The path to success for many novelists is paved with rejection slips, but not for Ellen Klages,...
An animal trainer from Barnum and Bailey Circus trained Deloris Perlmuttter, center, to use a whip in...
The family’s money was tight, but Kathy Looper, then a teenager, headed to Union Square and a...
On a cool, clear winter morning, the Noe Valley Town Square is a fine place to sip...
Martin Jacobs at age 13. (Photo courtesy of Martin Jacobs) Martin Jacobs’ love affair with the San...
When Esperanza Villanueva arrived in Lake Tahoe from her native Mexico City in 1994, her hardest adjustment...
SENIOR BEAT COLUMN Over 30 years ago, my mother caught sight of her reflection in a shop...
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When he was eight years old, Victor Mario-Zaballa told his family he was going to be a...
Jim Herlihy spent years managing investments for major banks in South America. While stationed in hotspots like...
It was 1980 and Katrina Krimsky prepared to perform at the Piano Creative Music Studio in Woodstock,...
Beekeeper Gigi Trabant remembers vividly that spring day 11 years ago in the backyard of her Outer...
The path to success for many novelists is paved with rejection slips, but not for Ellen Klages, a prolific author of science fiction and science-oriented historical fiction for young people. “I was 45 and started at the top,” she said. While that might sound boastful, Klages has the receipts to back it up. Her first ...
Deloris Perlmutter was only 20 years old when two young Cuban men selected her as the third member of their Wattusi Trio, a newly formed Afro-Cuban dance act that would catapult them to fame in the exploding international club scene of the ’50s, ‘60s, and ‘70s. “Every club had its own house band. Acts competed ...
The family’s money was tight, but Kathy Looper, then a teenager, headed to Union Square and a shopping trip to I. Magnin. She had three home-made dresses and was wearing the best one. “I thought I looked rich,” she said. When she got to the ritzy store, a man standing by the entrance stopped her ...
On a cool, clear winter morning, the Noe Valley Town Square is a fine place to sip coffee and chat with friends and neighbors. The former site of an abandoned gas station, the gathering spot on 24th Street is dotted with tables and chairs and is steps away from shops selling coffee and bagels. The ...
Martin Jacobs’ love affair with the San Francisco 49ers was in its infancy in 1952 when the nine-year-old entered Kezar Stadium for the first time. He still has that ticket stub and over the years has become a go-to authority on all things 49ers, a collector of team memorabilia, and the author of scores of ...
When Esperanza Villanueva arrived in Lake Tahoe from her native Mexico City in 1994, her hardest adjustment was to the food. “That was a shock,” she said. “There was no food I liked here, not many Mexican products.” She joined her siblings and their families who’d come years earlier and she laughs as she recalls ...
