A Haunting Story of Nature
The idea of good and evil is pervasive in most of society. From fairy tales to modern day media, we despise villains who wreak havoc and worship heroic protagonists who in turn defeat the evil and save the day.
UCSF Vocal Chords perform their Winter Concert
The Vocal Chords, UCSF’s a cappella group, performs at their winter concert to a packed Toland Hall on Dec
Interview with Indre Viskontas: Who Says You Can’t Mix Neuroscience and Opera?
The Bay Area Science Festival (BASF) ran for 10 days this October, and Dr. Indre Viskontas was heavily involved. A...
A World-Class Deal for Culture Lovers
San Francisco Performances’ Culture Card is the best deal in town for arts lovers. This easy, accessible and inexpensive program...
Charlie Varon: Storytelling from the Stage
Bernie Schein lives in a Jewish retirement home in San Francisco. He hates yoga, boutique shops, $6 cups of coffee...
Tell Me Again Reading Set for May 18
“Expressive writing promotes both spiritual and physical healing,” according to Dr. David Watts, Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSF, and...
TABULA 2014
“It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is...
Reflections in the Psych Mirror
In my native language Shona, a popular aphorism advises “ seka urema wafa.” Roughly translated, it means “laugh at a...
Nephrostomy (for my aunt)
No OFF-button on the frickin' remote; the tv hangs like an eye which you watch prophilactically, in case it might...
World Backwards
As a young medical student, I sat across from my patient in the old neuro ward. A retired high school...