The Community Music Center Gala Raised a Record $425,000, and I Met Katya's Mom
Now at the Ritz Carlton, the party intimidated me enough to park my Subaru down the street instead of using the valet....
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Upcoming parties you shouldn't miss, and dispatches from the best parties on this side of the Bay Area.
My weekend with ODC/Dance Downtown
The truth is that I go to these things for the people. The art is what sneaks up on me while I'm busy having a good time....
SF Ballet's Don Quixote Opens Tonight and I Already Know I'll Love It
There's bullfighters, knights, driads, and longing under the Spanish sun. What's not to love?...
The Bay Bridge Lights Are Coming Back and We Need to Talk About Our Feelings
It is a meaningful moment for San Francisco's waterfront, which is a sentence I apparently mean without irony....
Hunky Jesus Is Back, and Now He Has a Documentary
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence's Easter spectacle returns to Dolores Park on April 5. This year, it comes with a feature film....
The Superfair Is Back at Fort Mason with Frameline Films and a Harp-Playing Mermaid
Join us for a four-day art fair at Fort Mason Pier 2 where you buy directly from the artists, no galleries in between....
Brides of March Is the SantaCon You Actually Wanted
The Brides of March is what happens when you take the same anarchic DNA of SantaCon, but you let joy be the point....
The Year of the Fire Horse Came to Davies Symphony Hall
Between the caviar service, the fashion, a sold-out Davies Hall, and an erhu master who closed his world-premiere set with James Bond and Queen, SF Symphony's Lunar New Year gala was the most San Francisco thing you could do on the last Saturday of February....
SF Ballet finally went clubbing. It's called 'The Blake Works'
If you walked into the War Memorial Opera House expecting ballet to stay quiet and pretty and out of the conversation, you weren't paying attention to this art form....
SF Ballet will no longer perform at Kennedy Center
The board voted to pull out of its scheduled May run of Mere Mortals at the Kennedy Center. Staff confirmed the decision to The Bold Italic at tonight's opening of The Blake Works...
A Fashionably Late Review of the SF Symphony's 2025 Opening Night
When the musicians walked out from both wings of the hall, the audience gave them a long, boisterous, cheering ovation. It had the energy of a home team returning to the field....
Finding our resonance at the Grace Cathedral Gala
Looking down the long rows of tables, Grace Cathedral cathedral was awash in the vibrant, shifting colors of the Year of Resonance....