Eth-Noh-Tec presents "Ghouls and Ghosts" for Halloween (events » arts) Saturday, October 27, 2007 - 7:30 PM Celebrate Halloween this year with Eth-Noh- tec! Nancy Wang and Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo of Eth-Noh-Tec present their 10th Annual Ghouls and Ghosts concert at the Randall Museum with special guest Alton Chung with scary stories from the Hawaiian islands. Once again it's that time of fear! Come if you dare! Listen, beware! Come chill your bones! It's a scream come true!! Ghost tales from East to West, ancient and new.

Friday, October 27 at 7:30pm
Randall Museum
199 Museum Way, San Francisco
Tickets: $15. (415) 282-8705

Celebrating its 25th year of performing together, Eth-Noh-Tec presents cultural workshops, storytelling programs and original plays. They have recorded four videos, 3 DVDs, two CDs of Asian folk tales, and are in the process of creating children’s books. Their repertory of more than 100 tales for the young and old bear titles such as “Asian Treasure Bag”, “Asia FantAsia,” “Kids Love Kulintang”, “Bamboo Jamboo”, and “Japanese Jamboree.” Eth-Noh-Tec has also created a number of contemporary, moving works and experiences such as their “In Need of Goddesses” and the acclaimed and controversial tale of a still-living Bay Area Hiroshima survivor’s journey to forgiveness, “Takashi’s Dream”.

For more information visit www.ethnohtec.org

Gay Games celebrates 25th Anniversary with Community Day (events » community) Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 12:00 PM On the afternoon following the Gay Games 25th Anniversary Legacy Dinner, the Federation of Gay games will join with Team San Francisco to host a Gay Games Community Day to thank the people of San Francisco and, indeed, the world, for their support of the Gay Games and to recognize the significant contribution that this city has played in the life of the organization.

The Community Day is a free event and open to everyone. This event will kick off at Noon at the Eureka Valley Recreational Center and Collingwood Park located in the heart of the Castro. Families, kids, even dogs are invited to join us for this fun casual time.

Member clubs from Team San Francisco will offer demonstrations and scrimmages, so come dressed ready to play! We will have a great picnic offered throughout the afternoon, so don’t worry about brunch.

All proceeds from the picnic will be donated to the Athletes Assistance Fund of Team San Francisco that helps provide scholarship support to members traveling to the Gay Games. And speaking of Gay Games….. representatives from Games Cologne, our hosts for the 2010 Gay Games and Cultural Festival will be on hand to offer you a first look at registration, venues, etc. It will be here sooner than you think!

Finally, we will end the day at around 3:30 PM with a very special surprise. You won’t want to miss this... we’ll leave it at that for now!

For more information visit www.gaygames.org

No Party in the Castro this Halloween -- stay Home for Halloween!! (events » community) Wednesday, October 31, 2007 - 8:00 PM TRIBE Groups Posts (www.tribe.net)

LA Law stars Jill Eikenberry & Michael Tucker Return Home! Open Bay Area Cabaret season 11/11 (events » live music) Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 7:00 PM What’s not to love? On November 11, Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker (www.tuckerberry.com) return to the Bay Area,, their former home, to kick-off the new season for Bay Area Cabaret (www.bayareacabaret.org). The beloved pair, known for their theatre and film work as well as for their iconic roles on TV’s LA Law¸ will present the West Coast Premiere of their acclaimed cabaret act, "Life is a Duet" (Sunday, November 11, 7 pm: Florence Gould Theatre, Legion of Honor, Lincoln Park, San Francisco).

In real life, the Tuckerberrys remain as in love today as the day they first met. Life is a Duet is an entertaining evening of songs, stories, film clips — and even a cooking segment — depicting the pair’s 35-year marriage, its highs and lows. Few relationships can survive the challenges posed by dual careers, life-threatening health issues, raising kids and moving around the country and finally abroad. In this show, the couple shares the secrets of their enduring love.

Jill Eikenberry has a long list of theater, film and television credits. She is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Ann Kelsey on NBC’s long-running hit series "LA Law", which earned Jill four Emmy nominations, two Golden Globe nominations and a Golden Globe Award. She reprised her role on "L.A. Law - The Movie" on NBC. After Barnard College in New York and Yale Drama School in New Haven, Jill began an extensive theater career on and off Broadway, starring in Michael Weller’s "Moonchildren"; "The Beggars Opera;" "All Over Town" directed by Dustin Hoffman; "Save Grand Central" by famed cartoonist, William Hamilton"; Summer Brave" with Alexis Smith; Wendy Wasserstein’s "Uncommon Women and Others, " in which she also appeared opposite Meryl Streep in the PBS-TV version; Tennessee Williams’ "The Eccentricities of a Nightingale," "Watch on the Rhine," and the Broadway musical, "Onward Victoria". For her performances in Lanford Wilson’s "Lemon Sky" and Richard Greenberg’s "Life Under Water" she was recognized with an Obie Award.

A veteran stage, film and television actor, Michael Tucker is perhaps best known for his role as Stuart Markowitz in the hit series, "L.A. Law". His 8-year stint on the popular NBC-TV drama brought him three Emmy nominations and two Golden Globe nominations. He reprised his role on LA Law -- The Movie, seen on NBC.

In the theater, Michael most recently starred in "Based on a Totally True Story" at Manhattan Theatre Club. His theater credits range from Regional to Broadway. After graduating from Carnegie Mellon’s famed drama department, he joined the company of the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven for a season, then spent three seasons at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater and two seasons at Arena Stage in Washington D.C. He made his Broadway debut with in "Moonchildren" and then went on to build an extensive list of stage credits. among them: "Modigliani", "The Rivals", "Mother Courage", "Oh What a Lovely War", "Trelawney of the Wells" with Meryl Streep and John Lithgow, Herb Gardner’s "The Goodbye People" and "I’m Not Rappaport" as well as principal roles in "The Merry Wives of Windsor", "Measure for Measure" and "The Comedy of Errors" for Joe Papp in Central Park.

Sunday, November 11, 2007 - 7 p.m.
Florence Gould Theatre, Legion of Honor, San Francisco
Tickets: Tickets: $45, www.bayareacabaret.org

Sausalito's ICB Artists Annual Winter Open Studios Nov. 30 – Dec. 2 (events » arts) Friday, November 30, 2007 - 5:00 PM With ICB Winter Open Studios’ taking place November 30 – December 2 (480 Gate Five Road, Sausalito), the more than 100 artists there will begin their 40th year as the official muses of the Bay Area, making the annual event the longest-running open-studio program of its kind in the region.

As always, the annual ICB Artists Winter Open Studios has no admission fee and is open to the public with ample free parking onsite. The weekend will start with a special reception on Friday, November 30, 6pm ‘til 9pm and continue with open studios Saturday and Sunday, December 1 and 2, 11am ‘til 6pm.

Because of its generous and flexible industrial style spaces, the ICB has become the creative and commercial home for more than 100 artists of all kinds including painters, sculptors, fabric artists, jewelers, photographers, multimedia producers, sound studios and much more.

For more information go to www.icbbuilding.com

November 30, 6pm ‘til 9pm
December 1 and 2, 11am ‘til 6pm.
480 Gate Five Road, Sausalito

Peninsula Symphony jazzes it up with Taylor Eigsti (events » live music) Friday, January 18, 2008 - 8:00 PM "Local & Live" Peninsula Symphony jazzes it up!
www.peninsulasymphony.org
January 18, 8pm, Fox Theatre, Redwood City
January 19, 8pm, Flint Center/DeAnza College, Cupertino

With the New Year upon us, new events are in store for the Peninsula Symphony. In January, Grammy-nominated jazz pianist-composer Taylor Eigsti will join the Symphony’s stages for the first time. Eigsti grew up on the Peninsula and has taken the jazz world by storm in his few years on the national and international scene. Peninsula Symphony performances are on January 18 & 19 at the Fox Theatre in Redwood City and the Flint Center in Cupertino. Tickets are $34 for General and $29 for Seniors/Students.

The Symphony will open the program with a jazzy overture by Malcolm Arnold - music from the film "The Roots of Heaven." Then, Eigsti will join the orchestra in a performance of George Gershwin's "I've Got Rhythm" Variations . Eigsti and his jazz group will then take the stage for a group of his own pieces (including several from the Grammy-nominated CD "Lucky to Be Me"). After intermission, the Symphony returns to play Gershwin's greatest hit, “An American in Paris.” Finally, the Symphony will premiere four new pieces that Eigsti has been working on.

The Peninsula Symphony is a 90 member community orchestra in its 59th season, making it one of the oldest, most established symphony orchestras in the Bay Area. Its members are professionally trained musicians, substantially all of whom volunteer their time to the Orchestra.

For tickets or more information visit www.peninsulasymphony.org or call (650) 941-5291.

Peninsula Symphony’s Chinese Spring Festival concert (events » arts) Friday, March 14, 2008 - 8:00 PM www.peninsulasymphony.org

March 14, 8pm, San Mateo Performing Arts Center
March 15, 8pm, Flint Center/DeAnza College, Cupertino

These concerts will concert will present a vibrant array of traditional Chinese works for voice and instrument and will feature two dynamic South Bay musical ensembles, the Firebird Youth Chinese Orchestra and Crystal Children’s Choir, plus several eminent Chinese soloists. The Peninsula Symphony highlights fascinating symphonic and choral music from China, as well as one of the greatest and most entertaining of the great masterworks, Stravinsky’s Firebird.

Also included in the evening’s selections is the Yellow River Concerto. This piece takes the listener on a journey through a boatman’s struggle against a violent storm in search of calm waters. The concert will culminate with the World Premiere of the celebrated Chinese-born composer, Gang Situ’s Leaving Bai-Di, based on a seventh century poem describing life along the Yangtze River.

For tickets or more information visit www.peninsulasymphony.org or call (650) 941-5291.

Paradise Found! San Francisco Concert Chorale April Concerts feature Hawai’i Vocal Arts Ensemble (events » arts) Friday, April 4, 2008 - 8:00 PM April 4 in Palo Alto; April 5 in San Francisco
www.sfconcertchorale.org

Think of it as just another concert in Paradise. Bringing heavenly sounds to earth with their ethereal music, the esteemed San Francisco Concert Chorale (www.sfconcertchorale.org ) continues its 35th anniversary season with two Bay Area concerts: Friday, April 4 at 7pm in Palo Alto (All Saint’s Episcopal Church, 555 Waverly Street) and Saturday, April 5 in San Francisco at 8pm (Mission Dolores Basilica, 16th & Dolores).

The centerpiece of the concerts will feature both the Chorale and the Ensemble joining forces in selections from the Frank Martin Mass for double choir in addition to selections from across the vast repertoire of choral music. Composers such as Byrd, Paulus, Durufle, and Bach will be highlighted in what promises to be an unforgettable evening of choral masterpieces and a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration.

Dedicated to introducing choral treasures, the Concert Chorale performs both favorites and less familiar works from throughout the choral repertoire. The group has presented the Bay Area premieres of Conrad Susa's oratorio The Wise Women, Antal Dorati's Pater Noster, and Robert Levin's completion of Mozart’s Requiem, the latter in collaboration with the Wyoming-based Cheyenne Chamber Singers. The Chorale is also noted for its inspiring and unique performances of Handel’s Messiah. Additional collaborations have included work with the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, the Kronos Quartet, the Bay Area Women's Philharmonic, the Golden Gate Boys' Choir, and the London Piano Duo.

Individual tickets for both Paradise Found concerts are $21 and may be purchased online at www.sfconcertchorale.org

Paradise Found! San Francisco Concert Chorale April Concerts feature Hawai’i Vocal Arts Ensemble (events » arts) Saturday, April 5, 2008 - 8:00 PM April 4 in Palo Alto; April 5 in San Francisco
www.sfconcertchorale.org

Think of it as just another concert in Paradise. Bringing heavenly sounds to earth with their ethereal music, the esteemed San Francisco Concert Chorale (www.sfconcertchorale.org ) continues its 35th anniversary season with two Bay Area concerts: Friday, April 4 at 7pm in Palo Alto (All Saint’s Episcopal Church, 555 Waverly Street) and Saturday, April 5 in San Francisco at 8pm (Mission Dolores Basilica, 16th & Dolores).

The centerpiece of the concerts will feature both the Chorale and the Ensemble joining forces in selections from the Frank Martin Mass for double choir in addition to selections from across the vast repertoire of choral music. Composers such as Byrd, Paulus, Durufle, and Bach will be highlighted in what promises to be an unforgettable evening of choral masterpieces and a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration.

Dedicated to introducing choral treasures, the Concert Chorale performs both favorites and less familiar works from throughout the choral repertoire. The group has presented the Bay Area premieres of Conrad Susa's oratorio The Wise Women, Antal Dorati's Pater Noster, and Robert Levin's completion of Mozart’s Requiem, the latter in collaboration with the Wyoming-based Cheyenne Chamber Singers. The Chorale is also noted for its inspiring and unique performances of Handel’s Messiah. Additional collaborations have included work with the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, the Kronos Quartet, the Bay Area Women's Philharmonic, the Golden Gate Boys' Choir, and the London Piano Duo.

Individual tickets for both Paradise Found concerts are $21 and may be purchased online at www.sfconcertchorale.org

Peninsula Symphony Presents “Jazz with Wesla Whitfield” (events » live music) Saturday, April 26, 2008 - 8:00 PM Local favorite and world renowned Wesla Whitfield’ will perform a selection of celebrated songs from the Great American Songbook, accompanied by the Mike Greensill Trio and more than 20 members of the Peninsula Symphony for an exciting musical evening at the Fox Theater in downtown Redwood City at 8pm this Saturday, April 26

The evening will include songs by Gershwin, Ellington, and Rogers and Hammerstein, with new arrangements by Mike Greensill. The Peninsula Symphony string orchestra, led by Maestro Mitchell Sardou Klein, the Peninsula Symphony French Horn Quartet (led by William Klingelhoffer), and the Mike Greensill Trio will accompany Wesla, promising a most entertaining and memorable event. .

The Peninsula Symphony, led by music director and conductor Mitchell Sardou Klein, is a 90 member community orchestra in its 59th season, making it one of the oldest, most established symphony orchestras in the Bay Area. Its members are professionally trained musicians, most of whom volunteer their time to the Orchestra. For tickets or more information visit www.peninsulasymphony.org or call (650) 941-5291.

Fox Theatre on Saturday, April 26 at 8pm.

Tickets are $34 for General Admission and $29 for Seniors/Students (www.peninsulasymphony.org).

This weekend is the annual ICB Spring Open Studios in Sausalito (events » arts) Saturday, May 3, 2008 - 11:00 AM Sausalito's ICB Artists Spring Open Studios sponsored by Marin Arts Council

Saturday & Sunday, May 3 & 4, 11am -- 6pm: Open Studios
Industrial Center Building, 480 Gate 5 Road, Sausalito, CA 94965

www.icbbuilding.com
PHONE:(415) 332-0730 -- ICB Office

More than 50 Northern California visual artists and artisans -- painters, sculptors, portrait specialists, muralists, textiles, weavers, printmakers, jewelers, photographers, multimedia producers -- come together for this eagerly anticipated event on the Bay Area arts calendar. Visitors take self-guided tour to artists' studio galleries and workshops. Original works of art are on display, for sale and by commission, directly from artists. The annual Sausalito ICB Artists Spring Open House is a unique viewing, education and purchase opportunity for art buyers, collectors, and local art enthusiasts. On view is a wide range of styles and subject matter with a variety of approaches from realist, traditional, experimental, fantasy, abstract, spiritualist, and expressionist.

The ICB is the largest and longest running, art studio building in Marin County and is acclaimed as the best open studio event in the Bay Area. For the 40th year, local artists transform their studios to galleries to show their original works. Studios are spread over three floors with wheelchair access and the ICB is ADA compliant. Additionally, the ICB Building has extensive free on-site parking.

San Francico Concert Chorale celebrates 35th Anniversary with Helmuth Rilling and "The Bach Experience" (events » arts) Saturday, May 10, 2008 - 1:00 PM www.sfconcertchorale.org

Saturday, May 10
1pm - 3pm: lecture demonstration led by Helmuth Rilling
3:30pm - 4pm: “mini performance” of the Credo from Bach’s B-Minor Mass
Trinity Church, 1668 Bush Street, San Francisco

Saturday, May 31, 8pm
performance of the Mass in B minor conducted by John Emory Bush
Mission Dolores Basilica, 16th & Dolores Streets

Prices for the “Bach Experience” are:
Lecture $60; Concert (preferred seating) $35; Lecture and Concert $85.
Tickets may be purchased online at www.sfconcertchorale.org.

The San Francisco Concert Chorale continues its 35th anniversary season with its “Bach Experience” featuring the great Helmuth Rilling, arguably one of the world's foremost conductors, pedagogues, and ambassadors for the choral music of J. S. Bach. Rilling will lead a lecture/demonstration on Saturday, May 10, 1pm 'til 3pm followed by a “mini performance” of the Credo from Bach’s B-Minor Mass from 3:30pm ‘til 4pm at San Francisco's Trinity Church (1668 Bush Street). On Saturday, May 31 at 8pm, the Concert Chorale will cap its “Bach Experience” at the City's historic Mission Dolores Basilica (16th & Dolores Streets) when John Emory Bush, Artistic Director for the Chorale, conducts a full performance of the Mass in B minor, considered by most experts to be “the” master choral work in the world.

Peninsula Symphony presents Mahler Fifth this weekend (events » live music) Friday, May 16, 2008 - 8:00 PM www.peninsulasymphony.org

May 16, 8pm, San Mateo Performing Arts Center
May 17, 8pm, Flint Center/DeAnza College, Cupertino

The Peninsula Symphony presents Mahler’s mighty Symphony No. 5 in C major and Mendelssohn’s sunny and energetic Violin Concerto in E, Op. 64, one of his last orchestra pieces and Featuring Jing Wang, the 2007 Irving M. Klein International String Competition Winner.

These two equally great Romantic compositions explore vastly different emotional landscapes – making for a powerful and magnificent evening of music: Friday, May 16 at the San Mateo Performing Arts Center (600 N. Delaware St., San Mateo) and Saturday, May 17 at the Flint Center (21250 Stevens Creek Blvd., De Anza College, Cupertino) both at 8pm. Tickets are $34 for General Admission and $29 for Seniors/Students

The Peninsula Symphony, a 90 member community orchestra led by music director and conductor, Mitchell Sardou Klein, celebrates its 59th year of providing unique and first-class music to the Bay Area community. Of the 90 musicians, most are professionals who volunteer their time and talents to the Orchestra. For tickets or more information visit www.peninsulasymphony.org or call (650) 941-5291.

Bach B Minor Mass -- SF Corale celebrates 35th season (events » arts) Tuesday, May 27, 2008 - 8:00 PM
www.sfconcertchorale.org

On Saturday, May 31 at 8pm, the San Francisco Concert Chorale will cap its 35th Anniversary Season at the City's historic Mission Dolores Basilica (16th & Dolores Streets) when John Emory Bush, Artistic Director for the Chorale, conducts a full performance of the Bach, Mass in B minor, considered by most experts to be “the” master choral work in the world.

Dedicated to introducing choral treasures, the Concert Chorale performs both favorites and less familiar works from throughout the choral repertoire. The group has presented the Bay Area premieres of Conrad Susa's oratorio The Wise Women, Antal Dorati's Pater Noster, and Robert Levin's completion of Mozart’s Requiem, the latter in collaboration with the Wyoming-based Cheyenne Chamber Singers. The Chorale is also noted for its inspiring and unique performances of Handel’s Messiah. Additional collaborations have included work with the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, the Kronos Quartet, the Bay Area Women's Philharmonic, the Golden Gate Boys' Choir, and the London Piano Duo.

Saturday, May 31, 8pm
Mission Dolores Basilica
16th and Dolores Streets
$36, www.sfconcertchorale.org

June 17 History Channel "Hero Ships" Film Debut Event Kicks Off "S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien" 65th Anniversary (events » other) Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 5:30 PM 64 years ago, a hero fought at Normandy – the S.S. Jeremiah O’Brien. On June 17, she literally gets to toot her own horn by playing host to the premiere of the new History International Channel documentary, “Hero Ships: SS Jeremiah O’Brien.” The event, starting with a 5:30pm reception hosted by Brandy Ho’s Restaurant, will include tours of the WWII ship including her vintage engine room (featured in the film Titanic) and culminate with a screening of the film.

Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the door, and may be ordered by phoning (415) 544-0100 or online at www.ssjeremiahobrien.org. Seating is limited.

The screening will take place onboard the O’Brien, home to the National Liberty Ship Memorial at San Francisco’s Pier 45 in Fisherman’s Wharf. The ship will be moored at dockside for this event.

“Hero Ships” is a stirring and historic 13-part series about the most prestigious vessels in US Naval history. Presented in high-definition, with gripping interviews from the veterans who served on their decks, each Hero Ships episode shows the evolution of one ship and retraces the most dramatic moments from her history. After WWII, the ships were forgotten by their country and were destined for sale or destruction before veterans’ groups stepped in to save them.

Now, such hero ships as the O’Brien are moored in some of the nation’s biggest cities as floating museums and gateways to a time when gray-skinned battlewagons prowled our imaginations. During World War II, 2,751 Liberty Ships, constructed at 18 US ship yards, were meant to be built quicker than German U-Boats could sink them. “Built by the mile and chopped off by the yard,” as President Roosevelt said, they were to form a “bridge of ships” across the Atlantic. Winston Churchill wrote, “Without the supply column of Liberty Ships that endlessly plowed the seas between America and England, the war would have been lost.”

Of the 13 naval vessels featured in the Hero Ships series, the O’Brien is the world’s oldest, fully functional and most historically accurate World War II vessel still in Coast Guard-approved operation.

Tuesday, June 17, 5:30 reception followed by screening at 7:30
Pier 45
Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the door, and may be ordered by phoning (415) 544-0100 or online at www.ssjeremiahobrien.org.

Another SF first -- three internatioally acclaimed pianists share stage for Tango X 3 dance performances (events » arts) Friday, August 15, 2008 - 8:00 PM Tango x 3, the second installment of his popular Tango Trilogy, featuring live music from three internationally reputed pianitsts, takes place Friday, August 15 through Sunday, August 17 at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts Theatre (3301 Lyon Street).

Tango X 3 will be the first time three pianists have ever performed Tango music together in a full concert format playing solos, duets, and trios. The artists comprising this world-premiere are two-time Latin Grammy nominee Jovino Santos Neto from Brazil; recording artist and cultural ambassador Polly Ferman from Uruguay; and Erika Nickrenz of the wildly popular two-time Grammy-nominated Eroica Trio. Special performances will include the world premiere of two new pieces for three pianos from Tango legend Daniel Binelli as well as offering composed and performed by Neto himself. Also featured in the program will be 2-3 piece suites for piano duet composed by Pablo Ziegler. One of San Francisco's leading Tango dancers/instructors, Christy Cote, and her partner Darren Lees will perform several dances as guest artists. This program is being presented as a benefit for the San Francisco Breast Cancer Emergency Fund.

About the Pianists:
One of the leading interpreters of Tango music, Polly Ferman, captivates audiences with her tremendous performances of works by Gottschalk, Nazareth, Gershwin, Villa-Lobos, Ginastera, Piazzolla and Golijov, among others. The Japan Times called her “the Musical Ambassador of the Americas” with extensive tours as a soloist with the Symphonies of San Francisco, Colorado, Vancouver, and Indianapolis, as well as the Tokyo Philharmonic, Philippines Philharmonic, Sâo Paulo State Symphony, the National Symphony of Argentina and Cuba’s Camerata Romeu.

Best known as pianist for the Eroica Trio, Erika Nickrenz is a native of New York, where she made her concerto debut in Town Hall at age eleven. Erika has received the prestigious Rockefeller Award, the Naumburg Award and has been celebrated by Carnegie Hall’s as “America’s Rising Star.” As a member of the Eroica Trio, she has performed with many ensembles worldwide, including the Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Saint Louis, Houston and San Francisco Symphony Orchestras, as well as tours with the Budapest Symphony and Prague Chamber Orchestra.

Rio de Janeiro-born and Seattle-based pianist, flutist, and composer Jovino Santos Neto transcends the barriers between classical, jazz, and indigenous Brazilian music. A member of Hermeto Pascoal's legendary band from 1977 to 1992, Neto has built a distinguished reputation as a creative and inspired musician, producer and arranger. Besides performing worldwide, he gives lectures and workshops on Brazilian music and continues to collaborate with his long time mentor Hermeto Pascoal as the music director of the Hermeto Pascoal Big Band.

Friday & Saturday, August 15 & 16, 8pm
Sunday, August 17, 2pm & 7pm

Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
3301 Lyon Street, San Francisco

www.cityboxoffice.com
Premium Orchestra: $50; Orchestra: $40; Left & Right Orchestra: $30; Rear: $20
Discounts available for seniors, students, and groups of 10 or more. Call (415) 392-4000 for more information.

John Waters Live: "This Filthy World – Dirtier & Filthier” at the Castro Theatre (events » arts) Monday, October 6, 2008 - 7:30 PM Frameline Presents:

“John Waters LIVE! This Filthy World – Dirtier & Filthier”
Monday, October 6, 2008
7:30pm
Castro Theatre

John Waters brings his one-man “vaudeville” show to the Castro for one night only! Focusing on Waters’ early negative artistic influences and his fascination with true crime, exploitation films, fashion lunacy, and the extremes of the contemporary art world, this joyously devious monologue is a must-see for Waters’ fans and anyone who is curious about his work.

All proceeds will benefit Frameline’s year-round programming to promote LGBT media arts nationwide.

Tickets are on sale now at www.frameline.org

Election night viewing Bay cruise/fundraiser on FDR's yacht (events » community) Tuesday, November 4, 2008 - 5:00 PM Tuesday, November 4 -- no matter your party affiliation -- will be an
historic night. What better place to watch the Presidential Election unfold than on board FDR's Presidential Yacht Potomac! Fully catered with an open bar for the evening, this historic ship will host a party of historic proportions. Only 100 will be sold, so call now! All proceeds will benefit the nonprofit foundations supporting two historic Bay Area vessels: the Potomac and the WWII Liberty Ship Jeremiah O'Brien. Elect to preserve our maritime heritage and sail into election night in style!

"Election Night Viewing" Bay Cruise

Tuesday, November 4
5pm departure -- Oakland's Jack London Square
6pm departure -- San Francisco's Pier 40
Wine courtesy of Foggy Bridge Winery
Spirits courtesy of Brown-Forman

Passed appetizers and dinner buffet courtesy of Kincaid’s & Palomino
Restaurants

www.usspotomac.org

$195 per person, tax deductible
For credit card orders (or information) call (510) 627-1667

Payments are also accepted by check payable to:
"USS Potomac Foundation"
P.O. Box 2064
Oakland, CA 94604

Anne Bluethenthal & Dancers 25th anniversary performances this weekend (events » arts) Friday, July 10, 2009 - 7:30 PM What a difference a quarter century makes. From July 10 - 12 at San
Francisco’s ODC Commons (351 Shotwell Street at 17th), one of San
Francisco’s cultural icons, dancer and choreographer Anne Bluethenthal
(www.abdproductions.org ), looks back on her first 25 years and
anticipates the next in an epic evening of performance entitled Pluto
in Capricorn: New, Reconstituted, and Spontaneous Dances for the 25th
anniversary of Anne Bluethenthal and Dancers/ABD Productions.

Anne Bluethenthal & Dancers Presents Pluto in Capricorn at the ODC
Commons (351 Shotwell Street @ 17th) for three performances: July 10,
11 @ 8pm, July 12 @ 6pm. Preshow performances by featured artists
begin ½ hour earlier: at 7:30pm & 5:30pm. For reservations call:
(415) 273-4633. Tickets are $20 general; $18 student / seniors /
children. For more information, please go online to
www.abdproductions.org.

A Compassionate Eye: The Work of Victor Arimondi at The Hormel Center at the SF Public Library (events » arts) Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 10:00 AM A Compassionate Eye: The Work of Victor Arimondi
The Hormel Center at the San Francisco Public Library
100 Larkin Street, 3rd Floor
FREE & Open to the Public
September 12 -- December 2, 2009

Famed fashion & art photographer Victor Arimondi was known for his unique eye and sensuous style. This is the first major retrospective of his work since his death from AIDS/HIV in 2001
www.victorarimondi.net

If a picture is worth a thousand words then the iconic images of photographer Victor Arimondi (www.victorarimondi.net) are an unfinished epic: a tone poem that blurs the boundaries of fashion and art, and delves into realms of the sensual, the celebratory and society’s disenfranchised. In the first major retrospective of the artist’s work since his death from AIDS/HIV in 2001, A Compassionate Eye: The Work of Victor Arimondi explores the incredible breadth of the internationally-acclaimed photographer often compared to – but lesser known than – such contemporaries as Mapplethorpe, and Bianci. The exhibit runs through December 2 at the James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center of San Francisco’s Main Public Library (100 Larkin Street, 3rd Floor). Entrance to the exhibit is free and open to the public.

Part of New York’s heady “pop art” era, Arimondi started as a fashion model before turning the lens on his former life often citing his admiration for the work of Avedon as one of his inspirations. Born in Italy in 1942, it was in Sweden that Arimondi was discovered while working as a laborer. Soon, his rough-hewn beauty made him one of Europe’s most popular regulars in print and on the runway, an experience which led him to his ultimate career. His varied palette and incredible output – with more than 3000 photos -- included male nudes, high fashion treatments, photo montages and later documenting the plight of the homeless and the onslaught of AIDS / HIV. When he died in his adopted home of San Francisco on July 24, 2001, his face and work had graced most of the world’s top fashion publications and several books, now collectors’ items.

“My approach to photography has never been causal,” Arimondi once said. “Since I posed in front of the camera so many years, my experience with talented photographers made me realize a way to express my inner world. My approach to beauty is dominated by my classical background and European style. I came to this country to further develop my style and spirit – I believe that I have been faithful to my ideal.”