Stopping Along the Interstate: Hotels in the Sacramento Valley
HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS. 3350 Sunrise Way. Corning, California. 96021. (530) 824-6400. No one needs to be reminded that the country has languished in the midst of its worst recession for … Continue reading
Joyland
JOYLAND. Stephen King. Hard Case Crime/Titan Books. When Stephen King writes to his considerable strengths as an author, he stands well above the level of any other scribblers using the … Continue reading
Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music
ASSIMILATE. A CRITICAL HISTORY OF INDUSTRIAL MUSIC. S. Alexander Reed. Oxford University Press. Assimilate serves as the first analysis of industrial music as a genre, delineating the history of this often … Continue reading
City Lights Turns 60!
City Lights, located at the corner of Columbus Avenue and Broadway in San Francisco’s famed North Beach district, is a seminal bookstore. Founded in 1953 via a partnership between poet … 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
Electric Review 