Never Quitting ‘Brokeback Mountain’

In a ‘Show Boat’ Reboot, Ol’ Man River Gets an Extreme Makeover

“Show/Boat: A River” reverses the racial lens on the great-grandfather of American musicals.

Soccer Was Out, So He Became a Novelist Instead

Chigozie Obioma has made a career of writing, and a very successful one: He has published two novels, both Booker Prize finalists, and has earned about a dozen other awards. But writing was his second choice, he said. His first dream was to play soccer. Obioma was born the fifth of 12 children to Igbo […]

Nick Gravenites, Mainstay of the San Francisco Rock Scene, Dies at 85

A blues devotee from Chicago, he tasted fame in the late 1960s with the Electric Flag, a band that made its debut at Monterey but proved short-lived.