Typically, San Francisco’s first weekend in October belongs to Fleet Week and the Blue Angels. The air show is a feast for the eyes, nerve-wracking at times,…

While the media world – jaws agape – has been trying to understand why Jeff Bezos would buy the Washington Post, much of the focus has been…

How’s this for irony? The machine we invented to help us better manage the complexities of human life has somehow turned things around and is remaking our…

It didn’t have to be like this – we knew what was coming: the music industry showed the way. Still, when readers turned their attention from paper…

As iPods and smartphones put music in every pocket, somewhere along the way headphones became a fashion statement. When I reviewed the original Beats by Dr. Dre…

Two of my favorite radio stations recently shut down, more or less out of the blue: NME Radio and Q Radio in London, both spin-offs of popular…

At least when you’re a bird… This one is tweeting its heart out at San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf.

Here’s a perfectly legal kind of money laundering. Back in the 1930s, when high-society women were typically wearing white gloves, the director of San Francisco’s St. Francis…