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535 Powell (at Bush) San Francisco, CA 94102

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Ferlinghetti/Ferlinghetti Depicts Far-Reaching Influence of Poet, Activist, Publisher

By Keith Bowers | Tue, May 8, 2012

Lawrence Ferlinghetti was a pioneer in the business of bookselling (City Lights was the nation's first all-paperback retailer), and he turned the literary world on its head by publishing the likes of ... More »
Our Streetlight Imaginations

By Keith Bowers | Wed, May 02, 2012

Lawrence Ferlinghetti was a pioneer in the business of bookselling (City Lights was the nation's first all-paperback retailer), and he turned the literary world on its head by publishing the likes of Kerouac, Ginsberg, Cassady, Burroughs, Bukowski... More »
Art, Orchestrated

By : Heidi De Vries | Wed, January 18, 2012

SFMOMA’s fifth-floor bridge stretches across space under the museum’s signature skylight. Last year even those of us with a gut-clenching fear of heights were coerced onto the span to experience Bill Fontana’s sound installation Sonic Shadows. Dir... More »
Poetic Co-conspirators

By Heidi De Vries | Wed, November 02, 2011

It’s hard to think of any living person more representative of the spirit of San Francisco than Lawrence Ferlinghetti. This is the man who co-founded City Lights as a bookstore as well as a publishing house, who stood trial on obscenity charges af... More »
S.F.'s First Sex Workers Led a Different Gold Rush: Madams of the Barbary Coast

By Heidi De Vries | Wed, October 19, 2011

Part of San Francisco's charm is its vibrant history of colorful characters. The city has survived multiple earthquakes in addition to cultural and political upheavals. From the beginning, our enticin... More »
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