San Francisco Ballet Building both classical and contemporary ballet. Along with American Ballet Theatre and the New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet has been described as part of the "triumvirate of great classical companies defining the American style on the world stage today." With its origins in turn-of-the-century traveling companies, the San Francisco ballet routinely rented practice studios. In the late 1970s, the company was housed in a renovated parking garage on 18th Avenue, San Francisco, in a downstairs studio with ceilings so low that the dancers could not practice lifts for fear of hitting the beams. On the east coast, ballet companies
San Francisco (magazine) San Francisco (magazine) San Francisco is an American monthly magazine devoted to the people, culture, food, politics, and arts of the San Francisco Bay Area. It is published monthly by Modern Luxury publications. There have been two separate "San Francisco" magazines published in San Francisco. One was started in the 1970s and published for many years, under a series of different publishers, until it went out of business around 1985. The magazine known as "San Francisco" has its roots starting in 1955, when San Francisco public broadcasting station KQED-TV began publishing a programming guide called "KQED in Focus". The program