On Friday, the Redwood Symphony put on another of its occasional spectacular Sondheim semi-staged productions, this one of A Little Night Mu...

I spent much of Saturday attending four politically-oriented panels at the Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley, all of them in the rented fac...

Having spent Wednesday morning of my LA trip doing library research at UCLA, I was able to get as far on my drive home as Pismo Beach to sta...

I had wanted to hear Gustavo Dudamel conduct one more time in LA before he left its music directorship for that of New York at the end of th...

The outstanding feature of guest conductor Cristian Macelaru’s rendition of Dvorak’s New World Symphony was its clarity of form. Every secti...

Huzzah, entering its second year without one, the San Francisco Symphony has finally named a new music director, who takes over not next sea...

A fellow named G. Connor Salter has been interviewing various authors including Inklings scholars. He's gotten around to me. Here'...

Craig Fehrman, This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis and Clark (Avid Reader Press [Simon & Schuster], 2026) A new history of ...

I saw a favorable review for Legends , and it was on Netflix, so I could get it. If you like British cop shows, and I know a lot of people ...

Because I was going up for the evening anyway, I added to my schedule the afternoon Peninsula Symphony concert in San Mateo. I learned tha...