Events

Offsite Event

Radical green entrepenuer Anderson will discuss his challenge to all of industry to manufacture in 100% renewable resources. Anderson will also screen the documentary So Right, So Smart, follwed by Q&A.

Jock Whitehouse, author of The Ledge of Quetzal, Beyond 2012: A Magical Adventure to Discover the Real Promise of the Mayan Prophecy, reads at our Downtown store. Is the Mayan Prophecy for real?  Given the economy, global warming, and the effects of terrorism and war, it’s not hard to imagine apocalypse in the making.  The Ledge of Quetzal, Beyond 2012 is a call to transcend fear and define a new life. Join us.

We are excited to again host an evening with Frank Portman, who will read from his new and long-awaited Young Adult novel, Andromeda Klein. All are welcome.

Oakland-based eco chef, food justice activist, and author of Vegan Soul Kitchen, Bryant Terry, reads and gives a cooking demonstration at Pegasus Downtown.

 Vegan Soul Kitchen:  Fresh, Healthy, and Creative African-American Cuisine offers innovative, animal-free recipes mostly inspired by African American and Southern cooking. Vegan Soul Kitchen includes a beautiful full-color photographs; an original song written by singer-songwriter Don Bryant (the author’s uncle); new poetry by Michael Molina; suggested soundtracks for each recipe; and book, art, and film recommendations.

Location: 924 Gilman

Admission: cover charge of $8-$10, all ages

924 Gilman and Pegasus present Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor, authors of Gimme Something Bettter, along with performances by Schlong, Classics of Love‏, Druglords of the Avenues, Social Unrest and Frank Portman.  Gimme Something Better chronicles over two decades of Bay Area punk: including the Sex Pistols’ notorious final performance, the creation of Maximum RocknRoll, and the rise of the East Bay pop-punk sound that gave us Green Day and took the world by storm. 

Operation Ivy's Jesse Michaels will be playing with Classics of Love, and Operation Ivy's drummer Dave Mello will be playing with Schlong. 

Pegasus Books Downtown is pleased to welcome Hugo and Nebula award-winning authors, Kim Stanley Robinson who will read from The Lucky Strike and Terry Bisson who will read from The Left Left Behind, both issued as part of the Outspoken Author series from PM Press. Join us for a memorable evening.

PM Press honors Kim Stanley Robinson as part of its Outspoken Author series by re-issuing The Lucky Strike.  This Outspoken Author book also includes a detailed interview and autobiography of the mind and work, history and politics of Kim Stanley Robinson.

PM Press has released The Left Left Behind by Terry Bisson as part of its Outspoken Author series. Bisson is best known for his short stories, which range from the southern sweetness of “Bears Discover Fire” to the alienated aliens of “They’re Made Out of Meat.” He is also a 1960’s New Left vet with a history of activism and an intact (if battered) radical ideology.

Tickets: $12 advance ($6 students with ID advance) at Brown Paper Tickets or 800-838-3006 /$15 door

Perhaps no one but Kay Redfield Jamison -- who combines the acute perceptions of a psychologist with elegant and passionate writing -- could bring such a delicate touch to the subject of losing a spouse to cancer. Jamison looks back at her relationship with her husband, Richard Wyatt, a renowned scientist who battled debilitating dyslexia to become one of the foremost experts on schizophrenia. And with her characteristic honesty, candor, wit, and simplicity, she describes his death, her own long, difficult struggle with grief, and her efforts to distinguish grief from depression.

But she also recalls the great joy that Richard brought her during the nearly twenty years they had together. Wryly humorous anecdotes mingle with bittersweet memories of a relationship that was passionate and loving -- if troubled on occasion by her manic-depressive (bipolar) illness -- as Jamison reveals the ways in which her husband encouraged her to write openly about her mental illness and, through his courage and grace, taught her to live fully.

Kay Redfield Jamison is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as well as Honorary Professor of English at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She is the author of An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide, and Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament. She is coauthor of the standard medical text on manic-depressive illness and author or coauthor of more than one hundred scientific papers about mood disorders, creativity, and psychopharmacology.

We regret that this event has been cancelled and will be rescheduled. 

Named one of the "Best New Chefs in America" by Food & Wine magazine, Maria Helm Sinskey will read and demonstrate recipes from her newest book, Williams-Sonoma Family Meals: Creating Traditions in the Kitchen.

Formerly the executive chef of PlumpJack Café in San Francisco, she now provides culinary direction and cooking classes at Robert Sinskey Vineyards, the Napa Valley winery she owns with her husband. This evening's event will focus on including children in the culinary process. All are welcome.