Recommendations: April 2008 Archives

George Birimisa, Diane DiPrima, and Steve Susoyev will be reading from Return to the Caffe Cino, a collection of plays originally performed at the Manhattan club credited with launching the Off-Off-Broadway theater movement. Birimisa, now 83, was the first openly gay playwright to receive a Rockefeller Grant and wrote many groundbreaking works, including Daddy Violet, Georgie Porgie, and Looking For Mr. America.

From the book:

"[Caffe Cino] was a coffee-house, a theatre, a brothel, a temple, a flophouse, a dope-ring, a launching pad, an insane asylum, a safe-house, and a sleeper cell for an unnamed revolution..."

Tuesday, Apr 22, 7:30 pm @ Different Light Bookstore, Castro bet 17th & 18th.

More about Caffe Cino on Wikipedia

The Washington Post ran a nice feature today on Meatpaper, the meat-centric magazine published by Grotto wife (or at least my wife) Amy Standen and Sasha Wizansky.

"They are on to something," Peter Carlson writes, "the notion that meat, and the endless variety of rituals, symbolism and taboos surrounding it, can tell us a lot about our fellow humans."

(Carlson also ponders whether my own feature in the latest issue, "Sweat Sock: The Other White Meat," was written with the assistance of much alcohol. I resemble that remark.)

More info about Meatpaper itself right here.

Check out Helena's latest Chow column. It's about teaching kids table manners:

http://www.chow.com/stories/10981.