booknotes

Feb. 2

Pity the Billionaire: The Hard Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right

By Thomas Franks - Metropolitan Books

Jan. 26

Eagles: Taking It To The Limit

By Ben Fong-Torres - Running Press

Jan. 19

Living in a Modern Way: California Design 1930-1965

edited by Wendy Kaplan - MIT Press

Jan. 5

Coffee Talk: The Stimulating Story of the World’s Most Popular Brew

By Morton Satin - Prometheus Books

Dec. 29, 2011

Pulphead

by John Jeremiah Sullivan - Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Dec. 29, 2011

The Dead Celebrity Cookbook

by Frank DeCaro — Health Communications Inc.

Dec. 22, 2011

Herzog’s Top Five Books (+5)

Dec. 8, 2011

And So It Goes - Kurt Vonnegut: A Life

By Charles J. Shields - Henry Holt

Nov. 24, 2011

I’m With the Bears: Short Stories from a Damaged Planet

Edited by Mark Martin - Verso

Nov. 17, 2011

Life Itself

By Roger Ebert - Grand Central Publishing

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Recent booknotes

Feb. 2

Pity the Billionaire: The Hard Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right

By Thomas Franks - Metropolitan Books

Jan. 26

Eagles: Taking It To The Limit

By Ben Fong-Torres - Running Press

Jan. 19

Living in a Modern Way: California Design 1930-1965

edited by Wendy Kaplan - MIT Press

Today

Open Celtic Music Session

music / 3 p.m. Cafe Veritas/Mosgo's, 180 Westwood Center, Arcata. Informal monthly gathering of musicians playing Irish and other Celtic music. Hosted by Seabury Gould. seaburygould.com. 845-8167.

Nonviolence Action Camp

etc. / 10 a.m. Chinmaya Mission near Piercy. Weekend-long direct action orientation features workshops, role playing, seminars, ceremonies and field trips. Bring food, bedding, warm clothes, signs, banners, bikes, drums, acoustic instruments. Pre-register. saverichardsongrove.org. 932-5898.

Audubon Society Field Trip

outdoors / 9 a.m. Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge, 1020 Ranch Road, Loleta. Meet at Refuge Visitor Center off Hookton Road. Leisurely, two- to three-hour trip intended for people wanting to learn birds of Humboldt Bay area. 822-3613.

Look Back in Anger Matinee

theater / 2 p.m. Ferndale Repertory Theatre, 447 Main Street. John Osborne’s sharply funny, fiercely honest exploration of political disillusionment and basic human yearning. Directed by John Heckel. $15/$13 students and seniors. ferndale-rep.org. 800-838-3006.

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