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Laura Leventer helps customers discover their personal style
Walking into Personal Pizazz feels a bit like stepping into a stylish friend’s closet. The light purple walls, sparkling jewelry and racks of colorful clothing create a cozy atmosphere where customers can browse pieces for nearly any...
Amy Pence guides Piedmont Grocery through changing times
Walking into the family-owned Piedmont Grocery, folded into a corner of the always buzzing strip of Oakland that is Piedmont Avenue, one feels at home, whether looking for old supermarket favorites like canned soups and soda or...
Asawa’s art revealed in SFMOMA retrospective
In a fourth floor gallery at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, two women stand transfixed. Gazing upward at a hanging sculpture made with galvanized steel wire and lit by a diffuse spotlight that casts a...
Channeling an indomitable spirit
At 95, Dolores Huerta could rest on her laurels with no reproaches. Labor leader, tireless fighter for immigrant rights and civil rights, as well as feminist,...
West Edge Opera Presents Its Summer of the Supernovas
Cellist Jacqueline du Pré died at 42 of complications from multiple sclerosis. But during her brief, brilliant life, she was “a supernova,” said Marnie Breckenridge, the...
Hope is homegrown
I walk by a row of sweetgum trees on my way to work. This time of year, the sidewalk is still scattered with their spiky seed...
Bringing home the bacon
Money is emotional. It carries baggage—shaped by our earliest memories, our missteps and sometimes real trauma. Fear, guilt and shame often shape financial decisions. And financial...
