When mental health challenges become overwhelming, residential care can provide a haven for recovery. Pacific Coast Mental ...

Humor and science — what could be more natural? Join talent from the Sketchfest Comedy Festival, along with podcast personalities, literary terribleness, and more for a nerdy night of fun. Ages 21 & ...

Can lifestyle medicine actually change your health and well-being? The Ornishes will explain what is needed to make this lifestyle change to make a radical health change. $60, 415-597-6715, ...

The program highlights an array of magical, innovative, and unexpected ballets, featuring the lyricism of A Midsummer Night’s Dream to the joyfulness of The Seasons to the playfulness of Cinderella ...

The all-female punk band Red Aunts has been around since 1991, and they’re bringing the party to the Hemlock. $15 (advance), 415-923-0923, hemlocktavern.com ...

Experience traditional Japanese New Year’s cuisine, “osechi ryori,” an elaborate preparation of dishes with special significance for the new year. Proceeds benefit the Japantown Foundation. $200 & up, ...

Leland Faust and Richard Conn share a lament about how rarely rational thinking dominates and how wishful thinking is so prevalent. Hear about Boris Yeltsin’s transformation of the Soviet Union, Wall ...

This program of Mozart, Nikolai Kapustin, Handel/Halvorsen and Dvorák features the majesty and power of a full symphony orchestra distilled down to its most intimate and beautiful elements: chamber ...

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (1600 Divisadero St.) This forum will focus on new developments in breast cancer research, an update from the San Antonio 2012 international breast ...