For most of 2012, I carried Karen Tei Yamashita‘s I Hotel everywhere I went. It went in my suitcase as I traveled through France, it…
On Tuesday October 1st 2013, JCCSF hosted a conversation between Reza Aslan and Michael Krasny as part of the Arts and Ideas Literary Lecture Series….
I was sitting at the bar in a room with high wooden ceilings from the 1920s. There was an elk head on the wall and…
Earlier this year, City Lights Booksellers and Publishers released Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore‘s new memoir, The End of San Francisco, to much critical acclaim. Here is…
Harold Adler, founder and curator of the Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, has been a fixture in the Berkeley arts community for over 40…
One of the original computer scientists, Jaron Lanier (who coined the phrase “virtual reality”) began his talk at City Lights by playing a mouth organ…
Two weeks ago, my boyfriend sent me a Facebook invite to an event: “Mixer 2.0: A San Francisco Bay Area MFA/PhD Reading Series.” He knew…
I had a conversation with a schizophrenic once. Or rather, I was listening to him talk and after a while I was spaced out, trying…
“Stories need to be performed out loud” spoke T.C Boyle as he stood at the podium looking majestic in a yellow blazer that glowed in…