Issue June 2021

Nam June Paik’s Sistine Chapel. Photo: Courtesy SFMOMA

Nam June Paik has been a ubiquitous cultural presence for decades. If you know the expression “electronic superhighway,” you already know Paik, who is credited for coining the... Read More

Politics as Usual

The face behind the mask

With reopening and unmasking now in full swing, how wisely will we spend our time and money?

By John Zipperer

We might all have gone through this pandemic together, but we neither experienced the same things nor will our lives be the same afterward. On June 15, a month after the Center... Read More

Blini with smoked salmon. Photo: SUSAN DYER REYNOLDS

Modern Eating

Escape San Francisco’s foggy summer in sunny Tiburon at the Caviar & Champagne Tasting Room

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

On a recent grey, windy San Francisco morning my friend and I decided to take a 30-minute trip over the Golden Gate Bridge into Tiburon, a warm, sunny enclave in Marin County loca... Read More

The Sparks are back — in music and on screen. Photo: Anna Webber

A & E

California-based Sparks fly again

By Michael Snyder

They may not be superstars, and you may not have even heard of them, but Sparks is a remarkably durable and mutable musical act comprised of brothers Ron and Russell Mael — two ... Read More