Recent S.F. to NYC transplant artist Tauba Auerbach is featured in Vogue magazine this month. We're not surprised, because Auerbach is afire, and has been for a while now. The opening reception for her show "The Answer/ Wasn't Here" at Jack Hanley last May was a madhouse, and she's just plain talented. She works with letters and symbols, mostly, stretching them, distorting them, and pointing out the ways in which other people stretch and distort them. At the moment, she's "working with the Cambr
An explosion of federal funding has Bay Area researchers at the forefront of America's counter-terrorism program. Will the money make us safer - or just make science a military secret?