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Joe Goode manages in Transformation, this summer's first fully-staged production of the SF Opera Merola program, the opposite trick as in his own shows: instead of getting dancers to sing, he got singers to dance. It helps that his cast is youthful, -- Merola singers are between 20 and 34-- full of energy, and willing to take risks. But his direction enlivened an opera which, since it is a sequence of a prologue plus nine little stories without an overarching narrative line, only a common theme, could potentially feel repetitive. more ›

"I'm proud to have been a Yankee. But I have found more happiness and contentment since I came back home to San Francisco than any man has a right to deserve. This is the friendliest city in the world." - "Joltin'" Joe DiMaggio Welcome to SFist. We're here to sing the praises of one of the fairest ladies in the world, beautiful San Francisco. Ours is a city of sun and fog, food and drink, poverty and riches, urbanity and parochialism - the blessed terminus of a hilly penninsula which protects the Bay to the east from the Pacific to the west. We are truly the Golden Gate. more ›