SF Weekly is asking readers to send us photos from the Bay Area in 1967 — the year that brought us Hair, the Human Be-In, and great music in Golden Gate Park and beyond.
It's common knowledge that poetry is one of humanities greatest, and oldest, art forms. And while we may enjoy reading poetry of some of…
This was the scene on Valencia Street on a recent Sunday: The sun was out. The air was mild. A temperate November day, of…
John Krokidas's Kill Your Darlings is 2013's second film based on the lives of the Beat poets, and though not without its flaws, it…
At age 94, Lawrence Ferlinghetti is as feisty as ever — certainly as feisty as he was in the mid-1950s, when he was arrested…
It's been only three years since the first of the monthly submission-based reading series Quiet Lightning, but it has since become a kind of…
Just as he was finding his voice, and as The Beat Generation was swelling up around him, Allen Ginsberg began to take photographs of…
