Inkwell: Authors and Artists

    


The KPFA Grateful Dead Marathon will take place Saturday, February 3, 2001
from 9:00 am until 1:00 am.  It will be webcast globally via DeadNet, with
help from jamradio.com and Sonic Focus.

The music for this year's marathon is shaping up nicely.  Given the amount of
stuff that's in circulation these days, it's hard to come up with things that
no one has heard, but I think I have a few items that will impress the
hardcore completists.

Mostly, though, I'm just concentrating on making it a day full of great
music, "collectible" or otherwise.

You'll hear the complete concert of 5/26/77, which has never been in
circulation in soundboard form; the complete 8/27/72, from a source other
than the circulating "Betty board" tape; some rehearsal material from 1990,
including a nice performance of "Good Night Irene"; and lots of great music
-- complete sets and shorter pieces -- from all over the Dead's career.

I have an hour or so of music recorded March 17, 1975 at Bob Weir's studio,
during the making of "Blues for Allah," with Ned Lagin, grand and electric
piano; Jerry Garcia, electric guitar; David Crosby, electric 12-string
guitar; Phil Lesh, bass; and Bill Kreutzmann, drums.  It was Ned's 27th
birthday.  Some pretty incendiary playing.  This will be featured in the
early evening on Marathon day.  Ned will be in the studio to introduce the
music and talk about his time with the Dead and other stuff, probably around
7:00 Pacific time.

More Crosby action: in the afternoon, Steve Silberman will bring in the
delightful "Kids and Dogs," a Jerry Garcia-David Crosby duet with multiple
vocal overdubs by Croz; and we'll also feature several other Crosby-Dead
collaborations.

You can listen and pledge online at <http://www.kpfa.org>.  KPFA broadcasts
at 94.1 in northern California, and also through KFCF 88.1 in Fresno.  Both
<http://www.kpfa.org> and <http://www.kfcf.org> will have high-quality MP3
feeds.  The main feed will be through SonicFocus:
<http://www.sonicfocus.com/kpfa/>.  There will be a live chat room at that
site.  You can email me at david@gdhour.com -- I'll be online throughout the
day and night.

To pledge the old-fashioned way (and get a premium, such as the "Best of the
Grateful Dead Hour" CD), call 510-848-5732 or 1-800-439-5732.
  

    

So I'm on a book tour!  I am exhausted and yet I am still in the bay area.

My new fabulous no-holds-barred-tell-all-highly-acclaimed book is

Advanced Sex Tips for Girls

Here are my bookstore events.  Please do come!


Wait do I have a pseud?  I am Cynthia Heimel if I do.



 Thursday, February 14, 2002
 Time: 7: 00 PM
 Booksmith
 1644 Haight Street
 San Francisco, CA 94117
 Contact: Thomas Gladyzs
 Tel: (415) 863-8688
 Format: Read/ Q&A/ Sign

  Tuesday, February 19, 2002 - Los Angeles area

 Time: 7:30 PM-8:30 PM
 Barnes and Noble
 3rd Street Promenade, 1201 3rd Street
 Santa Monica, CA 90401
 Contact: Jan Lindstrom
 Tel: (310) 260-9110
 Format: Read/ Q&A/ Sign

  Wednesday, February 20, 2002 - Portland, OR

  INTERVIEW:
 Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm/live KPAM Radio
 888 SW 5th Avenue
 Suite 790
 Portland, OR 97204
 Contact: Aaron
 Corman
 Tel: 503-552-3298


 Time: 7:30 PM
 Powell's (Hawthorne location)
 3723 Southeast Hawthorne Blvd.
 Seattle, WA 97214
 Store Tel: (503) 238-1668
 Contact: Michael Dranner
 Tel: (503) 228-4651 ext. 489
 Format: Reading/ Q&A


 Thursday, February 21, 2002 -Seattle, WA

 Time: 7:00 pm Third Place Books
 17171 Bothell Way
 Lake Forest Park, WA
 Contact: Judith Chandler
 Tel: (206) 366-3300
 Format: Read/ Q&A/ Sign

 Friday, February 22, 2002 - Seattle, WA
 Time: 5:30 PM
 Elliott Bay Books Co.
 101 South Main Street
 Seattle, WA 98104
 Contact: Rick Simonson
 Tel: (206) 624-6600
 Format: Read/ Q&A/ Sign

 Time: 7:30 PM
 University Bookstore
 4326 University Way NE
 Seattle, WA 98105
 Contact: Kim Ricketts
 Tel: (206) 634-3400
 Format: Read/ Sign/ Q&A


 HOME/San Francisco, CA

 Saturday, February 23, 2002

 INTERVIEW:
 Time: 10:00 am -12:00 pm WEST COAST LIVE
 live Freight and Salvage,

 1111 Addison Street,
 Berkeley, CA
 Contact: Brian Vanneman
 Tel: 415-252-9214

 Wednesday, February 27, 2002 - Chicago, IL

 Time: 7:30 PM
 Barbara's Books
 (Well Street Location)
 1350 North Well Street
 Chicago, IL 60610
 Contact: Lynda Fitzgerald
 Tel: (312) 642-4818
 Format: Read/ Q&A/ Sign

 Thursday, February 28, 2002 -New York, NY

 Time: 7:30 PM-8:30 PM
 Barnes and Noble (Chelsea)
 675 6th Avenue
 New York, NY 10010
 Contact: Jennifer Stark
 Tel: (212) 727-1227
 Format: Reading/ Q&A/ Signing
  

    

I attended plum's reading in Berkeley last week, and I bought a book, too!
This is: good stuff.
  

    
I'm looking forward to hearing her interview on WEST COAST LIVE
(http://http://www.wcl.org/) I went to last Saturday's show, which was
broadcast live from the Raven Theater in Healdsburg. Sedge Thomson is a
lively, playful and articulate interviewer. This should be a great venue,
Cynthia Heimel!
  

    
I was on West Coast Live about 6  years ago.  It's a lot of fun!

Have a ball!  I thought it was especially fun meeting the other cool 
guests....  (For me, it was String Cheese incident!)

They're also pretty good about archiving the shows....

<http://www.wcl.org/realaudio/WCL19960831.ram>  I'm on from about the 40 
minute mark on (as the Mystery Guest!)



Nothing on your same scale, but I've got two book signings on the same day 
this weekend.

11 am Brown U. Bookstore, Providence, RI

2 pm Barnes and Noble Warwick, RI


For more info, check my schedule webpage:

<http://www.acmeclown.com/schedule.html>
  

    

I know, it is!  I've done it before!  I am using lots of exlamation
marks!!!! because I've just heard I'm going to be no. 6!!! on the SF
Chronicle bestseller list.
  

    

slippagio!
  

    
Wow!  #6!  That's awesome! Congratulations!


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Congratulaions, Plum! Yum!
  

    
Wow!!!
  

    
Congrats, Cynthia!
  

    
That's great--you deserve it, it's a fantastic book. Couldn't wait
until my pre-ordered copy arrived.
  

    

tonight is my reading at

Booksmith
1644 Haight Street

just a reminder.  Then I will be leaving the bay area for LA.
  

    
And when she's finished there, she's comng to the ASHKENAZ (1317 San Pablo
Ave., Berkeley) to hear myband WAKE THE DOG! play (starting at 9).
  

    
Howard Bryant, who's slated to join us for a conversation starting next
Friday, is currently out promoting his book, "Shut Out: A Story of Race and
Baseball in Boston", in various locations around the States. Here's three of
his upcoming readings:

* Wednesday, Sept. 18, 5 p.m. 
  Elliott Bay Bookstore
  101 S. Main St. 
  Seattle, Washington

* Thursday, Sept. 19, 7 p.m.
  A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books at Opera Plaza 
  601 Van Ness Avenue
  San Francisco, CA 94102

* Thursday, September 26 6:30 p.m.
  LOWELL LECTURE, The Old State House
  Boston, Mass.
  

    

Hey, I'll try to catch his Boston lecture!
  

    

Seattle but not Portland?! WTF is up with that???
  

    

See, you don't have an MLB team.  You need one of those.
  

    

sure, rub it in. We don't have Sephora either, in case you hadn't heard.
  

    
I don't think my daughter has heard that, <vard>. And when she does,
she'll be out of Portland faster'n a Boggsie line drive. Sephora is the
queen of her dreams (and the dark blot upon my credit card).

<ohmy>, I'll be seeing you at the San Francisco reading. Let's talk a
bit afterward if you've got the chance, eh?   
  

    
Not quite a tour, sort of like an event...


Starting January 30, author David Shenk will be joining us in Inkwell.vue to
delve into the difficult and distressing subject of Alzheimer's, and to
discuss his best-selling book, "The Forgetting -- Alzheimer's: Portrait of
an Epidemic." If you want a preview of what we'll be talking about with
David, check this out:

On Wednesday evening, January 21, PBS will air "The Forgetting" -- a
documentary on Alzheimer's inspired by author David's book of the same name.

Of the documentary, David says, "It's a very powerful film that puts most of
its focus on the experience of families dealing with Alzheimer's. There's
also a taste of the history and a little bit of science woven in."

It'll show at 10 p.m. Pacific Time on KQED, San Francisco, and will air
again the following Sunday, January 25, at noon.

The show airs on the east coast at 9 p.m. Eastern Time.

For those of you in other time zones, check your local PBS schedules:

               http://www.pbs.org/tvschedules/
  

    



http://www.auroratheatre.org/show_alltheworld.shtml

all the world's a stage
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE COLUMNISTS JON CARROLL, LEAH GARCHIK,
AND C.W. NEVIUS ON THE BEST CULTURAL COMEDIES AND TRAGEDIES OF 2004

Ticket info:  http://www.auroratheatre.org/tickets.shtml

Berkeley's acclaimed Aurora Theatre Company will host a special evening
with San Francisco Chronicle columnists Jon Carroll, Leah Garchik, and
C.W.  Nevius.  Coinciding with the Aurora season opener, Aeschylus' THE
PERSIANS, a new adaptation by playwright/actress Ellen McLaughlin, the
one-night only benefit, entitled "All the World's a Stage," will focus
on the best cultural comedies and tragedies of 2004. Noted Bay Area
academic Robert Osserman, who has held public conversations with Tom
Stoppard, Michael Frayn, David Auburn, and Steve Martin, will moderate
the panel discussion. Sure to cover a wide range of topics, from life
at The Chronicle to theatre as an arena for political discourse and the
comedy and tragedy of the upcoming elections, this cultural insider's
dialogue will be followed by a Q&A session.


DATE: Tuesday, September 21, 2004
SHOWTIMES: Doors open at 7:00 pm; Event begins at 7:30 pm
WHERE: Aurora Theatre
2081 Addison Street
Berkeley, CA

TICKETS: All tickets for this special event are $25; seating is
unreserved.  All proceeds benefit Aurora Theatre Company, located in
the Downtown Berkeley Arts District. For more information, call (510)
843-4822.
  

    
from revbilly.com

The Rapture Interruptus Revival
April 26 - May 1 In Northern California

The fundamentalist plan – "The Rapture" – is now in progress. People are
vanishing, yanked up into another world. These believers are disappearing
into SUV's, idling between super malls. They believe, though, with the
Playstations in their dashboards, that their Ford Expeditions are climbing
straight up cliffs and jumping fjords and running with wolves. That's
Heaven's final ad campaign: Consumers on pixilated interstates up Mount
Everest. Those of us left behind will die in the Hell and rising Floods of
the over-heating planet.

Children, welcome to the The Rapture Interruptus Revival - we shall hit the
Rapture right where it hurts. We shall slam the Rapture into Reverse. We
shall sing "Stop Shopping" between the consumer and the car – catching them
in the Parking Lot Of No Return. We plan a new kind of performance art, a
curving choreography designed for on-ramps. Exorcisms of Bad Traffic are now
being taught in 24 hour all-night shifts at the Slow Consuming School of
Divinity…

--WE RELY ON WORD OF MOUTH! PLEASE FORWARD TO FRIENDS AND FAMILY IN THE BAY
AREA--

California Schedule - Click Here For Event Information and Reservations!
Wednesday, April 26th 11:30am UFCW Rally – Mt. View, Ca
Thursday, April 27th 8:00pm Masonic Center Sebastopol
Friday, April 28th 7:30pm Rio Theater – Santa Cruz
Saturday, April 29th 10:00am Westcoast Live Radio, Click To Listen
April 29th, 6:00pm Walnut Park – Petaluma
Sunday, April 30th Victoria's Secret Action EMAIL FOR DETAILS
Sunday, April 30th 8:00pm Victoria Theater, San Francisco

On Monday, May 1st we'll be on the streets in San Francisco with the Great
American Boycott. Later in May, look for performances in Switzerland, Ohio
and New York. Spring-a-lujah!
  

    
Rev Billy is amazing.
  

    

but... but ... the dates don't match the days! May 2 is a Tuesday, April 30
is a Monday, etc etc...