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Literature | May 22, 2013

The 32nd Northern California Book Awards

Forget Bay to Breakers, this Sunday the annual NCBA handed out its prizes to worthy authors, poets, and translators in a celebration of the past year's best books. By Ingrid Rojas Contreras  

Event | May 22, 2013

Pop-Up Magazine's "The Song Reader Issue" Celebrates Music Written, Remembered, and Reinvented

Pop-Up Magazine devoted their tenth issue to Beck's sheet music album, Song Reader filling Davies Symphony Hall with musical guests, tonal experiments, and theme-appropriate stories. By Erika Milvy  

Art Review | May 21, 2013

Mills College MFA Exhibition, a 'Compound Vision'

Highlights from this year's Mills College MFA Exhibition include towers of speakers, ambiguous objects, impressive ceramics, and immersive installations. By Kristin Farr  

Theater Review | May 21, 2013

Choose Your Own Playlist at Impact's 'Jukebox Stories'

Playwright Prince Gomolvilas and singer-songwriter Brandon Patton dish up a hilarious evening of Jukebox Stories with a new playlist every night. By Sam Hurwitt  

Event | May 20, 2013

Björk Brings 'Biophilia' to Richmond

Björk performs Biophilia and pieces from other albums at Craneway Pavilion in Richmond, a former Ford assembly plant and a fitting otherworldly setting for the artist's expansive stage productions. By Ben Marks  

Architecture
  • How One Family Built America's Public Palaces

    The National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., has a new exhibit about the soaring tile vaults built by a famous father-son team. The Guastavinos came to this country from Spain in the late 1800s, and left their mark on some of America's most important public spaces.

  • Presidential Libraries Inspire Design Of George W. Bush Center

    On Thursday, the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum is dedicated on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. David Greene talks to former first lady Laura Bush about the library and life after the White House.

  • Trees On Top Of Skyscrapers? Yes! Yes, Say I. No! No, Says Tim

    Two residential towers, dense with trees, will have their official opening later this year in downtown Milan. Blogger and critic Tim De Chant thinks it's high-time we stop planting trees on skyscrapers. Krulwich disagrees.

  • Trying To Preserve What's Left Of Manhattan's Little Syria

    Preservationists are trying to protect the last vestiges of New York's Little Syria. They're seeking historic landmark status for a few buildings in Lower Manhattan. That's all that's left of what was once a thriving neighborhood, and arguably the center of Arab-American life.

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ImageMakers - 88:88 (You Should Be Paranoid, 2013)
Enter the New "ImageMakers" Screening Room

Enjoy films from present and past seasons of KQED's short independent film series, divided into Animation, Comedy, Drama, and Suspense.