Mar 24, 2009
All Things Ferlinghetti
Today is Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s 90th birthday. Give City Lights some love and buy a book from them today! In person or online, it’s a gift for him that you get to receive.
Streetsblog has this great article about Ferlinghetti’s proposal to create an Italian-style piazza on Vallejo Street (near Trieste).
By the way, a film about [...]
Mar 6, 2009
The Examined Life & The Wild Child
People have a low opinion of philosophy these days, what with its reputation for being at once futile and irrelevant. So the premise of Astra Taylor’s film, The Examined Life, almost sounds like a bad joke: eight contemporary philosophers holding forth on their views for ten minutes each? Real compelling cinema, that.
But whether by [...]
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