Artist profile: David B. McKay
FEW PEOPLE CAN MULTITASK better than the Mayor of Nevada City, David McKay. Besides being a community leader, he is an accomplished photographer, silkscreen artist, graphic designer, art director and college teacher.
McKay has also published a book, Yuba Seasons: Images from the Wild & Scenic South Yuba River.
The book has won five national [...]
Wild & Scenic Film Festival: Where activism gets inspired
“THE WILD REQUIRES that we learn the terrain, nod to all the plants and animals and birds, ford the streams and cross the ridges, and tell a good story when we get back home.”
So writes legendary Beat poet Gary Snyder in his influential collection The Practice of the Wild. The essays are the basis [...]
Foothills Poet Gary Snyder a hit at S.F. Film Festival
Sierra Foothills’ Poet Gary Snyder was a hit at the San Francisco Film Festival, where the movie about him, “The Practice of The Wild,” debuted this week.
We visited with Gary, fellow Poet Jim Harrison, Will Hearst and his wife, Margaret, Chronicle Editor-At-Large Phil Bronstein and former Gov. Jerry Brown before the film at a small [...]
Film about Foothills’ Poet Gary Snyder coming in May
Will Hearst and I have known each other for years, starting when he ran the S.F. Examiner and I worked at The Chronicle. We also got together when he left the Examiner for Kleiner Perkins, the Silicon Valley venture-capital firm.
Here’s a pioneering multimedia clip with Will, circa 1996, when I was Editor at CNET. We [...]
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