Dede Wilsey, a diminutive powerhouse who raised nearly $200 million to build the new de Young Museum in 2005, has served as the Fine Arts Museums' president for more than 15 years. When you and I first met years ago, you were just starting to raise...

Youthful curiosity, adult caginess At the packed Sand Hill Resort bar, Andy scanned the fresh faces of the frisky boy crowd that had just arrived - plump earlobes and the occasional pimple - and thought there were few things more embarrassing than b...

For four minutes, as the singer performed her single 'Adore You,' the giant video screens overhead broadcast the faces of couples, strangers and BFFs as they sloppily locked lips -- or, in at least once case, recoiled in disgust -- for an a...

Opening its 40th anniversary season, theater starts a program to bring its work to underserved communities Morning light streams through high industrial windows, illuminating the midnight revelry on a makeshift stage in the middle of the room. The ...

[...] theatrical gender equality aside, Hensley's 'Twelfth Night,' a co-production of the California Shakespeare Theater and Intersection for the Arts, is so robust and satisfying that the characters end up mattering more than the sex of t...

Produced by Seacrest and created by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore ('The Hangover'), 'Mixology' is about 10 people trying to hook up over the course of a single evening at a trendy bar with throbbing lights, music and probably a few bo...

'Why didn't you tell me you were a computer person?' Roger asked as he and Beth stood in front of his fireplace, which was pathetically dark. No way could a non-hacker rattle off the issues with 802.11ac and make any sense. Had dinner be...

Even a dabbler in hatha yoga poses will feel a faint flush of pride at seeing the astonishing artistic patrimony of yoga as a system of beliefs and disciplines. The Art of Transformation owes some of its bracing impact to the Asian's exhibition pla...

Open an evening with a vision of ballet heaven, and there's nowhere to head but down, So visitors to the San Francisco Ballet learned Thursday at the War Memorial Opera House, where the company launched the season's third program, consisting of a t...

There's a moral at the heart of Eduardo De Filippo's 'Napoli!,' the World War II comic drama that opened Wednesday at American Conservatory Theater. Marco Barricelli, making a welcome return to ACT, anchors a strong ensemble with the kin...

If it's a high-concept show, you have to keep the high-wire act going without squandering the credibility you worked so hard to create in the first season. Five episodes into the second season of 'The Americans' on FX suggest this is one ...

The San Francisco Ballet has long owed Lorena Feijoo a substantial role in a new ballet, and the Cuban-born principal was gifted with such an assignment Tuesday evening when, at the War Memorial Opera House, the company presented the season's first ...

The San Francisco Ballet has long owed Lorena Feijoo a substantial role in a new ballet, and the Cuban-born principal was gifted with such an assignment Tuesday evening when, at the War Memorial Opera House, the company presented the season's first ...

Climbing out of the low-rider, Andy took in the fragrant air and the Santa Cruz Mountains turning dusky and purple in the distance. When a young, chipper valet eyed the Ferrari's large fuzzy dice and asked with a jaunty, 'Will you be joining u...

There are two kinds of mazes - a fairy tale-like king explains to his queen in Rob Handel's 'A Maze' - the kind you try to get through from one side to the other, and the kind where you either try to get from the entrance to the center or ...

Yet it's possible to overlook Caniparoli's steady achievement here at his home company, where international dance makers like Wayne McGregor and Alexei Ratmansky tend to command the cachet. 'How do I let people know all that I'm doing?'...

The José Manuel Carreño era at Ballet San Jose began Friday evening at the Center for the Performing Arts, starting off where the neo-classical American ballet tradition began - with George Balanchine's 1934 'Serenad...

Oh, my God, Beth thought, this is Roger Martin, giving me a tour of his Woodside home - and its Wi-Fi access points! The one utilitarian sofa and two mismatched chairs gave the place a just-moved-in look. Folded next to the wall of windows was an a...

In theory, 'The Speakeasy' is a great idea: think a hipster version of 'Beach Blanket Babylon' as forbidden cocktails flow, flappers flap to bouncy tunes and gamblers roll the dice. There's a well-appointed bar with a player pia...

The Hamburg Ballet and its longtime artistic director, John Neumeier, danced their way into the War Memorial Opera House on Wednesday for a quickie two-evening engagement, offering this choreographer's durable, ubiquitous and perplexing production o...