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Some structures become icons by default, rather than by architectural merit or public acclaim. So it is with this gaunt steel creature, 977 feet tall, perched on Mount Sutro at 834 feet above sea level. The three-pronged broadcasting tower with its orange...
Tags: San Francisco, Mount Sutro, Sutro Tower, Hospitality Recreation
Items have been culled from The Chronicle's archives of 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago. Images 1984 Dec. Despite an emotional appeal by two rabbis, the Golden Gate Bridge board of directors refused Nov. 30 to allow the display of a menorah at the toll...
Tags: Hallinan, Fillmore Street Improvement Association, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, W.O. Weissch, San Francisco Post Office, San Francisco, Chinese American history, Chinatown Victoria, Neighborhoods in San Francisco California, Issay Dobrowen, Fillmore Street, The Fillmore
A Civil War Christmas TheatreWorks celebrates the holidays with the West Coast premiere of Paula Vogel's musical tapestry of a snowy Christmas Eve in 1864.
Tags: San Francisco, TheatreWorks, Politics, Paula Vogel, Mountain View California, Christmas, Christmas music, Palo Alto California, Entertainment Culture, War Conflict, League of Resident Theatres
Extended once again, Ann Randolph's second solo comedy at the Marsh is only in its second month, but it's been generating buzz comparable to her award-winning solo "Squeeze Box," which ran for eight months last year. Randolph conjures the odyssey of Frannie...
Tags: San Francisco, Mission District San Francisco California, The Marsh, Entertainment Culture, Human Interest
I helped induct him into the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame in October, and.
Tags: Bay Area, San Francisco, Jockey, Horse racing, NYPD Blue
Anyone who has recently come across the online video clip of stringy haired singer-songwriter Stefani Joanne Germanotta playing a lumbering set of ballads in a dingy New York club five years ago must be baffled by her transformation into the unstoppable...
Tags: lady gaga, San Francisco, The Fame, Interscope Records, Human Interest, Entertainment Culture
Show music A lovely oddity, this is an original cast album that includes many more instrumentals than songs and much more music than actually was included in director Daniel Sullivan's staging.
Tags: San Francisco, Gin Ichimaru, Share, Entertainment Culture
Time isn't something you usually hear, but you will hear years of experience on "This Time," an infectiously compelling CD by the Bay Area's David Landon Band. With three gifted veteran musicians, guitarist-vocalist Landon has crafted the kind of rocking...
Tags: David Landon Band, San Francisco, Surnames, Landon, Human Interest, Entertainment Culture
If Samuel Fuller was an "authentic American primitive," as Andrew Sarris wrote, that may explain why he caught the eye of the French New Wave directors.
Tags: Samuel Fuller Film Collection, San Francisco, Applause, Sarris, Samuel Fuller, Fuller, American film directors, Entertainment Culture
According to a recent study by Miller-McCune, which examined the ratings of 24 American film critics, I have the highest "standard deviation from the mean," which means I differ from the majority more than any other critic. This doesn't mean I disagree...
Tags: Norma Shearer, dear mick, San Francisco, Converts to Judaism, Damon and Pythias, Joan Crawford, Mick LaSalle, Entertainment Culture, Human Interest