{Golden Gate and Beyond} As part of Litquake's Off the Richter Scale, this program was the second of a series at the Variety Preview Room on Sun Oct 8 11, the second day of Litquake XII. Fiction authors were Frank Bergon, Barnaby Conrad III, Seth…

The Booksmith hosted readings from contributors to xo Orpheus on Monday, September 30th.

• The Booksmith: http://booksmith.com
• xo Orpheus: http://www.us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780143122425,00.html
• Karen Tei Yamashita:…

Siena College brought Karen Tei Yamashita to campus for a reading from her latest novel, I-Hotel. The International Hotel in the 1960s San Francisco was one of the largest grassroots struggles for affordable housing in the country. Yamashita captured…

International Hotel, 848 Kearny Street in San Francisco August, 1977. San Francisco Sheriffs' deputies and police confront demonstrators trying to prevent forced eviction of the hotel's elderly tenants. Photo by Nancy Wong

Demonstrators in front of the International Hotel, 848 Kearny Street at Jackson show their support for the tenants who are under eviction orders, August 1977. Photo by Nancy Wong.

The International Hotel, 848 Kearny Street at Jackson Street in San Francisco, California 1977 after the August forced eviction of tenants. Photo by Nancy Wong.

Vedder, Elihu,, 1836-1923,, bookplate designer. [Bookplate of Anita Herriman Vedder, Rome, Italy] [between ca. 1870 and 1923] 1 print : woodcut ; bookplate 11.7 x 8.4 cm. Notes: Title devised by Library staff. Print shows the words "Let me…

Harding, Dorothy Sturgis,, artist. [Bookplate of Rosamond Sturgis Brooks] [1920] 1 print : lithograph ; bookplate 12.2 x 10.4 cm, on mount 22.8 x 15.2 cm. Notes: Title devised by Library staff. Print showing a sailboat framed by dolphins and a…

Smith, Sidney Lawton,, 1845-1929,, engraver. [Bookplate of Ornithologist Ruthven Deane, hand-colored by Mrs. Frank S. Hatch] [1924] 1 print : etching with engraving, hand-colored ; bookplate 10.9 x 8.2 cm. Notes: Handwritten note on back of…

Lankes, Julius J.,, 1884-1960,, bookplate designer. [Bookplate of Buddy Lankes] 1920. 1 print : woodcut ; bookplate 18.3 x 13.7 cm. Notes: Title devised by Library staff. Print for a child's bookplate shows three birds sitting in a tree. Forms…

sumber: BDS Movement

Part of the Spring section of the Luttrell Psalter film. The film recreates medieval rural life as depicted in the Luttrell Psalter. It is due for release in May 2008.

Music by Richard Still.

www.luttrellpsalter.org.uk

Rare 1967 film of poet and "Beat Friar" Brother Antoninus (AKA William Everson) performing spoken word at the auditorium of St. Alberts College in Oakland. Antoninus is one of the key figures of the beat era and the San Francisco Renaissance that…