Events for May 18, 2011
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| 10:00 am | History Tour Series: Uptown to the Lake | Oakland | FREE* *RSVP by calling Tours’ 24-hour hotline at (510) 238-3234
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SF City Guide Walking Tour: Embarcadero Skyway
Take flight (sort of). Most of the tour is above the ground. View “Rockefeller Center West” from a different angle and discover a hidden urban oasis. Tread on buried ships that once housed saloons, jails, stores and brothels.
This free San Francisco City Guides walking tour ...
Native American Tribe Gathering | Yerba Buena Gardens
This Ohlone traditional gathering, hosted by the Rumsen Ohlone Tribe, features dance and song groups from six recognized California Tribes in support of the unrecognized Rumsen Ohlone tribe in a ceremony on traditional Ohlone land.
Supporting tribes include:
Elam Indian Colony
Pit River Maidu
Winnemum Wintu
Shingle Springs Miwok
Stewarts Point ...
| 6:00 pm | Jewish Cooking in France | Noe Valley | FREE |
Surrealist Poet Will Alexander Reading | City Lights
Few poets writing today can compare with L.A.-based surrealist Will Alexander in terms of the intensity of his imagination or his radically experimental approach to language as material object. Through the use of automatic writing, Alexander practices a surrealism of the word, creating densely textured ...
Oakland A’s vs. Minnesota Twins | $2 Ticket Day
Can you pay just $2 to get tickets to see a major league baseball game? It’s true!
For 2011 every A’s Wednesday home game is a “$2 Wednesday” thanks to BART. Tickets are good for the sorta crappy seats in the Plaza Level, Plaza Outfield and ...
Bob Dylan Night: “The Old, Weird America” | The Booksmith
Previously published as Invisible Republic and already considered a classic of modern American cultural criticism, The Old, Weird America is Greil Marcus’s widely acclaimed book on the secret music (the so-called “Basement Tapes”) made by Bob Dylan and the Band while in seclusion in Woodstock, ...
Win Tix to Lecture by MoveOn.org’s Eli Pariser | Berkeley
Come see an intriguing lecture by MoveOn.org’s Eli Pariser entitled “The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding from You” in Berkeley on Wednesday, May 18th.
Learn how the recent trend of hyper-personalization undermines the Internet’s original purpose as an open platform for the spread of ...
