Sarah Lynch

Self-described “wine geek” Jamie Kutch left a career as a stock trader in 2005 to pursue his dream. Four years later, his Sonoma Coast Pinot Noirs are on the menu at Gary Danko, French Laundry and Michael Mina.

For the fourth consecutive year, California Home+Design presents the winners of the AIA San Francisco Design Awards.

For the fourth consecutive year, California Home+Design presents the winners of the AIA San Francisco Design Awards.

As it turns out, a funny thing did happen on the way to <span style="font-style: italic;">Forum</span>.I was not keen on public radio,” writes Michael Krasny in Off Mike: A Memoir of Talk Radio and Literary Life (Stanford University Press). It may seem as if the host of KQED’s Forum is as much of a public-radio stalwart as Ira Glass or Terry Gross, but Krasny settled for the gig 14 years ago as a sideline to being both an English professor at SF State and a struggling novelist.