By Dr. Tim Seelig– The loveliness of Paris seems somehow sadly grey The glory that was Rome is of another day I’ve been terribly alone and forgotten in Manhattan I’m…
By Jewelle Gomez– Long ago, when I lived in Manhattan, I sublet my apartment for several months while I moved in with a lover in the Bronx. A friend, Stacy.…
Today, August 26, is Women’s Equality Day, which commemorates the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that prohibits the states and the federal government from denying…
By Gary M. Kramer– A new adaptation of Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz arrives on DVD August 31. (It is also available on demand.) This sweeping, 3-hour epic about good and…
By Jan Wahl– Three glorious hours in Larry Edmunds Bookshop on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles is movie buff heaven. Posters, lobby cards, and scripts abound, but it is the…
(Editor’s Note: This issue marks the launch of a new column in the San Francisco Bay Times from Book Passage, an innovator in bringing the world’s finest authors to the…
By Michele Karlsberg– Michele Karlsberg: Alex Reeve’s “Leo Stanhope” series consists of three crime novels based in 1880s Victorian England, with a fourth one in the process. With the series…
Words of Wisdumb from a Fun Nun– By Sister Dana Van Iquity– Sister Dana sez, “As former First Lady Nancy Reagan used to say: ‘Just say NO to drugs’; I say: ‘Just…
By Liam P. Mayclem– Late summer is a perfect time to visit the following, some of my favorite places to stay and dine in Calistoga: Mount View Hotel The iconic…
By David Landis– How many people, much less businesses, much less restaurants, make it to their 40th anniversary? Not a lot. Which is why it makes celebrating this seminal milestone…
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