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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.







