Tribute to a Poet Laureate - by lawdog

"As read at City Lights Bookstore as part of LaborFest 2004, and on Tasha's Place on TalkShoe 5/12/08Sometimes I lose my perspective. I forget what a truly incredible place San Francisco is, and how very fortunate I am to rub shoulders with the artists who have always been...

Phyllis Lambert's landmark birthday

They came from points as far as Italy, as inevitable as New York City and as near as Westmount - about 250 architects, academics, relatives, financiers, artists and politicos - to a former industrial space in darkest Griffintown called the Darling Foundry. The occasion was...