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Charles Kruger

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Charles Kruger is a Bay area arts practitioner known as "The Storming Bohemian." He tries to do as much as he can.
  • Notable San Francisco

Notable San Francisco: 3/29–4/4

  • Charles Kruger
  • March 29, 2017
Wednesday 3/29: Poet Larry Beckett (Beat Poetry) considers the poetry of the San Francisco Renaissance of the 50s as literature. Free, 7 p.m., The Beat Museum. USF’s Emerging Writers Festival…
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  • Politics

The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #22: Poverty Is Never “Genteel”

  • Charles Kruger
  • March 24, 2017
Poverty may have been beloved of St. Francis, but not so much by the rest of us. Nobody likes to look at advanced poverty, toothless and drooling, clutching the hands…
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  • Notable San Francisco

Notable San Francisco: 3/22–3/28

  • Charles Kruger
  • March 22, 2017
Wednesday 3/22: Kick off spring 2017 with an unusually large array of choices for a Wednesday night: Graham Foust is featured at the Holloway Reading Series at the University of…
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  • Politics

The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #21: Not Yesterday’s Demonstrations

  • Charles Kruger
  • March 17, 2017
1972: War was waging in Vietnam and kids were coming home in boxes. Hippes and yippies went clean for Gene McCarthy, but George McGovern won the democratic nomination. Tricky Dick Nixon…
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  • Notable San Francisco

Notable San Francisco: 3/15–3/21

  • Charles Kruger
  • March 15, 2017
Wednesday 3/15: Paul LaFarge (The Night Ocean) is interviewed by Daniel Handler. Fans of H. P. Lovecraft will be intrigued. Free, 7:30 p.m., Green Apple Books on the Park .…
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  • Other

The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #20: This Mortal Coil

  • Charles Kruger
  • March 10, 2017
Socrates: All men are mortal. The Storming Bohemian: I’m a man. Socrates: Right, so… The Storming Bohemian: Uh oh.
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  • Notable San Francisco

Notable San Francisco: 3/8–3/14

  • Charles Kruger
  • March 8, 2017
Wednesday 3/8: The Museum of the African Diaspora, as part of their current exhibition Where Is Here (curated by Jacquelyn Francis and Kathy Zarur), celebrate International Women’s Day with a…
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  • Politics

The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #19: Are YOU My Hero?

  • Charles Kruger
  • March 3, 2017
This week, I’ve found myself thinking about heroism. What makes a hero, anyway? Who should we choose for our heroes? When I was around fourteen, I developed a hero crush…
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  • Notable San Francisco

Notable San Francisco: 3/1–3/7

  • Charles Kruger
  • March 1, 2017
Wednesday 3/1: Journalist L.A. Kauffman, (The Nation, Mother Jones, The Baffler, etc.) reads from Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism. Free, 7 p.m., City Lights. Poet Kendra…
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  • Politics

The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #18: Keeping Our Balance in a Time of Turkeys

  • Charles Kruger
  • February 24, 2017
Yesterday, walking home along the wet pavement twinkling under the sunshine, I spied a flock of no fewer than twenty-four wild turkeys parading down the street, mostly chicks. I don’t…
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  • Notable San Francisco

Notable San Francisco: 2/22–2/28

  • Charles Kruger
  • February 22, 2017
Wednesday 2/22: John Darnielle (Wolf in White Van) reads from his new novel, Universal Harvester. Free, 7:30 p.m., Booksmith. Roof Books presents David Buuck (Co-Founder and Editor of Tripwire), Jean…
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  • Politics

The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #17: Oppression, Ownership, Turkeys, and Roses

  • Charles Kruger
  • February 17, 2017
Politics has become a bloated balloon on the horizon of our days, marked with the face of the Pr*sident, grinning under his orange corona like a demented sun-god, a raucous…
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