The North Bay quite usually completes, fulfills, anticipates and--indeed!--ends all of our desires. But there occasionally arises the need to travel outside of our gold-tinged boundaries to experience a small sliver of art, dance, theater, music or song elsewhere. It simply can't be helped. That's why we did that roundup web-addie thing that journalists hate to do. Just for you, dear reader. Just for you. Tip-toe forth from the gold-tinged, and prosper. Just be sure to hurry back.

San Francisco
Asian Art Museum www.asianart.org
California Academy of Sciences www.calacademy.org
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts www.ybca.org
Exploratorium www.exploratorium.edu
The Legion of Honor www.thinker.org/legion/index.asp
M. H. De Young Memorial Museum www.thinker.org/deyoung/index.asp
San Francisco Ballet www.sfballet.org
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art www.sfmoma.org
San Francisco Opera www.sfopera.com
San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum www.sfpalm.org
San Francisco Symphony www.sfsymphony.org

East Bay
Berkeley Art Museum www.bampfa.berkeley.edu
Chabot Space & Science Center www.chabotspace.org
Lawrence Hall of Science www.lawrencehallofscience.org
Oakland Ballet www.oaklandballet.org
Oakland Museum of California www.museumca.org

Beyond
California African American Museum www.caamuseum.org
Sacramento Opera www.sacopera.org
Sacramento Performing Arts Center www.homestead.com/sacperformingartscenter
Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra www.sacramentophilharmonic.org
San Jose Museum of Art www.sjmusart.org

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