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Arts & Culture Columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, farmers’ market patron, small dog person. He/Him.

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We are excited to announce that “Barbara Stauffacher Solomon: Why? Why Not?” will open at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) on January 16, 2027.

Curated by Martin Strickland, the exhibition marks the artist’s first posthumous solo museum exhibition.

Read more in Tony Bravo’s article published in the San Francisco Chronicle today!

Link in bio.

Thank you to the team at YBCA!
@martinjaystrickland
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The @sfchronicle divas are fighting what's the tea?!

@lilyjaniak and @tonybravosf there's only one way to settle this dispute

Night of 1000 Mary Todds
Saturday Oct 31st @whitehorsebar
Midnight Mary Todd Costume Contest
$200 Grand Prize

#ohmary #halloween #costume

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It was a pleasure to be part of this year’s San Francisco Fall Show and join Anne Fairfax and Ed Hollander for The Dialogue of Design: Architecture, Landscape & Interiors, moderated by the San Francisco Chronicle’s Tony Bravo.

A wonderful conversation exploring how architecture, landscape, and interiors come together to create homes with a true sense of place.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the discussion and book signing!

@sffallshow @hollander_design @fairfaxandsammons @tonybravosf @suzanne_tucker @nivenbreen

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One of the biggest theatrical hits in recent memory started with an unapologetically irreverent idea: “What if Abraham Lincoln’s assassination wasn’t such a bad thing for Mary Todd Lincoln?” as playwright Cole Escola has now said many times.

More than a dozen years later, the actor and downtown New York cabaret performer created “Oh, Mary!” — the gloriously stupid play with a smart, funny script that has little basis in the life of the real first lady. Since its debut off-Broadway in 2024, it has gone on to Broadway and London success, racking up Tony Awards for best leading actor in a play for Escola as the alcoholic, spotlight hungry Mary, and for director Sam Pinkleton.

Now the play is here at San Francisco’s Curran Theatre, running through Nov. 1 as part of a national tour, with drag star Alaska Thunderf— tearing up the fictional White House. The quickly selling production, presented by ATG San Francisco in association with American Conservatory Theater, was among the most anticipated coming to the city this fall, especially where the Venn diagram of queer culture, theater and comedy meet. (Even the play’s name is taken from the old-school gay exclamation familiar to connoisseurs of camp.)

Chronicle arts and culture columnist Tony Bravo spoke with some of the stars and the director.

Read theater critic Lily Janiak’s review via the link in our bio.

📹: @lsuzuki

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A $14,000 Bob Mackie jumpsuit stole the spotlight at the San Francisco Opera’s Costume Sale, where shoppers browsed wardrobes from the company’s past productions.

The white outfit, created by the late legendary Hollywood designer, was among the most expensive and exquisite items available for purchase from the Opera’s Burlingame Scene Shop, which opened its doors to fans Friday for the coveted sale that runs through Sunday. The Pierrot clown costume, with its extravagantly ruffled sleeves and black paillette cluster buttons, was worn by Eilana Lappalainen in the company’s 1998 production of “Lulu,” but could have been easily donned by Mackie muses Cher or Carol Burnett.

As pop culture observers know, it’s been the year of the white Bob Mackie jumpsuit. On the final season of the hit HBO series “Hacks,” comedian Debra Vance (played by Emmy Award-winner Jean Smart) searches for a sequined jumpsuit Burnett wore on the last episode of her eponymous variety show as if it was the Holy Grail. Mackie, who died in September at 87, played himself in the episode, an appropriate coda to a career that took him from television to the stage of the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House.

The jumpsuit’s star power was matched by the range of pieces shoppers could browse, from costumes to smaller keepsakes featured in productions such as “Luisa Miller,” “Un Ballo in Maschera,” “Idomeneo,” “Fidelio” and “Don Giovanni.”

The company hosts the event “whenever our closets get too full,” Galen Till, the Opera’s senior costume production supervisor told the Chronicle. This one marks the first in-person costume sale in more than a decade.

Read more via the link in our bio.

📹: @joytakesphotos

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sooo should someone turn @whitehorsebar's building into a co-op?

the bar itself isn't going anywhere. the White Horse Inn has been pouring since 1933, making it one of the oldest gay bars in the country, and its lease runs through 2029. but its building on Telegraph just hit the market for $2.5M.

co-owner Patty Dingle says she's looking at lining up partners to buy the building together. kinda like when rent hikes threatened @studsf ten years ago, and community bought the business together, and it became the first worker-owned co-op nightclub in the U.S.

when queer institutions are only ever renting, a sale can mean the end of a essential gathering space. owning together (tenants, workers, regulars, neighbors) is how communities keep the places that hold our history.

soooo should this be you ? tag someone you think should know about this.... we'll start lol @ebprec @theselc @bayareaclt @oakclt et al...

#bayareasmallbusiness #bayareacoops #oaklandsmallbusiness #queeroakland #gayoakland

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I am ace SF Chronicle writer Tony Bravo’s partner in crime tonight at the Fall Show. Fun to step back into the social whirl that I once chronicled so regularly when he and I worked in the Sunday Style section (RIP!). It’s completely different from my daytime AI startup world job! Thank you for taking me as your +1!

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Sqream has opened to screaming crowds and rave reviews!⁠
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Audiences are calling it "the show we all need right now" and the Chronicle's Tony Bravo raves that it's "a lot of stupid fun" – honestly, we couldn't agree more!⁠
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Come see the immersive '90s horror musical that you won't find ANYWHERE ELSE this Halloween...⁠
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🔪 SQREAM! 🔪 ⁠
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📆 Wed-Sat until Halloween (+ a Monday industry night!)⁠
📍 @theoasisssf - 298 11th St, San Francisco⁠
🎟️ sfoasis.com/Sqream or 🔗 in bio⁠
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📰 @tonybravosf @sfchronicle
📸 @michelleneoni

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It’s not too late to get tickets for the 2026 San Francisco Fall Show lecture series - don’t miss out on this stellar lineup of experts and authors!

Ticket link in highlights or visit sffallshow.org

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Did you know that Dirty Dancing choreographer Kenny Ortega has a cameo in the film?

After our screening of Dirty Dancing, the Emmy Award-winning choreographer shared behind-the-scenes stories of how the film came together, including how he ended up in the film for just a few seconds.

Watch the full Q&A at the link in our bio!
Moderated by SF Chronicle Columnist Tony Bravo

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‼️This video is rated TV-MA for language!‼️

Today is the birthday of the birthday of the incomparable Carole Lombard. Too often, Carole’s life is framed by her horrific death, in the crash of TWA Flight 3. But she was so much more than the circumstances of her death. A stellar actress, a comic pioneer, one of the best-liked people in the industry, and—a title she would enjoy—the best cusser in town.

Here she is showing her skill in that last category, in an outtake reel from MY MAN GODFREY. Screening at @milibrary this Friday! Ticket link in my bio. Come see Carole at the top of her game, and learn why we all love her so very much.

#botd #carolelombard #tcmparty @tcm #events #sanfrancisco @landiscomm @tonybravosf @abc7newsbayarea @sffuncheap @sfevents_

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I am excited to be joining Anne Fairfax and Ed Hollander at the San Francisco Fall Show for The Dialogue of Design: Architecture, Landscape & Interiors, moderated by the San Francisco Chronicle’s Tony Bravo.

We’ll explore how these disciplines come together to create homes with a true sense of place.

Join us on Saturday, October 17 at 11:00 AM!

Following the conversation, Ed and I will be signing our books in the Authors’ Alcove. Hope to see you there!

@sffallshow
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@hollander_design

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