San Francisco Ballet 2011, theatrical distributor IndieNetFilms arranged for additional screenings throughout the U.S. and Canada. In December 2011, the U.S. premiere of John Neumeier's "The Little Mermaid", performed by San Francisco Ballet, was broadcast nationally on PBS's "Great Performances: Dance in America", and also internationally. DVDs of the "Nutcracker" and "The Little Mermaid" performances were released in 2008 and 2011, respectively. CD recordings of the complete score of "Nutcracker" and Shinji Eshima's "RAkU" were released in 2010 and 2012, respectively. The company has garnered numerous accolades and awards. In 2005, San Francisco Ballet won its first Laurence Olivier Award, in the category
San Francisco Oracle published from January 24, 1968 to March 25, 1969, at which time the paper's name was changed to "San Francisco Good Times," appearing under that title from April 1969 to August 1972. In 1967 students at San Francisco State College distributed a one-off eight-page tabloid parody of the "Oracle" called the "Orifice," edited by Ben Fong-Torres. San Francisco Oracle The Oracle of the City of San Francisco, also known as the San Francisco Oracle, was an underground newspaper published in 12 issues from September 20, 1966, to February 1968 in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of that city. Allen Cohen (1940–2004), the