reading: Boho Beat, North Bay Bohemian

April 5-7: Spring Forward Festival at the Arlene Francis Center

Estefany Gonzalez — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:45:00 -0700

100 Thousand Poets for Change is an organization of poets, writers, musicians and artists from all over the world looking for a change. What kind of change exactly?…

August 18: Mark Morford Interview at 142 Throckmorton Theatre

Gabe Meline — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:00:00 -0700

Sure, we love San Francisco Chronicle writer Mark Morford for describing Dick Cheney as “pure sneering vileness incarnate just by opening his tiny black eyes,” but we also love that the next day he’ll eloquently unearth deep-seated truths about fearing death or having children or maintaining sanity in a world which seems to exist solely to desecrate humankind’s empathy for each other. Readers all over the country revile him as a source of “San Francisco values,” but we say Morford’s compassion, intellect and incisive wit are to be most celebrated.…

Feb. 6: Michael Ondaatje and Robert Hass at the Dance Palace

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:00:37 -0800

The average Joe who reads a book or two every year might only know author Michael Ondaatje as a novelist behind the film-adapted and Booker Prize-winning The English Patient. But Ondaatje’s minimalist prose is deeply informed by poetry, having published more than twice as many books of poetry as novels.…