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Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Stationery Store Blues

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Moleskine journalist's notebook Hardcover, 8" x 5.5" Over at The Rest is Noise, Alex Ross has a plaintive post about changes ...

San Francisco Symphony Auditions

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Davies Symphony Hall Photo by Lisa Hirsch San Francisco Symphony has a number of auditions coming up. Associate principal horn and assistan...
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Monday, December 22, 2025

The Best of 2025

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Kang Wang as the title character The Monkey King San Francisco Opera Photo: Cory Weaver, courtesy of SFO   SFCV published the writers' c...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2025

A New Major Benefactor at San Francisco Opera

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Jensen Huang, Lori Huang, and Matthew Shilvock Photo: Kristen Loken / San Francisco Opera Jensen and Lori Huang have made a multi-year commi...
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Monday, December 15, 2025

Museum Mondays

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Cultural Merger at Crossroads, USA Sherry Ann Boyd, Piecer, Richmond, CA, 1990 Irene Bankhead, Quilter, Oakland, CA 1990 Routed West, BAMPFA...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

Friday Photo (A Bit Early)

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At the grave of Hector Berlioz (December 11 1803 - March 8, 1869). His wives Harriet Smithson and Marie Recio are also buried here. October,...
Tuesday, December 09, 2025

Belated Museum Mondays

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Anna Nicholson Untitled (Log Cabin, Barn Raising Variation) Routed West BAMPFA, November, 2025  
Friday, December 05, 2025

Frank Gehry

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Walt Disney Concert Hall Photo by Lisa Hirsch October, 2007 Well, damn, Frank Gehry has died. He was among the greatest architects of our ti...

Friday Photo

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Pelicans Elkhorn Slough October, 2025 (Click to enlarge)  
Thursday, December 04, 2025

Belated Museum Mondays

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Emma Hall (1878-1949) Detail of a Double Wedding Ring Quilt Routed West  at BAMPFA November, 2025  
Saturday, November 29, 2025

Ars Minerva's Ercole amante

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Sara Couden and Nina Jones in Antonia Bembo’s  Ercole amante (Photo: Valentina Sadiul) Between The Monkey King  and Gautier Capuçon's c...
Friday, November 28, 2025

Friday Photo

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Elkhorn Slough October, 2025  
Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Secret Handshake

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Stones of Stenness Orkney, UK June, 1982 Photo: Lisa Hirsch "The Orkney archipelago possesses a singular aura—luminous, changeable, dre...
Monday, November 24, 2025

More Monkey King

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Kang Wang as Sun Wukong Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang's The Monkey King Photo: Cory Weaver / courtesy of San Francisco Opera I want to...

Museum Mondays

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Hattie Mitchell Detail of a quilt documenting her trip to France in 1906 Appliquéd and embroidered, 1906-08, 1914 Quilted and finished, 1930...
Friday, November 21, 2025

Friday Photo

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Cormorants Elkhorn Slough October, 2025  
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Gautier Capuçon, Gaia

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Jérôme Ducros, piano and Gautier Capuçon, cello Photo: Kristen Loken, courtesy of San Francisco Symphony   Let me start these comments on Ga...
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Monday, November 17, 2025

San Francisco Opera Premieres The Monkey King

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  Kang Wang as the title role in The Monkey King Members of the San Francisco Opera Chorus Puppetry designed by Basil Twist Photo: Cory Weav...

Museum Mondays

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Annunciation Giovanni dal Ponte  (Giovanni di Marco) c. 1425  
Friday, November 14, 2025

Friday Photo

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Pelican Elkhorn Slough, CA October, 2025 (Click to enlarge)  
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Poiesis Quartet

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Poiesis Quartet Photo by Eden Davis Before the pandemic, my friend DB had twice gone to Banff, in Canada, to attend the Banff International ...

San Francisco Opera: Der Ring des Nibelungen Returns in 2028

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  Brandon Jovanovich (Siegmund) and Karita Mattila (Sieglinde) Act 1, Die Walküre June, 2018 Photo: Cory Weaver, courtesy of San Francisco O...

San Francisco Opera: 2026 Adler Fellows

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  War Memorial Opera House San Francisco Opera has announced its 2026 Adler Fellows. I saw the big Merola concert in August and hoo boy, it ...

SFS New Principal Horn

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Diego Incertis Sánchez Spanish horn player Diego Incertis Sánchez has been appointed principal horn of the San Francisco Symphony. He'll...
Monday, November 10, 2025

Museum Monday

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St. Anthony of Padu Pau Vargas, 15th c. Philadelphia Museum of Art April, 2025