San Francisco Chronicle Arts & Entertainment - Spoken Edition

Seen here fromleft to right: ViolinistMira Wang,pianistVanessa Perez,actorBill Murray, and German cellistJan Vogler. Seen here fromleft to right: ViolinistMira Wang,pianistVanessa Perez,actorBill Murray, and German cellistJan Vogler.

Some poems are shouted from rooftops, others are whispers in the mind. August Kleinzahler’s “Peaches in November” fits the latter category as it monitors developments so local the reader feels ushered into his room or back yard. The poem is about the passage of time and how the speaker’s attention to the thudding peaches erases his awareness of it.

The Pathway Home in Napa Valley’s Yountville is an independent residential treatment facility featured in “Thank You for Your Service.” The Pathway Home in Napa Valley’s Yountville is an independent residential treatment facility featured in “Thank You for Your Service.” Christine Loeber, above, is the executive director of the Pathway Home, which has helped many veterans like Marine Jack, right, cope with combat stress.

Bluegrass musician Laurie Lewis will cap a long tour with a performance at Berkeley’s Freight & Salvage on Saturday, Nov. 25. Raised mostly in Berkeley, multi-instrumentalist Lewis has been a bandleader and ... more Bluegrass musician Laurie Lewis will cap a long tour with a performance at Berkeley’s Freight & Salvage on Saturday, Nov. 25. Raised mostly in Berkeley, multi-instrumentalist Lewis has been a bandleader and recording artist on the world stage.

Here is a look at the past. Items have been culled from The Chronicle’s archives of 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago.Dec.2: The new owners of the San Francisco Giants acted swiftly yesterday to put their mark on the team by firing manager Roger Craig. Peter Magowan said he phoned Craig to inform him of the decision. On a sunny December afternoon Safeway Chairman Magowan met with reporters at Candlestick Park, pledging to field a “competitive and exciting team.

Charlie Yin sticks his neck out to go in a new direction as Giraffage Giraffage, a.k.a Charlie Yin, who released his debut full-length album, “Too Real,” in October, is set to play the Fillmore on Tuesday, Nov. 21. Giraffage, a.k.a Charlie Yin, who released his debut full-length album, “Too Real,” in October, is set to play the Fillmore on Tuesday, Nov. 21.

I’ve been doing this column thing for a while now, and it may be time to accept one of those offers from publishers who are eager to compile the columns into a best-selling book. And I might, as soon as the first offer rolls in.Maybe they’re hesitant because they looked into the history of my first book, “Kids, Dogs and Other Pests,” which was released worldwide about seven years ago.

Aaron Harbour and Jackie Im are co-owners of the Et al. etc. gallery which features a video work by Johanna Billing and drawings by Betty Bailey. Aaron Harbour and Jackie Im are co-owners of the Et al. etc. gallery which features a video work by Johanna Billing and drawings by Betty Bailey. Aaron Harbour and Jackie Im are co-owners of Et al. etc., a gallery showing work by Johanna Billing and Betty Bailey, in the Mission District. Aaron Harbour and Jackie Im are co-owners of Et al. etc.

Kevin Tom, a regular, looks through a vinyl collection at Amoeba Music on the in San Francisco, Calif. Monday, October 30, 2017. Kevin Tom, a regular, looks through a vinyl collection at Amoeba Music on the in San Francisco, Calif. Monday, October 30, 2017. James Robinson of Newcastle looks through the vinyl section at Amoeba. Vinyl records merit a bigger section of the store; the CD area has shrunk. James Robinson of Newcastle looks through the vinyl section at Amoeba.

Many of the narrators in novelist Samantha Hunt’s debut story collection, “The Dark Dark,” are unreliable. Whether they speak in the first person or the omniscient third, they are not to be trusted. Unreliable narrators are in fashion in contemporary fiction, but their use is especially fitting in Hunt’s stories: The author of “Mr. Splitfoot” and “The Invention of Everything Else” writes about people living lives of uncertainty in an unreliable world.

U.S. premiere of “Picasso Ricercar” will be at Berkeley Piano Club Ensemble for These Times, featuring pianist Dale Tsang (left), cellist Anne Lerner-Wright and soprano Nanette McGuinness, perform music by David Garner, Elinor Armer and other contemporary composers at the .

My wife and I were on a road trip last weekend and it was time for lunch. As usual, that was a problem. “What do you feel like eating?” I asked, cringing, knowing the same answer as always was coming. “Something healthy,” she replied. Here we go. We were on the freeway in the middle of nowhere. “Something healthy” didn’t exist. Every exit was an invitation to fast-food heaven, or hell, depending on your tastes. She preferred to call it hell.

Over the years, Rupy C. Tut gradually pieced together details of her grandparents’ past lives. The older the Oakland painter got, the more she asked them — of their home in what was then British India, and of what would come to drag them from it. This year marks the 70th anniversary of what is broadly remembered as the year of Indian independence from British rule.

It’s 2144, and synthetic biologist/pharmaceutical pirate Jack Chen is beginning to think she has made a terrible mistake. Workers across the globe are becoming dangerously obsessed with mundane tasks after dosing themselves with a productivity enhancer known as Zacuity.

The biggest shakeup of radio stations in recent Bay Area history is about to take place.With the anticipated merger of Entercom and CBS by year’s end, the new company will have to divest four of its FM stations in the Bay Area to meet the FCC’s regulations on how many stations an owner can have in a market. That means selling or trading several high-profile and successful stations. CBS and Entercom have nine FM properties.