Category: News and Events
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FREE Book Exchange—Saturday and Sunday
Do you remember those bound collections of paper—the old analog version of literature called “books?” If you love books and that tangible experience of flipping paper pages to get to the next plot twist of the story, there is a FREE Book Exchange this weekend at the Bay Area Free Book Store in El Cerrito.…
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Look Up: The Perseids Meteor Shower is Upon Us
For more than 2000 years, we have records of humans enjoying a spectacle of white streaks across the night sky about this time of year. We call it the Perseids meteor shower. Though it lasts a couple of weeks, tonight is the peak viewing time with the highest number of meteors per hour, so clear…
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Writers with Drinks–Not your Average Open Mic
Writers with Drinks: 10 August 2013 Back in 2001, writer Charlie Jane Anders, assembled a group of other writers to read their work on stage. Instead of the solemn, typical performance of writers, this event is a bit more . . . shall we say, interactive–if not downright raucous. Instead of struggling, young writers reading…