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The West Hollywood location closed on February 9, 2019, [2] [1] with the owners' daughter Rachel Mason, an artist, musician, and filmmaker, [6] stating that the easy accessibility of gay pornography and cruising apps like Grindr replaced the need for a spot like Circus of Books. [7] The West Hollywood location reopened on January 18, 2020 as ...
Samuel Weiser had begun publishing in the mid-1950s, and through the late 1950s produced a small number of books under the Occult Research Press imprint before starting to publish under his own name. The development of the 1960s "counter-culture," and the growth of popular interest in esotericism and Eastern religious and mystical traditions ...
The Rob Bell Reader: Selection from Love Wins, Velvet Elvis, Sex God, Drops like Stars, and Jesus Wants to Save Christians. New York: HarperCollins. 2012. Love Wins and The Love Wins Companion. New York: HarperCollins. 2013. The Complete Rob Bell: His Seven Bestselling Books, All in One Place. New York: HarperCollins. 2013.
One famous open secret is that of Area 51, a United States military base containing an aircraft testing facility. [3] The U.S. government did not explicitly affirm the existence of any military facility near Groom Lake, Lincoln County, Nevada, until 2013, when the CIA released documents revealing that the site was established to test spy planes. [4]
A traditional Whiskey Sour at Constitution, an establishment that features craft cocktails and a speakeasy feel. Constitution is located at 109 Constitution St. in Lexington, Ky.
In May 1990, a second Los Angeles store opened at 8853 Santa Monica Blvd. in West Hollywood, [2] and the New York City store moved from its original location on 548 Hudson Street to 151 19th Street in Chelsea, Manhattan. [3] Supplanted by the West Hollywood store, the original store in Silver Lake closed in 1992.
In total, the store has moved seven times in San Francisco, and twice in Oakland. [11] During the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, Marcus Books needed to temporarily close due to social distancing restrictions. The store launched an online fundraising campaign on GoFundMe with an initial $50,000 target which was later extended to a $200,000 goal.
From the beginning, Kepler's Books was an activist enterprise in consciousness-raising through book-selling, like Ferlinghetti's City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, or Cody's Books in Berkeley. Through their bookstore Roy Kepler and Ira Sandperl mentored the most prominent young activists of the anti-Vietnam-war movement in the 1960's. [5] [6]