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Ode to Jane, performed this past and upcoming weekend at the Tenderloin Museum, is a. stunning and deeply evocative exploration of autonomy, resistance, and solidarity. Created by. Jo Kreiter and Flyaway Productions, the performance is free to the public and unfolds on the. façade of the Cadillac Hotel above the...

You’re beholding Good Taste, a menu for treating yourself in the Bay Area. This week, we present a discerning index for approaching our bottomless boba scene. There’s no refined sugar, gluten, or animal products used in the tea and coffee drinks at Aura (101 Spear Street, SF), which are sweetened with sugarcane-derived jaggery. Customers can stay in familiar territory with matchas and mochas, or try something different like banana milk or housemade almond milk flavored with saffron and cardamom.

*Featured Cover Photo Credit: Scott Hutchinson / Portola Music Festival. On the weekend of Sept. 27-28, the Portola Music Festival at Pier 80 in San Francisco once again electrified fans, just like it did in 2022 and 2023. Fans get to experience plenty of world-class Techno, House, Electro-Rock, Drum-n-Bass, and more during those two days and the warm yet breezy weather made it all better. The festival, of course, occurred before the heat wave that is currently affecting most of the Bay Area at this moment.

On the evening of Aug. 18, media and film studies Professor Xandra Castleton took her screenwriting class to attend a film screening in an elegant, dimly lit theater at the The Letterman Digital Arts Center in the Presidio. After it won the 2024 SF Honors award, Director Azazel Jacobs’ latest feature film “His Three Daughters” was screened by SF Film along with a live Q&A panel with the director and actors Elizabeth Olsen and Jovan Adepo.

Chelsea Wolfe has had one hell of a 2024 thus far. Wolfe released her new record She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She earlier this year, followed by a six-track remix EP called Undone this August. Now Wolfe is poised to close the year out with a handful of intimate shows this December with Enhancement.

Feldman Architecture transformed a San Francisco building into a modern, light-filled workspace for Seven Hills, focusing on enhancing the historic façade, adding a double-height atrium, and incorporating elegant design elements. A property investment firm approached Feldman Architecture to reimagine the first floor of a charming, quintessentially San Francisco building...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Portola Art Gallery celebrates the opening of its October exhibit, “Meraki,” featuring works by ceramics artist Misako Kambe. The show highlights a variety of wood-fired, soda-fired ceramics and high-fired tableware. An opening reception takes place Oct. 5, from 1 to 4 p.m.

Bay Area filmmaker and journalist Ankita M. Kumar’s documentary film Far From Home won the Best Documentary award at the Chicago South Asian Film Festival held in September. The film, which tells the story of Afghan refugees in India, was adjudged the best among 73 documentary films showcased during the festival.

Audium Theater, a pioneering venue for sound art and experimental music, has been captivating audiences in San Francisco for over five decades. This unique theater offers an immersive sound experience through its innovative use of technology and space. In This Article. Key Points. Audium Theater is a unique sound-sculptured space...

Bundled up from dealing with the fog and cold of a brisk September morning, on Sept. 14, museum goers crowded inside the galleries of the Legion of Honor to kick off Hispanic Heritage Month with a “Celebration of Bay Area Latine Composers.”. Open to the public as part of...

Tongo Eisen-Martin was born in San Francisco and earned his MA at Columbia University. He is the author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press, 2015), nominated for a California Book Award; and Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights, 2017), which received a 2018 American Book Award, a 2018 California Book Award, was named a 2018 National California Booksellers Association Poetry Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the 2018 Griffin International Poetry Prize. His second book of poetry "Blood on the Fog" was published by City Lights Books in 2021. He served as the 8th Poet Laureate of San Francisco.

This week our Classical Californian is Bay Area conductor Ming Luke, who is the Principal Guest Conductor of San Francisco Ballet, Music Director of the Berkeley Community Chorus and Orchestra, and has conducted many ensembles including the San Francisco and Berkeley Symphonies, in addition to being the Music Director for the Nashville Ballet. He's selected some of his favorite examples of theme and variations in which composers have made surprising choices - including works for the full orchestra by Beethoven, Vincent D'Indy and Mason Bates, as well as a Bach-inspired piece for solo piano by Jennifer Higdon. Tune in Wednesday Night at 7!

Installation view of "Mary Cassatt at Work", Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 2024. Photograph by Gary Sexton. Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco opens Mary Cassatt at Work, a major loan exhibition focused on the great woman Impressionist. The exhibition presents Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) as a fiercely professional artist and an aesthetically radical painter, pastelist, and printmaker who helped shape the French Impressionist movement and transformed the course of modern art. Cassatt produced images of “women’s work”—knitting and needlepoint, bathing children, nursing infants—that also testify to the work of the woman who made them: the marks of her brush, etching needle, pastel stick, and even fingertips. Juxtaposing paintings, pastels, and prints, Mary Cassatt at Work will explore the artist’s activity across media, revealing the daring, iterative methods she used to give form to her ideas. In addition to 93 objects on loan from institutions including the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the exhibition will present a group of distinguished works–including Cassatt’s magisterial oil portrait of her mother and recently acquired pastels–from the Fine Arts Museums’ collection. The first North American retrospective of Cassatt’s work in 25 years, this exhibition’s sole West Coast venue will be the Legion of Honor.

The evening began with a somber deep rumble from the basses and cellos. In the patiently probing movement that grew organically from those opening bars of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1, the San Francisco Symphony and soloist Sayaka Shoji set off on a remarkable journey. The map for...