15 seconds that changed San Francisco
San Francisco Gate - So does anyone exploring the Yerba Buena district south of Market Street, which, after decades of development gridlock, is a buoyant area with draws ranging from the Cartoon Art Museum and the California Historical Society to the San Francisco Museum
Langerado Artists
antiMUSIC - 2007's Langerado Music Festival is thrilled to host Widespread Panic, Trey Anastasio, O.A.R., Matisyahu, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Paolo Nutini, The Disco Biscuits, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Toots and the Maytals, Los Lobos, Blackalicious, Yerba
The romantic Italian gambler
Ashland Daily Tidings - Yerba Buena means "good grass" in Spanish. That was the name of a small agricultural California hamlet with 900 citizens when gold was discovered in January 1848. Two years later, when California joined the union, it had been renamed San Francisco
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antiMUSIC - 2007's Langerado Music Festival is thrilled to host Widespread Panic, Trey Anastasio, O.A.R., Matisyahu, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Paolo Nutini, The Disco Biscuits, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Toots and the Maytals, Los Lobos, Blackalicious, Yerba
Our Stocking Runneth Over
San Francisco Gate - The evergreen "Beach Blanket Babylon" enters its holiday season yet again, and "The Velveteen Rabbit" is back at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, courtesy of ODC Dance. For the fifth year running, David Sedaris' tale of department-store-elf wage
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San Francisco Weekly - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts presents a wide array of visual art exhibitions, performances and film screenings, as well as community engagement programs that provide arts and education activities for schools, youth, teachers and the general public
Wurm turns the absurd on its head
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Before Held, Wurm's exhibit, organized by San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, would have been at the Frye when pigs fly. Before Held, the Frye had its feet planted in the 19th century, its nose turned up at the 20th. With new members of
A meeting of Other Minds
Contra Costa Times - Over the years the festival has used various venues, most frequently Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. With on-site parking, an in-house restaurant and a flexible theater in Kanbar Hall, the JCCSF offers a self-contained space in which composers
Jobs unveils iTV device, latest iPods
San Jose Mercury News - ``Your den, your living room, your car, your pocket,'' Jobs bluntly told a select audience of technologists and journalists who had been summoned to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco for a secret announcement Tuesday. As expected
See and hear
San Francisco Gate - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater, 700 Howard St. (415) 978-2787. www.smuinballet.org . CLASSICAL MUSIC San Francisco Symphony Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor. Horacio Gutierrez, piano. Vaughan Williams, Dutilleux, Ravel. 2 p.m. Thurs., 8 p