Staying In San Francisco? Travelers Take Note
PACIFIC HEIGHTS INN. 1555 Union Street. San Francisco. Telephone: (415) 776-3310. In a town full of Holiday Inns, Marriot Hotels and Ramadas, you won’t hear too much about the Pacific Heights … Continue reading
Caffe Puccini Does It Right
CAFFE PUCCINI. 411 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco. Graziano Lucchesi’s Caffe Puccini (named after the famed composer from Lucca) is a North Beach institution noted for its aromatic coffees that draw … Continue reading
The Taste of Old North Beach
VOLARE TRATTORIA. 561 Columbus Avenue. San Francisco. (415) 362-2274. There are countless Italian restaurants in San Francisco’s famed North Beach district. Unfortunately, many of them are tourist traps where phonies … Continue reading
The Picaro Remains A San Francisco Landmark
Mixing Tapas with Poetry in the Mission PICARO RESTAURANT. 3120 16th Street, San Francisco. (415) 431-4089. History For the last 50 years, City Lights Bookstore, smack-dab in the center of San Francisco’s … Continue reading
Travels With Epicurus
TRAVELS WITH EPICURUS. Daniel Klein. Penguin Books Epicurus has always been one of my favorite philosophers. Back when I was 12 years old, approaching Confirmation, and struggling with the mounting … Continue reading
Library Advisory
The Best From Saunders’ 2013 Shelf New Releases from Elsevier in Language and Medicine New Releases from Springer in Medicine New Releases from Wiley & Sons in Science From the … Continue reading
“Moon In the Abstract”
On Gandolfini As “Soprano” I. They’ve come To tailor The scenes To the way The man moves Through sacred boundaries Of time (silk) Across the heaviness Of ancient Old atmosphere … Continue reading
Announcing the 2005 Bard Fiction Prize
New Releases from Palgrave New Releases from Wiley & Sons MURDER OF A MEDICI PRINCESS. Caroline Murphy. Oxford University Press. In Murder of a Medici Princess, Caroline Murphy describes the spirited but all-too-brief … Continue reading
Beat Revivals
New Releases on Bob Dylan Beat Revivals Featuring City Lights New Releases from Creatures At Large Press New Releases from Oxford University Press New Releases from Tor Books New Releases … Continue reading
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