Lots of sweaty 8- and 9-year-old girls still go for stories about fairies and princesses after the soccer game. Two Newbery Gold Medalists have turned their attention to such multifaceted and independent readers

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Roundup of children's books

Playing Mozart is a tricky thing for a modern symphony orchestra, which is designed for other music entirely. So a Mozart performance as splendid as Wednesday's by the San Francisco Symphony under guest conductor Jeffrey Kahane is a rare treat. And two on a...

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Music review: San Francisco Symphony's Mozart

The Private Collections spring art tour offers a rare glimpse into the homes of some of San Francisco's most notable art collectors. Among the 10 participating in this year's event - which takes place Thursday night - are Sabrina Buell, Orlando Diaz-Azcuy and...

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Private Collections: A spring art tour

The fight to control local advertising is shaping up as the next great battle in the technology sector. Some see it as Version 2.0 of the war to own online search, a rare opportunity to shorten Google Inc.'s lead in the highly lucrative Internet advertising... Google - Advertising - Technology - Searching - Yahoo

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Battle over online local ads heats up

With Opening Day coming up, this is the perfect time to share some baseball history with kids. It's hard to find a more inspiring story than that of heavy hitter Hank Aaron, in Henry Aaron's Dream, by Matt Tavares (Candlewick; 40 pages; $16.99; ages 9-12)....

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Roundup of children's books: Baseball, history (San Francisco Chronicle)

There is a remarkable event going on in the world of journalism. In the Jan. 14 issue of the New York Review of Books, the scholar and political essayist Tony Judt announced that he was dying.

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There is a remarkable event going on in the world of journalism. In the Jan. 14... (San Francisco Chronicle)

While the tsunami launched by Chile's Feb.

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Hawaii's tsunamis: Scenes of destruction and how to survive (San Francisco Chronicle)

The Possessed Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them By Elif Batuman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 296 pages; $15 paperback) If you take fiction seriously, eventually you're going to wander into the awesome redwood forest of Russian novels....

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'The Possessed,' by Elif Batuman (San Francisco Chronicle)

The saga of the Franciscan manzanita (Arctostaphylos franciscana), a native shrub thought extinct in the wild until its recent discovery at the Presidio, begins with the remarkable Alice Eastwood. This self-taught naturalist became curator of botany at the...

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Tracing the roots of a rare shrub (San Francisco Chronicle)

Title: Owner Company: Omnivore Books on Food, 3885-A Cesar Chavez St., San Francisco Q: Before you opened the store, you started your own cookbook collection some years ago while you were a rare-book specialist at an auction house. Why cookbooks? A:..

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Books get cooking (San Francisco Chronicle)