July 2024 Issue: Vera (Print Edition)

Come into My Parlor Jamie O’Reilly makes a private tradition public "During a full house on an unseasonably warm Sunday evening in late February, a gathering of like-minded souls came together in the front room of Tre Kronor, the cozy Scandinavian café in the North Park neighborhood, to hear singer, salonnière extraordinaire, and all-around cultural entrepreneur Jamie O’Reilly perform material for her Roots Salon." (June Sawyers) Deployment Nuremberg A veteran remembers his days running "Hitler’s favorite opera house" after the war "In 2023, I happened upon a brief article about a 103-year-old WWII veteran given the keys to his Northern California city. I was intrigued by this man’s experience: Like my father, he’d served in the Army in occupied Nuremberg starting sometime in the fall of 1945. And his duties in Nuremberg struck another chord: he’d managed entertainment for troops at the famous Nuremberg Opera House in a period aligning with the programs my father had kept from the conc