Walking east up a carless JFK Boulevard, I stopped in front of the Arboretum because there was more music in the air. This time it was l...

On St. Patrick's Day Sunday a couple of weeks ago, when the rain briefly paused for a glorious weekend, I walked from 9th Avenue to the...

Last Saturday at Herbst Theater, the New Century Chamber Orchestra offered a program of "Forbidden Music," consisting of pieces b...

An exhibit spanning the career of 80-year-old Vija Celmins at SFMOMA is one of the weirdest, most obsessive, and eventually fascinating sur...