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A night the old town won't forget

Chips of color ablaze in Thursday's San Francisco kaleidoscope: Human Rights Watch dinner, a global responsibility; Le Central 35th anniversary fundraiser, jolly old boys cavorting; Chanel store reopening party, fancy stuff on beautiful people; Market ...

From LEAH GARCHIK, San Francisco Chronicle,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Chanel,  Human Rights Watch,  Kamala Harris,  Isabella Rossellini,  Gavin Newsom

Oakland Museum re-beckoning visitors

The word is "change" - reconfigured building, new galleries, new Web site, new restaurant - and they want to say it loud. The core building, mostly concrete and designed by architect Kevin Roche, remains handsome; it didn't particularly need seismic ...

From LEAH GARCHIK, San Francisco Chronicle,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: National Science Foundation,  Sarah Palin,  Lewis Black,  David E. Kelley,  Alice Waters

A sloppy passenger rides in Berkeley

Near her, a woman in a flowing skirt and a head scarf was pumping gas into a beat-up red Subaru, while cooing in a sweet baby-talking sort of voice. "I can tell it's not a child, so I assume it's a dog. Until it goes b-a-a-a." In the back of the ...

From LEAH GARCHIK, San Francisco Chronicle,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Subaru,  Brewster Kahle,  James Franco,  Sean Penn,  Bob Weir

Can a surgeon remove a cedilla?

P.S.: Shortly after Nicola Luisotti was hired as the new musical director of the San Francisco Opera, he was introduced to Bernard Osher, a generous contributor. Osher has many Italian pals, and in addition to the Opera - and many other grateful ...

From LEAH GARCHIK, San Francisco Chronicle,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Michael Chabon,  Joe Cocker,  Frank Langella

Grandpa helps evade the law

When P.S. remembered that his car was parked at a meter just about to expire, he rushed out to check, discovering a meter minder just about to issue a citation. Discussion - not unpleasant - ensued, and the minder finally offered P.S. the opportunity ...

From LEAH GARCHIK, San Francisco Chronicle,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Michael Jackson,  Billy Joel,  Christie Brinkley,  Gavin Newsom,  Dennis Kucinich

Revel and revival meeting all in one

"How could you be alive and not singing?" asked Paul Pelosi at the grand party after From the 'Hood to the House, the grand celebration of the Rev. Cecil Williams' 45th anniversary at Glide Memorial Church. And so, with the Glide Ensemble and ...

From LEAH GARCHIK, San Francisco Chronicle,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Danny Glover,  Ashford & Simpson,  Maya Angelou,  Dianne Feinstein,  Gavin Newsom

Auletta on Google in media-mad world

Journalist Ken Auletta, on a book tour for his latest, "Googled: The End of the World as We Know It," passed through the Bay Area, Google ground zero, on Wednesday. After spending the afternoon at Google headquarters, talking with CEO Eric Schmidt in ...

From LEAH GARCHIK, San Francisco Chronicle,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Ken Auletta,  Bill Gates,  Larry Page,  Craigslist.org

Knowing a collie from a casaba

James Pendergast cited this as "probably the finest error I have ever encountered in a newspaper," but that's a judgment very open to discussion. (And I, for one, am grateful to copy editor Deborah Guadan, who saved me from confusing playwright Caryl ...

From LEAH GARCHIK, San Francisco Chronicle,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Caryl Churchill,  Caryl Chessman,  Moby (musician),  Armistead Maupin,  Herman Melville

The little dog that defied the FAA

Como, a small dog dosed with canine tranquilizers, was in his carrier with his head peeking out when they boarded. "That dog has to be completely enclosed," said the "enforcer flight attendant from hell" (Winn's description). With the attendant ...

From LEAH GARCHIK, San Francisco Chronicle,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Dido (musician),  Scott Rudin,  August Wilson,  Denzel Washington

Behind the school, a silver Porsche glut

-- "Family Disturbance: Caller could hear neighbors screaming - an argument about dirty socks." But why didn't he just take them off and leave them in the Porsche? At Justin Herman Plaza the other day, B.J. Nathanson overheard one woman say to another, ...

From LEAH GARCHIK, San Francisco Chronicle,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Porsche,  PBS,  Ed Sullivan, Jr.,  Luciano Pavarotti,  Pete Wilson

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