Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Poet and City Lights Founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti Dies at 101 Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet laureate of San Francisco and one of the last surviving figures Beat Generation, has died just shy of his 102nd birthday. His son Lorenzo Ferlinghetti confirmed his passing, saying that he died at his home in North Beach on Monday evening.
Arts & Entertainment Lawrence Ferlinghetti Turns 100, Publishes Autobiographical Novel 'Little Boy' One of San Francisco's last living connections to the Beat Generation, the man who first published both Allen Ginsberg's Howl & Other Poems and Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems, and wrote his own classic collection A Coney Island Of the Mind, just celebrated his 100th birthday on Sunday.
Arts & Entertainment Video: John Waters Reads Dirty To You In honor of Banned Book Week in San Francisco, the city's foremost authority on the relationship between books and sex dropped by City Lights Bookstore to record this delightful reading of D.H.
misc Photo du Jour 36 (Check out the actual chin scratching occurring, lower right, at an intelligentsia event. Har!) Here we have novelist Dave Eggers at the National Book Critics Circle nominee announcement at City Lights. We're in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Pipettes: This all-female, British, Phil-Spector-sounding band gains more and more popularity by the day. See them tonight so that by next year when they're too big for SF venues, you can
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Laura Gibson: We'd hate to genre-ize her lovely sounds, but neo-folk songstress Gibson -- who uses such tools as trumpet, viola, and musical saw in addition to her sublime vocal cords-- sings
SF News SFist Blotter Sorry we missed this story the first time around -- the cops are still looking for the assailants in a stabbing on 19th and Castro back in June. Two gay men were walking
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today Other events: --The workers united -- have a whole month to celebrate! July is Laborfest month, and you can celebrate today at a poetry reading about growing up working-class at City Lights (5
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Artist Paul Madonna In artist Paul Madonna's weekly comic series All Over Coffee, San Francisco architecture—and coffee—seem to be the main characters. Beautifully detailed drawings of SF scenes, combined with disembodied voices that almost
Arts & Entertainment Sad News For Cody's SF We're getting so upset to have to keep writing the same post over and over again -- yet another San Francisco independent bookstore is shutting its doors. This time, it's the not-so-long-ago opened
Arts & Entertainment Win a Copy of Amanda Boyden's <i>Pretty Little Dirty</i>! Even if you can't make it to one of these readings, Amanda's publishers want to give the winning SFist readers a copy of this book. Enter below to win a copy of . Good
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads -- Or Listens to Others Read A couple literary events have made their way into our inbox lately, and we want to tell you about them. It's just that simple. Sometimes we like to watch people reading, it's like
Arts & Entertainment Wednesdays, the New Apocalypse Wednesday: Get all in the Wednesday SFist Reads mood with a cavalcade of options: Barbara Ehrenreich at Clean Well-Lighted (7:00), a Dr. Atomic discussion at City Lights (7 p.m.), Caroline Kennedy
Arts & Entertainment Beth Lisick's In the Pool Everyone seems to describe spoken word artist and writer/poet Beth Lisick as "fizzy" -- but she really is! City Lights was packed to the gills with Missionistas who walked up Columbus from
Arts & Entertainment Still Independent After All These Years One of the mothers of all intellectual crack dens - Kepler's Bookstore - turns 50 this year. Fifty years of social consciousness (Roy Kepler was an anti-violence activist) and social unconsciousness (this is,
Arts & Entertainment <em>The Darwin Awards</em> Having never been to a movie set before, we were entertained by watching the multitude of techs and runners standing around drinking coffee and communicating via walkie talkies. Apparently there is a lot
