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By Emma Krasov, photography by Yuri Krasov I travel much, and my travel karma is generally good, but it has a quirk.Whenever I’m going away...

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Question: I recently drove down a hilly street and almost ran over a bicyclist. Don¹t misinterpret, he was not riding his bicycle. He was s...

Don’t mess with Michael Caine, I mean, Harry Brown

By Emma Krasov The film Harry Brown (directed by Daniel Barber, screenplay by Gary Young) puts its hero’s name in the title thus elevating ...

Oakland Museum of California Celebrates Nation of Immigrants in Renovated Building

Text and photography by Emma Krasov 31 years in existence in a landmark mid-century modern building, now fully renovated and expanded, Oakl...

Chef Chevalier Respects Gifts of Nature As Any Gallant Knight Would

By Emma Krasov, photography by Yuri Krasov Chevalier means knight, gallant nobleman, and Philippe Chevalier, chef/owner of the Chevalier Re...

Puccini’s La Rondine, or the Swallow Flies into Opera San Jose

By Emma Krasov She is a courtesan, he is a hopeless romantic. She is Parisian to the core (of course, in a 1917 Italian, based on earlier G...

Santa Clara Valley Wineries Celebrate Spring

By Emma Krasov, photography by Yuri Krasov Mid-Spring, California Wine Country turns emerald green with yellow, purple, and orange wild flo...