ARIES (March 20-April 18): A dilemma with a lover or child (a lover who acts like a child?) is — or should be — resolved Thursday. With the sun lighting the way to your creativity zone where the mysterious moon waits with a loony magic trick, the results…

STARCAST The fateful new moon faces off against the sun in lively Leo. Think dynamically, make a decision, then go for it. This week holds a date with destiny. MINERVA’S MAILBAG Q: I’m an Aries, newly in love with another Aries. We’re…

Here’s a look at the past. Items have been culled from The Chronicle’s archives of 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago. 1984 Aug. 24: The U.S. Department of Transportation presented its heroism medal Aug. 23 to the two crewmen of the cable car that was struck head-…

Driving a Segway is like being in a science fiction movie. You glide over the ground on a small electric platform without controls. The machine reads your body language and takes you precisely where you want to go. It looks like a cross between a golf cart…

San Francisco Opera: Tenor Marco Berti, about to take the stage at the War Memorial Opera House as Manrico in Verdi’s “Il Trovatore,” warms up with a free program of Italian opera selections at Stern Grove, ranging from Puccinian chestnuts to rarer exerpts by…

My Fair Lady: Tom Reardon plays the arrogant Henry Higgins and Sharon Rietkerk is the guttersnipe he turns into a lady, Eliza Doolittle, in the Lamplighters’ latest take on an American musical classic. Barbara Heroux directs Lerner and Loewe’s tuneful…

IN PREVIEWS Awake and Sing Joy Carlin directs Clifford Odets’ Depression-era drama of the dreams and disappointments of a working-class Jewish family in the Bronx. Charles Dean, Ellen Ratner, Ray Reinhardt and Rod Gnapp lead a strong cast. Previews begin…

When we last checked in with Stephan Jenkins more than two years ago, he assured us that a new Third Eye Blind album - the San Francisco group’s first studio recording since 2003 - would arrive in our mailboxes any day. So we waited. And waited. Then waited…

RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) R&B Ledisi has had a long, wildly varied career that has involved everything from performing in “Beach Blanket Babylon” five nights a week to singing alongside Stevie Wonder at a PBS television tribute to Ella Fitzgerald. It all came…

RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Classical The New Century Chamber Orchestra’s first recording with Music Director Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg - released on her own label, NSS Music - offers a beguiling portrait of this new chapter in the group’s history. Featured here…