Peter Fish

A Tribute Through a Friend’s Eyes An exhibition of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s art gains depth when viewed alongside his longtime friend and colleague Paul Yamazaki.

The Legion of Honor’s Lawrence Ferlinghetti show celebrates legendary poet and City Lights founder’s artistic career. I saw it in the company of Paul Yamazaki, City Lights’ equally legendary book buyer. My piece in @altajournal.bsky.social
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One Highway. A Thousand Miles of Western Wonder. A 1,400-mile trip through several national parks takes a writer deep into his past.

"I want what only the best road trips give you: velocity and transcendence." — @peterafish.bsky.social hits the highway for @altajournal.bsky.social

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Very sorry to hear this. I enjoyed your columns and learned a lot from them.

Hell Or High Water is great.

Mad Ma

1. I Shall Be Released, The Band
2. Simple Twist of Fate, Joan Baez, mainly for Baez' Dylan imitation.
3. Gotta Serve Somebody, Mavis Staples

The Friend

French lawmaker calls for U.S. to return Statue of Liberty - UPI.com A French lawmaker says the United States should return New York's Statue of Liberty because America now sides with "tyrants."

"We're going to say to the Americans who have chosen to side with the tyrants, to the Americans who fired researchers for demanding scientific freedom: 'Give us back the Statue of Liberty,'" said Raphael Glucksmann, of France's Place Publique party. www.upi.com/Top_News/Wor...

Pauline Kael on his comic cameo in Young Frankenstein:
"to a masterly bit contributed by Gene Hackman as a bearded blind man. (Hackman’s inflections are so spectacularly assured I thought there was a famous comic hidden under the beard until I recognized his voice.)"

Romeo and Juliet Prowse

There goes the Monty Python reunion, the Milton Berle Tribute and screenings of Some Like It Hot

What's Up, Doc

A lovely sad story. Thanks for sharing it.

In his ambitious, sprawling, deeply reported American Oasis, Kyle Paoletta does a superb job of showing how the booming cities of the desert southwest may represent the American future. My review in the San Francisco Chronicle:
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This unhinged rant is the worst thing the New Yorker has ever published.

Sa

Frances Lawton. Third chorine from the left in The Gay Divorcee's Let's Knock Knees.

Always listen to Samantha Schoech