SF News Day Around the Bay: Vigil At City Lights For Ferlinghetti Four thieves reportedly stole a 60-year-old man's electric wheelchair in SoMa last week and made him crawl home, a Peninsula woman reported missing yesterday was found dead in the Grand Canyon today, and Alameda County's Deputy DA is running for the DA's seat.
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 Even Lawrence Ferlinghetti Can't Save 'Poets Plaza' Plan In North Beach A long discussed, previously quashed plan to close down a block of Vallejo Street in North Beach in front of the Church of St. Francis from Assisi to create Piazza Saint Francis, The
Arts & Entertainment Catching Up With Five Surviving Members Of the Beat Generation In Northern California Writing for the Washington Post, writer Jeff Weiss has just done a moving and thorough job of tracking down five people in their 80s and 90s, all members of the Beat Generation who
Arts & Entertainment Lawrence Ferlinghetti Reflects On How SF Has Changed Over His 64 Years Here Beat poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti has seen San Francisco through many eras of change. Arriving here in 1951 at the age of 31, the 95-year-old North Beach resident knew the city at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lawrence Ferlinghetti Writes Poem About Saving Gold Dust Lounge The battle to save the Gold Dust Lounge still trudges on. Should it close down? Sure, say some. Should it stay open? Sure, if it further irks tender-bottomed lawyer Sam Singer. (We kid,
Arts & Entertainment Attention Poetry Fans: The San Francisco Int'l Poetry Festival Starts Tomorrow Like a comet, or a certain Venetian art fair, the San Francisco International Poetry Festival only comes around every two years, and the second biennial fest kicks off tomorrow with a party in
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 Bad day on the transportation front yesterday: so someone got stabbed on a MUNI bus yesterday afternoon around 1 p.m. at 16th Street and Mission, and on the morning commute, southbound 880
Arts & Entertainment Savage Jew On July 5, after Savage predictably asked that students undergoing a weeklong fast for immigration reform (and, bonus, to slim down a few sizes) "fast until they starve to death," Sandoval went into
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Blur, "Transgender & Gender Variant" Support Group: Pretty much what it says right there; a good place to go for 18- to 25-year-olds looking for support or just to chat with other
SF News North Beach is Italian for Piazza Right now the problem with the piazza is... drum roll please... money. Or more like not knowing where it'll come from. Estimated price is somewhere around a half million, which doesn't sound like
Arts & Entertainment Howl Turns Fifty It's almost exactly fifty years later, and it still smacks you upside your beret-wearing cool-cat bongo-beating head, man -- Allan Ginsberg debuted his classic poem "Howl" on Friday, October 7, 1955, at a
Arts & Entertainment I Read the Earth Moved Litquake started two years ago when groups of Bay Area writers decided it was high time they put on events like those put on by music, film, and arts groups in the area.
