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SF Night out
High on laughs, literally and figuratively
- Comedian Doug Benson admits he’s a late bloomer of sorts, but we’re not talking puberty here.
- Comedian Doug Benson admits he’s a late bloomer of sorts, but we’re not talking puberty here.
Catch as catch can, without release
- Can a movie read minds in the audience? “Catch and Release” does.
Sonic experience a light in the dark
- Cliff Caruthers, co-curator of the San Francisco Tape Music Festival, will be the first to admit that unless there’s a seizure-inducing light show going on, electronic music rarely lends itself to a visually compelling experience for a concert-goer.
- Cliff Caruthers, co-curator of the San Francisco Tape Music Festival, will be the first to admit that unless there’s a seizure-inducing light show going on, electronic music rarely lends itself to a visually compelling experience for a concert-goer.
Skinny Puppy is back, making myths
- Nivek Ogre, dressed in ebony from his spiky hair down to his scuffed army boots, looks like the Grim Reaper — so threatening that he might rob the Hollywood café where he’s doing an interview to promote his new recording.
- Nivek Ogre, dressed in ebony from his spiky hair down to his scuffed army boots, looks like the Grim Reaper — so threatening that he might rob the Hollywood café where he’s doing an interview to promote his new recording.
Inner-city kids focus on creating art
- A small but important exhibit at SF Camerawork features works by photographers who are neither famous nor proficient, but whose earnestness and unique vision tell a bigger story.
- A small but important exhibit at SF Camerawork features works by photographers who are neither famous nor proficient, but whose earnestness and unique vision tell a bigger story.
Exhibit offers new view of Crumb’s comics
- On exhibit at Rena Bransten Gallery are nine small drawings on colored paper place mats by Robert Crumb. The modest presentation might seem insignificant if not for the notoriety Crumb has achieved by creating iconic figures such as Fritz the Cat, Mr. Natural, Devil Girl and the Keep on Truckin’ guys, and at the request of Janis Joplin, the album cover art for Big Brother and the Holding Company’s “Cheap Thrills” — images that defined counter-cultural aesthetics and values of the 1960s and early 1970s.
Dance giants vie for attention
- Dance lovers, you are in luck. Double luck even, because next weekend you can experience simultaneous dance premieres by two international giants, Trisha Brown Dance Company and Richard Alston Dance Company.
- Dance lovers, you are in luck. Double luck even, because next weekend you can experience simultaneous dance premieres by two international giants, Trisha Brown Dance Company and Richard Alston Dance Company.
Wesla’s back at the Plush Room
- Singer Wesla Whitfield always likes returning to San Francisco’s Plush Room.
Run away with the circus, Bohemian-style
- Is it the heavy makeup? The bright red bulbous honker? Or, perhaps, the untamed fro that gives you the willies? Whatever it is, if clowns induce cringing, it’s high time to face that coulrophobia head-on with some immersion therapy.
- Is it the heavy makeup? The bright red bulbous honker? Or, perhaps, the untamed fro that gives you the willies? Whatever it is, if clowns induce cringing, it’s high time to face that coulrophobia head-on with some immersion therapy.
Come to the cabaret
- German singer and actress Ute Lemper performs a concert recalling the dark, decadent cabarets of prewar Berlin and the bustling backstreets of Paris.
- German singer and actress Ute Lemper performs a concert recalling the dark, decadent cabarets of prewar Berlin and the bustling backstreets of Paris.
From sunny morning until moody night
- When he issued his bubbly, brilliant debut, “Musicforthemorningafter,” in 2001, folk-pop singer Pete Yorn wasn’t planning to pen a triumvirate of discs. But looking back on ’03’s “Day I Forgot” and the somber new “Nightcrawler,” the singer likens his morning to day to night progression to that of a carefree child maturing into a rational, thoughtful adult.
- When he issued his bubbly, brilliant debut, “Musicforthemorningafter,” in 2001, folk-pop singer Pete Yorn wasn’t planning to pen a triumvirate of discs. But looking back on ’03’s “Day I Forgot” and the somber new “Nightcrawler,” the singer likens his morning to day to night progression to that of a carefree child maturing into a rational, thoughtful adult.
Cool dance season preview at S.F. State
- Although the dance season has not officially begun yet, you can get an early taste of what’s coming up on Wednesday night, when 10 Bay Area dance artists and companies descend on San Francisco State to perform at “Destination: Dance SF.”
Lang Lang’s extreme pianism
- At his next San Francisco concert Tuesday, Lang Lang will perform in the 2,750-seat Davies Hall, rather than in his usual venue, the 900-seat Herbst Theater — clearly indicating his ever-rising popularity. It was in Herbst where I first heard Lang Lang, at his second San Francisco Performances appearance, but the memory is still alive, five years later, in minute detail.
- At his next San Francisco concert Tuesday, Lang Lang will perform in the 2,750-seat Davies Hall, rather than in his usual venue, the 900-seat Herbst Theater — clearly indicating his ever-rising popularity. It was in Herbst where I first heard Lang Lang, at his second San Francisco Performances appearance, but the memory is still alive, five years later, in minute detail.
