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CCM directors Estelle & Jerry Cimino will be at the Flamingo Hotel, and the Resort-O-Rama marketplace is free! Come say hello!
Our friends Otto and Baby Doe, organizers of the annual Tiki Oasis events in San Diego and Arizona, are at it again—this time with Resort-O-Rama: Mid-Century Style & Design, October 8–11 at the historic Flamingo Resort in Santa Rosa, California.
“Resort-O-Rama is a Northern California event focusing on Mid-Century design, style, history and whimsy! STAY at the hotel – rooms available! Enjoy educational seminars, cocktail soirées, an elegant Supperclub dinner and FREE Mid-Century Modern Marketplace. Full weekend passes and ala carte single ticket options available.”
Resort-O-Rama directly benefits the Counterculture Museum
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Read more...Celebrate Jack Kerouac’s Birthday at Capo’s
In celebration of Kerouac's birthday, we're partnering with Tony Gemignani's Capo's restaurant in North Beach. Enjoy a delicious 5-course Chicago style Italian dinner with wine, beer, specialty cocktails, poetry and jazz!
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Read more...The Beat Museum is Celebrating 15 Years
From our humble beginnings in Monterey, on the road with the Beat Museum on Wheels, to our current home in North Beach, the Beat Museum celebrates 15 years!
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Read more...2017 Year-End News
As the year draws to an end, a look back at 2017
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Read more...On William S. Burroughs 103rd Birthday
William S. Burroughs would’ve been 103 today.
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Read more...North Beach Stories with Ray Hanna
From the streets of North Beach and beyond—all the sleaze, drugs, trailblazing strippers, and punks acting out, Timothy Leary performing at a Broadway nightclub, sheer rock-and-roll madness at the Mabuhay—all in a night’s work in Hanna’s world.
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Read more...Why a Beat Hotel?
Update: Circumstances have changed, and this fundraising campaign has ended. Learn more… Ever since we went public with Michael Palumbo’s initial sketch of what a new Beat Museum building at 580 Green Street might look like, the feature that seems to inspire the greatest curiosity is the suggestion of a Beat hotel. Sure, it might […]
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Read more...MetroActive: “Tech Bros Forget Beat Generation’s Imprint”
Last week, I slithered back into the Beat Museum in San Francisco, arriving by sheer chance. Turns out the museum is currently angling to raise a cool few million so it can buy a new facility up the street. Within minutes, director Jerry Cimino and I found ourselves venting—er, contemplating—the current generations of tech in […]
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Read more...The Beat Generation Bagel Shop That Didn’t Sell Bagels
Extra Crispy's Judy Berman offers an illuminating scoop on the Coexistence Bagel Shop
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Read more...Beat Generation Legacy Fund – Advisory Board
The following people believe a permanent Beat Museum in North Beach is an idea worth pursuing.
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Read more...Harold Adler’s Photos of Demonstrations for The Living Theatre
As a photographer for the Berkeley Barb, Harold Adler covered protests on behalf of imprisoned members of The Living Theatre in Union Square.
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Read more...The Beat Museum Presents: The Living Theatre
Founded in 1947 by Julian Beck and Judith Malina, The Living Theatre brings their powerful performance of "Seven Meditations on Political Sadomasochism" to SF.