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Headshots for the homeless? Photographer Joe Ramos connects art and social work
Pixel Vision
Jan 27Images of homelessness are not hard to come by. These scenes are often pathetic, clichéd. In the worst cases, the homeless are portrayed as inhuman heaps of blanket and facial disfigurement, people reduced to their time spent sleeping on the streets or... »
Fun Reading for Winter Break
City College of San Francisco's Guardsman
Dec 22Book recommendations by artists, authors, librarians, and bloggers. »
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PHOTOS: Exhibit Captures Faces Of Homelessness
HuffPost San Francisco
Jan 30"Not all homeless people are addicts," said Garry Turner to photographer Joe Ramos. "Some people try to better themselves." Turner has been living with his... »
1/24/12: The Language of Flowers | SF Library
Fun Cheap San Francisco
Jan 24Join us for a reading and presentation by Vanessa Diffenbaugh, author of San Francisco Public Library’s January/February 2012 On the Same Page book selection. Set in San Francisco and the Napa Valley, The Language of Flowerstells the visceral and deepl... »
Check Out San Francisco In 1938
HuffPost San Francisco
Dec 22Earlier this month, Pastmapper.com took us back to 1853 San Francisco, now a newly digitized map collection gives us a bird's eye view of what... »
12/29/11: Thursday Night Poetry at Fort Mason | SF
Fun Cheap San Francisco
Dec 14The Readers Cafe & Bookstore 2011 Poetry Series is curated and hosted by Jack Hirschman, San Francisco Poet Laureate emeritus, San Francisco Public Library (SFPL) Poet-In-Residence, and SF International Poetry Festival collaborator. Each Thursday eveni... »
12/22/11: Thursday Night Poetry at Fort Mason | SF
Fun Cheap San Francisco
Dec 14The Readers Cafe & Bookstore 2011 Poetry Series is curated and hosted by Jack Hirschman, San Francisco Poet Laureate emeritus, San Francisco Public Library (SFPL) Poet-In-Residence, and SF International Poetry Festival collaborator. Each Thursday eveni... »