City Lights

26 Jan 2024

CIty Lights Bookstore Employees Unionize

Update: It’s official! City Lights recognized the union! Just 3 weeks after their 70th anniversary, City Lights Bookstore is celebrating a turning point with workers forming a union. Workers announced the union on social media just yesterday January 25th, they said, “We are thrilled to announce the formation of the

Katy Atchison 0
23 Feb 2021

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the Restless Revolutionary of Prose, Dies at 101

Lawrence Ferlinghetti — the poet, the publisher, the painter, the activist, the man who propelled the Beat Movement and brought City Lights to San Francisco — has died at the age of 101. According to his daughter, Julie Sasser, the lifelong provocateur lost his battle Monday with interstitial lung disease.

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27 Jan 2024

The San Francisco Beer Passport is Here!

Step into a world of adventure with the San Francisco Beer Passport. There’s no better way to explore San Francisco than to literally drink it in. This passport is amazing! Each one contains 27 coupons to buy one beer, get a second beer FREE at 27 of the finest locally

Broke-Ass Stuart - Editor In Cheap 0
10 Apr 2020

Help Keep City Lights Books Alive!

There are few things more holy to the soul of creative San Francisco than City Lights Books. It is part of our DNA, hell it’s part of the DNA of every countercultural movement that has existed in the United States. I love this bookstore so dearly that it would shatter

Broke-Ass Stuart - Editor In Cheap 0
29 Jan 2020

V. Vale: The Man Who Can Do Everything Tells All

By Lydia Sviatoslavsky V. Vale sat down to talk stupid degrees, being a Henry Rollins fan, cognitive constipation, City Lights, Blue Cheer, how every word needs to earn its keep, the underbelly of hippies, survival of punk, how beatniks helped shaped the crazy journey…and just about everything else you’ve ever

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17 Aug 2017

This is the Hippest Beatnik Walkin’ Tour

Seeing the city through the colorful and chaotic lenses of famous dreamers like Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and Allen Ginsburg.

Kit Friday -Mild in the Streets 0
06 Jun 2017

The Best of San Francisco Tourism on the Cheap

Screw the played out stuff, here is what you really want to do in San Francisco

Heather Robinson - Artisanal Trouble Maker 0
20 Apr 2015

Why April 23rd Is Going To Be The Best Day Ever

Most people I know either love or hate Valentine’s Day. I myself am on the fence. On one hand, celebrating it kind of equates to succumbing to our Overlords of Greeting Cards. On the other hand, it’s an excuse to hug all your friends and to potentially find someone to

Rae Bathgate - Down and Out and Overseas 0
09 Mar 2015

Comedian, TV Star & Local Legend Greg Proops

A killer on Who’s Line is it Anyway, a voice actor on everything from The Nightmare before Christmas to Stripperella.  His glasses, tailored suit, and pompadour have been all over your television set since the 1980’s.  When he wasn’t doing Ugly Betty or Flight of the Concords, Greg was making people think and laugh liberally as

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