Sona Avakian

Peter Orner brings Love and Shame and Love to Inside Story Time

Peter Orner's new novel, Love and Shame and Love is probably unlike any novel you’ve recently read. For one thing it’s beautifully illustrated by cartoonist and illustrator Eric Orner, who also...

Carla Kihlstedt brings Necessary Monsters to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

The very prolific Carla Kihlstedt is back, this time with a song cycle called Necessary Monsters based on her one of her favorite books, Jorge Luis Borges’ The Book of Imaginary Beings, a compilation of imaginary creatures from unicorns...

Meklit Hadero: Home from Home show Thursday at the Independent

One of my favorite locals, Meklit Hadero is just back from a tour of Ethiopia (where she was born) and Kenya. While in Africa she and her band played ten shows in Ethiopia as part of the Music Without...

Author James Warner Reads at Dog Eared Books Thursday Night

James Warner's novel All Her Father's Guns is a farcical romp shooting barbs at the American electoral process. The story is told in two voices: Reid Seyton, a British academic completing a...

Carla Kihlstedt and her sister on Sleepytime Gorilla Museum's final shows

As Sleepytime Gorilla Museum heads into their final shows violinist Carla Kihlstedt took time out from her busy schedule to answer some questions and enlisted her sister Rya Kihlstedt for help with a few. Avakian: You were...

Mark Growden hits the Brava Theater February 18th and 19th

Mark Growden releases Lose Me in the Sand, his tenth release in fifteen years on Porto Franco Records. Currently wrapping up a three month tour he’ll celebrate by performing two shows at the Bravo Theater on February...

Frances Lefkowitz Explains The Difference Between The Haves and Have Nots

Frances Lefkowitz’s new memoir To Have Not out now from local publishing house MacAdam/Cage is her story of growing up poor and white in San Francico in the Sixties and Seventies when the Zodiac Killer and Harvey...

Aaron Novik is poised for (a new version of) success

True or false: Aaron Novik has played in all these groups: Thorny Brocky, the bass clarinet quartet Edmund Welles, The Nathan Clevenger Group and The Floating World, which he named his new album just out from homegrown record label...

Gerard Jones and Mark Badger signing books at Dr. Comics and Mr. Games, Saturday October 16th

Comic book writer Gerard Jones and illustrator Mark Badger will be signing their new graphic novel Networked: Carabella on the Run at Dr. Comics and Mr. Games in Oakland on Saturday October 15th, from two to five p.m. Perhaps...

Riot Grrrls: Not Your Mother's Feminist Movement

It doesn't seem possible, but it's true: It's been twenty years since the Riot Grrrls hit the scene; practically a lifetime ago. And while zines, support groups, and girl-fronted bands are still on...

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