Sam Whiting
Arts and Culture Reporter at San Francisco Chronicle
Reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle for 33 years. Covers parks and historic preservation and enjoys writing obituaries
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3 weeks ago |
sfchronicle.com | Sam Whiting
Action Theater founder Ruth Zaporah in 2019. Courtesy of Kate RussellRuth Zapora in Oaxaca, Mexico, in 1996. Courtesy of Stephen HefferenanRuth Zaporah in her studio, 2018. Courtesy of Kate RussellThe Action Theater troupe in 1998. In the early 1970s, Berkeley dance instructor Ruth Zaporah carved out a niche in the overcrowded Bay Area theater scene by creating a mix of modern dance, gymnastics, performance art and mime that she called Action Theater.
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3 weeks ago |
sanluisobispo.com | Sam Whiting
Esa-Pekka Salonen's final month as music director of the San Francisco Symphony has begun, and the lines at the Davies Symphony Hall box office are just one sign of how much Bay Area audiences are going to miss him. At the front of it for the Symphony's matinee of the last of three performances with violinist Hillary Hahn on Sunday, June 1,were patrons and old Symphony supporters Devorra Depper and Ophelia Salazar.
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3 weeks ago |
sacbee.com | Sam Whiting
Esa-Pekka Salonen's final month as music director of the San Francisco Symphony has begun, and the lines at the Davies Symphony Hall box office are just one sign of how much Bay Area audiences are going to miss him. At the front of it for the Symphony's matinee of the last of three performances with violinist Hillary Hahn on Sunday, June 1,were patrons and old Symphony supporters Devora Depper and Ophelia Salazar.
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4 weeks ago |
sfchronicle.com | Sam Whiting
Architect Chuck Davis, in vest, walks by the entrance of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which was his career-defining project. EHDDThe Monterey Bay Aquarium was the seminal architectural project for Davis of the San Francisco firm EHDD. EHDDThe entrance to the science library at UC Santa Cruz, designed by Davis. EHDDDavis was still serving on UC Berkeley’s Campus Design Review Committee at age 90.
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4 weeks ago |
sfchronicle.com | Sam Whiting
Cesar Martinez of Porterville looks over a selection of books at the Counterculture Museum as he and others visit on opening day Thursday in San Francisco. Lea Suzuki/S.F. ChronicleKaszmir Figura of Warsaw, Poland, left, and Bianca Czeslawski of Chicago talk as they take in the different displays at the Counterculture Museum on opening day. Lea Suzuki/S.F. ChronicleBooks, photos and other memorabilia are seen in a Black Panther display at the Counterculture Museum in San Francisco.
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