Q&A: Shannon and the Clams on How Terrible Loss Inspired Latest Album
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE (April 20, 2024)
In the wake of tragedy, the only place Shannon Shaw could think to go was a bean field in Aurora, Ore. The results are her band’s most astonishing record to date.

Q&A: In Wake of Loss, Sleater-Kinney Mourns with Music
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE (March 21, 2024)
When navigating the stormy seas of loss, the ballast of song can be a lifesaver. In most cases, this takes the form of consumption, but after Carrie Brownstein lost her mother and stepfather to a car accident, the rock duo decided to pour themselves into an act of creation.

Book Review: A Colorful Sketch of How ‘Kind of Blue’ Came to Be
WASHINGTON POST (March 11, 2024)
In his new book, Frank Sinatra biographer James Kaplan details the lives of Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Bill Evans, and their time together.

Feature: It Hosted Robin Williams and Truman Capote. How a Lecture Series Captured S.F.’s Cultural Zeitgeist.
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE (October 18, 2023)
The set-up is simple: two chairs, a vase of tulips and a great chat. For more than 40 years, SF’s City Arts & Lectures series has utilized this formula to bring some of the world’s top figures, from authors and film stars to political minds and scientists, for intimate, free-flowing onstage conversations before a live audience.

Profile: Peaches Christ — The Cult Artist
ALTA JOURNAL OF CALIFORNIA (September 14, 2023)
Inside a San Francisco haunted house where guests are initiated to fear.

Book Review: Cormac McCarthy Returns with Paired Novels About Family and Physics, Morality and Madness
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE (October 17, 2022)
Together, among countless other conclusions, these works attempt to collectively posit that the only mental illness of consequence may be existence itself.

Profile: Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE (July 29, 2022)
The last time Green Day played at Golden Gate Park, front man Billie Joe Armstrong wasn’t even old enough to drink. He expects his band’s second go of it, headlining the Outside Lands Music Festival, will have better results.

Book Review: Japanese Breakfast Musician’s Memoir Makes a Meal of Mourning
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE (April 13, 2021)
Michelle Zauner proves her pen is as mighty as her guitar in “Crying in H Mart.”

Comic: The Pot to Prison Pipeline
THE NIB (February 2021)
Cartoon from Issue #8 (The Drugs Issue) in collaboration with artist Sophie Yanow.

Q&A: Aimee Mann On ‘Bachelor No. 2’ Turning 20 & Launching An Indie Label In 1999
RECORDING ACADEMY (December 20, 2020)
The Grammy-winning artist discusses her groundbreaking album and putting together a remastered vinyl version for its twentieth anniversary.

Feature: Musée Mécanique Owner Working to Keep the Fun Alive Despite Pandemic, Fire
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE (September 2, 2020)
Dan Zelinsky’s one-of-a-kind collection of antique games and machines has survived a lot over the years. Can Laughing Sal’s good humor get them through COVID too?

Feauture: Trial Separation — Growing Up with the Trailside Killer
MARIN MAGAZINE (September 2019)
A firsthand account by the son of one of the attorneys working on the serial killer’s case.

Profile: How a Group of Marin Teenagers Created 420
MARIN MAGAZINE (March 22, 2019)
The story of four San Rafael High students who unwittingly coined pot’s most popular code name — in their own words.

Album Review: ‘On the Line’ by Jenny Lewis
VARIETY (March 22, 2019)
On her first album in five years, Lewis no longer seems such a cipher; she has warmed to the possibility that the personal can still be poetic.

Feature: Trespassing for Treasures
ALTA JOURNAL OF CALIFORNIA (Winter 2019)
Where others see blight and danger, Jonathan Haeber is the preservationist, adventurer and outlaw who sees exquisite decay.

Profile: Musician Jon Brion Doesn’t Want to Sound Familiar
VANITY FAIR (February 23, 2018)
The prolific film composer and producer on how he scored ‘Lady Bird’ and his reverence for music that matters.

Live Review: Prince at Oakland’s Oracle Arena
CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND (March 5, 2016)
The Purple One kept the Golden State Warriors’ home win streak intact.

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