Topic: Burt Bacharach

Publisher: Burt Bacharach working on memoir

Burt Bacharach will be handling the words for his next project: a memoir. The award-winning collaborator on such hits as "I Say a Little Prayer"...
Retro music works like vampirism in reverse. The vulnerable young suck the blood of the powerful old, drawing their experience straight into their...

Famous May Birthdays

Famous May Birthdays - Republished from Famous May Birthdays - The Random Forest.. . Famous May Birthdays - May is always a busy month for births...

'Marlene,' by Charlotte Chandler: review

0 View Larger Image Marlene Marlene Dietrich, a Personal Biography (Simon & Schuster; 304 pages; $26) . Reading a biography by Charlotte Chandler ...
1. There's always a pop hook there to remind us what a seminal songwriter he is: The Way to San Jose — Music of Burt Bacharach brings together...

Bay Area weekend music picks

0 . Here are The Chronicle's picks for nightclub happenings this weekend. . . Compiled by Kimberly Chun, Justin Gillett, Mosi Reeves and Shay...

Promises, Promises

Rob Ashford's Mad Men-inflected revival of the 1968 Burt Bacharach-Hal David-Neil Simon musical comedy starts off with groovy bounce, but it's a slow slide into hollowness from there. As an office drone with an apartment ideal for senior-management trysts, Sean ...

A Flaneur in New York (20: The Matinee Crowd)

Tony Goldwyn and Sean Hayes in Promises, Promises Nov. 3: Today finds me at a matinee performance of Promises, Promises, which isn't where I...

San Jose Sharks blanked by Flames in Calgary

0 Sharks coach Todd McLellan didn't exactly try put a positive spin on the Sharks' shutout loss to the Calgary Flames.. . "In the first period ...
A bad case of the cutes can kill you.. . Consider the indie band Belle and Sebastian. No one could doubt their flair for reviving '60s chamber-pop...