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Did you know
... that on
Floodplain
,
San Francisco
-based string quartet the
Kronos Quartet
(pictured)
plays instruments built by
Walter Kitundu
, including the
beguèna maridhia
, which is based on an
Ethiopian
10-string lyre?
... that "
A Supermarket in California
" is a
poem
by
Allen Ginsberg
published in 1956 and dedicated to
Walt Whitman
in the centennial year of the first edition of
Leaves of Grass
?
... that despite playing the position of
wide receiver
in
American
college football
,
LaShaun Ward
was the third leading rusher for the
University of California Golden Bears
in 2001?
... that the organizers of San Francisco's
Trans March
rerouted the event through the city's
Mission District
to draw attention to
violence
against
transgender
people?
... that
San Francisco Chronicle
pop music
critic
Joel Selvin
(pictured)
was an early member of the
rock and roll
band
Rock Bottom Remainders
, made up of authors and journalists?
May/June 2009
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