The SF Opera’s free simulcast at AT&T park couldn’t have been on a more perfect night. As the opera ended near 11pm, it was still tank top weather! According to the Examiner, there were about 23,000 people there.
Here are some pix:
It’s going to be another warm night, so why not pack a blanket and picnic and head down the AT&T Park, tonight at 8pm!
The San Francisco will be showing a live simulcast of
Lucia di Lammermoor
…and it is FREE!
The park asks that you bring a blanket, if you intend to sit on the baseball field.
The simulcast will be projected in high definition on the park’s 3,200 square foot score board.
For advanced registration and more information;
Check out The San Francisco Opera’s Webpage
… and enjoy the weather tonight!
The new and improved Warfield Theatre at 982 Market street will be reopened and filling it’s seats soon!!
The Warfield has been a popular venue since the 1920s. It was featured in the music DVD, Slayer: War at the Warfield, filmed on December 7th, 2001.
The auditorium’s last show before closing was Phil Lesh, but Ticketmaster.com now has a list of shows ready to go on sale June 22nd, 2008 for September and October dates. Here’s a few:
ON SALE Sun, 06/22/08 10:00 AM
Sat, 09/20/08
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Fri, 09/26/08
Rancid
Sat, 09/27/08
Rancid
(on sale in September:)
Sun, 12/21/08
Brian Setzer Orchestra
[Image via SFgate.com.]
Through June 1st, the good old Curran Theater is presenting a Bollywood-inflected version of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” which has been translated into a mixture of seven Indian languages, plus English. Created in 2005 in India and later performed at Stratford-upon-Avon (and across the UK), the show includes, at a minimum, the following:
So what’s not to like? Here’s the Examiner review that originally clued me in. And here’s the SFGate.com review, where I got that picture. Even more information is available here, where you can also buy advance tickets. Finally, here’s the official website of the show.
Performances are at 8:00 PM Thursday through Sunday. There are also two matinee performances remaining at 2:00 PM on Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are $35-$80.
Free screening– with donations going to Genocide Intervention Network (GI Net)– of Don Cheadle’s Darfur Now, at Berkeley next Thursday. More info here. Great line-up: Gaopele & Zion-I, and Berkeley college kids getting in an uproar about something that matters… Until we get an East Bay Metblogs, I guess this’ll have to do! Definitely a reason to BART over.
I’m on my way out the door to catch Sugar Pie DeSanto at Yoshi’s on Fillmore. I’ll be the guy with the front row table on the right hand side of the stage hootin & hollerin’…
For those unfamiliar with Sugar Pie, she’s a local treasure who was raised on Buchanan street, as well as Etta James cousin and an R&B recording artist since 1955 when she got her start on Federal Records courtesy Mr. Johnny Otis.
Back in the day she recorded tracks with her cousin Etta and Willie Dixon that were hits on the Chess & Checker labels, and she’s still going strong today with her latest CD “Refined Sugar” (found on iTunes).
I caught her last year at the San Francisco Blues Festival where she stole the set she shared with the aged Jimmy McCracklin’. I was impressed with this diminutive lady’s feisty persona, with her seasoned & saucy sense of fun and frivolity.
Ant Marshall, who helped bring worldwide attention to the Hip Hop poetry scene via NYC’s Lyricist Lounge events has relocated to the Yay Area and is now promoting Ear Hustle in the Lower Haight at Nickie’s.
This Tuesday’s event will highlight the contributions of the local ABB Records label whose signings have included the North Kakalaky based hitmakers Little Brother, as well as locals like Planet Asia and Martin Luther.
They’ll also be showing some highlight reels of the recent JAM awards shot for Current TV featuring hip hop industry luminaries like Snoop Dogg, Raekwon, Dead Prez, etc
More Info and some ABB artist mp3 trax after the jump…
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Last year, the Orpheum was abuzz as a certain late night Tv host brought his shtick to town for a solid week of shows. Currently the writers strike has been sapping the comedy out of late night television, it was nice to note that David Letterman’s “Worldwide Pants” outfit did their own deal with the writers to get ‘em back doing what they do best.
I refuse in my couch potato moments to watch any scab t.v, and hope you’ll do the same…
Which is why I whole heartedly recommend y’all tune in to Mr. Letterman’s program this week while the competitors languish in their writer-less arrogance. In fact to sweeten the pot, on Wednesday January 9th, Letterman has one of SF’s lesser known entertainment assets on hand as a musical guest, that being the mighty guitarzan Chuck Prophet.
He started somewhere outside of Danville with a teenage rapscallion act known as Bad Attitude, who were fixtures at joints like The Berkeley Square and Ruthies Inn.
Somehow, after a lot of broken strings and hearts and contracts, he made his roundabout way to the Ed Sullivan theater, only 45 or so years behind the Beatles & The Stones…
More on this momentous occasion in tv history after the bumpy thang…
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This morning on KALW’s Artery program — the weekly arts segment that plays at the end of “Morning Edition” every Thursday at about 8:51 a.m. — reporter Nathaniel Johnson had a lovely story about the presentation of the Fauré Requiem at Grace Cathedral this Sunday.
You can listen to Johnson’s radio piece here.
The piece called attention to the suitability of the Requiem — a choral and orchestral setting of the Christian funeral mass, a project which most major composers tackle sooner or later — being sung on Nov. 11, Veteran’s Day, in a time of war. Alan Jones, the Dean of the cathedral, had some things to say about how funerals ask us to look at death instead of just ignoring that inevitability, and how it’s particularly necessary to do so when our country is involved in a war.
Please note that the Fauré Requiem will be performed not as a concert but as part of the regular Sunday morning service at 11:00 a.m. You can also listen to a live webcast.
Pictured: Composer Gabriel Fauré
Enrico’s at 504 Broadway will be packed this Sunday afternoon as it’s hosting a “wake” in honor of namesake Enrico Banducci . The neighborhood will no doubt turn out in droves to celebrate the amazing & colorful life of grand showman Enrico with his family and friends. The event is scheduled this Sunday Oct 28Th @ 1pm and open to general public with an open mic forum.
Banducci passed away on October 9th, but leaves behind an iconic entrepreneurial legacy that includes not only his namesake Broadway cafe but also the Clown Alley hamburger stand, and most famously the hungry i nightclub. This intimate venue, refused to serve drinks during the entertainers sets, and helped launch the careers of The Kingston Trio, Lenny Bruce, Bob Newhart, Mort Sahl, Dick Gregory, Jonathan Winters, Maya Angelou, Woody Allen, Prof Irwin Corey, Jonathan Winters, and even Barbra Streisand. He fed the talent his famous free sandwiches, and nurtured free speech and art in a very conservative era.
Banducci , who might have had more wives than real business sense eventually lost too much money running his most famous venture, and an era ended when he sold the Hungry i name off by 1970 to topless club king Sam Conti who used the name as a strip club at 546 Broadway.
More on Enrico’s enduring legacy after the jump
