“What we did then is now art history.” — Herbert Vogel In 2008, film director Megumi Sasaki released the film Herb and Dorothy, a story of two unlikely art collectors... Read More
November is here, and it’s time to give thanks for many things, like your health, your loved ones — and that Thanksgiving only comes once a year! I hope these Q.s and A.s w... Read More
Artwork by S.F. artist Nidhi Chanani at www.everydayloveart.com Right after I moved here from the East Coast, San Francisco’s mixed-up seasons really threw me off. One eve... Read More
Recently I was thinking about Richard Brautigan, the counterculture novelist and poet who hung out in North Beach in the 1950s and 1960s. I was cutting across the grass in Washingt... Read More
Ever since childhood, you were told to “be yourself.” And love yourself just as you are. Of course, you first have to look for yourself to find yourself to actually be ... Read More
I’ve never chatted with a career criminal before,” I said, smiling at the soft-spoken 80-year-old man who was talking to me while eating scrumptious appetizers at San F... Read More
The Violet Hour: A Novel, by Katherine Hill City of Thieves: A Novel, by David Benioff Beautiful Ruins: A Novel, by Jess Walter The Billionaire & the Mechanic: How Larry Ellis... Read More
In the end nobody knows how it’s done — how art is made. It can’t be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn’t explain the magic o... Read More
With Halloween shambling toward us, October is an ideal time for movie-lovers to seek cinematic encounters of the frightening kind, whether supernatural or science-fictional. Let m... Read More
As an avowed Anglophile and a major devotee of that peculiarly British brand of comedy couched in discomfort (e.g., Channel 4’s sitcoms Peep Show and Fresh Meat; anything inv... Read More
The Cuckoo’s Calling, by Robert Galbraith Zealot, by Reza Aslan William Shakespeare’s Star Wars, by Ian Doescher This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral — Plus, Plenty ... Read More
“I don’t believe in art. I believe in the artist.” — Marcel Duchamp When he first met Marcel Duchamp in 1959, Calvin Tomkins was not the famous art critic he wo... Read More
I moved to San Francisco a decade ago, and it’s taken me almost that long to start calling it my city. But after attending my first Outside Lands music festival in Golden Gat... Read More
Books Inc. hardcover best-seller list Beautiful Ruins: A Novel, by Jess Walter The English Girl: A Novel, by Daniel Silva The Expats: A Novel, by Chris Pavone This is Where I Leav... Read More
Despite coming comparatively late in Woody Allen’s career, his new drama Blue Jasmine — set in San Francisco, with quite a few flashback scenes shot in his beloved New York... Read More