The BookSellers Documentary is Compelling Plague Distraction
“The Booksellers” is a documentary for anyone who can still look at a book and see a dream, a magic teleportation device, an object that … Read more
“The Booksellers” is a documentary for anyone who can still look at a book and see a dream, a magic teleportation device, an object that … Read more
“Disruption” goes back further than Steve Jobs in Silicon Valley. To hear author Roland de Wolk tell it, staid Stanford University has a dark and … Read more
Journey Round My Room, published by San Francisco’s Arion Press, is a travelogue by Xavier de Maistre. This edition, with photographs by Ross Anderson, is … Read more
COVID-19 episode making you nervous, tense, and out of sorts? The pandemic shutdown of all our bars and nightclubs has motivated many of us to … Read more
As noted in an earlier post, this play promised to rock the house…the San Francisco Playhouse, that is. Having finally seen the work, we can … Read more
The much-anticipated Chance of Alcatraz podcast is now ready for Cultural Currents readers. James McKee of Earwax Productions made the compelling mix working with the … Read more
Advent is the season for reflection and redemption, so what better time of year to read about two deeply disturbed Irish misanthropes who have muddled … Read more
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will co-present a major retrospective of films … Read more
With so many invitation to Holiday parties this month, we were at a loss to think of the appropriate elixir to bring along with us. … Read more
On a recent “Destination LA” visit we were impressed by a lecture staged at the venerable Jonathan Club featuring the authors of Nineteen Nineteen. To … Read more