Sob, laugh, ponder — according to gender

Thanks to Ross Portugeis for sending over an online copy of the 1922 book “Who’s Who Among the Women of California.” This book/magazine filled with ads begins its listings with “the bestloved woman in California,” Phoebe Apperson Hearst, “a staunch and loyal friend, a great and devoted patriot, and a broad-minded, tolerant and kindly woman of great understanding and amazing energy.”

Lest you suspect this item is included so as to polish the apple of my employers, the descendants of Phoebe Hearst, it’s included to speculate on whether dear Phoebe would have been incensed to read this: Hearst, says the citation, “had the heart of a woman, the gaeity of a child, the brains of a man.”

Celebrated Giants announcer Renel BrooksMoon, who parted ways with KISQ-FM radio in November, a few months before that station became 98.1 the Breeze, was back on the air with a new show on Sunday, Aug. 28. “Soul School Sundays” will be broadcast weekly, from five to 10 p.m. on KBLX (102.9 FM).

Brooks-Moon, public-address announcer for the San Francisco Giants, is a fixture on the Bay Area radio scene, having broadcast during morning drive time on KISQ for 17 years. Her manager, Michael Aczon, said last week that in her new weekly gig, she’ll play the old rhythm and blues hits she’s always loved.

The first day of the show was a big one for the announcer. As one of the founders and stalwart supporters of Friends of Faith, a breast cancer nonprofit named after the late newswoman Faith Fancher, she took part that morning in a 5K walk around Lake Merritt.

In an East Bay public library, Laurie Ehrlich was checking out a novel, Isabel Allende’s “The Japanese Lover,” for her girlfriend, and mentioned to the librarian that it was good and she should read it. “I don’t read,” said the librarian. “Just the Bible.”

Hugh Laurie and Diane Farr, with whom he is starring in “Chance,” a forthcoming Hulu series shot around San Francisco, had dinner at Boulevard on Tuesday night, Aug. 23.

In San Carlos, Wayne Montoya watched a group of young women who’d been waiting on the sidewalk get into the car when a Ford sedan pulled up to the curb. They didn’t stay in the vehicle long. It wasn’t their Uber driver; he was delivering pizzas to a house nearby.

In other sidewalk action, when Ralph Seligman of Hillsborough called Recology to take away objects for recycling, one of the drivers spotted a pogo stick among them. At which he got out of his truck and went hopping “merrily down our hill. He made it safely back to his truck,” writes Seligman, having given the stick one last run before it was taken away. The museums: The de Young Museum’s forthcoming exhibition about the Summer of Love will be open approximately from April to August 2017, and Gar Smith also forwards word that the Victoria & Albert Museum in London is opening “You Say You Want a Revolution: Records and Rebels 19661970” on Sept. 10.

The Guardian described the exhibition as exploring “the birth of late-1960s counterculture that helped spawn Silicon Valley.” Looking at the website to see how much of San Francisco would be in the show, the first thing I came across was an “Acid Test” poster designed by Wes Wilson and printed in 1966, loaned to the exhibition by Bay Area homie Stewart Brand.

At about the same time as that Summer of Love show in San Francisco, the Oakland Museum of California has announced “Of Dogs and Other People: The Art of Roy De Forest.” In addition to displays of De Forest’s works, the museum plans a series of listening stages, “led by an array of exhibition-related character guides ranging from dog trainers to art historians and ship captains.”

The show, which will be in the museum’s Great Hall, will cost an extra $4 (in addition to the museum’s admission fee). This will be the second time the museum has charged an extra fee. “Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture,” which will open in December, will also cost $4 extra. “We’re just coming into the 21st century,” said a museum rep. Extra fees will apply only to shows in the Great Hall.

“It’s more of a farm-to-compost restaurant.” Man to man, overheard at a trendy restaurant in Portland, Ore., by Ted Weinstein

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