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Dec.24.2012 - 8:48 am
posted by Barbara Froman
I've saved the best for last: George Albert Smith's short, silent film, Santa Claus, made in 1898, which was set to the late Bill Evans' rendition of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town."
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Dec.23.2012 - 2:00 pm
posted by Steve Caplan
In this book signing, Dr. Caplan discusses how "Matter Over Mind" came to be published. A fictional work with a riveting, spellbinding plot, this novel delves through the struggle of scientist Dr....
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Dec.23.2012 - 11:17 am
posted by Barbara Froman
...Nat King Cole. You all know this one. Enjoy!
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Dec.23.2012 - 4:57 am
posted by Terry Spear
When working on a story, I love to be able to listen to the sounds that animals make, such as wolves howling, as I heard at the wolf reserve in Texas, broad daylight, but didn't think to record them...
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Dec.22.2012 - 9:52 am
posted by Barbara Froman
There are several clips of this number from How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying available, but I am particularly fond of this one, from the 1994 revival, with Matthew Broderick in the...
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Dec.21.2012 - 11:44 am
posted by Barbara Froman
Music by Olivier Messaien: Quartet for the End of Time, Movement 8
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Dec.20.2012 - 4:49 pm
posted by John Yunker
One writer's valiant attempt to rescue endangered vintage typewriters. By the founders of Ashland Creek Press: www.ashlandcreekpress.
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Dec.20.2012 - 9:38 am
posted by Barbara Froman
One of the most beautiful poems ever written, recited by its author.
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Dec.19.2012 - 8:08 am
posted by Barbara Froman
In 1853, Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann published an arrangement of an improvisation his son-in-law, Charles Gounod, composed as a sort of descant to Bach's Prelude in C Major BWV 846, using Ave...
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Dec.19.2012 - 7:02 am
posted by Richard Zimler
This is a song I wrote about my brother. Here are the lyrics:
I remember it was May And winds were whisperingIn red and gold all day
They spoke to me of the Strangeness of distanceOf the...
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May.01.2011 - 12:23 am
posted by Matt Beynon Rees
Trailer for Matt Rees's historical crime novel MOZART'S LAST ARIA. It's 1791 and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is Vienna's brightest star. But six weeks after he tells his wife that he has been poisoned,...
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Oct.26.2011 - 5:34 pm
posted by Ishmael Reed
On Wed Oct 12 11, Litquake presented Ishmael Reed with its annual Barbary Coast Award in honor of his long-standing contributions to the Bay Area literary scene. Hosted by W. Kamau Bell, friends/...
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Feb.25.2008 - 9:47 am
posted by Tim Wise
This is a teaser for the newly-released video, The Pathology of Privilege: Racism, White Denial & the Costs of Inequality, from the Media Education Foundation. The video is of a speech given by...
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May.02.2011 - 11:54 pm
posted by Matt Beynon Rees
Matt Rees's first reading from his historical crime novel MOZART'S LAST ARIA. It's 1791 and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is Vienna's brightest star. But six weeks after he tells his wife that he has been...
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Aug.16.2009 - 4:01 am
posted by Matt Beynon Rees
The 4th Palestinian crime novel by award-winning author Matt Beynon Rees is THE FOURTH ASSASSIN. In New York for a United Nations conference, Omar Yussef visits his son in the Brooklyn neighborhood...
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Nov.03.2012 - 12:22 pm
posted by Jane Hirshfield
This is an 18 minute video of Jane Hirshfield's reading during the 2012 San Francisco International Poetry Festival.
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Nov.29.2008 - 7:22 am
posted by Tim Wise
This is part of my Nov. 1 speech in Chicago, in which I discuss the clash of historical narratives on display between Barack Obama and Rev. Jeremiah Wright (the latter of whom was in the audience),...
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Nov.27.2007 - 6:29 pm
posted by Ben Fong-Torres
Ben Fong-Torres and Ray Manzarek, keyboardist for the Doors, appear in 2006 at Book Passage in Corte Madera, California.
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Nov.10.2008 - 8:32 pm
posted by Tim Wise
This is a clip of a speech on the south side of Chicago, November 1, 2008, in which I discuss the inability of then-candidate Barack Obama to openly discuss racism in America, and the ongoing reality...
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