Sondheim at Herbst Theater

Posted on Mar 11, 2008 | 1 comment
Filed under: Broadway, Frank Rich, Musical Theater, San Francisco, Sondheim

This past Sunday was a date I’d been anticipating for months. As part of the City Arts and Lectures series here in San Francisco, Stephen Sondheim sat down with Frank Rich for a thoroughly spontaneous and entertaining hour-and-a-half discussion. Now, I’ve read and heard so many interviews and similar Sondheim talks over the years, so there was very...

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The Richmond District

Posted on Mar 6, 2007 | 5 comments
Filed under: Jeremy Denk, Richmond District, San Francisco

Pianist Jeremy Denk describes my neighborhood in San Francisco more eloquently than I ever could…. When the concert ended, a Chinese man drove me back to my hotel in a large black Towncar. All the way down Geary. There were Russian bakeries, Dim Sum joints, gas stations, spas, the whole beat hybrid of San Francisco deciding, block by block, whether it is...

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