Giacometti’s Last Ride: A Novelby Bart Schneider; Art by Chester Arnold;Kelly’s Cove Press; 2025; $20. Artists, Ezra Pound once observed, were “the antennae” of the human race and provided a “warning system” about the future.…
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“This is it?” “Ain’t that whatcha asked for? A cheese sandwich? “Yeah, but I mean this?” “Y’expect some pimentos mixed in? It’s what it is. It’s like a bowl of Cheerios, y’know? You ask for…
I flew to Madrid on Iberia and then Royal Air Maroc down to Rabat, the capital of Morocco. Rabat is a regular looking city - easy and inexpensive - which I was eager to leave…
Opera thrives on competition as much as collaboration—on who can sing higher, louder, longer, more passionately; what production can seduce or scandalize most abundantly; which company can hoard the most prestige while staving off bankruptcy…
At a recent local party a woman from Oakland approached me to ask, “But what do seniors DO here? It’s so rural!“ The quick answer is that we socialize a lot. That answer doesn’t really…
Correspondence With Kipen On Nov. 29, 2000 S.F. Chronicle book editor David Kipen wrote a rave review of Donald Foster’s book “Author Unknown.” Kipen especially liked the chapter in which Foster identified Tom Hawkins —not…
Movie screenings here start with short commercials: zany, wink-wink spots showing more than a little sun and skin to whet the appetite for ice cream and beer and cars and beach vacations. In contrast to…
Is it possible to spend enough money to solve the homeless crisis, now in its Elevendy Seventh decade and showing no signs of getting better? Is there enough money to fix it? No. A research…