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WEBPortola Festival organizers vow to be a little quieter this year. Datebook is the San Francisco Chronicle’s guide to arts & entertainment in the Bay Area, combining award-winning news with a curated events calendar.
Golden Gate Park is open to buskers. Here’s how to sign up
WEBOct 5, 2023 · Golden Gate Park is officially open to buskers again.. Licensed buskers can now reserve three-hour slots to perform in the park on weekends starting Saturday, Oct. 7, the Recreation and Park Department announced. “The goal is to create an environment that encourages & supports local artists while adding to the vibrancy of the park,” according to the callout posted Thursday, Oct. 5.
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 chronicling the lives of impoverished migrant farmers and for documenting the ...
The Chronicle's 15 best books of 2021 - Datebook
WEBDec 22, 2021 · By María José Ferrada (translated from Spanish by Elizabeth Bryer) (Tin House; 180 pages; $19.95) In this moving, buoyant novel, a woman looks back on life in 1970s Chile, when the country was ruled by a despot. Featuring a memorable cast of eccentrics and dissidents — among them a photographer determined to …
Kate Wolf Festival wrapping up run with 25th event in memory of ...
WEBJun 23, 2022 · Kate Wolf performs at Freight & Salvage around 1980. Photo: Freight & Salvage. It’s always been hard to say goodbye to Kate Wolf. During her short life, the prolific Sonoma singer-songwriter blazed a gently luminous trail across the California folk scene, penning oft-recorded tunes such as “Across the Great Divide,” “Give Yourself to Love,” “Unfinished Life” and “Green Eyes.”
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.
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 …
Charlotte Shultz understood that civic occasions help make San ...
WEBApr 1, 2022 · San Francisco’s Chief of Protocol Charlotte Shultz in 2014. Shultz worked to include the public as much as she could in civic events. Photo: Russell Yip / The Chronicle 2014. As many people have pointed out, Charlotte is irreplaceable, but I hope the position of protocol chief continues to be treated as an important part of the life of the city.
A 1969 timeline: Turbulent year signaled major societal change
WEBNov 27, 2018 · But here is a selected cultural timeline gathered from online sources and the nonfiction account “1969: The Year Everything Changed,” by Rob Kirkpatrick, that takes you through the year. Jan. 5 – Fantasy Records in Berkeley releases Creedence Clearwater Revival’s second album, “Bayou Country.”. Bandleader John Fogerty becomes the ...
'Becoming,' by Michelle Obama: how the girl from the South
WEBNov 17, 2018 · The greatest contribution of “Becoming” is the inspiration that Obama gives to press onward, to keep trying and to continue plinking, just like the children did who took piano lessons from Michelle’s great-aunt on the first floor of the red brick bungalow where Michelle grew up. Becoming. By Michelle Obama. (Crown; 426 pages; $32.50)