As the official biographer of Alice Walker, I spent nearly a decade researching the art and activism of a writer whose signature work, The Color Purple (1982), has sold more than five million copies ...

“Today, visitors to the Garden of the Heavenly Rest will find a well-manicured cemetery … . But on the sweltering day when Alice first visited the site, it was choked with waist-high brambles and ...

Local film curator Jenni Olson has assembled another program of Trans Masc films that will screen January 17 through February 23 at BAMPFA (Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive) in Berkeley. The ...

Like a living work of art, Grace Cathedral means different things to all who visit this largest Gothic cathedral in San Francisco—the third largest Episcopal cathedral in the nation. For members of ...

Ever play that game around a table full of friends asking, “What is your one favorite character trait of your own?” It is a good question to start us off on a positive during these challenging times.

Mollie Stone’s Castro, a family-run grocery store that’s been open in the San Francisco neighborhood since 2009, held a Grand Reopening celebration on the morning of January 17, 2025, after months of ...

In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the iconic album The Changer and the Changed, legendary singer/songwriter Cris Williamson presented two sold-out concerts at the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley ...

There is magic in a well-crafted cocktail. It’s like a drinkable fairytale, except instead of a happily ever after, you wake up with a hangover and a vague sense of regret. But Kaitlin Ryan’s “Baller” ...

When we won the freedom to marry for same-sex couples in 2015, we as legal advocates knew that the fight for true liberation, equality, and justice was far from over for the LGBTQ+ community, ...

Barbara Higbie, one of the Bay Area’s most prolific composers, has carried on the tradition of Solstice concerts begun by her former record label, Windham Hill. The photos shared here depict her ...

I grew up listening to AM radio in Boston in the 1960s; every day I heard the widest variety of popular songs from three decades. I came to love, not just the music of Sam Cooke, Patti LaBelle, Dean ...

At the beginning of a new year, one is bombarded by “best of” and “top ten” lists for every type of activity—including restaurants. But yours truly thought I’d rather give you a list of my personal ...