The Reverberate Hills; or The Apotheosis of the Narwhal

Here we go for January, so we're launching into the new year, though as I'm typing this the last few hours of 2025 are slipping away...

  detail of Orpheus Charming the Animals by Aelbert Cuyp, now at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

  chicken ascending a staircase

  detail of Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin by Rogier van der Weyden, now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The Orinda Theater 's Classic Movie Matinee this past October was 1958's Bell, Book, and Candle , one of those "I married a wit...

As the Castro Theater is still closed for renovations, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival took place this year at the Orinda Theater . ...

  a gate on Estudillo Avenue

  detail of Virgin Adoring the Christ Child by Matteo di Giovanni Civital, now at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston

  a shop window on B Street, Hayward

  detail of Proscenium by Sargent Claude Johnson, currently at BAM/PFA & on view as part of the exhibit   Object Oriented: Abstraction...