Arts & Entertainment Anthony Reed Hosts Operatronica, And SFist Reviews 'La Traviata' and 'Echoes' Scroll below for two classical music reviews from the past weekend: Traviata at SF Opera and Echoes with the Kronos Quartet. This season, Operatronica will blend exactly what its ungainly portmanteau says it
Arts & Entertainment Stern Grove Announces Free Summer Festival Schedule 76 years after the first outdoor concert in Stern Grove, the annual festival series is still going strong and admission-free out there in the Outer Sunset. This year, the festival begins on June
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Kronos at YBCA San Francisco's most famous string quartet, Kronos, always push the boundaries of what should be the chamber music repertory. As founder and violinist David Harrinton waxed nostalgics during the concert closing their three
Arts & Entertainment Interview Glenn Kotche The SF Jazz fest is in full swing (sorry, we couldn't help the pun). Thursday and Friday the Herbst Theater will hose the world premiere of Anomaly, a new piece by Glenn Kotche
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interview: New Yorker Writer Alex Ross So Alex Ross has a new book out, , which covers the history of 20th century music in his trademark accessible-musicological style, and he'll be in town to promote the book this week. Ross
Arts & Entertainment Win A Copy Of <i>Healing The Divide</i>, With The Kronos Quartet And Tom Waits More giveaways! San Francisco's own Kronos Quartet has a new album out, of their acclaimed September 2003 live performance with Tom Waits of four of Waits's songs, for the Concert for Peace and
SF News Day Around The Bay --The Dyke March was fun. [Chron.] --The Recall McGoldrick people didn't get enough signatures to get on the ballot. [From the SFist Tips line!] --It's the winner of the World's Ugliest Dog contest!
Arts & Entertainment Live Public Radio The show is formatted like a radio program, so Barsamian will talk with Ali, and Kronos will intersperse musical interludes relating to the ideas being discussed throughout the conversation. We'll totally do the
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Mara Sohn How did you get involved with Yerba Buena? I have been in the arts world for the last 5 years. I started out at a large regional theatre planning fundraising events. There was
Arts & Entertainment Brimful of Asha Last night SFist went to see the inaugural live collaboration between the Bay Area's own Kronos Quartetand Bollywood legend Asha Bhosle. Competing only with her sister for the title of most prolific singer
Arts & Entertainment Wednesdays, the New Apocalypse Wednesday: Get all in the Wednesday SFist Reads mood with a cavalcade of options: Barbara Ehrenreich at Clean Well-Lighted (7:00), a Dr. Atomic discussion at City Lights (7 p.m.), Caroline Kennedy
misc SFist Raves: Kronos Quartet and Asha Bhosle Put a brimful of Asha on your iPod ride! The Asha Bhosle who's name-checked by the Brit band Cornershop and is renown as the voice of Bollywood, has released a CD with San
Arts & Entertainment 81 Albums of Jessica Simpson On The Wall You probably remember that brouhaha about the CD price-fixing antitrust case, where that judge was going to give everyone who'd ever bought a CD from 1995 to 2002 around $14.99 if they
Arts & Entertainment All Is Calm, All Is Bright Well, SantaCon has come and gone, but you still have that urge to make with the merry this holiday season, preferably through participatory art? Well, you're in luck -- San Francisco is hosting
Arts & Entertainment Putomayo, Eat Your Heart Out For those of you who like your ethnomusicology less with the pan flutes and more with the non-Western modalities, the San Francisco World Music Festival is presenting a number of innovative programs for
