lecture

Locals are apparently not spooked by cemeteries becoming lively community centers. Cypress Lawn in Colma offers a Sunday afternoon lecture series starting with a Floating Art Deco Gallery this weekend. Later ones include “101 Tombs to Check Out Before You Do” and a book signing by Gary Kamiya whose California history columns are the most […]

Bay seniors who were knocked off their sofas watching HBO’s recent “Olive Kittridge” will be happy to know that Frances McDormand, who played the title role with endearingly Scrooge-like snark, will be speaking at West Main School Gym on Saturday December 27 at 8 pm. She will be conversing with the show’s brilliant screenwriter, Jane Anderson. […]

Bay seniors who’ve been working their way through Ottolenghi cookbooks as obsessively as  they once did with Julia Child are hereby alerted to the arrival of the Great One this coming October 24 at the JCC in San Francisco. $30. It is definitely not too early to get your tickets for Yotam Ottolenghi’s lecture. In […]

Bay seniors would have to be around 80 to remember the art deco splendors of the 1939 Golden Gate International Exhibition on Treasure Island. A group is trying to revive memories of the Fair and the Pan Am seaplanes that took off from there to Asia. This Saturday July 13 the nascent Treasure Island Museum […]

Bay seniors with a cosmic bent are invited to a City Star Party this Friday at 7pm at Lands End. The San Francisco Amateur Astronomers will guide you, providing guests a more informed viewing of our hopefully fogless heavens.  The evening begins with a telescope clinic and short lecture. Free.

Bay seniors who long ago got over their annoyance with fussy Victorian architecture should pay a visit to the baroque pile that is the Boyd Museum in San Rafael. This former summer home now houses the Marin History Museum. On Thursday September 13 at 6:30 they are offering a lecture by author Jack Gibson that […]

Bay seniors who think that our generation’s poet laureate Bob Dylan has been coasting for the past few decades will get their prejudices shaken up when Ron Rosenbaum comes to Stanford on Thursday, October 27 at 7:30 pm. Rosenbaum, a “New Yorker” and “Slate” columnist best known for his trenchant studies of Shakespeare and Hitler […]