Photographer's notes: Sunday was a day of sin and salvation, naked men and women, ass-less leather chaps and vegetarian hot dogs. The 2008 Up Your Alley festival, held in SOMA, was packed with over 10 ...

Irving Berlin got 37¢ for writing his first song, Marie from Sunny Italy. Today, at 77, he is the most successful songwriter in the world, rich enough to own Italy if he wanted it. But he can’t, won’t ...