If one were going to look in the dictionary of “Gilding the Lily,” you would likely see a picture of me talking up all the reviews, raves, and features about the Autobiography …
Read More >Contributors, friends, and fans gathered to celebrate the release of Rebecca Solnit’s Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas at the McCroskey Mattress Co. earlier this month. Not even a World Series game …
Read More >Looking through the remains of what became a dog’s breakfast of an election, for either side, really, especially if you’re living in California, I’m finding it rather hard to fold it all …
Read More >Utne Reader has named Rebecca Solnit one of its 25 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World, praising Solnit for telling a different story than the one told by mainstream media in the …
Read More >Before you vote on November 2, watch this video segment on KCET, Southern California’s PBS affiliate, featuring the authors of California Crackup, Joe Mathews and Mark Paul. The authors examine the proposition …
Read More >We’re pleased to announce that the website for Boom: A Journal of California is live. Thoughtful, provocative, and at times playful, Boom aims to create a dialog about the vital social, cultural, …
Read More >To celebrate the publication of Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-2000, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive present an evening of light shows, …
Read More >As Californians file into the voting booth this November and try to decipher the complicated list of propositions and initiatives, many will think, “There has got to be a better way.” In …
Read More >A federal judge’s recent lifting of a four-and-a-half year moratorium on California state executions has brought the issue of cruel and unusual punishment back into the spotlight. As Scott Christianson demonstrates in …
Read More >In this UC Press podcast, Joe Mathews and Mark Paul reveal that in the slapdash political climate of the Gold Rush, California modeled its constitution after Iowa’s. The reason? It was short. …
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