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…
- By Kitty Margolis
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…
- By Claire Frost
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…