Monday, March 23,
10:30 a.m. - City Operations & Neighborhood Services Committee
It's hard to figure out what Sophie Maxwell and Gavin Newsom have in common.
Sophie, after all, is a black woman who doesn't like technology but will answer her land line to talk to friends and critics alike, while Gavin is a white man who thinks that everything he texts should be secret because, hey, he did it on his iPhone, and you don't come between a man and his iPhone. That's personal -- way more pers
Local pop culture critic Greil Marcus hits the Contemporary Jewish Museum on Thursday at 7 p.m. to discuss the general idea of the identity of "American music." The author/columnist will be in conversation with Josh Kun, who co-curated the museum's current Jews on Vinyl , meaning you can check out some kitschy album art while learning a thing or two about American musical history.