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Mar.16.2013
While visual artists like photographers love to show as part of a group, there’s a certain cachet about having one’s own show. It’s happening a second time for Johnna, and this time she’s built a remarkable interior structure—something people can actually walk inside of— about which...
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Feb.13.2013
I'll be reading with Chana Bloch and Ann Fisher-Wirth at Moe's Books in Berkeley, (http://www.moesbooks.com/pages/Store-Events-.html) on Thursday 21 February, at 7:30 pm.
Web Link: http://www.moesbooks.com/Location: Moe's books, 2476 Telegraph AveunueCity: BerkeleyState: ...
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Feb.03.2013
The "Virtual Berkeley" site has honored another 20-or-s0 former residents, including Philip K. Dick, Timothy Leary, Edward Teller, Thornton Wilder, and the area's first vegetarians. My contribution was Beserkley Records. You can read all about them and more at
OOPS! THE EDITOR HAS...
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Nov.21.2012
it's that time of year...for my perennial, untoppable "fruits-and-nuts" American-family culture clash Thanksgiving story: Spirit of the Season(ing)
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Nov.14.2012
So I'm heading down Vine, turning left on Shattuck, aiming for the cafe and two women are crossing north-to-south in front of me and one of them is saying "...but the other point guard was John Stockton." They are both cute, early twenties; one is carrying what looks enough like a law...
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Aug.04.2012
My efforts on behalf of Adele's and my favorite restaurant (See: Blog of July 12, 2012) attracted as much interest from the San Francisco Chronicle, East Bay Express, and Berkeley Daily Planet combined, as they apparently did at Red Room (zilch). However, an intrepid reporter at feisty...
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Jul.25.2012
Hard core Bob Levin fans may wish to check out www.BerkeleyPlaques.org where I have two contributions posted (Don Donohue and Greg Irons). Others may wish to post contributions (text and photos) of their own.
The Berkeley Historical Plaques Project is creating a "virtual Berkeley" on-line,...
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Mar.15.2012
We found the old torn-in-half map in the basement of the house we were living in after the Big Fire of 1991.
The map starts with the Berkeley fire of 1923. The logo which wraps all the way around the map refers to The Oak-Covered Campus. It is oak-covered no more.
Karen Zukor is...
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Jan.17.2012
This is the first of three posts that update the lives of my three children, whom many readers know from my poetry book.
Johnna’s work was featured in a three-person show at the Traywick Gallery in Berkeley that opened yesterday. She is the photographer of the family, the subject of the...
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Dec.07.2011
A Literary Harvest: featuring “New California” writers Andrew Lam, J. Tony Serra, STEPHEN MEADOWS, and WINNER of the James D. Houston Award, Mariah K. YoungFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact: Natalie Mulford Tel: (510) 549-3564, ext. 309 Fax: (510) 549-1889 ...
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