What’s the secret of the magazine’s success, when so many other publications of its era have come and gone? “I think it was the understanding that rock and roll was the bond — not leftist politics,” says Wenner.
Jann Wenner didn’t necessarily start out to make history. The Marin County–raised UC Berkeley dropout’s early career included stints as an NBC stringer covering the Free Speech Movement from the steps of Sproul Hall and Barry Goldwater’s 1964 nomination at the Cow Palace.
Miss Tilly’s final bow: A Q&A A Q&A with Matilda Abbe, the founder of a San Francisco institution, Miss Tilly’s Ballet in the Richmond district. The writing came about in the aftermath of serious health challenges, including back and heart surgeries, but Wenner says the COVID era allowed him “the opportunity and time to write. To find the right words, you have to really bring yourself back to situations to recall them as vividly as possible.”
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