Arts & Entertainment Caitlyn Jenner Reportedly Cancels Speaking Tour, Won't Be Coming To SF After All Remember last fall, when we told you Caitlyn Jenner would be speaking in San Francisco in February? Well, you might as well unremember, because it looks like her entire tour has been canceled.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Peek Inside The Renovated Herbst Theater, Reopening In September The Herbst Theater, a.k.a. the San Francisco War Memorial Veterans Building, which was originally built as a more utilitarian twin to the War Memorial Opera House next door, has been undergoing
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Opera House Prepares For <i>Game Of Thrones</i> Premiere We warned you last week that the Game of Thrones cast was descending on Civic Center tonight for the Season 5 red carpet premiere. The whole event will be streamed live on Facebook
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 MahTlerT In our haste on Tuesday, we forgot to mention that you could hear more MahTlerT (MTT and Mahler have become so imbricated that we had to create a shortcut) here (links to sound
Arts & Entertainment America's Next Opera Star To conclude the apprenticeship program’s 50th season, the Merola program gave its grand finale concert last Saturday at the War Memorial Opera House. The singers did not present a full fledged opera,
Arts & Entertainment Merola's Cenerentola Schwabacher sadly passed away in the middle of last year’s edition, but the new kids (mostly in their 20s), they are all right. His legacy is safe and secure. We saw last
SF News What Would Mike Brady Think? The types of buildings were listed in five categories: religious, residential, commercial, historic, and civic. To decide the winners, the AIA had a secret meeting in a dark tomb somewhere and drew lots
Arts & Entertainment Philistine: Il Matriomonio Segreto We saw James Schwabacher once, at his debut recital series, which he endowed in perpetuity, and where he introduced the singers. He was 86 yo, but still had the quick wit of a
Arts & Entertainment Philistine: Madame Butterfly As for the 3,000 inside, they were treated to a glorious show. Madame Butterfly is a crowd pleaser, as far as tragedies go, and this production came up with a recipe for
misc Philistine: To Catch a Free Butterfly Tomorrow, for the first opera of new director David Gockley's era, the SF Opera will experiment with a live broadcast of the performance playing inside the War Memorial Opera House, outside on the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: Norma Norma is the ultimate bel canto opera, this beautiful singing style which places the emphasis on the lyricism and vocal agility of the singer. It is also an extremely powerful story, and yesterday's