Arts & Entertainment The Snow Will Go On: ‘Nutcracker’ Saved as SF Ballet Dancers’ Union Reaches Last-Minute Deal to Avert Strike The San Francisco Ballet’s 'The Nutcracker' will indeed premiere Friday night, as the ballet dancers’ union and the SF Ballet have struck an eleventh-hour labor deal to ensure the Sugar Plum Fairy will be dancing.
Arts & Entertainment No ‘Nutcracker’ This Year? SF Ballet Labor Dispute Threatens Beloved Annual Show San Francisco Ballet dancers say they're paid at levels below SF's low-income threshold, and they’re threatening to go on strike on the opening day of their popular annual production ‘The Nutcracker.’
Arts & Entertainment SF Ballet Receives Anonymously Donated $60 Million Gift, Largest In Organization's History The majority of the gift will go to SF Ballet's endowment, which helps fund new shows, a major priority for new artistic director Tamara Rojo.
Arts & Entertainment <em>NYT</em> Gives Mixed Review to SF Ballet's "Jewels" Alastair Macaulay, writing for The New York Times, gave a rather stilted and mixed review of the San Francisco Ballet's current staging of Balanchine's "Jewels," honoring several of the dancers but getting fussy
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Winged Migration (Le peuple migrateur): Birds! We tend to think nothing of them here in the Bay Area - well, as far as the homely and picked upon poor pigeon goes -
Arts & Entertainment Boost Your IQ In our quest to make you smarter without listening to Yanni, we suggest you consider the Mid-Summer Mozart Festival. It’s wall-to-wall Mozart, and it starts tonight in San Jose, tomorrow at the
SF News Swells By The Numbers Number of people pictured whom we recognize: 2 -- Charlotte Maillard Shultz and a way-too-skinny-looking Vanessa Getty. Minority count: 6 (10.9%). Getty v. Traina: 1-7. Big ups to C.Big for the
SF News SF Ballet Gala By The Numbers Hip, hip, HOORAY! Hip, hip, HOORAY! Catherine Bigelow, the Chron society columnist, is back from vacation, and here with a special report on Wednesday night's SF Ballet Opening Gala! Number of people pictured:
Arts & Entertainment At The Ballet The evening started out at a gala Spanish-themed reception at City Hall and the Chron breathlessly reports that "[t]his was the most dressed-up Ballet gala in history. If the ladies pulled out
Arts & Entertainment Things To Do In San Francisco When Your Shvitzing Over the Holidays Okay, so the family is coming for the holidays and you don't know what to do other than the Wharf and any place that doesn't involve getting solicited for spare change every ten
Arts & Entertainment Wednesdays, The New Wednesdays Wednesday, please pack your knives and go. Tonight: We're keeping it bipartisan for once! You can stop by the Democratic County Central Committee monthly meeting at the State Building at 455 Golden Gate
