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Frommer's San Francisco by Night

Travel

Brown, Joe

Boulware, Jack

Davidson, Tyler

United States

Frommers

An oral history of the modern punk-revival?s West Coast Birthplace Outside of New York and London, California?s Bay Area claims the oldest continuous punk-rock scene in the world. Gimme Something Better brings this outrageous and influential punk scene to life, from the notorious final performance of the Sex Pistols, to Jello Biafra?s bid for mayor, the rise of Maximum RocknRoll magazine, and the East Bay pop-punk sound that sold millions around the globe. Throngs of punks, including members of the Dead Kennedys, Avengers, Flipper, MDC, Green Day, Rancid, NOFX, and AFI, tell their own stories in this definitive account, from the innovative art-damage of San Francisco?s Fab Mab in North Beach, to the still vibrant all-ages DIY ethos of Berkeley?s Gilman Street. Compiled by longtime Bay Area journalists Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor, Gimme Something Better chronicles more than two decades of punk music, progressive politics, social consciousness, and divine decadence, told by the people who made it happen.

Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day

Tudor, Silke

Humor & Entertainment

Penguin Publishing Group

San Francisco. The very name may bring to mind anything from Sam Spade dodging bullets to drug experimentation at Fillmore West to the first openly gay community in the Castro district. Ever since the gold rush, the city has been a haven for the unusual and the well-before-their-time, but there's no better time than now to see the downright bizarre. If you want to see the Golden Gate Bridge and eat Ghirardelli chocolates, there are many fine books that will hold your hand through the process. But if you'd rather: -Visit the birthplace of LSD -Take home a toilet guitar -Worship at the church of John Coltrane -Have a pint and a nosh at O'Greenberg's -Photograph the attractive Manson family home -Ride with the Hell's Angels -Take a Black Panther legacy tour, or -Visit the nation's only fully restored nuclear missile site, then San Francisco Bizarro is the book for you. With addresses, hours, and phone numbers, you'll be fully equipped for the most bizarre visit ever. Because America doesn't get any freakier than this.

San Francisco Bizarro: A Guide to Notorious Sites, Lusty Pursuits, and Downright Freakiness in the City by the Bay

St. Martin's: Griffin

While other books have recounted the hows and whys of the Sexual Revolution, Sex, American Style celebrates in words and pictures the most exciting, indulgent, self-obsessed and voyeuristic time in recent history. 135 photos.

Sex, American Style: An Illustrated Romp Through the Golden Age of Heterosexuality

Self-Help

Feral House

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