• Movie Review: ‘Nouvelle Vague’ salutes the classic French filmmakers,Megan Bianco

    Movie Review: ‘Nouvelle Vague’ salutes the classic French filmmakers

    Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague is the latest semi-current cinematic fanfiction, theatrical YouTube tribute-esque love letter to the process of filmmaking. Don’t get me wrong, coming from me, this is a compliment. These qualities are exactly why I enjoyed Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in H

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  • Cityscape: Iconic San Diego architect Irving Gill’s Depression-era creativity,Dirk Sutro

    Cityscape: Iconic San Diego architect Irving Gill’s Depression-era creativity

    A drawing of Irving Gill’s design for the Oceanside fire and police station. (Courtesy UC Santa Barbara) Common wisdom has it that Irving Gill, San Diego’s most important architect, designed his most important buildings in the early 1900s, in San Diego and Los Angeles. But an exhibit on view at the

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  • Robert Arrigoni’s Masterpiece in Wood, $10M,Philip Ferrato

    Robert Arrigoni’s Masterpiece in Wood, $10M

    Angelo Sangiacomo—born in San Francisco’s Richmond District and the son of Italian immigrants—rose to become one the City’s largest landlords, developing dozens of rental properties during his long (and occasionally contentious) career. When it came time to build a home for his family, he had the vi

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