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O C T O B E R12SUNDAY3 PMModern Times Bookstore Collective’s43rd Birthday RallyModern Times Bookstore Collective fulfills its mission of keeping dissident ideas in circulationby stocking cutting-edge poetry, political writing, and cultural criticism, and hosting outspokenauthors, artists and activists. Join this afternoon open house featuring old and new friends ofSan Francisco’s most radical/progressive bookseller, and who knows—you might even helpchange the world.Modern Times Bookstore2919 24th St.FREEAll Ages ♿7 PMNaked Truth: real.stories.liveMill Valley Library’s true storytelling series returns with an amazing lineup sharing tales on thetheme “The Phoenix: Stories of Rising from the Ashes.” Sit back, enjoy a glass of wine, andwatch as the Library is transformed into a venue for real people telling real-life stories. Winereception begins at 6:30 pm for registered guests. Online registration recommended atmillvalleylibrary.net/nakedtruth.Mill Valley Library, Main Reading Room375 Throckmorton Ave., Mill ValleyFREE14+ ♿Nato Green, named San Francisco’s BestComedian by SF Weekly and HuffingtonPost, performs weekly at The Business.natogreen.comJosh Healey, writer, performer, andcreative activist, has been featured in TheNew York Times and San Francisco Chronicle,and is a regular on NPR’s Snap Judgment.joshhealey.orgBill Katovsky is author of a dozen booksincluding Embedded: The Media At War InIraq, an oral history with 60 journalists, whichwas awarded Harvard’s Goldsmith Book Prize.Joyce Lee is an internationally known poet,educator, and frequent storyteller on NPR’sSnap Judgment. missjoycelee.blogspot.comEve Pell is an investigative reporter and authorof the nationally acclaimed We Used to Ownthe Bronx: Memoirs of a Former Debutante.weusedtoownthebronx.com26