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The Russian National Orchestra comes to Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall. Named Moscow's top orchestra in a Gramophone magazine poll of international music critics, they'll play Shostakovich's Symphony No. 9, Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto (with guest violinist Stefan Jackiw), and a song cycle by founder/conductor Mikhail Pletnev, based on three poems by Yeats. Learn more...

Hailing from South Africa, the 25-member Soweto Gospel Choir blends traditional, tribal and modern African gospel with Western spiritual sounds. They've won two Grammy Awards, and had multiple no. 1 albums on the Billboard World Music charts. They sing their uplifting music at Oakland's Paramount Theatre. Learn more...

The Un-Scripted Theater Company kicks off their eighth season with Un-Scripted: unscripted. It's a two-hour night of surprising and mischievous improvised theater, filled with songs, stories and scenes. Come see why, among other things, Un-Scripted was voted Best Theater Company 2008 in the SF Bay Guardian. Learn more...

Guests on this two-hour boat tour of San Francisco Bay can enjoy romantic sunset views and hearty appetizers while spotting stunning city skylines, historic landmarks, and the natural beauty of the Bay Area. This scenic cruise includes a trip past Alcatraz, the Golden Gate, the Presidio, the Marin Headlands, and other local sights. Learn more...

The Detroit Pistons make their only appearance at Oracle Arena this season, facing off against Monta Ellis, Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors in Saturday night NBA action. Each ticket comes with a voucher good for a hot dog, chips and soda at the game. Learn more...

On Bon Jovi's The Circle Tour, the band renews their commitment to the kind of hard-hitting, uplifting rock & roll that has been the band's signature since the beginning. Including the new single "We Weren't Born To Follow" and the album's opening track "When We Were Beautiful," The Circle Tour promises to re-establish the anthemic quality of Bon Jovi's sound. Learn more...

The Golden State Warriors host the Sacramento Kings in a battle of Northern California NBA rivals. Both teams are known for their fast-paced, high-scoring play on the court. The Kings are one of this year's surprise teams, led by Rookie of the Year candidate Tyreke Evans. Learn more...

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. Since its San Francisco debut in 2000, Teatro ZinZanni has become a Bay Area entertainment institution. Learn more...

See the best-loved musical comedy revue that has been wowing audiences for more than 30 years: Beach Blanket Babylon! This zany musical spoof of pop culture is world-renowned for its extravagant costumes, huge hats and biting satire. Learn more...

San Jose's SAP Open is one of America's premier men's tennis tournaments. This year's draw features some of the world's best players, including America's top-ranked player Andy Roddick, powerful left-hander Fernando Verdasco, and defending champion Radek Stepanek. Opening night features a charity exhibition match between Verdasco and the legendary Pete Sampras. (See below for more schedule information.) Learn more...

Paula West sings at the Rrazz Room at Hotel Nikko, accompanied by the George Mesterhazy Quartet. Paula's sound is often compared to Billie Holiday and Lena Horne. She's received three New York Nightlife Awards for Outstanding Female Jazz Vocalist. In 2008, she was the first singer to play the Rrazz Room. Learn more...

Around the World in 80 Beers celebrates Beer Week in San Francisco with a Beer Lover's Extravaganza, a very special tasting party featuring some of the best beers from America, Europe, and elsewhere around the world. This is a unique opportunity to discover new and exotic beers. Beer enthusiasts may discover something new, and those who are new to the beer scene have an opportunity to learn about the stylistic differences between different beers and discover their own preferences. Learn more...

The Bright River is a hip-hop retelling of Dante's Inferno by a traditional storyteller, Tim Barsky, with a live soundtrack performed by some of the best hip-hop and klezmer musicians in the Bay Area. The show sends audiences on a mass-transit tour of an urban landscape in the afterlife, guided by a fixer named Quick. It's a deep-rooted love story, a profound meditation on mass transit, and a passionate commentary on the current war in Iraq. Learn more...

San Francisco's Crisis Hopkins presents an evening of long-form improv at the Town hall Theatre in Lafayette. Acalanes High School's ImprovaDons open the show. A portion of all proceeds will be donated to earthquake relief in Haiti. Learn more...

This 2009 Goldstar "Hot Seller" event has returned. Carrying on a legacy over half a century old, 2009 roller derby champions San Francisco Bay Bombers skate into action, taking on the Brooklyn Red Devils in exciting roller derby action, conducted on a classic banked track. This is a family-friending sporting event that is sanctioned by the American Roller Skating Derby. This is sure to be a suspenseful and thrilling match. Learn more...

For more than two decades, Earplay's passionate group of performers and composers has been dedicated to creating new chamber music, nurturing both emerging and well-known composers, and seeking out exciting new works. See the full event description for the composers featured on specific dates. Learn more...

Animals Out of Paper is a quirky comedy about origami experts that deftly explores how life can get messy as it unfolds. When a world-renowned origami artist opens her studio to a teenage, hip-hop, origami prodigy and his school teacher, she finds that life and love can't always be neatly arranged. Learn more...

The Kronos Quartet performs at San Francisco's Project Artaud Theatre. The renowned new music ensemble's program will be highlighted by the West Coast premiere of Jon Rose's Music From 4 Fences. Each concert also features music by minimalist pioneer Terry Riley, rising composers from Kronos' Under 30 Project and more. Learn more...

Chicago playwright Joel Drake Johnson explores the risks and rewards of engaging in personal relationships. The First Grade follows the sometimes humorous, sometimes perilous attempts by a schoolteacher to rescue her physical therapist from harm. In doing so, she sets off a chaotic series of events involving a class of first-graders, her depressed daughter, a Ritalin-medicated grandson, and a live-in ex-husband. Learn more...

Spend a day at Aquarium of the Bay, an aquarium exploring the unique waters around San Francisco. Located on Fisherman's Wharf, the Aquarium features over 20,000 local marine animals, including massive Sevengill Sharks and the Giant Pacific Octopus. You'll also enjoy fun interactive activities, an exhibit focusing on Northern California's land animals and more. Learn more...

Two thirty-something New Yorkers go to Amsterdam to rekindle their friendship and get away from their lives. Matt is a struggling playwright who is recovering from both a terrible break-up and a serious illness. Davis is an up-and-coming publisher who is planning to help Matt by buying him a beautiful prostitute. The consequences of the subsequent love triangle follow Matt and Davis back to New York, altering their lives forever. Learn more...

Comedians Bradley Lum and Mark Zhang present The CockyAsians Comedy Tour at the Punch Line. Both are rising stars in the California comedy scene. Lum's video "Tai Mai Shu" was a hit on YouTube, and Zhang was a finalist in the 2009 SF Walk the Plank comedy competition. Learn more...

FOOT's flagship comedian-led walking tour, The Whole Shebang, is actually three fascinating tours squeezed into one three-hour tour. See the best that Nob Hill, Chinatown and North Beach have to offer! Learn more...

Meet new single friends, late-20s to early-40s, at the most honored Indian restaurant in America. Admission includes a fun mixer game that makes it easy to meet people, plus appetizers served during the first hour. Adults of all ages are welcome -- dress to impress. Learn more...

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. Learn more...

Moshe Kasher headlines the Punch Line. The San Francisco comic's hilariously neurotic material has made him a rising comedy star. He's been seen on Comedy Central's Live at Gotham, and at top comedy festivals across North America. His album Everyone You Know is Going to Die...And Then You Are. was a hit on iTunes, which named him the best new comedian of 2009. Learn more...

Comedian Dov Davidoff appears at the Punch Line in San Francisco. Dov has been seen on the Tonight Show, the Late Late Show, and his own half-hour Comedy Central special. Acting credits include Disney's Invincible and the NBC series Raines. Learn more...

Mahalia: A Gospel Musical chronicles the life of Mahalia Jackson, who rose from poverty to become a reknowned gospel singer, performing at John F. Kennedy's inauguration and at the historic March on Washington in 1963. This gospel musical celebrates her life and her music. Jeanie Tracy, who plays Mahalia Jackson has formerly played her off-Broadway in Sing Mahalia Sing. She has also appeared on Ed McMahon's Star Search and has released several top ten records. Learn more...

Searching for the perfect way to spend Valentine's Day with that special someone? The historic Red and White Fleet's romantic Sweet Valentine Cruise provides spectacular views of the San Francisco waterfront. Includes a lavish appetizer buffet by Boudin, and a champagne toast while sailing under the majestic Golden Gate Bridge, past the lush Marin Headlands and Angel Island State Park, and around Alcatraz. It's a casual cruise with a relaxed atmosphere and open seating. Learn more...

Sister Aloysius, principal of a Catholic School in 1960s Bronx, takes matters into her own hands when she suspects a young father of improper relations with one of the students. This award-winning play was written by John Patrick Shanley, whose other credits include the play Defiance, and the films Moonstruck, Joe vs. the Volcano and the film version of Doubt starring Meryl Streep and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Learn more...

Shopping! The Musical, by award-winning writer Morris Bobrow, is San Francisco's longest-running original show. A hit since its 2006 premiere, Shopping is a musical comedy revue about everyone's second favorite (in some cases, favorite) activity. Hilarious songs and sketches about the frustrations, annoyances and occasional joys of shopping. Learn more...

There's no better way to spend a beautiful Sunday morning/afternoon than cruising the picturesque SF Bay! Hornblower Cruises presents a wonderful 2-hour cruise, featuring a delicious brunch and champagne. Learn more...

This edgy stand-up show features three young Middle Eastern comics who poke fun at everything from politics to pop culture to Arab culture. The Comedians are Aron Kader of Comedy Central's "Axis of Evil" and The Shield; Maysoon Zayid, co-founder and co-executive producer of the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival and star of her own one-woman show, produced and directed by Kathy Najimy; and Dean Obeidallah of Comedy Central's "The Watch List." Learn more...

British journalist and novelist Chris Cleave (Incendiary, Little Bee) is earning increasing fame for his provocative, witty explorations of selfishness, ethical struggles, and the limits of human decency. He speaks at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. Learn more...

Punch Line Comedy Club presents Comedy Allstars. This show features a lineup of hilarious stand-up comics from the Bay Area and beyond, from top local headliners to up-and coming stars and comedians with national TV credits. Learn more...

Comedian Jim Jeffries headlines at the Punch Line. Born in Perth, Australia, Jim now lives in London, where his confrontational, uncensored, and deeply honest style has made him one of the UK's fastest-rising headliners. Learn more...

How We First Met is a unique comedy experience that's good for a laugh whether you are single or coupled, and a great date idea. Couples in the audience submit the stories of how they met and the audience votes on the winning tale. The actors will then portray the story through improv and song. Learn more...

With his unique Chicano swagger and sly sense of humor, Luis Alfaro transforms Sophocles' ancient tale into an electrifying and unforgettable myth for the modern age. As Oedipus struggles against fate amidst a chorus of prison inmates, his epic journey takes him along California's dusty Highway 99 from the Golden Gate Bridge to the City of Angels. Learn more...

Unwind with a Happy Hour Cruise. Set sail with drinks and snacks on a classic 1950s motor vessel which recalls the glory days of the Barbary Coast. Cruise the City's beautiful waterfront and the Bay Bridge and enjoy the views. Your ticket includes two drinks and snacks. Learn more...

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a maelstrom of metaphysics, existentialism and vaudevillian slapstick by one of the great contemporary playwrights, Tom Stoppard. The play takes off from Shakespeare's masterpiece, Hamlet, following Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, who were previously minor characters in Shakespeare's play, and never looks back. Learn more...

Rita is a brash young hairdresser who bursts into the life of professor Frank Bryant, when he is assigned to her as a tutor. Frank is an alcoholic whose life has devolved into cynicism. Both have a profound effect on each other, opening up new possibilities for each other's lives. A modern day Pygmalion, the play exposes the pretensions of academia and those who reject academia equally. Learn more...

Off-Market Theater hosts Alicia Dattner's solo show Eat, Pray, Laugh! The veteran comic and winner of SF Fringe's 2008 "Best Female Solo Act" tells the hilarious story of her three-month journey to India in search of spiritual wisdom. Singer Mirabai opens the show with a performance of Indian kirtan call-and-response singing. Learn more...

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 the city's newest skyscrapers, as well as hidden outdoor spaces that can only be found on foot. Learn more...

The Marsh presents Ann Randolph's Loveland. The award-winning solo performer (Squeeze Box) has been compared to the late Gilda Radner by Mel Brooks. In this hilarious, deeply moving show, Randolph plays a women taking the greatest journey of her life: a trip from Los Angeles to Ohio. Learn more...

Sample the wines of Napa and Sonoma Wine Country on a full-day tour. The Wine Lover's Tour is a semi-private, semi-customizable tour, which will visit 4 to 6 wineries. Lunch and wine tasting fees are not included in the price. See the More Details section for more information. Learn more...

PianoFight presents The Position, a full-length dramatic play by 2009 playwright competition winner William Bivins. Set in a world with 80% unemployment and mass social chaos, The Position is the story of six job applicants, selected from more than half-a-million, who are flown to a remote compound to live in luxury. However, upon arrival they are stripped of their clothes and identities and recorded around the clock as they are forced to compete for one available job. Learn more...

Enjoy a beautiful sunset on the water and then return to the shimmering city lights while enjoying a delicious dinner prepared fresh onboard by Hornblower's chefs. Spend the rest of the cruise dancing to live music. The trip includes a four-course dinner, cash bar, live band, and breathtaking bay views. Learn more...

Shannon Koob plays all 28 roles in The Syringa Tree, a personal story of the love between two families -- one white and one black, and the children born into early 1960s South Africa. The story is seen from the point of view of six-year-old Elizabeth Grace as she tries to make sense of the chaos and magic of Africa across four decades, from early apartheid to the first democratic elections in 1994. Learn more...

The Moscow Circus features unparalleled death defying acts, beautiful artistry and humorous clowns that have wowed audiences of children and adults worldwide. The Circus' current show features Russian folk musicians, dancers, and ornate costumes and backdrops, combining drama and cultural history in an exciting show brought to life in a traditional theater-circus format. Learn more...