San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

Framing these were two pieces for string orchestra that were fascinating studies in contrast. Read More

At the heart of a mortgage fraud trial that opened Monday in San Francisco Superior Court are millions of dollars in loans that never should have been made, the lawyer for a family estate told the jury in opening statements. Read More

Using persuasion to argue for something we believe is in a patient's best interest is ethically permissible. Read More

The biggest open secret in the landmark trial over same-sex marriage being heard in San Francisco is that the federal judge who will decide the case, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker, is himself gay. Read More

Writing in this past Thursday's issue of The New York Times (February 4th), Michael Kimmelman compares the European tour on which the government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent the Tehran Symphony Orchestra to similar tours on which the former Soviet Union would send its own world-class performers, such Sviatoslav Richter. 1 The concerts these performers gave served both to distract Western audiences from the dissidents the Soviet government was exiling to the gulags and to force those audiences into "the moral compromise [that] attending such propaganda events" would require. Read More

The San Francisco Chronicle has an interest story about Automatic Raises For Muni Drivers . Read More

Arizona Cardinals assistant coach and former Washington Redskins player Russ Grimm and former Dallas Cowboys and Arizona Cardinals running back Emmitt Smith are among seven individuals elected to the NFL Hall of Fame today. Read More