San Francisco is My Home
San Francisco is My Home
31
Dec
Blood and song
Author: kris, Category: Downtown, Landmarks
Number three in the fusion series is the San Francisco War Memorial & Performing Arts Center. Here you can see performances by our excellent city ballet troupe and opera company. Here you can also come to attend cultural and veteran-related events at the War Memorial side. I am delighted every time I walk by this building, or attend a show here, not just because the architecture is satisfyingly imposing, but because it tickles me pink that this city combines such disparate flavors as war and opera.
Photo by Craig Mole, from the War Memorial website.
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Dec
The Brainwash
Author: kris, Category: Bars and Clubs, Downtown
There’s a city legend claiming every new performance artist — everyone from stand-up comics to musicians to magicians — is obligated to perform at the Brainwash at least once at the beginning of his or her career.
The Brainwash is number two in our fusion series, because in addition to being a locally famous performance venue, it’s also a cafe/laundromat. You can wash your whites while you dazzle the audience with your Jeff Buckley covers. Or come for the show and stay for the Captain, a harmlessly nutty gentleman in a crisp captain’s hat who wanders in and out, greeting everyone present about once an hour.
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