The fall season always feels like a new beginning to me. That probably began in grade school when I was lucky enough to buy some new clothes, a binder, pens, and a pair of snappy s... Read More
Best-seller list Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, by Daniel Brown This Is Where I Leave You, by Jonathan Tropper City of... Read More
Fall arts previews in the media are almost as inevitable as autumn itself — and they usually include a look at coming attractions in cinema, so here’s one for the Marina Ti... Read More
MUSIC CLASSICAL Celebrating Michael Tilson Thomas’s 20th season, the San Francisco Symphony celebrates throughout September and beyond with an impressive lineup of concerts, ... Read More
“If my art had nothing to do with people’s pain and sorrow, what is “art” for? “ — Ai Weiwei With Ai Weiwei’s arrest in a Beijing airport in 2... Read More
In lieu of our best-seller list, here are some of the titles we are excited about for the fall. What I Know for Sure by Oprah Winfrey (Sept. 2) Over 14 years of O, The Oprah Magazi... Read More
His untimely departure, perhaps to dimensions unknown, was devastating to countless fans and admirers, but no one feels the recent painful loss of the protean actor and comedian Ro... Read More
Summer’s over. You’re back from that final vacation, you’ve finished that last novel, and your tan is finally fading. It’s back to work, back to school, bac... Read More
“I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.” — Barnet... Read More
Books Inc. best-seller list The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt #Girlboss, by Sophia Amoruso Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt, by Michael Lewis The Vacationers: A Novel, by Emma Straub ... Read More
You can’t help but notice the unseasonably warm weather we’ve been having in San Francisco this year. When I asked a sun-kissed couple wearing shorts at Fisherman’... Read More
The movie business has undergone radical changes in the past decade. That would be the movie business, not the film business. The industry is still producing moving pictures, but l... Read More
Boys in the Boat, by Daniel Brown The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green City of Thieves, by David Benioff This Is Where I Leave You, by Jonathan Tropper Gone Girl, by Gillian Flyn... Read More
In an astonishing feat that echoes and even trumps some aspects of his time-spanning Before trilogy, filmmaker Richard Linklater has produced Boyhood, a thoroughly engaging, often ... Read More
I love to attend concerts year round, but there’s just something about catching a show in the summertime that feels so good. It could be the memories of all those high school... Read More