Show Review: Decapitated + SepticFlesh at DNA Lounge, May 18, 2024

Photos and review by: Alan Ralph @AlanHasPicks
Decapitated photos by: Zoran Theodorovic of Capital Chaos TV

After just over a month on the road, co-headliners Decapitated and SepticFlesh, along with Kataklysm and Allegaeon, held their penultimate show of the Cancer Culture Over North America tour at DNA Lounge in San Francisco. The show was packed from the first band to the last, and all four felt like they could have been the headliner!

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Show Review: Hitchcock Week — Greatest Hits

Iconic Vertigo credit sequence.
Iconic Vertigo credit sequence.

Last night closed the book on Hitchcock Week with the San Francisco Symphony.  The talented orchestra players, conducted by Joshua Gersen, performed selections from Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief, Strangers on a Train, Vertigo, Dial M for Murder, and North by Northwest.  Part of the night belonged to the complex scores, at times sweepingly romantic, other times suspenseful and bombastic.  The other half belonged to the charming host, Eva Marie Saint (On the Waterfront, North by Northwest).  At 89 years old, she still carries a youthful exuberance that would make you question whether she was a day over thirty.  Aside from a few film intro slip ups, she held her own, constantly throwing out sharp pokes at herself, hilarious flirtations at Gersen, and telling fascinating anecdotes about her work with Hitchcock.

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