The Reverberate Hills; or The Apotheosis of the Narwhal

  a shop window on B Street, Hayward

  detail of Proscenium by Sargent Claude Johnson, currently at BAM/PFA & on view as part of the exhibit   Object Oriented: Abstraction...

  palm frond, dying

  detail of Saint John the Baptist by Domenikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco), now at the Legion of Honor

Annually since 2015, Ars Minerva , founded & led by Céline Ricci, has given us a revival of an opera not seen for centuries. This is obv...

I was in a packed Opera House for the third performance of San Francisco Opera 's world-premiere run of The Monkey King , a kaleidoscopi...

  East 14th Street, San Leandro, California

So we come, inevitably but somehow still surprisingly, to the end of another calendar year. As usual, most of this month's calendar has ...

  Oroshi ( Mountain Gust ) by Kino Satoshi, on view as part of New Japanese Clay at the Asian Art Museum

  steps, outside of Herbst Theater, San Francisco