Around the Gazette offices, our annual A-List invites a reflective look back on a year in names — boldfaced names, that is. This unique tradition has held for more than four decades and gives us an oppo…
The November night was crisp and clear as the Big Italian and I set off down Russian Hill for the new Keys Jazz Bistro. It had been 20 years since my husband, saxophonist and CIIS professor Alfonso Mont…
It is a blandly overcast December day in the Dogpatch neighborhood when I arrive at Koak’s studio. Opposite the entrance, a wall of windows blankets the industrial space with cool winter light, illumina…
