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“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”
Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats
Photography by the-way-we-were (2025):
Cool Gray City of Love (49 views of San Francisco)
By Gary Kamiya
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“This has always been a city of thoughtful rogues, greedy do-gooders, irreverent theologians, socialist entrepreneurs, hedonistic environmentalists, sensitive newspapermen, philosophical rockers, and high-minded sensualists. And through the years, these mavericks have carried, like an unruly band of Olympic torchbearers, the rebellious, restless, life-affirming fire that was lit in 1849.”
Gary Kamiya, Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco, via Om’s great essay On (not) leaving San Francisco.
San Francisco’s move to rename schools will provide invaluable ammunition to Fox News.
San Francisco has issued its latest grand moral decree, and bad ex-presidents would be quaking in their coffins—if they could stop laughing.
On January 26, the San Francisco school board announced that dozens of public schools must be renamed. The figures that do not meet the board’s standards include Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, Robert Louis Stevenson, Paul Revere, and Dianne Feinstein. A panel had determined that the 44 schools—more than one-third of the city’s total—were named after figures guilty of being, variously, colonizers; slave owners; exploiters of workers; oppressors of women, children, or queer and transgender people; people connected to human rights or environmental abuses; and espousers of racist beliefs.
This holier-than-thou crusade is typical for San Francisco, which in recent years has traded in its Freak Flag to march under the banner of brain-dead political correctness. Aside from providing invaluable ammunition to Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and the more than 70 million Trump supporters whose most extreme caricatures of liberals have now been confirmed, renaming the schools is likely to cost the already deeply indebted district millions of dollars, and will not help a single disadvantaged student or actually advance the cause of racial justice. The nation’s reckoning about its racist past might have positive aspects, but exercises in Maoist “constructive self-criticism” are not among them.
A review of Cool Gray City of Love
A review of Cool Gray City of Love
Call it historical schadenfreude: I’ve been greatly comforted over the past couple of months by reading historical accounts of just how much worse things used to be a century or two ago. Take the 1906 San Francisco earthquake as an example. I already knew that it destroyed 80% of the city and killed around 3,000 people, but I had no idea that up to 500 of those deaths were caused by soldiers…
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The Center for Literary Arts of San José hosts Gary Kamiya at the Hammer Theatre. During the event Kamiya will give a reading and presentation about his life and work, after which he will converse on-stage with Michael Johns, professor emeritus at UC Berkeley and author of San Francisco: Instant City, Promised Land. There will be an audience Q&A and book-signing/reception to follow. Purchase Tickets Open to the public. October 17,2018, 2018: 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM Hammer Theatre Center, Hammer 4 Black Box Theatre
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The Center for Literary Arts of San José hosts Gary Kamiya at the Hammer Theatre. During the event Kamiya will give a reading and presentation about his life and work, after which he will converse on-stage with Michael Johns, professor emeritus at UC Berkeley and author of San Francisco: Instant City, Promised Land. There will be an audience Q&A and book-signing/reception to follow. Purchase Tickets Open to the public. October 17,2018, 2018: 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM Hammer Theatre Center, Hammer 4 Black Box Theatre
“I have spent much of my life exploring San Francisco. But perhaps it is better not to see everything. To let a small mystery stand in for the great one. To know that somewhere far below, down where the sea crashes endlessly into the land, is a rock that I will never climb.”
The Epicenter: Cintra Wilson in Conversation with Gary Kamiya
Co-presented by Green Apple Books
March 1, 7pm $15 Tickets-- reserve now! Alamo Drafthouse at the New Mission 2550 Mission St, San Francisco, CA
“While I may know as much about fashion as the average farm animal, I am in awe of Cintra Wilson’s savage, untamed, and deeply learned writing on the subject. Clotheshorses are advised not to attempt reading her book while consuming beverages, since the resulting explosions of laughter may ruin their outfits.”—Luc Sante
“Cintra is an original. She is talented, funny, and altogether exceptional.” —Francis Ford Coppola
Litquake is proud to host the San Francisco launch of Cintra Wilson's newest book, Fear and Clothing: Unbuckling American Style. Cintra will be in conversation with author/editor Gary Kamiya. Book sales and signing to follow.
In an age of mass-produced clothing and style dictated by celebrities and bloggers, what does the outfit we choose to wear in the morning say about us? To former New York Times fashion critic Cintra Wilson, fashion determines destiny. In the opening line of her thought-provoking and hilarious new book, Wilson proclaims that “style can either liberate you, or it can enslave you.” Fashion can change your mood, how others perceive you, even influence your decisions. What you choose to wear each day shapes your life, even while your wardrobe is shaped by the culture around you.
