Violinist Alina Kobialka will be one of the two soloists performing the Brahms Double Concerto with the California Symphony this weekend. Mitchell comes to the San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin St., to talk and sign books at 6:30 p.m. His new book “San Francisco Year Zero” (Rutgers University Press, $34.95, 312 pages) is subtitled “Political Upheaval, Punk Rock and a Third-Place Baseball Team,” and it knits together such disparate events as the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk, the Peoples Temple massacre, the emergence of the Sex Pistols and the Dead Kennedys and the unifying force that the ascendancy of the San Francisco Giants became. It was a very bad/good year: In the annals of San Francisco history, 1906 ranks pretty high for chaos and tragedy, but political scientist and author Lincoln Mitchell would also have us consider the turmoil that was 1978 for the City by the Bay.Tickets for the SuperM show, meanwhile, are $50-$224 on ticketmaster.
Anyone who doubts that K-pop has a following in the Bay Area should consider that another such outfit, BTS, has booked Levi’s Stadium for two nights next year. We’re talking about Korean pop group SuperM, which performs at 7 p.m. But thousands of music fans, mostly young women, will be at the SAP Center in San Jose that evening screaming for a group of guys they probably find way cuter than 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo. 2 hanging on every play of the Super Bowl, as our beloved 49ers take on the Kansas City Chiefs. K-pop takes the Bay Area: Sure, a lot of people will be spending Feb.The Bay Area is a hub of artistic expression, attracting artists, writers and musicians from around the globe to live, work and create.
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