I have been on a journey watching all the Studio Ghibli films. I am still getting through some of the best Hayao Miyazaki movies, but I assumed that I had already seen the really well-known ones, such ...

Six decades ago, Allen Ginsberg gave the first public reading of the poem that shook the world, his iconic masterpiece “Howl,” at the Town Hall Theater, a cozy little stage in the “old” Berkeley Bowl ...

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“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked….” So begins one of the most famous poems of the Beat literary movement: Allen Ginsberg’s epic, “Howl.” Written ...

The first recorded reading of Allen Ginsberg‘s poem “Howl,” which was lost for decades, will be finally be released on April 2nd, 2021. Ginsberg’s debut public reading of one of the greatest works of ...

“I don’t really know if I’ve got the energy,” Allen Ginsberg admits. But a moment later he launches in: “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging ...

Two years ago, when working to modify a development project in the Le Conte neighborhood where I live, some of us realized that a nationally important event had taken place there. History has it that ...

In 2007, author John Suiter was digging through the archives at Reed College's Hauser Memorial Library when he uncovered a rare treasure: a reel-to-reel tape of Beat poet Allen Ginsberg giving a ...

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The way a bookshop stocks its books says a lot about its temperament. At City Lights, a landmark San Francisco independent bookstore-publisher, some of the sections are called Commodity Aesthetics, ...