Arts & Entertainment Last Week, This Week: Hunter Pence to Lead Guinness World Record Attempt A round-up of last week's highlights: BART’s meltdown, SFPD overtime, and a flipped Lamborghini. Plus, the week ahead: SFJazz jam session; a conversation with Rebecca Solnit; and Hunter Pence leading a Guinness Record attempt.
Arts & Entertainment SFJAZZ Center Celebrates Tenth Anniversary, Will Be Hopping All Week This year marks a double-anniversary: the 40th of the San Francisco Jazz Festival and this week’s 10th anniversary of the SFJAZZ Center, and the stars will be out including Laurie Anderson, Bill Frisell, and Marcus Shelby.
Arts & Entertainment SFJazz’s New Virtual Concert Series Embraces the Streaming Age COVID-19 has prompted artists to get creative about conducting live performances; drag queens and DJs, for example, now muse the masses from Twitch and Zoom channels. SFJazz’s latest virtual concert series, "Fridays at Five," is another product of this novel line of thinking.
Arts & Entertainment Legendary Musician and Performance Artist Laurie Anderson Arrives at SFJAZZ This Weekend Saturday’s collaboration with Mike Patton still has a few tickets available, and the avant-garde legend’s other shows this weekend throw audiences a kitchen sink of experimental jazz.
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Free Hayes Valley Jazz Block Party Clear your schedule this evening (and if you can for the entirety of the San Francisco Jazz Festival, though that might be overdoing it) because you are now going to a jazz block
Arts & Entertainment Van Morrison Coming To SFJAZZ This Fall While Van Morrison, age 70, is already on the books to play at Davies Symphony Hall on October 17th, SFJAZZ has announced it will be offering a more intimate experience with the "
Arts & Entertainment SFJAZZ Honoring Joni Mitchell Tonight, Puts Up This Message On Franklin Street Though the great Joni Mitchell remains too infirm to attend the SFJAZZ Gala that's being held in her honor tonight, the event is nevertheless moving forward and will feature tribute performances
Arts & Entertainment SFJAZZ To Honor Joni Mitchell With Lifetime Achievement Award Joni Mitchell's folk, pop, and jazz have made her a music icon, and now she'll be recognized as such in San Francisco as part of a gala on May
Arts & Entertainment A Joyful Noise: SFJAZZ Center Opens To Raves Though often viewed as a dead form of music, jazz had a breath of fresh life pumped into it when the wildly anticipated SFJAZZ Center opened on Wednesday in Hayes Valley. The $64
