Rendering: Adam Pardee/STAFF. If you’ve watched a lot of Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom—whatever, you’ve witnessed the time-lapse scenery progressions of the African watering hole, as the animals continue to show up despite the lake becoming a pond, then a puddle, then mud. Then the…

Photos: Martin Lacey NAPA — Rick Springfield released a new bluesy record just a few months ago, but it was his ’80s power pop hits on which he focused the most Sunday at the Uptown Theatre. Springfield covered songs from from eight of his albums and a few of…

Rick Springfield photographed at Cobb’s Comedy Club in San Francisco on Jan. 20, 2018. Alessio Neri/STAFF SAN FRANCISCO — Before he was a heartthrob on General Hospital, pined for “Jessie’s Girl,” wrote 17 Top 40 hits and sold more than 25 million albums, Rick Springfield was an Australian teen…