A coastal escape offers waves, wildlife and worry-free luxury
June 27, 2025

A coastal escape offers waves, wildlife and worry-free luxury

While dreaming of travel and craving respite from summer season busyness, I received a fortuitous email in May that planted a seed-like idea. Short on time for two weeks abroad or a similar stint at a destination...
Daytripping for 'oysters' and scones
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June 27, 2025

Daytripping for ‘oysters’ and scones

The artists in Anthony Meier’s group show, “Consider the Oyster,” are united, not by their relationship to mollusks, but by a more ephemeral relationship to M.F.K. Fisher’s short book of the same name.  Throughout the work, published in...
Asawa’s art revealed in SFMOMA retrospective
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April 28, 2025

Asawa’s art revealed in SFMOMA retrospective

In a fourth floor gallery at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, two women stand transfixed. Gazing upward at a hanging sculpture made with galvanized steel wire and lit by a diffuse spotlight that casts a...
Channeling an indomitable spirit
At 95, Dolores Huerta could rest on her laurels with no reproaches. Labor leader, tireless fighter for immigrant rights and civil rights, as well as feminist,...
West Edge Opera Presents Its Summer of the Supernovas
Cellist Jacqueline du Pré died at 42 of complications from multiple sclerosis. But during her brief, brilliant life, she was “a supernova,” said Marnie Breckenridge, the...
Sharing sound, stage and story
We journey near and far this issue, with a focus on travel and entertainment. Summer brings greater possibility of both, so we aim to provide options...
Permission granted to savor all senses
The first time I entered the dark and vibey realm of Uptown’s Bar Shiru, I was transported. The whole space is a shrine to jazz, where...

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