UC Botanical Garden. Photo, taken on March 31, 2017 by Kate Mountain
FLOWERS & FRIENDS Since you’ve been spending more time outdoors, you may be curious about the lifeforms you see buzzing and flying around flowers. In this after-school event for the UC Botanical Garden, you’ll learn about the beautiful life of flowers, which are a part of the plant specifically designed for pollinator friends. Throughout this Zoom session, you’ll learn about flowers around the globe, the anatomy of a flower, and the many different pollinating animals that enjoy flowers like bees, butterflies, honey possums, and bats. The UC Botanical Garden is hosting this free nature appreciation event in honor of Earth Day week, which starts next Tuesday. Learn about the wonderful world of flowers and their pollinator friends. The program is geared towards a youth audience. Tuesday, April 20. 3-3:45 p.m. Free.
El Cerrito author Ron Nyren reads from his new novel, " The Book of Lost Light ." It's about Joseph Kylander, his obsessive father, and his impulsive older
We re taking a look back at some our top picks from 2020 that either showcase the people, history and culture that define the area or were written by local award-winning/best-selling authors.
Between Realism and Something Else: An Interview with Ron Nyren I loved researching this book, finding out about chronophotography, pictorialism, the 1906 earthquake, and the artists of the time. Ron Nyren talks with Margot Livesey about his debut novel,
The Book of Lost Light.
When I suggested to Ron Nyren that we have a conversation about his absorbing debut novel,
The Book of Lost Light, I realized that I could no longer remember when he and I first met. Our lives were already intertwined through several writerly connections, notably Andrea Barrett, Charles Baxter, and his spouse, Sarah Stone. Ron reminded me that he and Sarah had come to a reading I gave in San Francisco. The three of us wound up taking a walk near the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, which contains a number of the remarkable Eadweard Muybridge photographs that play a vital part in