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    City Lights is an independent bookstore-publisher combination in San Francisco, California, that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive...
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    An independent bookstore is a retail bookstore which is independently owned. Usually, independent stores consist of only a single actual store (although...
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  • up city lights in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. City Lights is a 1931 film starring Charlie Chaplin. City Lights may also refer to: City Lights (band)...
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    Kepler's Books (category Bookstores in the San Francisco Bay Area)
    finding sustainable models to keep bookstores thriving. Cody's Books Printers Inc. Bookstore City Lights Bookstore Markoff, John (2005), What the Dormouse...
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    United States. Located at 255 Columbus Avenue, across an alley from City Lights Bookstore, the building was designed and built in 1913 by Italian architect...
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  • released her third collection Zoreh, launched with a reading at City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco. In September 2016, she read at the 25th Anniversary...
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  • depicted as a horned bull. Rigaud, Milo (1969). Secrets of Voodoo. City Lights Bookstore. p. 54. ISBN 0872861716. Retrieved October 14, 2015. Torres, Rafael...
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  • San Francisco Bound Together Anarchist Collective Bookstore in San Francisco City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco Cody's Books† in Berkeley Computer...
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  • Beatnik (category Culture of New York City)
    "Howl" in 1955; the Gaslight Cafe in New York City, where many poets performed; and the City Lights Bookstore, also in San Francisco, where Kerouac's novel...
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    Another poet from this generation, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, founded the City Lights Bookstore that still exists today on the corner of Broadway and Columbus as...
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  • and began working as a copy editor for Lawrence Ferlinghetti, at City Lights Bookstore. It was then that he began tattooing. He traveled Asia and Europe...
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    1999) was a Japanese-American bookseller who is mainly remembered as the City Lights manager and clerk who was arrested on June 3, 1957, for selling Allen...
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    venues, such as Jack Kerouac Alley, named for poet Jack Kerouac, City Lights Bookstore, Vesuvio Cafe, Specs' Twelve Adler Museum Cafe (in an alley off...
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    Showgirls theater, Convent of the Sacred Heart High School, and the City Lights Bookstore. West of the Broadway Tunnel, Broadway becomes more and more residential...
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  • 1988) was an American college professor and bookstore owner, known for his founding of the City Lights Bookstore. He was the son of Carlo Tresca and Sabina...
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    of short stories, and Shepard appeared with him at a reading at City Lights Bookstore. In 2014 and 2015, Shepard dated actress Mia Kirshner. After a turbulent...
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    Today listed nine top bookstore travel destinations in the United States as: Books & Books in Coral Gables, Florida; City Lights Books in San Francisco;...
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    presided over the obscenity trial of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights Bookstore in the movie Howl. Alongside Morgan Freeman and John Lithgow, Balaban...
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    under Mark Rothko, Victor Wong had his first art exhibition at the City Lights Bookstore. During this time, Wong befriended Lawrence Ferlinghetti. He illustrated...
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    its bright lights and over 20 kilometres of bookshelves. The store was founded by Jack Cole and Carl Cole, the former owners of Coles Bookstore. At the time...
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  • Travis has described as the "community-based environment" of the City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, and specialised in garage rock and reggae. Steve...
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  • tabloid-sized magazines and books. In the late 1970s, Vale was working at City Lights Bookstore, and he was deeply interested in the growing punk rock scene. He...
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    trucks before poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who was the co-founder of City Lights Bookstore, presented his idea in 1988 to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors...
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    Lawrence Ferlinghetti (category City Lights Books)
    anarchists in North Beach, and sold Italian anarchist newspapers at the City Lights Bookstore. While Ferlinghetti said he was "an anarchist at heart", he conceded...
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    writing Howl. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, of the new City Lights Bookstore, started to publish the City Lights Pocket Poets Series in 1955. Kenneth Rexroth's...
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  • Media Editions. The first American edition was a 1974 booklet by City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco. The first part of Iron Horse was composed July...
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    language. Shortly after its 1956 publication by San Francisco's City Lights Bookstore, it was banned for obscenity. The ban became a cause célèbre among...
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    Exhibition: Six California Artists of the Cold War Era. San Francisco: City Lights Bookstore. 1991. ISBN 9780872862548. Savage Dreams: A Journey Into the Landscape...
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    the lights as having little historic value, and as a safety hazard for pedestrians. Most of the lights have been removed. The City Lights Bookstore has...
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    Prairie Lights is an independent bookstore in downtown Iowa City, Iowa, founded in 1978, by Jim Harris. The store's original location was a 1,000-square-foot...
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