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The Week of May 12th For San Francisco, CA 94109

Massage, Facials & Beauty at re:fresh Spa in San Francisco

Re:fresh Day Spa, San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
Monday, May. 12 2008 @ Various Times
Tuesday, May. 13 2008 @ Various Times
and 3 more dates.
Full Price: $110.00 - $165.00 Our Price: SOLD OUT*
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Indulge in a luxurious spa treatment at re:fresh, the gorgeous day spa that SanFrancisco.com calls a "rare San Francisco spa haven." Choose from a Deep Tissue Massage, Botanical Bliss Facial, Aloe Valerian Wrap and other lush treatments.

Beauty and Relaxation Treatments at Rejouvenance

Rejouvenance (San Francisco, CA)
Monday, May. 12 2008 @ Various Times
Tuesday, May. 13 2008 @ Various Times
and 4 more dates.
Full Price: $80.00 - $250.00 Our Price: $40.00 - $125.00*
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You are invited to leave your stress at the door and replace it with comfort, relaxation, serenity and purity. Rejuvenate and revitalize your life with state of the art beauty treatments in this gorgeous and private Caribbean spa setting.

Big Band CJO (Contemporary Jazz Orchestra) at Jazz at Pearl's

Jazz at Pearl's (San Francisco, CA)
Monday, May. 12 2008 @ 8:00pm
Monday, May. 12 2008 @ 10:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 - $100.00 Our Price: $5.00 - $50.00*
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The CJO Big Band continues its ten-year Monday night tradition at Jazz at Pearl's. Few sounds equal the thrill of hearing a talented, tight-knit jazz orchestra play live. CJO delivers a swinging rhythm section, high-octane brass and a polished repertoire. This 17-piece ensemble will have you in the mood for jazz! Guest star vocalists are featured twice a month.

Massage, Facials, Pedicures & More at Barber Lounge

Barber Lounge (San Francisco, CA)
Monday, May. 12 2008 @ Various Times
Tuesday, May. 13 2008 @ Various Times
Wednesday, May. 14 2008 @ Various Times
Full Price: $90.00 - $95.00 Our Price: SOLD OUT*
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Barber Lounge is a new hip, full-service salon/barbershop/spa in San Francisco's SOMA district. Catering to both men and women, it offers top products and services—massages, facials, pedicures and much more—housed in a fresh, relaxing loft space.

Singer-Songwriter Tim Hockenberry at the Rrazz Room

Rrazz Room @ Hotel Nikko (San Francisco, CA)
Monday, May. 12 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $32.50 Our Price: $16.25*
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Already well known to local audiences, singer-songwriter Tim Hockenberry has been called "the great American voice" and the "the best singer in the Bay Area." He'll be performing his songs, including material from his new album "Back In Your Arms" (due in May on About Records), with a revolving roster of talented guest musicians which promises to make each show a new and exciting experience.

Cartoonist Ben Katchor in Conversation with Monologist Josh Kornbluth

Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (Kanbar Hall) (San Francisco, CA)
Monday, May. 12 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 Our Price: $5.00*
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The first cartoonist to win a MacArthur "genius grant," Ben Katchor is the author of The Jew of New York, Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer and The Cardboard Valise. The gently surreal culture in many of Katchor's strips includes hucksters, butter-and-egg men, and latter-day Kabbalists living in a wonderland of tin ceilings, illuminated storefronts, and unusual enterprises such as the Senseless Elaboration Parlor and the Mortal Coil Mattress Store. See him in conversation with monologist Josh Kornbluth.

Music of Magnus Lindberg at San Francisco Conservatory of Music

San Francisco Conservatory of Music (San Francisco, CA)
Monday, May. 12 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $39.00 Our Price: FREE - $19.50*
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Finnish composer/pianist Magnus Lindberg and cellist/collaborator Anssi Karttunen make their San Francisco recital debuts. Their program features duets and piano and cello solos by Lindberg—twelve original works in all. Surprisingly lesser known as a consummate pianist and chamber musician, Lindberg is among today's most highly regarded and admired composers of orchestral music.

Music at Meyer Presents Baritone Jesse Blumberg in Recital

Temple Emanu-El (San Francisco, CA)
Monday, May. 12 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: No ratings yet

Jesse Blumberg, a fast-rising international star, is an artist equally at home on opera, concert and recital stages. He has been recognized in several prestigious national and international competitions. This will be his San Francisco Bay Area recital debut. Program to include Schumann's "Liederkreis, Op. 24," Ravel's "Histoires Naturelles," Purcell, Vaughan Williams and Cipullo's "Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House"

Kevin Munroe in Over Six Feet of Funny, a Showcase of San Francisco's Tallest Comedians

Club Deluxe (San Francisco, CA)
Monday, May. 12 2008 @ 9:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 Our Price: FREE - $5.00*
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A showcase of talented comics of the long and lanky variety, this six-feet-and-over comedy exhibition features Bay Area favorite Kevin Munroe. A comic of great vertical stature, Munroe is also one half of the popular comedy showcase "Ebony & Irony" with Joe Tobin. Also appearing are the very tall Corey Finnegan, Big Al Gonzales and Marcella Arguello.

"She Put a Spell on Me": Kim Nalley Sings Nina Simone

Jazz at Pearl's (San Francisco, CA)
Tuesday, May. 13 2008 @ 8:00pm
Tuesday, May. 13 2008 @ 10:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $150.00 Our Price: $7.50 - $75.00*
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Kim Nalley's musical tribute to Nina Simone is interpersed with historical commentary and unabashed delivery of the more controversial songs of Simone's repertoire. "She Put a Spell on Me" has enjoyed four sold-out runs at various venues; the CD was shortlisted for a Grammy. Nalley, nominated as one the Bay Area's 10 most influential African Amercians, will be backed by a quartet led by pianist Tammy Hall.

Legendary Songwriting Duo Ashford & Simpson in Concert

Rrazz Room @ Hotel Nikko (San Francisco, CA)
Tuesday, May. 13 2008 @ 8:00pm
Wednesday, May. 14 2008 @ 8:00pm
and 2 more dates.
Full Price: $50.00 - $60.00 Our Price: $25.00 - $30.00*
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The husband and wife duo Ashford and Simpson have had dual careers as performers and songwriters, having provided many iconic artists with their biggest hits. Legends such as Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, Ray Charles, Whitney Houston, Marvin Gaye and many others have recorded the duo's songs. Now they're making a rare SF appearance at the Rrazz Room.

Sam Shepard's Satire Curse of the Starving Class at A.C.T.

A.C.T. (San Francisco, CA)
Tuesday, May. 13 2008 @ 8:00pm
Wednesday, May. 14 2008 @ 2:00pm
and 5 more dates.
Full Price: $14.00 - $67.00 Our Price: $8.00 - $34.50*
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A dark satire by Pulitzer Prize winner and Academy Award nominee Sam Shepard, Curse of the Starving Class is at once hilarious and profound, frighteningly true and delightfully surreal. The story follows a malnourished and rather bizarre family searching for freedom, security and their piece of the American pie.

Author Adam Mansbach (The End of the Jews) in Conversation with Dan Schifrin

Jewish Community Center of San Francisco - Fisher Family Hall (San Francisco, CA)
Tuesday, May. 13 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $8.00 Our Price: FREE*
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Adam Mansbach has emerged as the rare contemporary novelist whose skills as a graceful, humane storyteller are matched by an ambition to explore hot-button issues of identity, history, and art with real depth and originality. The End of the Jews demonstrates his remarkable gifts in a fully realized, epic family drama that will appeal to a wide cross-section of readers. See him in conversation with critic Dan Schifrin.

Facial and Body Therapies from Caramella Skin Couture

Caramella Skin Couture (San Francisco, CA)
Wednesday, May. 14 2008 @ Various Times
Thursday, May. 15 2008 @ Various Times
and 2 more dates.
Full Price: $95.00 - $140.00 Our Price: SOLD OUT*
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Caramella Skin Couture combines traditional European skin and body care with the latest advances in facial therapy and body sculpting. The spa offers a variety of luxurious, effective treatments.

Big Band Music of Collective West Jazz Orchestra at Pearl's

Jazz at Pearl's (San Francisco, CA)
Wednesday, May. 14 2008 @ 8:00pm
Wednesday, May. 14 2008 @ 10:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 - $100.00 Our Price: $5.00 - $50.00*
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The Collective West Jazz Orchestra is a 12-piece big band that plays delightful, high-energy jazz. Their repertoire includes a full range of big band styles, from Count Basie classics to straight-ahead ballads and burners to challenging contemporary numbers. The orchestra is led by dynamic saxophonist Fil Lorenz. Vocalist Danny Grewen is the guest artist.

SF Playhouse Presents Bug, a Creepy Psychological Thriller

The SF Playhouse (San Francisco, CA)
Wednesday, May. 14 2008 @ 8:00pm
Wednesday, May. 14 2008 @ 8:00pm
and 4 more dates.
Full Price: $20.00 - $38.00 Our Price: FREE - $19.00*
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Walk on the wild side with Tracy Letts' Bug, a Bay Area premiere from the author of Killer Joe and current Broadway darling August: Osage County. Bug is a psychological thriller about love, fear...and little tiny bugs. This play will seduce you and get under your skin. Scratch the itch — don't miss it!

The Rosenbach Company: Pop Opera by Cartoonist Ben Katchor and Mark Mulcahy

Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (Kanbar Hall) (San Francisco, CA)
Wednesday, May. 14 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $26.00 Our Price: $13.00*
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Witness the life and times of the Rosenbach brothers, preeminent rare-book and decorative art dealers in the first half of the last century, through the eyes of award-winning graphic novelist Ben Katchor and composer and singer Mark Mulcahy. Mixing projected animated images with live singers and musicians, the show explores the obsessive nature of collecting, the relation between cultural and commercial pursuits and the men's significance as owners of some of the world's greatest literary treasures.

Love Person: A Language-Laden Romantic Comedy at Marin Theatre Company

Marin Theatre Company (Mill Valley, CA)
Wednesday, May. 14 2008 @ 7:30pm
Thursday, May. 15 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $30.00 Our Price: $15.00*
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Victoria loves Ram. Maggie loves Free. Free finds herself inexplicably drawn to Ram...well, not Ram so much as Ram's e-mails...which are actually written to Victoria! A modern-day, multimedia Cyrano DeBergerac, Love Person intertwines language and love in a comic, poetic, and feverish game of deception.

Author Andrew Sean Greer (The Confessions of Max Tivoli) in Conversation

Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (Kanbar Hall) (San Francisco, CA)
Wednesday, May. 14 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 Our Price: $5.00*
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John Updike compared Andrew Sean Greer's second novel, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, to Proust and Nabokov in The New Yorker, and he received the New York Public Library Young Lions Award for writers under 35. Michael Chabon calls Greer's new novel, about love and war and set in San Francisco's Sunset district in the 1950s, a narrative tour de force that confirms him as one of the most talented writers around. He talks with JCCSF's Barbara Lane.

Campy Mystery It's Murder, Mary! at New Conservatory Theatre Center

New Conservatory Theatre Center (San Francisco, CA)
Wednesday, May. 14 2008 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
Thursday, May. 15 2008 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
and 2 more dates.
Full Price: $22.00 - $40.00 Our Price: $11.00 - $20.00*
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This action-packed comedy is modeled after the classic "whodunit" murder-mystery genre. Set at an exclusive Russian River resort, this campy yet tension-filled play will keep you guessing (and laughing) until the last body falls.

Cheech & Chong's Tommy Chong & Shelby at Cobb's

Cobb's Comedy Club (San Francisco, CA)
Thursday, May. 15 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 10:15pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $23.50 Our Price: $10.00 - $11.75*
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Cobb's Comedy Club presents Tommy Chong, star of the immensely popular stand-up comedy team "Cheech and Chong," performing with his wife Shelby. In addition to performing with Cheech Marin as the opening act for major rock bands like the Rolling Stones and the Allman Brothers, Chong had been featured in movies (Cheech & Chong's Up in Smoke) and TV shows (The George Carlin Show and That 70s Show).

Gourmet Dinner and a Show: The Spectacular Teatro ZinZanni

Teatro ZinZanni (San Francisco, CA)
Thursday, May. 15 2008 @ 6:00pm
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 6:00pm
Full Price: $143.50 Our Price: $78.00*
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Set along San Francisco's historic waterfront, Teatro ZinZanni is a bewitching evening of European cabaret, cirque, divas and madmen, spectacle and sensuality with live music and a gourmet five-course dinner — set in the nightclub of your dreams. Now in its seventh year, Teatro ZinZanni has become a Bay Area entertainment institution.

Comedian W. Kamau Bell in The W. Kamau Bell Curve

The Shelton Theater (San Francisco, CA)
Thursday, May. 15 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 Our Price: $12.50*
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Funnyman W. Kamau Bell often opens for Dave Chappelle and has appeared on Comedy Central's "Premium Blend" and on "Comics Unleashed." See his new show The W. Kamau Bell Curve, a passionate and comedic look at racism in modern society, at the Shelton Theatre.

Dinner and a Show: Tony n' Tina's Wedding Dinner Comedy

Swiss Louis Restaurant (San Francisco, CA)
Thursday, May. 15 2008 @ 7:00pm
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 7:00pm
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 7:00pm
Full Price: $115.00 Our Price: $57.50*
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Be a guest at this hysterical satirical Italian-American wedding, and you won't just see a show — you'll be a part of it! The fun starts with the happy couple's wedding ceremony, then it's time for the all-inclusive reception featuring a family-style pasta dinner, champagne toast, wedding cake, dancing and lots of laughs!

Neil Simon's The Odd Couple — A Timeless Classic at Custom Made Theatre Co.

Custom Stage @ Off-Market (San Francisco, CA)
Wednesday, May. 14 2008 @ 8:00pm
Thursday, May. 15 2008 @ 8:00pm
and 2 more dates.
Full Price: $20.00 - $25.00 Our Price: FREE - $12.50*
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Oscar, a typical slovenly bachelor, is living in his beautifully decorated, but now trashed, apartment since his wife left him. Felix, a compulsive neat-freak, has also just been dumped by his spouse. Thinking the company would do him good, not to mention the rent reduction, Oscar invites Felix to live with him...and so begins one of theatre's most famous marriages.

Off-Broadway Star Sherry Glaser in The Breast of Sherry Glaser

The Marsh San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
Thursday, May. 15 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $22.00 Our Price: $7.50 - $11.00*
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Sherry Glaser's show is the culmination of more than 20 years of her theatrical comedy and peace activism. It features a trio of outrageous characters who all challenge the status quo in different ways: Miguel De Cervantes, Mother Superior and SAM SLAM (Super Lesbian Activist Mother).

Václav Havel's Vanek, a Trio of Short Plays

Jewish Community Center of the East Bay (Berkeley, CA)
Thursday, May. 15 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: $10.00*
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Eastenders Repertory Company presents an ambitious production of one-act plays by former Czech president, and acclaimed playwright, Václav Havel. This trilogy centers on the author's fictional alter ego Ferdinand Vanek, who, like the playwright-turned-statesman Havel, worked in a brewery before being jailed as a political dissident.

Ilkhom Theatre Presents Ecstasy with the Pomegranate

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum (San Francisco, CA)
Thursday, May. 15 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $35.00 Our Price: $17.50*
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The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts honors Ilkhom Theatre's artistic director, Mark Weil, and his company on its U.S. tour by presenting Ecstasy with the Pomegranate, the last work Weil produced before his untimely death. Beautiful, funny and experimental, Ecstasy revives history to illuminate contemporary issues of identity.

12th Annual Best of PlayGround Festival: An Evening of Short Plays at Thick House

Thick House (San Francisco, CA)
Thursday, May. 15 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $28.00 - $40.00 Our Price: $10.00 - $20.00*
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The 12th Annual Best of PlayGround Festival is an evening of seven short plays written by some of the Bay Area's hottest new playwrights. Performed and directed by top local talent, the short works are given full production to deliver what the Examiner calls, "as entertaining and thought-provoking as anything on stage at The City's major theaters these days."

Rock-Influenced Jazz Bands The Bad Plus and Danilo Rea's Doctor 3

Palace of Fine Arts Theatre (San Francisco, CA)
Thursday, May. 15 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $25.00 - $36.00 Our Price: $12.50 - $18.00*
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SFJAZZ presents acclaimed jazz trio The Bad Plus, who combine the precision of jazz with the force and immediacy of a rock band. They play original songs, as well as versions of tunes by bands ranging from Black Sabbath and Rush to Blondie and ABBA. Italy's Doctor 3, led by pianist Danilo Rea, redefine the music of their youth (Neil Young, Paul Simon, and much more) with staggering instrumental prowess.

Theater: The Musical — An Improvised Musical from Un-Scripted Theater Company

SF Playhouse Stage 2 (San Francisco, CA)
Thursday, May. 15 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 3:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
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At each performance, the Un-Scripted Theater Company will improvise a new, full-length musical as if it were written by one of your favorite playwrights. In the mood for musical comedy? How about musical drama? The audience supplies the playwright, and Un-Scripted delivers an original musical—created just for you.

The Afro-Cuban Jazz Cartel in Concert at Pearl's

Jazz at Pearl's (San Francisco, CA)
Thursday, May. 15 2008 @ 8:00pm
Thursday, May. 15 2008 @ 10:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 - $100.00 Our Price: $5.00 - $50.00*
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The Afro-Cuban Jazz Cartel was formed in 2007 by drummer Brian Andres and carries on the San Francisco Bay Area tradition of world class Latin Jazz. Bringing together some of the most proficient musicians in the Latin and Jazz communities of the Bay Area, the Afro-Cuban Jazz Cartel performs with one foot standing solidly in the traditions of Afro-Cuban Jazz while the other reaches for the future.

Entangled Love Story Octopus at The Magic Theatre

The Magic Theatre (San Francisco, CA)
Thursday, May. 15 2008 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
Full Price: $25.00 - $45.00 Our Price: $12.50 - $22.50*
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A love story rendered through a post-modern gay lens, Octopus examines the fallout of one night of lust on four men. This universal story of love, jealousy and commitment comingles with a mysterious telegram delivery boy and a ravenous monster from the ocean floor.

Son of Sam I Am — Samuel Beckett's Rarely Performed Modern Masterpieces

975howard / The Garage (San Francisco, CA)
Thursday, May. 15 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 Our Price: $5.00*
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Son of Sam I Am is an evening of rarely performed short works by Irish dramatist, novelist and poet Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot, Endgame). The program includes Catastrophe, Rockaby and Krapp's Last Tape, as well as several short pieces of fiction that the audience will blindly pick from a clothesline.

Hilarious Comedy About Theatre People The Ladies of the Camellias

Phoenix Theatre (San Francisco, CA)
Thursday, May. 15 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $30.00 Our Price: $7.50 - $15.00*
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The Ladies of the Camellias is a funny and poignant look at the world of theatre and the stage, and wonderful people who inhabit it. Among them are actors, directors (whatever they are!), bomb-wielding anarchists and the famous writer, Alexander Dumas, fils. All are part of a wonderful ensemble that collide with sidesplitting results.

Michael Tilson Thomas Conducts the San Francisco Symphony and Yefim Bronfman in Brahms

Davies Symphony Hall (San Francisco, CA)
Thursday, May. 15 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $35.00 - $78.00 Our Price: $17.50 - $39.00*
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Brahms poured his conflicted obsession with Clara Schumann into his Piano Concerto No. 1. This work pits piano against orchestra, and the soloist must convince us that they are equal protagonists. Commanding pianist Yefim Bronfman was made for that assignment. Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony in an installment of their Brahms Festival, which also features the composer's Serenade no. 2 and Variations on a Theme by Haydn.

Peddling Rainbows: The Songs and Poetry of E.Y. "Yip" Harburg

Eureka Theatre (San Francisco, CA)
Thursday, May. 15 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 6:00pm
Full Price: $22.00 - $38.00 Our Price: $11.00 - $19.00*
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Enjoy an evening of great songs like "It's Only a Paper Moon," "April in Paris," "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?", "Over the Rainbow," "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?", "Happiness Is Just a Thing Called Joe," "Can't Help Singing" and "Old Devil Moon" by lyricist E.Y. "Yip" Harburg and his composer-collaborators Harold Arlen, Burton Lane, Jerome Kern, Jule Styne, Vernon Duke and more.

Sweeney Todd Spoof Sweetie Tanya: The Demon Barista of Valencia Street

EXIT Theatre (San Francisco, CA)
Thursday, May. 15 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 Our Price: $12.50*
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Catch the musical parody that SF Weekly calls "a vicious theatrical treat." On the run from creditors after a failed sexual harassment suit against her powerful boss, Tanya ends up working in the dingiest coffee shop in the Mission. Instead of a haven, she finds a lecherous boss, creepy patrons and her destiny as a force of vengeance!

Vampire Tour of San Francisco - The Best of the Bay!

Vampire Tour of San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: $10.00*
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Explore the Gothic side of San Francisco's Nob Hill with this incredible Vampire Tour, led by Mina Harker, a real vampress. This tour has been delighting Goldstar Events' customers since January 2004!

Big City Improv at the Shelton Theater

The Shelton Theater (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 10:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
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The award-winning Big City Improv performs improvisational comedy in the style of TV's Whose Line Is It Anyway? and they are appearing live at The Shelton Theatre.

Shopping! The Musical - A Brand New Musical Comedy Revue

The Shelton Theater (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $29.00 Our Price: $14.50*
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Shopping! The Musical is a new musical comedy revue by award-winning writer Morris Bobrow about everyone's second favorite (in some cases, favorite) activity. Hilarious songs and sketches about the frustrations, annoyances and occasional joys of shopping — how men and women do it, dealing with customers, clerks and store environments, shopping online and on TV and other familiar situations.

Singles Mixer and Dance Party at Golden Gate Yacht Club

Golden Gate Yacht Club (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm - Midnight
Full Price: $20.00 - $25.00 Our Price: $10.00 - $12.50*
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Mingle, flirt and dance the night away at this mixer and dance party for singles in the elegant Commodore room of the Golden Gate Yacht Club. The evening includes a fun mixer game that makes it easy to meet people at the party, a salsa lesson, dancing to hit tunes spun by a DJ and, of course, plenty of mingling!

San Francisco Architecture Walking Tour: Discover the City's Gems

Architecture Walking Tour - Galleria Park Hotel Lobby (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ Various Times
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ Various Times
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: $10.00*
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Discover the rich history of San Francisco architecture. Rick Evans' two-hour tour is loaded with secret gems and hidden jewels of the city! In addition to learning about the history of the architecture in the Financial District, you'll also see hidden outdoor spaces, including several rooftop gardens that can only be found on foot.

First Draft: Synergy Theatre's New Improv Comedy Show

Off-Market Theater (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 10:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 Our Price: FREE - $5.00*
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Synergy Theatre and Piano Fight productions present First Draft, a hilarious new late-night improv comedy show. Aided by audience suggestions, a talented team of improvisers will generate a full-length play on the spot. Every show is completely different!

Insignificant Others: Love Unfolds In The City

Theatre 39 (San Francisco, CA)
Thursday, May. 15 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $46.00 Our Price: $9.95 - $23.00*
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This musical, transferring to Pier 39 after a successful run at the Zeum Theater, tells a tale of love and friendship. Five friends move to San Francisco from the Midwest, only to find themselves falling in love with each other, with the city itself, and facing any number of challenges to that love. Sexuality, faith and the ups and downs of love all come together for a rollicking, romantic, magical musical.

7 Sins: James Judd's Hilarious One-Man Show at Theatre Rhinoceros

Theatre Rhinoceros (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 - $15.00 Our Price: $5.00 - $7.50*
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Comedian and writer James Judd presents 7 Sins, a collection of hilarious true stories from his life. A hit across the country and on the Canadian festival circuit, the show follows Judd from his childhood (when his mother paid him to watch soap operas while she was at work, then re-enact them for her) through a series of failed jobs (including dot-com journalist and criminal defense attorney).

Tennessee Williams' Two-Character Drama Out Cry at The Next Stage

Next Stage Theater (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 Our Price: $12.50*
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Tennessee Williams called his two-person play Out Cry "...my most beautiful play since Streetcar." Reality and fantasy are interwoven with terrifying power as two actors—a brother and sister—are deserted in a decrepit "state theatre in an unknown state." Faced by an audience expecting a performance, they enact The Two-Character Play, an illusion within an illusion.

Audience Picks Winner in Short-Play Competition ShortLived

Off-Market Theater (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
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ShortLived is a three-month competition of fully staged short plays by a myriad of writers, where each piece is scored by the audience. The two lowest-scoring pieces are then replaced two weeks later by two new fully staged shorts. The writer whose script receives the highest score will be invited to write an upcoming full-length PianoFight play with a four-week run.

Flaming Sin: London's Grand Guignol Features U.S. Premiere of Noel Coward Play

Hypnodrome (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $69.00 Our Price: FREE - $34.50*
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The Hypnodrome presents Flaming Sin, featuring two plays which opened at London's notorious Grand Guignol in the early 1920s. The bill features the American premiere of Noel Coward's scandalous The Better Half, a skewering of British sexual mores that was lost for 85 years before being recently discovered. Also featured: André de Lorde and Alfred Binet's horrifying The Old Women, or A Crime in a Madhouse, plus an assortment of sensational variety acts.

Classic Family Comedy Life With Father at Chanticleers Theatre

Chanticleers Theatre (Castro Valley, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $16.00 Our Price: $8.00*
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In late 19th-century New York, a Wall Street broker likes to think he's in charge of his household...but much of what happens is beyond his control. His children are also stretching their wings, discovering girls and making money out of selling patent medicine. When it comes to light that he has never been baptized, things really start to come undone.

Peninsula Symphony Plays Mahler's Symphony No. 5, Plus Mendelssohn

San Mateo Performing Arts Center (San Mateo, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $34.00 Our Price: $17.00*
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The Peninsula Symphony plays Mahler's Symphony No. 5. As is usual for the great Romantic composer, it's a massive work filled with grandeur and turbulence. It's contrasted by another great Romantic work: Mendelssohn's enchanting Violin Concerto in E, featuring soloist Jing Wang.

Jazz Legend Barbara Morrison in Concert at Pearl's

Jazz at Pearl's (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 10:00pm
and 2 more dates.
Full Price: $25.00 - $150.00 Our Price: $12.50 - $75.00*
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Barbara Morrison, a perennial favorite of Goldstar's members, celebrates her 30th year in the music industry. Over the past three decades she has performed with a virtual "who's who" of the jazz and the blues worlds, and appeared on over 20 recordings. Now she's coming to Jazz at Pearl's.

Elton John and Tim Rice's Musical Aida at Hillbarn Theatre

Hillbarn Theatre (Foster City, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $26.00 - $28.00 Our Price: $13.00 - $14.00*
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This pop-rock musical by Elton John and Tim Rice (The Lion King) is the passionate tale of a captured Nubian princess taken as a slave to Egypt, where she becomes involved in a love triangle with her captor, the Egyptian captain Radames, and the daughter of the Pharaoh, Princess Amneris, who is bethrothed to Radames.

SAFEhouse Presents The Book of Mark

975howard / The Garage (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 Our Price: $5.00*
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Ever wonder how to feed 5,000 guests who just happen to pop in for dinner? How to walk on water? Ever try to give swimming lessons to 2,000 pigs? These are just some of the complex perplexities encountered in The Book of Mark, the story of one man's journey into eternity.

Urban Diversion's 5 Year Anniversary Party with the Spazmatics

Broadway Studios (San Francisco, CA)
Friday, May. 16 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 Our Price: $12.50*
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Celebrate the fifth anniversary of Urban Diversion, the Bay Area's hottest social and adventures club, with a hot party at Broadway Studios featuring live music by the Spazmatics, who play the New Wave hits of the '80s. There will be drink specials, DJ sets by DJ Dino, a trapeze show by the director of Trapeze Arts, promotional giveaways, and more!

Naked Comedy — Live Stand-Up Comedy at the Clubhouse!

The Clubhouse @ SF Comedy College (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 9:00pm (Joe Klocek)
Full Price: $12.00 Our Price: $6.00*
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No additives, no preservatives—just good stand-up comedy. This comedy showcase features some of the best comedians in town, including those local favorites from the bigger clubs—without the two-drink minimum of those other clubs. Lineups change every week, so check the Clubhouse website for the latest updates.

Direct from New York, Singer-Pianist Tony DeSare and His Trio in Concert

Osher Marin Jewish Community Center (San Rafael, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $40.00 Our Price: $20.00*
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Tony DeSare, jazz pianist and crooner, returns to Osher Marin for an evening of swinging music. Tony performs in the tradition of Frank Sinatra and the next generation of jazz/cabaret/American songbook greats such as Harry Connick, Jr. and John Pizzarelli. This talented young singer-pianist-composer earned rave reviews for his recent debut at the legendary Cafe Carlyle.

Lamplighters' Gilbert & Sullivan: Straight Up, With A Twist! Tells Story of Musical Duo

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Novellus Theater (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $39.00 Our Price: $19.50*
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The Lamplighter's Gilbert & Sullivan: Straight Up, With A Twist! is the real story behind one of the greatest partnerships in theater history, told in their own words, with musical highlights from all 13 of their comic operas. You'll meet Arthur Sullivan and W.S. Gilbert, overhear their creative infighting, and enjoy a large selection of songs and choruses, both oft-performed favorites and beauties from infrequently staged productions.

Celebrated Baritone Matthias Goerne Sings Songs by Shostakovich, Brahms, Wolf

Herbst Theatre at the San Francisco War Memorial Building (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $30.00 - $49.00 Our Price: $15.00 - $24.50*
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San Francisco Performances welcomes baritone Matthias Goerne to the Herbst Theatre for a program featuring the last songs written by three composers. The program includes Shostakovich's Suite on Verses by Michelangelo, Hugo Wolf's Michelangelo Lieder, and Brahms' Four Serious Songs, all of which grapple with issues of mortality and the artistic legacy.

An Evening with Ben Vereen at Kanbar Hall

Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (Kanbar Hall) (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $68.00 Our Price: $34.00*
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Broadway legend Ben Vereen makes a rare appearance bringing his "Old Razzle-Dazzle" to the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco's Kanbar Hall. He'll chart the course of his illustrious career, and pay tribute to his idol Sammy Davis Jr.

Ann Randolph's Wickedly Funny One-Woman Show Squeeze Box at the Marsh

The Marsh San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 5:00pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $25.00 Our Price: $7.50 - $12.50*
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Originally produced by Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft, Ann Randolph's one-woman show Squeeze Box was an off-Broadway hit. This is her strange and wonderful tale of working at a woman's shelter while pursuing Harold, "the accordionist of her dreams." Wickedly funny and poignant, the show makes its Bay Area debut, and will be followed by excerpts from Randolph's next production.

American Bach Soloists Present Sound the Trumpet

First Congregational Church of Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $16.00 - $30.00 Our Price: $8.00 - $15.00*
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Baroque trumpeter John Thiessen, whose playing has been called "flawless" and "effervescent," joins American Bach Soloists at the First Congregational Church of Berkeley to celebrate the anniversaries of two contemporaries of Bach — Johann Friedrich Fasch and Guiseppe Torelli — with a program of virtuoso trumpet concertos.

San Francisco Giants vs. Chicago White Sox, Plus Promotions

AT&T Park (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 6:05pm
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 6:05pm
Full Price: $42.00 Our Price: $20.00*
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The San Francisco Giants host the Chicago White Sox in a weekend series at AT&T Park. Both of these games feature exciting promotions: bring your cameras on May 17 for On-Field Photo Night, while May 18 is the Coca-Cola G-Men Retro Game, in which the first 7500 fans 14 or under receive a set of "army men"-style toy baseball players.

Alexander String Quartet with Lecturer Robert Greenberg at Herbst Theatre

Herbst Theatre at the San Francisco War Memorial Building (San Francisco, CA)
Saturday, May. 17 2008 @ 10:00am
Full Price: $34.00 Our Price: $17.00*
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San Francisco Performances presents the latest concert in its Saturday morning "Inspirations" series: a world-class performance from its resident ensemble, the Alexander String Quartet, combined with an educational and entertaining lecture from music historian Robert Greenberg. This program features Franz Schubert's String Quartet No. 14, Death and the Maiden, and George Crumb's Black Angels (Images I) for electric string quartet.

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