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String summit (opens the original)
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Farewell to the voice of summer (opens the original)
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“Succession,” with arias (opens the original)
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Left: Simon Boccanegra (photo by Cory Weaver). Right: Mary, Queen of Scots (photo by Matthew Washburn). Giuseppe Verdi’s 1881 opera Simon Boccanegra and Thea Musgrave’s 1977 opera Mary, Queen of Scots could not be more different, but both tackle the same theme: Political survival. In neither case do the protagonists succeed in their quest to remain in power (and ultimately to remain alive), but that’s the only thing the two works have in common. In Simon, that failure leads to love, peace and tr
From Anza to AI: 250 Years of San Francisco History at Mission Dolores and the Presidio (opens the original)
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Today, Sept. 17, 2026, is the 250th anniversary of founding of one of the two original Spanish institutions in San Francisco: El Presidio de San Francisco. The site for the Presidio had been chosen by the great explorer Juan Bautista de Anza several months earlier, after he and a small party camped at San Francisco’s Mountain Lake on March 27, 1776. On Sept. 13—the anniversary of the stigmata of St. Francis, after whom the city would be named—Father Palóu said Mass and blessed the Presidio. Anza
25 years after 9/11, it’s appalling to realize how little America has learned (opens the original)
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The twin towers exploding on 9/11/2001, left; Gaza 2025, rightIt’s hard to believe we are approaching the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. I was 48 at the time; now I am 73. That’s almost a third of a lifetime. And it’s depressing to consider how little we as a country have learned in that quarter of a century.Sept. 11, 2001 was a grim day for many reasons. It inflicted a terrible blow on the United States. But still more consequential was our reaction to it. Osama bin Laden’s attacks led t
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