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In October 1893, San Francisco society was rocked by the secret marriage of millionaire Charlie Fair and Maud Nelson, a well-known madam. The couple quietly crossed the bay to Oakland intending to elope without attracting attention. Instead, their wedding became front-page news. Charlie was the son of Comstock silver millionaire and former U.S. Senator James…

I am eagerly anticipating the arrival of a sample of Malle’s Vetiver Extraordinaire today.

Fog rolls into the North Beach basements, and Nick DeJohn is still not talking — a garrot saw to that back in May of ’47. Part Two picks up the case cold with Freddie Francisco’s break down of rumors in the Tenderloin whisper stream, jumps forward to a judge’s chambers where DA Edmund “Pat” Brown…

Nick DeJohn never knew when he had enough. He’d slipped out of Chicago in the nick of time, so to speak, with a stolen $250K skim in his pocket and a lot of enemies at his back. Safe in Santa Rosa, California, with his wife and children, he could have stayed quiet and counted his…

  1,936,529 views From her dissertation: “Knot traces are elementary 4-manifolds built by attaching a single 2-handle to the 4-ball; these are the canonical examples 4-manifolds with nontrivial middle dimensional homology. In this thesis, we give a flexible technique for constructing pairs of distinct knots with diffeomorphic traces. Using this construction, we show that there…

From “The Spiritual Individualities of the Planets,” by Rudolf Steiner We turn now to Saturn. In earlier times Saturn was regarded as the outermost planet of our system, Uranus and Neptune having been added much later. We will leave them out of consideration now and think of Saturn as a kind of antithesis to the…

In this episode, I interview drummer and jazz historian Hal Smith. We discuss the music scene in San Francisco in the 30s and 40s and how one man, Lu Watters and his band The Yerba Buena Jazz Band, saved traditional jazz after the emergence of swing music. The musicians, the clubs, and how an girlfriend’s…