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"content": "\u003cp>Stand at the back of a punk club like Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/924-gilman\">924 Gilman\u003c/a> nowadays, and the entire crowd will invariably be lit up with a hundred little screens, all recording a moment in time to share online later. But at the primordial 924 Gilman of yesteryear, there was often just a single camera in the crowd, held in Murray Bowles’ hand flicking out far above his head, followed by a quick flash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968871\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968871\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_02-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white crowd shot at a punk show. Photographer Murray Bowles, a bearded white man in a flannel shirt, is featured mid-frame with his camera raised above his head.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1917\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_02-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_02-800x599.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_02-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_02-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_02-768x575.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_02-1536x1150.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_02-2048x1534.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_02-1920x1438.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Murray Bowles’ signature ‘Hail Mary’ shooting style. \u003ccite>(Christian Larsen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://lastgasp.com/products/hail-murray\">\u003ci>Hail Murray!: The Bay Area Punk Photography of Murray Bowles, 1982–1995\u003c/i>\u003c/a> (Last Gasp; $39.95) is a sprawling, 270-page monograph of black and white photos representing a wildly creative and supercharged era of local underground music. If you attended any \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/punk\">Bay Area punk\u003c/a> shows from the 1980s through the 1990s, you likely crossed paths with Murray, its de facto chronicler. Wrapped in a decidedly civilian package — an older man with floppy brown hair, bearded, and bespectacled — he looked more like a computer programmer than a punk (and, unbeknownst to many, he actually \u003ci>was\u003c/i> a programmer of note in early Silicon Valley). At first glance, one might be surprised to learn that this understated character was an essential contributor to the chaotic music scene that birthed bands like Operation Ivy, Blatz and Green Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968865\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968865\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_01.jpg\" alt=\"A book cover featuring a black and white crowd photo of punk dancing at an outside show. The book title Hail Murray is in red font at the top.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_01.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_01-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_01-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_01-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_01-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_01-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Hail Murray!: The Punk Photography of Murray Bowles, 1982-1995.’ \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the show had ended, while everyone else slept off their hangovers or rotted all night at the 24-hour donut shop, Murray would be hunkered down in the makeshift darkroom set up in his kitchen, spending hours developing pictures of bands. He would later gather up all of the prints and shove them into a shoebox to bring to shows to share and sell for 15¢ a piece, the cost of the paper. (This was later raised to a quarter. Inflation, y’all.) While rifling through Murray’s shoebox, eager eyeballs went on the lookout for pictures of favorite bands or secret crushes, but more than anything else, people were hoping to find a photo of themselves. Being captured in a Murray picture was a stamp of approval. It was a confirmation that you had indeed been there. That you belonged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That manifestation of belonging takes on various forms in the punk scene. It doesn’t matter how shy a person is, or how lacking in musical ability. Everyone has a role. And while bands have always enjoyed the spotlight, they’re just one part of a complex ecosystem. There are zine editors, promoters, the people who feed and house the touring bands, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13830408/going-strong-since-1990-this-low-budget-newsletter-is-a-punk-institution\">Steve List\u003c/a>, the volunteers who sweep the floors and clean the toilets. These often unsung community heroes are the reason the punk scene has been able to function and evolve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968882\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13968882 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_11-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"A young white girl with long brown hair plays a Gibson guitar\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_11-800x599.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_11-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_11-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_11-768x575.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_11-1536x1150.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_11-2048x1534.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_11-1920x1438.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Squat, Nightbreak, San Francisco, 1995. \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Why do this work that is neither glamorous nor rewarded? Sometimes community service is a calling. As Murray famously said, “I wanted to be more than just a spectator.” There are those people who see something that needs to be done and are compelled to do it. Surely no one embodies this more than Anna Brown, teacher, longtime East Bay punk, and Murray’s most bulldogged advocate, the person who consented to take on the monumental task of compiling, designing, and editing \u003ci>Hail Murray!\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anna first met Murray at a show in 1987; the next thing she knew, she was a regular passenger in his Rabbit Cabriolet, on the way to film screenings, art openings, punk shows and hikes. Murray was notoriously inscrutable, and didn’t often talk about himself. Anna, on the other hand, was articulate, outgoing and tough. Their personalities complementing each other, they became lifelong friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968961\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1277px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968961\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Anna.Aaron_.1993.MurrayBowles.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1277\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Anna.Aaron_.1993.MurrayBowles.jpg 1277w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Anna.Aaron_.1993.MurrayBowles-800x501.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Anna.Aaron_.1993.MurrayBowles-1020x639.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Anna.Aaron_.1993.MurrayBowles-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Anna.Aaron_.1993.MurrayBowles-768x481.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1277px) 100vw, 1277px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Brown with friend Aaron, 1993. \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When I ask Anna how long she’s been working on this book, she gets a faraway look in her eye. “I’d always wanted to make this book, ever since I was a teenager,” she tells me. “Murray was into the idea but he was very passive in general.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 2010, the two began to tackle the project, mind-boggling in its scope. Murray took dozens of photos, every single weekend, for almost 40 years. What would a body of work of that magnitude look like? How could you even begin to catalog and curate it? They caught a break in 2017 when the documentary team behind \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13239750/the-definitive-documentary-on-east-bay-punk-is-coming-pit-warning\">Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk\u003c/a>\u003c/i> digitized thousands of Murray’s photos, but that still left thousands \u003cem>more\u003c/em> to sift through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13938024']Then in 2019, Murray Bowles died unexpectedly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When he died, I felt super guilty because we had this whole plan,” Anna tells me. The two friends had planned to spend Murray’s retirement years going around the country doing book tours and gallery shows, the culmination of a life’s work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt really bad that he didn’t get a chance to do any of that stuff, or to see the book,” Anna says. “So I became extremely determined.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968952\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1428px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968952\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_06.OpIvy_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1428\" height=\"906\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_06.OpIvy_.jpg 1428w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_06.OpIvy_-800x508.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_06.OpIvy_-1020x647.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_06.OpIvy_-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_06.OpIvy_-768x487.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1428px) 100vw, 1428px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Operation Ivy, Gilman Street, Berkeley, 1988. \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Anna transcribed interviews, received feedback, taught herself Photoshop and InDesign, solicited funding and found a publisher. Along the way, she experimented with different layouts, and how to best encapsulate the life’s work of her friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt a lot of anxiety about these pictures that are sacred to our people,” she explains. “They mean so much to everyone. It felt like I was handling an incredibly fragile, delicate thing. I knew that everyone was going to have their own ideas about how they wanted the book to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13871151']In the end, Anna decided that Bowles’ aesthetic would be best captured as a monograph. Punk may be messy, but \u003cem>Hail Murray!\u003c/em> is impeccably clean and gorgeous. Each 12” x 9” landscape page is devoted to a single black and white photograph, giving it ample space to breathe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though there’s a multitude of band photos in the book — from lesser-known entities like thrash band Sluglords to well-known groups like Rancid — many of its most compelling images are moments captured between friends. Young people sprawled on the hoods of cars, friends drinking beer on couches or hunkered down in a stairwell, girls carrying other girls through the pit, inexplicable configurations of body parts at a crowded house show where you’re not even sure where one person ends and the next person begins. There is an implied intimacy to the work, underscored by a minimalist approach to titles and descriptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968877\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13968877 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_04-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"Punk band Special Forces plays at UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza. Orlando, a tall Black man with a mohawk, stands in front with a microphone.\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_04-800x599.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_04-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_04-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_04-768x575.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_04-1536x1150.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_04-2048x1534.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_04-1920x1438.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Special Forces, Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley, 1985. \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the absence of elaborate captions or other explicit context cues, one might ask how \u003cem>Hail Murray!\u003c/em> will be perceived by those outside of the community it chronicles. For punks, part of the excitement was digging through Murray’s photo box, scanning the faces in the crowd and wondering: “Am I in here?” But outsiders to the punk scene may be surprised to see themselves here, too, reflected in the universal quest for fun and belonging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If Murray’s work is ‘about’ anything, it’s about the joy of punk,” Anna says. “Going through his archives, you come away feeling that Murray’s mission, in simplest terms, was to celebrate the feeling of being there on any given night or afternoon — the collective energy of a singular moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Hail Murray!: The Bay Area Punk Photography of Murray Bowles 1982–1995’ is celebrated in a release party with live music by Smokers and Nasty World on Sunday, Dec. 8, at 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco. 4pm–9pm. \u003ca href=\"https://111minnagallery.com/event/hail-murray-book-party/\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Photographer Murray Bowles, a bearded white man in a flannel shirt, is featured mid-frame with his camera raised above his head.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1917\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_02-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_02-800x599.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_02-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_02-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_02-768x575.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_02-1536x1150.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_02-2048x1534.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_02-1920x1438.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Murray Bowles’ signature ‘Hail Mary’ shooting style. \u003ccite>(Christian Larsen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://lastgasp.com/products/hail-murray\">\u003ci>Hail Murray!: The Bay Area Punk Photography of Murray Bowles, 1982–1995\u003c/i>\u003c/a> (Last Gasp; $39.95) is a sprawling, 270-page monograph of black and white photos representing a wildly creative and supercharged era of local underground music. If you attended any \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/punk\">Bay Area punk\u003c/a> shows from the 1980s through the 1990s, you likely crossed paths with Murray, its de facto chronicler. Wrapped in a decidedly civilian package — an older man with floppy brown hair, bearded, and bespectacled — he looked more like a computer programmer than a punk (and, unbeknownst to many, he actually \u003ci>was\u003c/i> a programmer of note in early Silicon Valley). At first glance, one might be surprised to learn that this understated character was an essential contributor to the chaotic music scene that birthed bands like Operation Ivy, Blatz and Green Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968865\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968865\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_01.jpg\" alt=\"A book cover featuring a black and white crowd photo of punk dancing at an outside show. The book title Hail Murray is in red font at the top.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_01.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_01-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_01-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_01-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_01-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_01-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Hail Murray!: The Punk Photography of Murray Bowles, 1982-1995.’ \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the show had ended, while everyone else slept off their hangovers or rotted all night at the 24-hour donut shop, Murray would be hunkered down in the makeshift darkroom set up in his kitchen, spending hours developing pictures of bands. He would later gather up all of the prints and shove them into a shoebox to bring to shows to share and sell for 15¢ a piece, the cost of the paper. (This was later raised to a quarter. Inflation, y’all.) While rifling through Murray’s shoebox, eager eyeballs went on the lookout for pictures of favorite bands or secret crushes, but more than anything else, people were hoping to find a photo of themselves. Being captured in a Murray picture was a stamp of approval. It was a confirmation that you had indeed been there. That you belonged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That manifestation of belonging takes on various forms in the punk scene. It doesn’t matter how shy a person is, or how lacking in musical ability. Everyone has a role. And while bands have always enjoyed the spotlight, they’re just one part of a complex ecosystem. There are zine editors, promoters, the people who feed and house the touring bands, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13830408/going-strong-since-1990-this-low-budget-newsletter-is-a-punk-institution\">Steve List\u003c/a>, the volunteers who sweep the floors and clean the toilets. These often unsung community heroes are the reason the punk scene has been able to function and evolve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968882\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13968882 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_11-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"A young white girl with long brown hair plays a Gibson guitar\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_11-800x599.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_11-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_11-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_11-768x575.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_11-1536x1150.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_11-2048x1534.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_11-1920x1438.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Squat, Nightbreak, San Francisco, 1995. \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Why do this work that is neither glamorous nor rewarded? Sometimes community service is a calling. As Murray famously said, “I wanted to be more than just a spectator.” There are those people who see something that needs to be done and are compelled to do it. Surely no one embodies this more than Anna Brown, teacher, longtime East Bay punk, and Murray’s most bulldogged advocate, the person who consented to take on the monumental task of compiling, designing, and editing \u003ci>Hail Murray!\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anna first met Murray at a show in 1987; the next thing she knew, she was a regular passenger in his Rabbit Cabriolet, on the way to film screenings, art openings, punk shows and hikes. Murray was notoriously inscrutable, and didn’t often talk about himself. Anna, on the other hand, was articulate, outgoing and tough. Their personalities complementing each other, they became lifelong friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968961\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1277px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968961\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Anna.Aaron_.1993.MurrayBowles.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1277\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Anna.Aaron_.1993.MurrayBowles.jpg 1277w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Anna.Aaron_.1993.MurrayBowles-800x501.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Anna.Aaron_.1993.MurrayBowles-1020x639.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Anna.Aaron_.1993.MurrayBowles-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Anna.Aaron_.1993.MurrayBowles-768x481.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1277px) 100vw, 1277px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Brown with friend Aaron, 1993. \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When I ask Anna how long she’s been working on this book, she gets a faraway look in her eye. “I’d always wanted to make this book, ever since I was a teenager,” she tells me. “Murray was into the idea but he was very passive in general.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 2010, the two began to tackle the project, mind-boggling in its scope. Murray took dozens of photos, every single weekend, for almost 40 years. What would a body of work of that magnitude look like? How could you even begin to catalog and curate it? They caught a break in 2017 when the documentary team behind \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13239750/the-definitive-documentary-on-east-bay-punk-is-coming-pit-warning\">Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk\u003c/a>\u003c/i> digitized thousands of Murray’s photos, but that still left thousands \u003cem>more\u003c/em> to sift through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Then in 2019, Murray Bowles died unexpectedly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When he died, I felt super guilty because we had this whole plan,” Anna tells me. The two friends had planned to spend Murray’s retirement years going around the country doing book tours and gallery shows, the culmination of a life’s work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt really bad that he didn’t get a chance to do any of that stuff, or to see the book,” Anna says. “So I became extremely determined.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968952\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1428px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968952\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_06.OpIvy_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1428\" height=\"906\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_06.OpIvy_.jpg 1428w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_06.OpIvy_-800x508.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_06.OpIvy_-1020x647.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_06.OpIvy_-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_06.OpIvy_-768x487.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1428px) 100vw, 1428px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Operation Ivy, Gilman Street, Berkeley, 1988. \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Anna transcribed interviews, received feedback, taught herself Photoshop and InDesign, solicited funding and found a publisher. Along the way, she experimented with different layouts, and how to best encapsulate the life’s work of her friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt a lot of anxiety about these pictures that are sacred to our people,” she explains. “They mean so much to everyone. It felt like I was handling an incredibly fragile, delicate thing. I knew that everyone was going to have their own ideas about how they wanted the book to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In the end, Anna decided that Bowles’ aesthetic would be best captured as a monograph. Punk may be messy, but \u003cem>Hail Murray!\u003c/em> is impeccably clean and gorgeous. Each 12” x 9” landscape page is devoted to a single black and white photograph, giving it ample space to breathe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though there’s a multitude of band photos in the book — from lesser-known entities like thrash band Sluglords to well-known groups like Rancid — many of its most compelling images are moments captured between friends. Young people sprawled on the hoods of cars, friends drinking beer on couches or hunkered down in a stairwell, girls carrying other girls through the pit, inexplicable configurations of body parts at a crowded house show where you’re not even sure where one person ends and the next person begins. There is an implied intimacy to the work, underscored by a minimalist approach to titles and descriptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968877\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13968877 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_04-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"Punk band Special Forces plays at UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza. Orlando, a tall Black man with a mohawk, stands in front with a microphone.\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_04-800x599.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_04-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_04-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_04-768x575.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_04-1536x1150.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_04-2048x1534.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/12/9780867199277-Hail-Murray-sampler_Page_04-1920x1438.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Special Forces, Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley, 1985. \u003ccite>(Murray Bowles)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the absence of elaborate captions or other explicit context cues, one might ask how \u003cem>Hail Murray!\u003c/em> will be perceived by those outside of the community it chronicles. For punks, part of the excitement was digging through Murray’s photo box, scanning the faces in the crowd and wondering: “Am I in here?” But outsiders to the punk scene may be surprised to see themselves here, too, reflected in the universal quest for fun and belonging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If Murray’s work is ‘about’ anything, it’s about the joy of punk,” Anna says. “Going through his archives, you come away feeling that Murray’s mission, in simplest terms, was to celebrate the feeling of being there on any given night or afternoon — the collective energy of a singular moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Do you have a someone in your life who plays Vulture’s Cinematrix game every morning? Or maybe they have the kitchen television turned to Turner Classic Movies all day and make a point of organizing Oscar polls at work? Hate to break it to you: They might be a hard-to-please cinephile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while you might not want to get into a winless debate over the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13967891/juror-2-movie-review-legal-thriller-clint-eastwood-nicholas-hoult\">\u003cem>Juror No. 2\u003c/em>\u003c/a> release or the merits of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13965555/megalopolis-francis-ford-coppola-review\">\u003cem>Megalopolis\u003c/em>\u003c/a> with said person, they don’t have to be hard to buy gifts for. 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Brain Dead Studios designed and created several items, including the \u003ca href=\"https://academymuseumstore.org/products/the-matrix-hoodie?variant=44461479526577\">black hoodie\u003c/a> ($140), a white rabbit tee ($54) and a pint glass ($18).\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>An Academy Museum exhibition catalog\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you can’t make it to Los Angeles to check out the \u003cem>Color in Motion\u003c/em> exhibit for yourself, the Academy Museum also has a beautiful new companion book for sale ($55) charting the development of color technology in film and its impact. 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The San Francisco author spent decades working with Gorey in the Northeastern U.S., collaborating on a plethora of theatrical productions, many of which Gorey wrote himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Theatrical Adventures\u003c/em> offers a rich sampling of the many, many plays (or, as he called them, “entertainments”) that Gorey worked on throughout the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s. The book contains Gorey-illustrated programs, script pages, set designs, theater merch, posters, lithographs, as well as wonderful behind-the-scenes photos. As descriptions of these productions unfold, you’ll learn about Gorey’s collaborators, inspirations, creative processes, predilections for making soft toys (especially for the people involved in bringing his work to life) and his unwavering passion for puppetry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968516\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1294px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968516\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/dracula.jpg\" alt=\"A fine line black and white drawing used as a promotional poster for a production of 'Dracula.' 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Within four years, it was on Broadway and starring Frank Langella. \u003ccite>(Chronicle Books 2024)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Theatrical Adventures\u003c/em> is, as one senses Gorey’s life was, organized chaos in the most delightful sense. The core that holds the book together is Verburg’s wry humor and tone. She revels in recounting the surreal (and often silly) nature of her shared projects with Gorey. She also happens to be in possession of a dry wit that feels very much like an extension of Gorey himself. (“Neither of us was big on seasonal sentimentality,” she writes of their Christmas productions, “Edward being an artist of discerning taste, and I being named Carol.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Verburg is careful to pepper the book with biographical essentials about Gorey — he studied at Harvard, holidayed in Cape Cod, worked in an administrative role during World War II and had a career in New York as a book designer and illustrator. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it is the intimate personal details Verburg shares that really bring Gorey’s personality to life. (Some memorable nuggets: His favorite television shows were \u003cem>Buffy the Vampire Slayer\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The X-Files\u003c/em>. He had a room in his house dedicated to round objects. 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The artist lived in what Verburg refers to as “an antique house” in Yarmouth, Massachusetts that he dubbed “The Shelter.” And his main source of company comprised of many, many pet cats. Verburg writes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Edward ran the household, but the cats ran the house — shredding the furniture, spraying an aroma which discouraged visitors, occasionally jumping onto his drawings … Black and white oil paintings hung beside ornamental displays of rusted hinges and window catches. Some of his eye-catching treasures came from galleries, some from yard sales … Edward filled his space with diverse objects that caught his fancy: ginger jars, handheld eggbeaters, frogs, finials, glass doorknobs, rusty window fasteners.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Another great joy in \u003cem>Theatrical Adventures\u003c/em> is the many insights offered to the reader as to how Gorey’s stage ideas took shape. His hand-written stories in black fountain pen are often illegible. There are copious notes crammed onto scripts, rudimentary sketches of fantastical characters and rough drawings of stage sets that contain the tiniest of details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968521\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/12-09-sketch-enraged_telephone-room-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Roughly drawn sketch in black ink of a man standing in a living room next to a writing desk. 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Brown had suggested Verburg compile a book of Gorey’s scripts. Realizing there was simply too much to put into one book, Verburg instead put together this marvelous and thoughtfully curated hodgepodge of materials. The end result offers strange insights into the recesses of Gorey’s darkly humorous mind from as many angles as possible. We are also left in no doubt that the artist was, in fact, a “thoughtful, gentle man with a soft heart and a generous soul.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13967831']There is real delectation in the way Verburg recounts her many adventures with Gorey, as well as a warmth towards him that brightens every page. Verburg is, I was quite certain by the end of her book’s 258 pages, the only person who could ever have put such a captivating book together on this topic. \u003cem>Theatrical Adventures\u003c/em> lifts the curtain not just on Gorey’s stage work, but on his personal life. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That sentence is a perfect distillation of not just Gorey’s appeal — a winning combination of mystery and absurdity — but the appeal of Verburg’s new book. The San Francisco author spent decades working with Gorey in the Northeastern U.S., collaborating on a plethora of theatrical productions, many of which Gorey wrote himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Theatrical Adventures\u003c/em> offers a rich sampling of the many, many plays (or, as he called them, “entertainments”) that Gorey worked on throughout the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s. The book contains Gorey-illustrated programs, script pages, set designs, theater merch, posters, lithographs, as well as wonderful behind-the-scenes photos. As descriptions of these productions unfold, you’ll learn about Gorey’s collaborators, inspirations, creative processes, predilections for making soft toys (especially for the people involved in bringing his work to life) and his unwavering passion for puppetry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968516\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1294px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968516\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/dracula.jpg\" alt=\"A fine line black and white drawing used as a promotional poster for a production of 'Dracula.' It features dark clouds, bats and a mysterious figure.\" width=\"1294\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/dracula.jpg 1294w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/dracula-800x1236.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/dracula-1020x1577.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/dracula-160x247.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/dracula-768x1187.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/dracula-994x1536.jpg 994w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1294px) 100vw, 1294px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 1973, Gorey designed elaborately detailed gothic sets for a production of ‘Dracula’ at the Nantucket Stage Company. Within four years, it was on Broadway and starring Frank Langella. \u003ccite>(Chronicle Books 2024)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Theatrical Adventures\u003c/em> is, as one senses Gorey’s life was, organized chaos in the most delightful sense. The core that holds the book together is Verburg’s wry humor and tone. She revels in recounting the surreal (and often silly) nature of her shared projects with Gorey. She also happens to be in possession of a dry wit that feels very much like an extension of Gorey himself. (“Neither of us was big on seasonal sentimentality,” she writes of their Christmas productions, “Edward being an artist of discerning taste, and I being named Carol.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Verburg is careful to pepper the book with biographical essentials about Gorey — he studied at Harvard, holidayed in Cape Cod, worked in an administrative role during World War II and had a career in New York as a book designer and illustrator. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it is the intimate personal details Verburg shares that really bring Gorey’s personality to life. (Some memorable nuggets: His favorite television shows were \u003cem>Buffy the Vampire Slayer\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The X-Files\u003c/em>. He had a room in his house dedicated to round objects. Another room contained only mystery novels, which overflowed from every nook and cranny.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968517\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 938px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968517\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/inspired-by-friends-baby.png\" alt=\"An illustration of a man sitting in an armchair reading while a strange creature sits on the floor next to him, flinging papers in the air.\" width=\"938\" height=\"858\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/inspired-by-friends-baby.png 938w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/inspired-by-friends-baby-800x732.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/inspired-by-friends-baby-160x146.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/inspired-by-friends-baby-768x702.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 938px) 100vw, 938px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gorey’s ‘The Doubtful Guest’ was inspired by a friend’s baby. \u003ccite>(Chronicle Books 2024)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Verburg’s descriptions of Gorey’s homelife are quite extraordinary. The artist lived in what Verburg refers to as “an antique house” in Yarmouth, Massachusetts that he dubbed “The Shelter.” And his main source of company comprised of many, many pet cats. Verburg writes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Edward ran the household, but the cats ran the house — shredding the furniture, spraying an aroma which discouraged visitors, occasionally jumping onto his drawings … Black and white oil paintings hung beside ornamental displays of rusted hinges and window catches. Some of his eye-catching treasures came from galleries, some from yard sales … Edward filled his space with diverse objects that caught his fancy: ginger jars, handheld eggbeaters, frogs, finials, glass doorknobs, rusty window fasteners.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Another great joy in \u003cem>Theatrical Adventures\u003c/em> is the many insights offered to the reader as to how Gorey’s stage ideas took shape. His hand-written stories in black fountain pen are often illegible. There are copious notes crammed onto scripts, rudimentary sketches of fantastical characters and rough drawings of stage sets that contain the tiniest of details.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968521\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/12-09-sketch-enraged_telephone-room-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Roughly drawn sketch in black ink of a man standing in a living room next to a writing desk. A cat is on the rug.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1977\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/12-09-sketch-enraged_telephone-room-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/12-09-sketch-enraged_telephone-room-1-800x618.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/12-09-sketch-enraged_telephone-room-1-1020x788.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/12-09-sketch-enraged_telephone-room-1-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/12-09-sketch-enraged_telephone-room-1-768x593.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/12-09-sketch-enraged_telephone-room-1-1536x1186.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/12-09-sketch-enraged_telephone-room-1-2048x1582.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/12-09-sketch-enraged_telephone-room-1-1920x1483.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sketch for the staging of ‘The Enraged Telephone,’ which Gorey originally wrote in 1963. \u003ccite>(Chronicle Books 2024)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The idea for \u003cem>Theatrical Adventures\u003c/em> was originally posed to Verburg by Andrea Brown, an executor of Gorey’s estate. Brown had suggested Verburg compile a book of Gorey’s scripts. Realizing there was simply too much to put into one book, Verburg instead put together this marvelous and thoughtfully curated hodgepodge of materials. The end result offers strange insights into the recesses of Gorey’s darkly humorous mind from as many angles as possible. We are also left in no doubt that the artist was, in fact, a “thoughtful, gentle man with a soft heart and a generous soul.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>There is real delectation in the way Verburg recounts her many adventures with Gorey, as well as a warmth towards him that brightens every page. Verburg is, I was quite certain by the end of her book’s 258 pages, the only person who could ever have put such a captivating book together on this topic. \u003cem>Theatrical Adventures\u003c/em> lifts the curtain not just on Gorey’s stage work, but on his personal life. It’s a fascinating read for any fan.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.chroniclebooks.com/products/theatrical-adventures-of-edward-gorey\">The Theatrical Adventures of Edward Gorey: Rare Drawings, Scripts, and Stories\u003c/a>’ by Carol Verburg is available now from Chronicle Books. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The sometimes pricey, often large-format books are abundant at holiday time. Take care to invest in just the right one to avoid sad or puzzled eyes when your gift is unwrapped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some suggestions among new releases:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘LIFE. Hollywood’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This two-volume opus covers the film industry from 1936 to 1972. More than 700 pages of photos and stories plucked from the archives of \u003cem>Life\u003c/em> magazine show icons and others behind the scenes and in front of the cameras. Take 6-year-old Natalie Wood hanging upside down on a swing. The nearly 17 pounds’ worth of nostalgia is packed with both color and black-and-white images, along with photo essays for context. Taschen, with slipcase. $250.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Black in Fashion: 100 Years of Style, Influence & Culture’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13968480\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-22-at-10.24.48%E2%80%AFAM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"830\" height=\"958\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-22-at-10.24.48 AM.png 830w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-22-at-10.24.48 AM-800x923.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-22-at-10.24.48 AM-160x185.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-22-at-10.24.48 AM-768x886.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 830px) 100vw, 830px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A celebration of Black voices from \u003cem>Women’s Wear Daily\u003c/em>, dating to the publication’s start in 1910. There are early efforts by Black garment workers to unionize. And Josephine Baker’s 67th birthday bash. There’s the rise of the late Virgil Abloh and working designers today, including LaQuan Smith and Sergio Hudson. Union Square & Co. Text by Tonya Blazio-Licorish and Tara Donaldson. $65.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Amazing Grapes’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This is Jules Feiffer’s first graphic novel for young readers. The offbeat, Pulitzer-winning cartoonist takes a family on a wacky adventure to the Lost Dimension. Feiffer said in press notes that writing for young readers “connects me professionally to a part of myself that I didn’t know how to let out until I was 60.” He’s now 95. His artwork is colorful and out of this world. Good for ages 8-12. HarperCollins. $12.99.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The Women Who Changed Photography’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13968481\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-22-at-10.24.00%E2%80%AFAM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"918\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-22-at-10.24.00 AM.png 918w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-22-at-10.24.00 AM-800x941.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-22-at-10.24.00 AM-160x188.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-22-at-10.24.00 AM-768x904.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 918px) 100vw, 918px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Profiles of 50 groundbreaking female photographers through time and around the world, told in short essays. Many developed new techniques to capture images from war to fashion. The book offers tips on how to achieve the same outcomes. Cindy Sherman, Anna Atkins, Shirin Neshat and Lorna Simpson are included. By Gemma Padley. Laurence King Publishing. $24.99.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Making the Case for Equality’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Lambda Legal has been fighting for LGBTQ+ rights for 50 years. This book takes readers through dozens of the nonprofit’s milestone cases, from 1973 to 2023. It profiles leading players on both sides and tells the personal stories behind the legal briefs. By Jennifer C. Pizer and Ellen Ann Andersen. With a foreword by Roxane Gay. 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It was, in fact, the first animated film to be given an X rating. Also included: 1896 Parisian lithographs for the first public screening by the Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis. They were among early pioneers of cinema. By Tony Nourmand, Graham Marsh, Christopher Frayling and Alison Elangasinghe. Reel Art Press. $95.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The Day of the Dead: A Celebration of Death and Life’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A tribute to Mexico’s beloved holiday when families welcome back the souls of their dead relatives. This lively volume unfolds with contemporary and historical context through photos and explanatory text focused on how the November holiday plays out in specific states and cities in Mexico. By Déborah Holtz and Juan Carlos Mena. Rizzoli New York. $65.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Dare to Bird’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13968483\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-22-at-10.41.58%E2%80%AFAM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1250\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-22-at-10.41.58 AM.png 1250w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-22-at-10.41.58 AM-800x691.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-22-at-10.41.58 AM-1020x881.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-22-at-10.41.58 AM-160x138.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-22-at-10.41.58 AM-768x664.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1250px) 100vw, 1250px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>British Columbia birder and photographer Melissa Hafting explores the joy and comfort her beloved birds have provided her in hard times, including the deaths of both of her parents. Her images of birds in the U.S. and Canada are intertwined with her personal narrative. “Who knows how many tomorrows I have left in my life, but all my tomorrows will be for the birds,” she writes. Rocky Mountain Books. $45.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Colorful’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the summer of 2023, at age 102, style icon Iris Apfel began work on this book. She called it her “legacy” book. She died the following March but her voice lives on in the memories she put down here. “The book is about living. Creating. Coloring life,” she wrote in the introduction. What follows is just that: a technicolor journey in words and pictures through Apfel’s childhood, marriage, work and home. What a treat to hear her voice again. Easily browsable with digestible text. 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That includes how to rescue over-whipped cream (a common \u003cem>Baking Show\u003c/em> dilemma), peel ginger with a spoon and easily peel a pineapple.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When cooks don’t have the right food prep skills, they feel “anxious and think, ‘Why should I bother?’” says Leith. But if you have a little know-how, cooking “is actually quite a pleasure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leith shares a few tricks from her book to help you reduce waste and prepare tricky foods with ease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13968264\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1581px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13968264\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/prue-book.png\" alt=\"A book cover featuring a smiling, senior woman wearing an apron, pink sweater and holding a martini glass. Plates of food sit on the counter in front of her.\" width=\"1581\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/prue-book.png 1581w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/prue-book-800x1012.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/prue-book-1020x1290.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/prue-book-160x202.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/prue-book-768x972.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/prue-book-1214x1536.png 1214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1581px) 100vw, 1581px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Life’s Too Short to Stuff a Mushroom,’ by Prue Leith. \u003ccite>(Carnival)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Level up your cooking game with “Prue’s Handy Hacks”\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>🍋 Use a lemon to rescue hardened brown sugar. \u003c/strong>Put the brown sugar in an airtight container with a whole lemon. Close the lid, wait a couple days and it will be soft again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>🧄 Smash a clove of garlic to peel it more quickly. \u003c/strong>Cut the root end and tip end off, then take “a jam jar or the flat blade of a knife and just squash it,” says Leith. “As soon as you hear the skin breaking with a crack,” you should easily find the peel and remove it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>🍍Take the rind off a whole pineapple in just six slices. \u003c/strong>Grab a big knife and cut the top and bottom of the pineapple off. Then stand it up “and just slice down the sides straight down to get the four cheeks off,” says Leith. The fruit is ready to cut any way you like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>🫚 Use a spoon to peel your ginger. \u003c/strong>“Ginger is so difficult to peel because it’s a funny, odd shape,” says Leith. To make it easier, grab an ordinary teaspoon, stick it under the skin of the ginger and start scraping. When you get to the nubby bits, just use a little more elbow grease. (Watch the video above to see how Leith does it!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leith loves to use ginger in drinks “to give it a bit of a kick,” especially ginger beer with a little lime juice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>🍦Bring back over-whipped cream with a bit of cream. \u003c/strong>If you see that your cream has started to go grainy and “suddenly gets a bit too stiff,” stop whisking and add in a little cream to try and rescue it, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your over-whipped cream has “lumps of what is in fact butter,” she says, the trick won’t work. But don’t throw it away. Keep whisking to turn the rest of the cream into butter, then add herbs — “and you’ve made a sort of maitre d’hotel butter.” It’s perfect on top of steak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>🧁 Prevent your cupcake and muffin liners from getting greasy with a little bit of uncooked rice. \u003c/strong>“Just put one teaspoon of dry, uncooked rice in between the muffin liner and the tin. It will absorb any kind of grease or fat,” she says. It also makes the baked muffin easy to pull out of the tray.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>🍌 Turn your overripe banana (even its skin) into a smoothie. \u003c/strong>Instead of chucking that banana into the compost bin, wash it, cut the two hard ends off and “liquidize the whole thing, including the skin” in a blender, says Leith. The black skin of a banana has loads of good stuff in it: fiber, polyunsaturated fats and amino acids. 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Just like old times: “I’m hoping to make a zine out of it,” he says. \u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.cccsf.us/event-details/chinatown-ross-alley-zine-festival-hua-bu-xiao-xiang-shou-zuo-shu-zhi-jie\">Chinatown Ross Alley Zine Festival\u003c/a> takes place 12–4 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 9. \u003c/p>\n\n",
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And this Saturday, along with 10 local publishers, he’ll have the chance to showcase his work at the first-ever \u003ca href=\"https://www.cccsf.us/event-details/chinatown-ross-alley-zine-festival-hua-bu-xiao-xiang-shou-zuo-shu-zhi-jie\">Chinatown Ross Alley Zine Festival\u003c/a>. Participants include \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13876332/the-hustle-floss-editions-art-book-publishers\">Floss Editions\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.smingsming.com/\">Sming Sming Books\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/unitypress/\">Unity Press\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13967860\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/Lisa-Hsia-.-courtesy-of-the-artist_2000.jpg\" alt=\"spread of book with illustrations of a woman doing many different activities\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1597\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13967860\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/Lisa-Hsia-.-courtesy-of-the-artist_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/Lisa-Hsia-.-courtesy-of-the-artist_2000-800x639.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/Lisa-Hsia-.-courtesy-of-the-artist_2000-1020x814.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/Lisa-Hsia-.-courtesy-of-the-artist_2000-160x128.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/Lisa-Hsia-.-courtesy-of-the-artist_2000-768x613.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/Lisa-Hsia-.-courtesy-of-the-artist_2000-1536x1226.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/Lisa-Hsia-.-courtesy-of-the-artist_2000-1920x1533.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Work by Lisa Hsia, one of the artists participating in the Chinatown Ross Alley Zine Festival. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tam’s own interest in zine and bookmaking spans decades. “As a kid, I was interested in making my own magazines,” says Tam, who was born in Hong Kong. “I didn’t even know it was [called] zines at the time, I just made my own little books.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He published his first art book in the early ’90s, but life took him elsewhere, away from book and zine making. It wasn’t until the early 2010s, after leaving a teaching position, that Tam found himself back in the world of zines, helping other artists learn to make and distribute their own works. He realized he still had plenty of his own ideas, and established Hotam Press to continue his work in the medium. For Tam, creating art through books and zines just made sense. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like using text and images in my work,” says Tam. “I think it’s … a logical direction to make them into books, because the book itself can contain some sort of narrative, and could also be complete in itself as an object.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13967859\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/Ho-Tam-.-courtesy-of-the-artist_comp_1800.jpg\" alt=\"Asian man and display of magazines and books\" width=\"1800\" height=\"901\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13967859\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/Ho-Tam-.-courtesy-of-the-artist_comp_1800.jpg 1800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/Ho-Tam-.-courtesy-of-the-artist_comp_1800-800x400.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/Ho-Tam-.-courtesy-of-the-artist_comp_1800-1020x511.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/Ho-Tam-.-courtesy-of-the-artist_comp_1800-160x80.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/Ho-Tam-.-courtesy-of-the-artist_comp_1800-768x384.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/Ho-Tam-.-courtesy-of-the-artist_comp_1800-1536x769.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ho Tam and examples of work put out by Hotam Press. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the artist)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tam says he finds inspiration for his zines and books from all sorts of subject matter, including his own personal stories and interests, social justice issues and political topics. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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