Datebook | San Francisco Arts & Entertainment Guide
WEBBottleRock Napa Valley sexual assault convict’s appeal for reduced sentence denied. By Aidin Vaziri. Patti Smith leads San Francisco’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2024 lineup. Datebook is the San Francisco Chronicle’s guide to arts & entertainment in the Bay Area, combining award-winning news with a curated events calendar.
Review: Tiny Tim documentary lifts curtain on misunderstood singer
WEBApr 21, 2021 · Directed by Johan von Sydow. (Not rated. 78 minutes.) Showing Friday-Sunday, April 23-25, and April 30-May 2, at the Smith Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St., in San Rafael. The film will also be available to stream via on May 21, and video on demand Aug. 6. 'King for a Day' makes it clear: There was never anything like Tim, whose '60s …
Datebook | San Francisco Books News & Events
WEBDatebook is the San Francisco Chronicle’s guide to Books in the Bay Area, combining award-winning news coverage with a curated events calendar.
The stories behind 3 iconic Dorothea Lange photographs
WEBAug 12, 2020 · The Oakland Museum of California recently digitized the personal archive of documentary photographer Dorothea Lange, which the East Bay institution has had since her death in 1965, to share with the public for the first time online at dorothealange.museumca.org.. Best known for her work during the Great Depression …
SF treasure ‘Beach Blanket Babylon’ to close after 45 years
WEBApr 17, 2019 · Club Fugazi, 678 Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd., S.F. 415-421-4222. www.beachblanketbabylon.com. Follow: Lily Janiak Lily Janiak is The San Francisco Chronicle’s theater critic. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @LilyJaniak. For 45 years, the team at 'Beach Blanket Babylon' has donned enormous hats and skewered politics….
Cary Grant’s daughter to bring ‘Archie’ to San Francisco
WEBJan 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 …
Review: ‘The Glass Hotel’ offers tales with no endings - Datebook
WEBApr 8, 2020 · “The Glass Hotel” by Emily St. John Mandel Photo: Knopf “The Glass Hotel,” Emily St. John Mandel’s masterful fifth novel, starts in motion. A woman named Vincent plummets into the ocean, her fall evoked in a cascade of cinematic flashes. Each of these sections ends with a dash or a question mark — the ghost of an answer, of the cutoff …
Review: ‘Bandit Queens’ provides promising premise ... - Datebook
WEBDec 29, 2022 · Review: ‘Bandit Queens’ provides promising premise, unsatisfying payoff. Parini Shroff is the author of “The Bandit Queens.”. Photo: Devin Spratt. “Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher” goes the ancient proverb. The less you reveal, the more people will want to know. Geeta, a young Indian woman who her neighbors ...
San Francisco Pride Parade 2022: What to know about city’s
WEBJun 1, 2022 · The San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Celebration — its official name — is a festival and parade that has taken place every year in the city for five decades. The June event is a rainbow-colored valentine to the LGBTQ community and its allies. LGBTQ Pride 2022 events from S.F. Bay Area arts organizations.
Diego Rivera mural finally gets big debut, 80 years later
WEBJun 22, 2021 · On Monday, June 28, the 1,600-square-foot panoramic work will be unveiled and hang for three years in the free Roberts Family Gallery on the ground floor gallery at the museum’s Howard Street entrance. “The Diego Rivera mural was probably the most stellar artwork created at the World War II-era exposition held on Treasure Island,” said Anne …