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Festivals. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2024: Fans embrace community on S.F. festival’s opening day. By Zara Irshad. Datebook is the San Francisco Chronicle’s guide to arts & entertainment in the Bay Area, combining award-winning news with a curated events calendar.
Cary Grant’s daughter to bring ‘Archie’ to San Francisco
Jan 11, 2024 · Jennifer Grant is the daughter of Cary Grant and Dyan Cannon. Photo: Andrzej Lawnik. Jennifer Grant and her mother, actress Dyan Cannon, are the executive producers of “Archie,” a new four-part miniseries about Cary Grant’s life, including his brief, rocky marriage to Cannon, now streaming on BritBox. The show was adapted from Cannon’s ...
Robert Graysmith wrote the definitive Zodiac Killer book. He …
Sep 20, 2021 · Robert Graysmith, a former Chronicle illustrator, in 2012. Photo: Russell Yip / The Chronicle. For a fairly famous guy, author Robert Graysmith doesn’t get out much.
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Review: S.F. Symphony gets the new year off to a ravishing musical ...
Jan 12, 2023 · San Francisco Symphony: 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Jan. 13-14. $40-$170. Davies Symphony Hall, 201 Van Ness Ave., S.F. 415-864-6000. www.sfsymphony.org. Joshua Kosman Joshua Kosman is The San Francisco Chronicle’s music critic. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @JoshuaKosman. A dynamic conducting debut, a gorgeous world premiere, the ...
This exhibition aims to prove ‘San Francisco does, and has
Jul 17, 2023 · More recent gifts include garments by John Galliano, owned by philanthropist Dodie Rosekrans, one of the earliest supporters of the British designer, and experimental Japanese designers like Junya Watanabe, owned by art collector Norah Stone.. But Camerlengo calls the 2018 gift of more than 500 ensembles by Christine Suppes, Palo Alto collector and author of “California Elegance: Portraits ...
Former Journey guitarist and founding member dies at 76
Jul 5, 2023 · Photo: Gems/Redferns. George Tickner, a founding member of the platinum-selling San Francisco rock band Journey, has died at 76, according to guitarist Neal Schon. “You will be missed immensely,” Schon wrote in a Facebook post on Tuesday, July 4. “Thank you for your incomparable contributions to Journey’s early years.”.
Exclusive: 'Ramses the Great' is coming to S.F. for the ... - Datebook
Jun 6, 2022 · “ ‘Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs’ reveals the power and splendor of ancient Egypt, and expands on the history conveyed within our own ancient art collections,” FAMSF Director and CEO Thomas P. Campbell said in a statement.
What to expect in the S.F. Opera’s centennial season
Aug 31, 2022 · COVID-19 played havoc with last year’s opening schedule, leading the company to open in August with Puccini’s “Tosca” and follow it in September with a “Homecoming” concert. This year, “The Centennial Celebration,” conducted by Music Director Eun Sun Kim, is expected to feature appearances by soprano Nadine Sierra, tenors ...
A timeline of San Francisco Symphony music directors
Jan 9, 2019 · Henry Hadley, first San Francisco Symphony music director. Photo: Chronicle / file photo. Henry Hadley (1911–1915) The orchestra’s inaugural music director was an American — a rarity among prominent conductors then as now — and best known as a prolific composer. The orchestra played some of his five symphonies, and he …