Truth and Beauty
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Sunday, August 19, 2018
Angelic voices, #4: Aretha Franklin performs before Barack Obama and Carole King
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Aretha Franklin had a voice and a career without parallel among soul vocalists. Like many other black singers, Franklin learned her cra...
Saturday, July 21, 2018
Fifteen Minutes in San Francisco
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A few years back I had one of many eye-opening experiences on San Francisco 's public transportation routes. Rather than convey...
Saturday, June 23, 2018
Without a Net: Henry Miller in His Own Words
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“There was something heroic about it and he could have driven us stark mad, Ravel, if he had wanted to. But that’s not Ravel. ...
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
The historic Paramount Theatre meets mid-afternoon sun
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In the early-to-mid aughts I saw a lot of stand-up comedy at the Punchline, a club in downtown San Francisco . At one show, comedian ...
Wednesday, January 17, 2018
The visual odyssey of "Loving Vincent"
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The new animated feature “Loving Vincent” explores Vincent van Gogh as a human being while delivering a sumptuous 90-minute immersion in h...
Monday, December 4, 2017
Great Guitar Solos, #11: Frank Zappa's "Zoot Allures"
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Frank Zappa died 24 years ago today. It was a big loss for the music world, but Zappa has lived on through an unusually large body of wor...
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