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Friday, January 09, 2026

Amplification

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Shotgun Players Illustration for Sunday in the Park with George I saw two shows by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine recently, Sunday in the...
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Thursday, January 08, 2026

Prediction Market

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Elim Chan Photo courtesy of San Francisco Symphony San Francisco Symphony has, very unusually , added a program to a blank spot in June, bet...
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Monday, January 05, 2026

Museum Mondays

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Alice Neal (1916-1985) Mary Bright Commemorative Quilt Routed West , BAMPFA Berkeley, CA November, 2025 Click to enlarge  

Organs in the News

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Organ at St. John's Presbyterian, Berkeley Not in the news, but it's the organ photo I had. Photo by me Some recent stories to do wi...
Friday, January 02, 2026

A Different Look Back at 2025

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Sea lions Elkhorn Slough October, 2025 Personally, 2025 was a pretty good year for me, even though it was an absolute dumpster fire politica...

Friday Photo

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Church Detail Munich, August, 2015  
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 ...
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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 , BAMPF...
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