San Francisco Ballet the broad success of productions such as 1977's "Romeo and Juliet", which aired on the PBS series "Great Performances: Dance in America" in 1978. This televised performance marked the first time that a West Coast ballet company, and a full-length ballet, was shown on the PBS TV series. PBS televised three more of Smuin's SF Ballet productions, and his productions of "The Tempest" and "A Song for Dead Warriors" went on to win Emmy Awards. Smuin led the company until 1985. Helgi Tomasson's 1985 arrival as artistic director marked the beginning of a new era for San Francisco Ballet. Under
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