Herbst Theatre Information and Event Guide

Events:

City Arts & Lectures Presents Marion Nestle & Michael Polla...
Marion Nestle is a renowned nutritionist and author of Food Politics and Safe Food. Focusing on the scientific, cultural, and economic factors that influence how food is grown, sold, and eaten, Nestle...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-05-08 20:00:00

SF AIGA Design Lecture Series: Davy Rothbart | Found Magazin...
Presented by AIGA San Francisco Herbst Theatre 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco 7:00 PM - Lecture Materials designed by the speakers will be available for purchase and signing at their respective le...
Category: Media, 19:00:00, 2007-05-10 19:00:00

9th Annual Funny Girlz: Smorgasbord Women Comedians
Kung Pao Kosher Comedy Presents... The 9th Annual Funny Girlz: A Smorgasbord of Women Comedians Saturday, May 19 @ 8pm Featuring: Headliner - Luenell - co-star of BORAT -Marga Gomez - "A Lati...
Category: Performing Arts, 20:00:00, 2007-05-19 20:00:00

Christopher Hitchens Talk at City Arts and Lectures
Christopher Hitchens is one of the most compelling and controversial voices of modern journalism. A staunch supporter of intellect over opinions and principles over politics, Hitchens writes with scop...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-05-23 20:00:00

Legendary Comedian Jonathan Winters
Legendary comedian Jonathan Winters, film clips & conversation hosted by Sydney Goldstein: Jonathan Winters is an icon of American comedy. A comic actor for more than five decades, Winters is ...
Category: Media, 20:00:00, 2007-05-30 20:00:00

New Century Chamber Orchestra with Cho-Liang Lin
The Grammy-nominated New Century Chamber Orchestra is pleased to announce the last four concerts of its 15th season, June 7-12, 2007. Grammy-nominated and internationally celebrated soloist and chambe...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-06-12 20:00:00

City Arts & Lectures Presents Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje fuses exuberant storytelling with jazz rhythms and luxurious imagery in his bestselling novels. Born in Sri Lanka, educated in England, and currently a resident of Canada, Ondaatje dr...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-06-13 20:00:00

Ryan Adams & The Cardinals

Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-07-23 20:00:00

City Arts and Lectures presents Richard Ford
Richard Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi, the son of a traveling salesman. He is the highly-praised author of novels and short fiction, notably the Frank Bascombe novels The Sportswriter, Indepen...
Category: Education, 20:00:00, 2007-09-05 20:00:00

Jake Shimabukuro Concert

Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-09-07 20:00:00

Gwyneth Cravens with Rip Anderson
Gwyneth Cravens in conversation with Rip Anderson present "Power to Save the World" as part of The Long Now Foundation's Seminars About Long-term Thinking.
Category: Education, 19:30:00, 2007-09-14 19:30:00

Strunz and Farah
Strunz and Farah use flamenco, Cuban, Arab, Afro-Latin and American influences to create a jazz-fusion style that is all their own.
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-09-15 20:00:00

Judy Tenuta
Stand-up comic/actress Judy Tenuta describes herself as a "multi-media Bondage Goddess" and "the Aphrodite of the Accordion." Her fans ranges from fetuses to fossil...
Category: , 17:00:00, 2007-09-16 17:00:00

Judy Tenuta
Stand-up comic/actress Judy Tenuta describes herself as a "multi-media Bondage Goddess" and "the Aphrodite of the Accordion." Her fans ranges from fetuses to fossil...
Category: , 17:00:00, 2007-09-16 17:00:00

City Arts and Lectures present Aimee Mann
Grammy winner Aimee Mann writes smart, sardonic songs that have a literary quality to them, like short stories set to music. Mann's ballads abound with vivid details and flawed characters. On...
Category: Education, 20:00:00, 2007-09-19 20:00:00

James Watson, in conversation with Roy Eisenhardt
James Watson is an American molecular biologist, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA. Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physi...
Category: Education, 20:00:00, 2007-09-26 20:00:00

Philip Glass, Pianist
Visionary composer Philip Glass' critically-acclaimed music ranges from opera, film and symphonic works to music for dance and theater. Wendy Sutter is one of New York's most active an...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-09-28 20:00:00

Paul Taylor: Taylor 2
A giant among modern dance choreographers, Paul Taylor has riveted audiences with matchless inventiveness and astonishing poignancy for over a half-century. Established in 1993, Taylor 2 ensures that ...
Category: , 11:00:00, 2007-09-29 11:00:00

Talking Music - Remembering Nick Drake
On Tuesday October 2nd,City Arts & Lectures and Noise Pop will present a special evening entitled Remembering Nick Drake with author / producer Joe Boyd, Nick’s sister Gabrielle Drake, singe...
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-10-02 20:00:00

LUNAFEST National Premiere
Hollywood Starlet VIP Reception - 6 - 7:15 pm Premiere Film Screening - 7:30 - 9:30 pm LUNAFEST, the national traveling film festival of short films by, for, about women kicks off its National Premie...
Category: , 18:00:00, 2007-10-04 18:00:00

Beirut
Two shows ... 10.8 & 10.9 http://www.beirutband.com/
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-10-08 20:00:00

Beirut
Two shows ... 10.8 & 10.9 http://www.beirutband.com/
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-10-09 20:00:00

Carnival of the Animals
This event features wonderful performance of Saint-Saens' 'Carnival of the Animals.' It also includes performances by guest artists performing beastly works by Giaocchino Rossi...
Category: , 15:00:00, 2007-10-14 15:00:00

Talking Music with Bob Mould & Michael Azerrad
The third event in the series is Tuesday, October 16th when City Arts & Lectures and Noise Pop welcome musician Bob Mould to the Herbst Theatre for a special conversation with music journalist...
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-10-16 20:00:00

Kazuhito Yamashita, Guitarist
Kazuhito Yamashita is a Japanese classical guitarist.
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-10-20 20:00:00

8th Annual Brower Youth Awards Celebration
The Brower Youth Awards is an annual national award recognizing six young people, ages 13-22, for their outstanding activism and achievements in the fields of environmental and social justice advocacy...
Category: Other, 19:30:00, 2007-10-24 19:30:00

Emerson String Quartet
The Grammy award-winning and highly respected Emerson String Quartet has been together now for more than 20 years.
Category: , 19:00:00, 2007-10-28 19:00:00

Fred Hersch Trio + 2
Part of the SF Jazz Festival. For further details and ticket information visit the SF Jazz site.
Category: Music, 19:30:00, 2007-11-01 19:30:00

Chris Elliott at City Arts and Lectures
Comedian, actor and satirist Chris Elliott has made a career of blurring truth and absurdity. Elliott wrote and performed for "Late Night With David Letterman," creating popular char...
Category: Education, 20:00:00, 2007-11-14 20:00:00

Emmanuel Pahud, Flutist
The former principal flutist of the Berlin Philharmonic performs frequent recitals and concerts in Europe, Japan and America.
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-11-15 20:00:00

Symphony (Junkestra) and Videos from the San Francisco Dump
Oboes and violins will make way for serving trays and copper pipes when musicians perform local composer Nathaniel Stookey’s “Junkestra” an original symphony in three movements under the baton o...
Category: Performing/Visual Arts, 20:00:00, 2007-11-16 20:00:00

Lamplighters Champagne Gala: Harry Patter & the Slave of Dut...
For the 42nd consecutive year, Lamplighters Music Theatre presents their annual fundraising gala event, a musical skewer of current events. The champagne will flow as musical sparks fly in this wacky,...
Category: , 16:00:00, 2007-11-18 16:00:00

Help is on the Way for the Holidays IX
THE RICHMOND / ERMET AIDS FOUNDATION PRESENTS… HELP IS ON THE WAY FOR THE HOLIDAYS IX AN ALL- STAR BENEFIT CONCERT Sunday, Dec. 2, 2007 - Herbst Theatre in SF THE RICHMOND/ERMET AIDS FOUNDATION pres...
Category: Music, 19:30:00, 2007-12-02 19:30:00

Duo Melis
Duo Melis is a classical guitar duo consisting of Alexis Muzurakis and Susana Prieto.
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-12-15 20:00:00

Ian Bostridge, Tenor
A clear powerful tenor, Ian Bostridge brings unparalleled intellect and intuition to his performances. His range and repertory are wide and innovative, from Bach to Britten and from the opera stage to...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2008-01-22 20:00:00

Hakan Hardenberger, Trumpeter
Hakan Hardenberger is a phenomenal trumpet player and a superb musician who has created, virtually single-handed, a whole new repertoire for his instrument.
Category: , 20:00:00, 2008-01-29 20:00:00

Steve Martin at City Arts and Lectures
Steve Martin recounts more than four decades as an actor, writer, and legendary performer in his new memoir Born Standing Up. When he was ten years old, Martin sold guidebooks at Disneyland and was s...
Category: Education, 20:00:00, 2008-01-30 20:00:00

Belcea Quartet
The Belcea Quartet is rapidly gaining an enviable reputation as one of the leading quartets of the younger generation. They continue to take the British and international chamber music circuit by stor...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2008-01-31 20:00:00

Magnetic Fields

Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2008-02-28 20:00:00

The Magnetic Fields
http://magneticfields.musictoday.com/MagneticFields/calendar.aspx
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2008-02-29 20:00:00