Subject:

George Gershwin

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2011

    Eight Rock 'n' Roll Poop Bombs: Exploring Pop Music and Shit

    Dookie​Three of my sons have reached the age where they've begun exhibiting the symptoms of chronic privy mouth. Shakespeare relished a good poop quip every now and then (see Henry V). Ditto for Marquis de Sade and Geoffrey Chaucer. Graffiti from the buried Roman city of Pompeii featured humor ... More >>

  • Culture

    September 2, 2009

    Five Classical Music and Opera Events to See This Fall

    Dookie​Three of my sons have reached the age where they've begun exhibiting the symptoms of chronic privy mouth. Shakespeare relished a good poop quip every now and then (see Henry V). Ditto for Marquis de Sade and Geoffrey Chaucer. Graffiti from the buried Roman city of Pompeii featured humor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2008

    When's Later, Officer? Police Decide They'll Say More About Dan Kliman Elevator Case ... Sometime

    By Joe EskenaziThe San Francisco Police Department's may have called in a platoon of new investigators to probe Dan Kliman's death, but, for all we know, they brought in a troupe of Marcel Marceaus.Gone are the days when garrulous Inspector Matt Krimsky would give detailed breakdowns of the police's ... More >>

  • Culture

    August 6, 2008

    Drowsy Chaperone is funny, but not filling

    By Joe EskenaziThe San Francisco Police Department's may have called in a platoon of new investigators to probe Dan Kliman's death, but, for all we know, they brought in a troupe of Marcel Marceaus.Gone are the days when garrulous Inspector Matt Krimsky would give detailed breakdowns of the police's ... More >>

  • Culture

    March 26, 2008

    Also Playing

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Culture

    March 19, 2008

    Romeo & Juliet and Other Duets

    Our critics weigh in on local theater

  • Culture

    May 16, 2007

    Off the Wall

    One-act opera is every bit as didactic as the mural from which it takes its title, but lacks the same punch

  • Music

    August 16, 2006

    The Italian Job

    Local imprint offers prog-rock masterworks from Italia's other Renaissance

  • Film

    August 2, 2006

    Repertory Film Listings

    Local imprint offers prog-rock masterworks from Italia's other Renaissance

  • Music

    March 22, 2006

    Solitary Refinement

    Rhett Miller feeds multiple musical beasts from one well of inspiration

  • News

    October 12, 2005

    My Life Is a Musical

    Infiltrator turns San Francisco into the backdrop of his very own Broadway production!

  • Dining

    July 13, 2005

    Not Really a Deli

    But discovering a great deli sandwich during a great summer festival is quite nice

  • Calendar

    February 16, 2005

    Get Briefed

    Short, sweet theater pieces

  • Music

    January 5, 2005

    Fantasia

    Free Yourself

  • Music

    September 22, 2004
  • Film

    September 25, 2002

    Reps Etc.

    The Delivery Man|Il Sogno

  • Film

    September 11, 2002

    Reps Etc.

    The Delivery Man|Il Sogno

  • Music

    February 20, 2002

    Fantasy Land

    Blectum From Blechdom's fractured electronic universe comes back together -- with a little help from the Olsen twins

  • Music

    April 18, 2001

    House Of Tudor

    American astronauts and Southern gothic singers

  • Music

    December 27, 2000

    House Of Tudor

    O Brother, Where Art Thou?; "Biff! Bang! Pow!" ; Me First & the Gimme Gimmes; Hogmanay

  • Music

    December 20, 2000

    Return to Hicksville

    Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks pick up where they left off more than 20 years ago

  • Music

    March 8, 2000

    Tenor of the Times

    Joshua Redman returns to the Bay Area as SF Jazz tries to prove it's got everything New York has -- and maybe more

  • Music

    August 25, 1999

    Riff Raff

    Piano Woman

  • Calendar

    June 2, 1999

    Night & Day

    Piano Woman

  • Music

    May 26, 1999

    Tom Waits' Variations

    Forever cryptic, a musical drifter finds solace in Liberace, Rodney Dangerfield, and one-armed pianists

  • Film

    February 24, 1999

    Second Time Around

    Forever cryptic, a musical drifter finds solace in Liberace, Rodney Dangerfield, and one-armed pianists

  • Music

    January 6, 1999

    Rhapsody in Green

    At the end of the Gershwin centennial, his trust benefits from new copyright laws. But are they protecting artists or merely bank statements?

  • Calendar

    September 23, 1998

    Night + Day

    At the end of the Gershwin centennial, his trust benefits from new copyright laws. But are they protecting artists or merely bank statements?

  • Music

    July 8, 1998

    Hear This

    At the end of the Gershwin centennial, his trust benefits from new copyright laws. But are they protecting artists or merely bank statements?

  • Calendar

    November 29, 1995

    Night+Day

    At the end of the Gershwin centennial, his trust benefits from new copyright laws. But are they protecting artists or merely bank statements?

  • Calendar

    September 6, 1995

    Night+Day

    At the end of the Gershwin centennial, his trust benefits from new copyright laws. But are they protecting artists or merely bank statements?

  • Culture

    May 31, 1995

    Catfish Row Revival

    Houston's production of Porgy and Bess gives Gershwin's opera the grand treatment

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