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Goodman Building, also known as the Emeric Building and the St. Beryl Hotel, [4] is a historic commercial and residential building, built in 1860 and located at 1117 Geary Boulevard in Cathedral Hill, San Francisco, California. [5]
The 1978–1979 season opened with a revamping of Gays at Play, which consisted of LeRoi Jones' The Baptism (directed by Estes) and Fred Puliafito's Para de Noya (directed by Baugniet) — but it was the monumental success of the next production, Doric Wilson's West Street Gang (performed at the South of Market leather bar The Black & Blue), that won the company's first Cable Car Award and ...
The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute is a nonprofit research institute in San Francisco, California, with a focus on vision science and rehabilitation engineering. It was founded in 1959 by Arthur Jampolsky and Alan B. Scott , when some members of Stanford University 's Ophthalmology Department elected to stay in San Francisco rather ...
During the California Gold Rush, many Chinese immigrants came to San Francisco to work in gold mines and on railroads in search of wealth and a better life. The earliest recorded New Year's celebration was "a great feast" on February 1, 1851, [7] and the first dragon dance in San Francisco was held for the New Year in 1860. [8]
San Francisco Bay Area South of Market: 10 S Van Ness Ave San Francisco, CA 94103-1227 1968 3,000 Closed in 1971 Fillmore East: New York metropolitan area: East Village: 105 2nd Ave New York City, NY 10003-8380 1968 2,654 Closed in 1971 The Fillmore at TLA: Greater Philadelphia Queen Village: 334 South St Philadelphia, PA 19147-1536 2007 1,000
The movie will be screened on a 35mm print at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Wexner Center for the Arts, 1871 N. High St. Tickets cost $9, or $7 for senior citizens and Wexner Center members, $5 for students.
In 1959, the San Francisco Examiner wrote that the Great China Theater was the last active Chinese opera house in the United States. [8] Due to the decline in Chinese opera, the theater stayed afloat by showing movies, relegating operas to special occasions like the Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. 1963, during the Foo Hsing Troup ...
Melchor and Hirshberg [3] initially opened Gray Area Gallery in San Francisco's South of Market (SoMa) in 2006, following a conversation about the lack of proper venues for the exhibition of new media and technology-based art works. [4] By 2008, the gallery had incorporated as a non-profit and was renamed the Gray Area Foundation for The Arts.