Controls on surveillance secret, unsupervised BY GORDON L. WEIL The news that the federal government has been collecting phone and Internet data on millions of Americans has stirred controversy over the balance between national security and personal privacy. Despite the revelation of the National Security Agency program called Prism, how it is controlled remains largely secret. read more
June 14, 2013 - The Times Record
Bonny Zanardi: "Fresh Impressions" grace the Portola Art Gallery Vibrant landscapes in oil by Menlo Park artist Alice Weil are featured in "Fresh Impressions" at the Portola Art Gallery at the Allied Arts Guild. Weil's paintings capture a variety of seasons.
June 14, 2013 - Contra Costa Times
Album review: Kaija Saariaho, 'La Passion de Simone' Album review: Kaija Saariaho, 'La Passion de Simone' New Music Composer Kaija Saariaho's theatrical meditation on the life and thought of the French mystic Simone Weil is a static and rather moody affair, an openly undramatic series of self-contained scenes ("stations") to a rather murky French libretto by Amin Maalouf. There are moments of sudden glory and invention scattered throughout - the ...
June 14, 2013 - San Francisco Chronicle