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“Days and Nights is really a lightning rod,” composer Philip Glass says. It seems to attract energy, as a gathering of thinkers, a creative performance revue, a contemporary music showcase.
A year before Jimi, Janis and the gaggle of flower c…
Sept. 13 marked 20 years since the Violence Against Women Act was signed into law. The country has made real progress toward reducing domestic violence, thanks in many ways to VAWA. Domestic violence incidence rates have dropped 64 percent since 1993; murders have also decreased. VAWA vastly…
Ever since Old Crow Medicine Show released its loose…
A chain-link fence topped with concertina wire surro…
The map looks like a network of neurons. Circles and…
When attorney Gavin Kogan first got into the medical cannabis business, he thought it was pseudoscience, deployed by recreational users as a phony emotional appeal. He converted after talking to dozens of medical users, many of whom apply topical creams – never even consuming marijuana, much…
Just a few months after Cecile McLorin Salvant score…
On Sunday, Sept. 21, a huge crowd will march through…
She was a managing director at Goldman Sachs, ran an analytics group at Bear Stearns, did analysis at Chase Manhattan and strategy at Lehman Brothers. She is ABD (all but dissertation) for a PhD in statistics from New York University.
>> Monterey Museum of Art holds one of its new…
Like a British incarnation of Zelig, Traffic co-foun…
Between August 2008 and April 2014, two fires ignited in Marina’s Cypress Knolls, a 188-acre abandoned military housing area in the former Fort Ord. Since May of this year, there have been five.
Swiss novelist and playwright Max Frisch observed Wo…
Developer Ed Ghandour wants to build a sand castle, …
Follow-up: Are you a performer or spectator?
WHO’S IN TOWN? Some $60 billion flows through California’s underground economy every year, including pirated movies and music, handbags and drugs. It also includes unlicensed contractors, often dodging workers comp and payroll taxes while undercutting legit contractors. The California Contr…
Garmin, my big standard poodle, transforms when he h…
BY-THE-SEA SALT… Such a pretty city, Carmel. Its tre…
You could almost see the steam rising from the hair …
The book is 12-by-11 inches, laminated like most lib…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): These horoscopes I write …
