Slide show: Adventures Winter 2011

Named "The Voice of Broadway" by New York Magazine, Betty Buckley has belted out a respectable repertoire of Broadway standards.   READ MORE

It's hard to live in the United States without hearing the song "When The Saints Go Marching In." It's quintessential New Orleans traditional jazz and germane to all that the Preservation Hall Jazz Band stands for.   READ MORE

Like so many artists in this exhibition, Sandy Yagyu has one foot rooted in the past, one foot steadied in the present. Sword raised, her vision points toward the future. She is one of 12 artists whose work will be featured in "Transcendental Vision, Japanese Culture and Contemporary Art," an exhibition that opens Friday evening at The Independent in Sand City.   READ MORE

STEPHEN MOORER/Pacific Repertory Theatre

If you walk into Pacific Repertory Theatre's Golden Bough Playhouse this Thursday night, not only will you see the newly renovated stage, but you'll also see more bouffant hairdos and beehive wigs than ever before in the history of PacRep.That's because Thursday night is the opening of PacRep School of Dramatic Arts' first offering of the season: the Tony Award-winning Broadway hit "Hairspray."   READ MORE

OPENING · JAN. 26-FEB. 19 PacRep SoDAonStage presents "Hairspray." Opens at 7:30p.m., Thursday, Jan. 26; Continuing at 7:30p.m. Thu-Sat nights and 2p.m. Sundays through Feb. 19 at the Golden Bough Playhouse, Monte Verde Street between Eighth and Ninth avenues, Carmel.   READ MORE