A &amp; E

Through March 25, 2018, SFMOMA presents the West Coast exclusive of Robert Rauschenberg: Erasing the Rules. As one of the heavyweights of contemporary art, Rauschenberg expanded t... Read More

The Marina Books Inc. best-seller list

By Brian Pettus

What Happened, by Hillary Rodham Clinton (hardcover) Before the Fall, by Noah Hawley (paperback) I’ll Never Tell: The Odyssey of a Rock and Roll Priest, by Harry Schlitt (paperb... Read More

Television

Handicapping the fall TV schedule

The anticipation of the fall network television season has been diminished in part by the year-round premieres of shows on cable and, in a relatively recent wrinkle, streaming serv... Read More

A & E

Sixty festive years of the Monterey Jazz Festival, and a backward glance at an American art form

By Ernest Beyl

I admit reluctantly i prefer to hear small jazz groups — trios, quartets, sextets — in what we once called smoky nightclubs. That’s the way Stan Getz and the Modern Jazz Quar... Read More

Art World

Klimt & Rodin: An exhibition takes us on a journey when two artists met

This month, Oct. 14, the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco will present the first major Gustav Klimt exhibition on the West Coast through Jan. 28, 2018. A leader of the symbolist ... Read More

The Marina Books Inc. best-seller list

By Brian Pettus

All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr (paperback) The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life, by Chris Guillebeau (paperback) Beh... Read More

Enter Stage Left

‘Detroit’: A reckoning

By Evalyn Baron

I like movies. I usually enjoy them, making an occasion out of each one I get to an actual movie theater to see. I celebrate with popcorn, diet soda, some candy. If I’m at the Al... Read More

Art World

Exclusive U.S. retrospective of Walker Evans at SFMOMA

Walker Evans is best known as a documentarian of the Great Depression. His photos from this era while working for the Farm Security Administration (which, as part of the New Deal,... Read More

A & E

The Speakeasy: Theater as time machine

It was a temperate evening on the Barbary Coast. The meet-up was on the corner of Grant and Vallejo Streets. He was a little on the flamboyant side in his orange hat and scarf, but... Read More

The Marina Books Inc. best-seller list

By Brian Pettus

The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life, by Chris Guillebeau (paperback) The Couple Next Door: A Novel, by Shari Lapena (paperback) Crazy ... Read More

A & E

Suzanne Ramsey: Blithe keyboardist, ukulele-player, and singer who performs as Kitten on the Keys is a San Francisco treat

There’s a certain brand of talent laced with eccentricity, humor, and sometimes genuine beauty that seems specific or, better yet, peculiar to the Bay Area — a place where a co... Read More

Book Notes

The life of curator and eccentric raconteur Walter Hopps in ‘The Dream Colony: A Life in Art’

Many of us can’t remember a world where Andy Warhol’s soup can paintings and Roy Lichtenstein’s ben day dots weren’t a ubiquitous part of modern art’s visual landscape. O... Read More

The Marina Books Inc. best-seller list

Compiled by Brian Pettus Man of the Year: A Memoir, by Lou Cove (hardcover) A Really Big Lunch: Meditations on Food and Life from the Roving Gourmand, by Jim Harrison (hardcover) ... Read More

Movie Reviews

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