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“Wicked” continues to bewitch audiences across the country, having left San Francisco this past weekend for the next stop on its national tour. “Wicked” kickstarted Broadway SF’s 2024-2025 season, with the musical’s popularity continuing to soar. “The musical is certainly one of the most popular musicals...

Due to overwhelmingly popular demand, The Marsh San Francisco has extended Dan Hoyle’s latest work, Takes All Kinds, now running through December 13, 2024. Directed by Aldo Billingslea and developed with Charlie Varon and Michael Moran, Takes All Kinds has been playing to packed houses and standing ovations, receiving high praise from audiences and critics.

Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. Misha Semënov-Leiva and Ethan Blake, founders of a sukkah-building competition in Berkeley, don’t remember much about celebrating Sukkot as children. It wasn’t until they were adults that the holiday became important to them. Now they are using their combined scholarship in architecture, urbanism and design to express what makes it so meaningful.

Ymilul Bates’ son went to jail in Richmond, California, at age 19. During her first visit, she wonders if the gruff corrections officers can see him the way she does: as a gentle, well-loved young man who made a mistake. This essay, animated by Paige Money and voiced by...

Returning Oakland, CA deathcore group All Shall Perish‘s first Californian show in 13 years will now take place a day earlier than expected. The group have newly announced a second date at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco, CA, which precedes their already sold out January 04th show at the same venue.

Music City San Francisco Epicenter is opening this weekend, bringing new opportunities for musicians and creatives. Learn how this new hub will impact local and national music scenes. Music City San Francisco Epicenter and Artist Accelerator opens. by Stacy Simons Santos via Celebrity Access. Rudy Colombini’s Music City San Francisco...

Earlier this year Bay Area thrash metal giants Testament announced a co-headlining tour with Kreator and Possessed, billed as the Klash of the Titans tour. The tour kicked off on September 12th, and has seen the bands play 23 dates thus far. Everything wraps up on October 27th at the historic Warfield Theater in San Francisco, but there are still seven shows before, and tickets are still available. It is definitely a package not to be missed, so make sure to check it out when it rolls through your town!

After years of delay, construction has finally begun on a new yoga studio at 227 Church Street (at Market), formerly Aardvark Books. It was back in 2019 when Hoodline first reported that a new yoga studio was planned at the former bookshop. Aardvark Books was forced to close in January...

The Golden Gate Symphony Orchestra and Chorus proudly presents the world premiere of “Elijah’s Call: An Oratorio for an Abolitionist” on Sunday, Nov. 3, at 2 p.m., at the Palace of Fine Arts. Composed by the Bay Area’s Allison Lovejoy, the piece honors Elijah Parrish Lovejoy, a preacher and anti-slavery martyr.

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Black Kite Cellars, a family-run winery, specializing in block-designated Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Founded by Donald and Maureen Green in 2003, Black Kite is named for the beautiful but endangered Black Shouldered Kite that is native to the Anderson Valley. Jeff Gaffner of Saxon Brown is the consulting winemaker. Kite’s...

Dianne de Guzman is a deputy editor at Eater SF writing about Bay Area restaurant and bar trends, upcoming openings, and pop-ups. Napa Valley is already home to 17 American Viticultural Areas (AVAs), and now a new one has been added to the mix, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Crystal Springs is now an official AVA approved by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau; the proposed area had been working its way through the system for four years before gaining its status this month. It’s been 13 years since Napa Valley gained a sub-region for wine, the paper reports, but the Crystal Springs designation has long been a project for Steve Burgess, formerly of Burgess Cellars, who’s worked on the proposal since 2005. The new approval will allow the Crystal Springs region to label their bottles as such, rather than falling under the vague Napa Valley AVA distinction or neighboring Howell Mountain AVA.

Sweetwater Music Hall is thrilled to announce a special two-night Halloween event featuring the renowned jam band Spafford. The performances will take place on Wednesday, October 30, and Thursday, October 31, 2024, starting at 8:00 PM. This all-ages event promises an unforgettable experience filled with the astonishing improvisations and extended jams that Spafford is famous for.

Art for a turbulent era: At a time when it’s hard not to focus on the tension, strife, controversy and bad mojo swirling around, here’s an exhibit illustrating how the key to serenity lies within each of us. “Sentinels & Saviors: Iconic Avatars,” on display at the Richmond Art Center, features work by Oakland-based artists Joell Jones and Kim Thoman, who encourage viewers to “pay closer attention to themselves, their thoughts and their feelings.” Jones, who works with a variety of media, shows paintings here. Her colorful, abstract and ethereal works of various sizes represent different facets of herself as she invites viewers to visit the “unknown world” in which her images take life. “I have painted a woman engaged in a struggle for transformation and my paintings portray her as a fluid, shape-shifting creature adrift in liminal environments,” Jones says. Thoman’s large, steel figures, in a sense, stand guard over Jones’ works, each with an oil painting on canvas at its center. He compares his works to Chinese Terracotta Warriors designed to offer protection in the afterlife. “When I was recovering from a serious illness, I decided I’d like an army of bodyguards for protection in this life,” he says. “Sentinels & Saviors” is on display through Nov. 21 at the Art Center, 2540 Barrett Ave., in Richmond’s Civic Center Plaza. The Center is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays. On tap this Saturday from noon to 3 p.m. is “Make Your Own Avitar at Fall Family Day” led by Jones and Thoman. Admission is free. More information is at richmondartcenter.org.

Dianne de Guzman is a deputy editor at Eater SF writing about Bay Area restaurant and bar trends, upcoming openings, and pop-ups. Diwali, or the Festival of Lights, begins on Tuesday, October 29, and runs for five days, and with it comes the opportunity for Hindus, Sikhs, and Jains — all of us really! — to gather over a meal to mark the occasion. Also known as Deepavali, it’s a moment to reflect on the meaning of the holiday, which celebrates the victory of light over darkness. Four San Francisco restaurants have planned special meals for diners, including a dinner highlighting an Indian, woman-owned winery, as well as both traditional and modern takes on Indian cuisine.

When it comes to the world of music, few musicians have had the kind of career that Akiko Yano has had, both domestically and abroad. Gaining overnight success after the release of her debut album Japanese Girl in her home country of Japan, she would go on to collaborate with electronic pioneers Yellow Magic Orchestra while fostering her own rapidly expanding solo career that has seen her release thirty albums so far. Her show at the Great American Music Hall was her first time playing in San Francisco in over a decade, and you could tell that the audience was made up of lifelong fans, as well as individuals who clearly had become fans since the French record label Wewantsounds began recently reissuing her back catalogue.

It’s difficult to suppress a dazed smile as the elevators open on the seventh floor of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The sensory bombardment is immediate: speakers play the sounds of a cheering crowd; split-flap displays clatter above; a giant image of 1985 Bay to Breakers runners surrounds an arched entryway; and white stripes peel off in different directions across the gallery’s wood floor.

Hailing from East Oakland, legendary comedian Luenell continues to blaze trails for women in comedy, selling out shows nationwide. In addition to her hit Netflix special, she recently made history as the only Black female comedian to secure a residency in Las Vegas. Luenell also fulfilled a lifelong dream by headlining at the iconic Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York.

SAN FRANCISCO, Are you ready for The Sparklemuffin Tour? Suki Waterhouse recently released her 18 track double album, Memoir of a Sparklemuffin and it has quickly garnered high praise. Suki brings to life emotions and experiences with captivating melodies and storytelling songs. Check out her song, Supersad:. The Sparklemuffin tour...

American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) announced the cast and creative team for the world premiere of A Whynot Christmas Carol, a brand-new take on Charles Dickens’s timeless story of redemption, taking place Tuesday, November 26 through Sunday, December 24 at A.C.T.’s Toni Rembe Theater (415 Geary St., San Francisco). Press night will be held on Sunday, December 8 at 6:30 p.m. Single tickets (ranging from $25–$130) will go on sale on August 15 at 10 a.m. PT at the A.C.T. Box Office at 415-749-2228 or online at act-sf.org/a-whynot-christmas-carol. Ticket prices are subject to change without notice.