Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis, “Warriors.” It’s not a stage show—at least not yet—but the latest project by Lin-Manuel Miranda is shaping up to be as ambitious as “Hamilton.” On Warriors, Miranda teams with playwright Eisa Davis to create a concert album adaptation of 1979 cult-classic film “The Warriors.”…

Insert Foot joins the “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” bandwagon. My editor gave me an assignment this week, which I took very seriously because A) The topic is music-related and I used to write about music in a professional capacity until my kids told me I was old. And,…

Like all art, music leaves a cultural imprint representing the events, feelings, successes and failures of the time that birthed it. While various styles of music capture the experience of the groups that listen to it, Top 40 pop speaks for the masses. With 2020 around the corner, let’s…

Freestyle Love Supreme, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s original Broadway hit, will make its San Francisco debut at SF Sketchfest in January. A Broadway production by Lin-Manuel Miranda and friends, tributes to Tony Shalhoub and The Monkees, podcast tapings galore and plenty of sketch and stand-up comics lead the lineup of the 19th annual…

Was Lin-Manuel Miranda a better Hamilton than the Founding Father? Discuss. We’ve got a few firsts this week. There’s the first song from a musical because I apparently forgot Rocky Horror back in 1975, the first cover of a previous Honorable Mention, and a new and novel way to cheat at…