"I grew up in Fort Worth, Texas and desperately wanted to move to San Francisco for college," recalls Betty Buckley. "I wanted to be part of the scene."
Singer-songwriter Paul Simon says his latest album "Stranger to Stranger" (Concord) will be his last, and if so, it's the glittering capstone on a brilliant career.
Haven't heard of Miller yet? If you consider yourself part of the theatrical cognoscenti, you'll want to catch up with the curve and check out the South Carolina-born dynamo's first-ever San Francisco appearances Feinstein's at the Nikko next weekend.
Now clawing her way back to the top after a period during which she lived in exile in Seattle, Katya Smirnoff Skyy returns to Feinstein's at the Nikko with her new show.
In over two decades of drag shows, the strapping, 6' 2" native Louisianan has tended to prattle on about urges more physical than political. But this go-round, things feel different.
The collaboration between Chinese-American composer Bright Sheng and Tony Award-winning American dramatist David Henry Hwang, opened last week at the War Memorial Opera House after months of intense anticipation.