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Read more...A Visit from Van Morrison
I was out of breath the day I met Van Morrison. I couldn't help it.
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Read more...Wrastling with the Devil
by Jerry Cimino I was talking with Al Hinkle the other day. He had just turned 91 in September, and we spoke on the phone New Year’s Eve, wishing each other well as 2018 clicked over. Al was a close friend of both Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac, and is pseudonymously “Big Ed Dunkel” in […]
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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...First Appearance of Kerouac in Russia, 1960
Wherein we're gifted a rare 1960 book of 'foreign literature' translated into Russian, and containing excerpts from On the Road.
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