Events

Peter Beren will read and discuss California the Beautiful, along with Dan Jacobson, Legislative Director of Environment California.

Loren Rhoads, creator and editor of the magazine Morbid Curiosity, has compiled some of her favorite stories from all ten issues into a sometimes shocking, occasionally gruesome, always fascinating anthology. For ten years, Morbid Curiosity was a one-of-a-kind underground magazine that gained a devoted following for its celebration of absurd, grotesque, and unusual tales -- all true -- submitted from contributors around the country and across the world. Join us.

Pegasus Downtown and Brit Tzedek present Joel Schalit, editor of Zeek Online, reading from his new book Israel vs. Utopia

In Israel vs. Utopia (Akashic Books, 2009) Israeli American journalist Joel Schalit distinguishes between the Israel he knows, and the image of it that exists in the imagination of Americans.  Schalit will discuss his new book as well as European perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Kim Hermanson will read and discuss Getting Messy, an invitation to a radically different way of teaching that emphasizes the human over the mechanical and the ethical over the material.  The evening includes exercises from Getting Messy that will inspire us to turn the messy business of being human into the stuff that makes us grow. All are welcome.

In The Vegetarian Myth, Lierre Keith argues that a vegetarian diet isn’t the way to save the planet.  Part memoir, part nutritional primer, and part political manifesto, The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice and Sustainability challenges everything we know about food politics. Join us for what is sure to be a lively discussion.