. Jan. 5 – Fantasy Records in Berkeley releases Creedence Clearwater Revival’s second album, “Bayou Country.”. Bandleader John Fogerty becomes the ...
Who was the Zodiac Killer? Nobody, says a new documentary
WEBJul 13, 2023 · Nobody, says a new documentary. Thomas Henry Horan, author of “The Myth of the Zodiac Killer: A Literary Investigation,” presents his theory on whether the Zodiac Killer is real in the Peacock docuseries “Myth of the Zodiac Killer.”. The case of the Zodiac Killer captured the imagination of the country in the late 1960s and early ’70s ...
Review: 'Red Chamber' returns to S.F. Opera with its power and ...
WEBJun 15, 2022 · It’s the first to return home again, and one can only hope it won’t be the last. “Dream of the Red Chamber”: San Francisco Opera. Through July 3. $26-$408. War Memorial Opera House, 301 Van Ness Ave., S.F. 415-864-3330. www.sfopera.com. Joshua Kosman. Joshua Kosman Joshua Kosman is The San Francisco Chronicle’s music critic.