He helped corner a killer tiger, guarded and chauffeured the mayor, made innumerable arrests, investigated murders, and was one of the first African Americans to rise to a senior position in the San Francisco Police Department at a time when the force was still emerging from its discriminatory past. “It was a white Irish job ...
John Ignatius Rigoli has served in the military, launched and operated over six businesses, bought and sold significant real estate, and contributed to the canon of consumer law. But in the background, his abiding interest has been religion – specifically the history of Christianity. A lifelong Catholic, he spent 20 years studying its formative years, ...
Looking out at Monterey Bay from Santa Cruz early one morning last year, a pair of silhouetted trees against water, distant mountains and mist immediately reminded Frish Brandt of Japan, which she had visited several years before. Rousing herself from reverie, she padded into the kitchen, opened her laptop to check email, and was surprised ...
Arthur Persyko loves to make trouble. The good kind, that is. As a young man, he protested the Vietnam War, moved to British Columbia, where he fought the use of carcinogenic herbicides, became an anti-nuclear power activist in San Joaquin County, and helped organize one of the first Earth Days on his college campus. He ...
It’s game night at San Francisco’s Chase Center and the Golden State Warriors are not the only fan favorites wowing the hometown crowd. At the top of the fourth quarter, they give up the floor to a crew of swaggering, strutting, seasoned dancers aged 55 to 80, known as the Hardwood Classics. The atmosphere is ...
A tarnished silver coin from 1964, likely worth only $10 to any dealer, reminds Richard Lyons Corriea of an experience that set his sights on a life of contributing to his community. After a 35-year career at the San Francisco Police Department – from patrol officer to commander of the Metropolitan Division then Airport Bureau, ...
