I’m sure readers everywhere pick up a book they remember reading a decade ago, are interested enough to read it again, and remain firm in…
Posts tagged as “essays”
The other day at Peet’s Coffee on Broadway in the town of Sonoma, I had a conversation with a young woman I have known for…
Free tickets from a friend sent my companion and me to a production of the musical Big staged by the Berkeley Repertory Theatre on a…
“He’s gone. Feel free to spread the word,” Michael Simmons said in an email that went out to a few dozen or so of the…
In the fall of 1848 San Francisco was in a curious state of suspension. Gold had been discovered in January, but the San Franciscans hadn't…
I met two young men in the dark and lonely intersection at Little Lake Road and the Coast Highway on Wednesday night. I was on…
So the Adventist advance team has come to town and made a number of vague proposals. It's hard to know what to make of their…
The fast approaching 50th anniversary of the successful launch, landing upon the Moon, and recovery of Apollo 11 this week seems an auspicious and fitting…
The National Association for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML)— which was founded in 1970 by Keith Stroup and that now has 135 chapters nation-wide…
To paraphrase former San Francisco Mayor and former California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown in a recent San Francisco Chronicle column, “From now on, everything President…
The world, filled as it is with war, poverty, corrupt officialdom and all manner of skullduggery, doesn’t often give us reporters the chance to set…