Gregory Corso

Sonic Youth massages the past

The fight for the bohemian soul of North Beach's Caffe Trieste

Straight From the Fridge

This 25-year-old play about Beats sticks too close to biography to be cool

Hit the Road, Jack

The life and times of a dead Beat, in Visions of Kerouac

A Grand Guy

How Steven Soderbergh kept the Terry Southern tale from turning tragic

The Return of the Bastard Angel

To resurrect his reputation as one of America's greatest poets, Harold Norse is counting on the help of one of the city's most despised organizations -- Act Up S.F.

Night+Day

To resurrect his reputation as one of America's greatest poets, Harold Norse is counting on the help of one of the city's most despised organizations -- Act Up S.F.

Night+Day

To resurrect his reputation as one of America's greatest poets, Harold Norse is counting on the help of one of the city's most despised organizations -- Act Up S.F.

Mal on the Street

Verbal Prankster Mal Sharpe and his partner, Jim Coyle, bushwacked San Francisco in the early '60s, posing absurd man-in-the street questions to the unsuspecting. Taping the encounters, the dup invented a shtick that was part comedy, part performance art