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Tag Archives: Forum
Audio/Video: As AIDS Hits 30, Taking Stock of Where We Are
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In the early 1990s, I moved to the Castro. Until then, ensconced in my heterosexual bubble, as it were, I'd been only vaguely aware of the scourge of AIDS. But this new neighborhood — it felt haunted. Cadaverous men, leaning … Continue reading
Interview: Associate Director of Oxford Library on Magna Carta, at Legion of Honor in San Francisco
The Magna Carta may have been around for some 800 years, but there's just a week left to see it at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. Last week, Richard Ovenden, associate director and keeper of special collections at … Continue reading
Reactions to bin Laden Death Abound; Interview With Chris Hedges on Americans' "Triumphalism"
For a true eye-of-the-beholder experience, check out these two headlines today from the Chronicle and the Mercury News: For Sept. 11 victims' families, quiet relief (Chronicle) Bay Area families of war dead, 9/11 victims unsettled by bin Laden's death (Mercury … Continue reading
Video: Poet Billy Collins on Social Media, Twitter, and Poetry
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Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins was on our KQED Forum last week to discuss his new anthology, Horoscopes of the Dead. Afterwards, KQED News Interactive Producer Amanda Stupi asked him what he thought, as a poet, of social media. … Continue reading
Looming Government Shutdown: Live Coverage; What Stays Open?
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If Democrats and Republicans can't forge a deal tout suite, at midnight the entire federal government turns into an unfunded pumpkin. You can follow the negotiations — and posturing — in Washington live on CSPAN and on NPR. PBS NewsHour … Continue reading
Video Interview: Joyce Carol Oates on the Profound Loss of Someone Close; Bay Area Reading Schedule
Joyce Carol Oates is in town, and yesterday she appeared on Forum, talking to Michael Krasny about "A Widow's Story," her memoir on the shock and grief she felt following the sudden death of her husband, Raymond Smith. (Read Oates' … Continue reading
