Tom Brokaw
Boom: Personal Reflections of the 60's and Today (Persea)
Thursday, November 8th, 2007 at 7:30pm
Rio Theater: 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

One of America’s premier journalists, the 20-year anchor of NBC’s Nightly News, and bestselling author of The Greatest Generation, Tom Brokaw now gives us an epic portrait of a fault line in American history: the tumultuous sixties. Through the voices of famous people and ordinary citizens, Boom! explores how both individuals and the nation were affected by a controversial era and how the aftershocks of the sixties continue to resound in our lives today.

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Anthony Bourdain
No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach (Persea)
Friday, November 16th, 2007 at 7:30pm
Rio Theatre: 1205 Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz

Want to know where to get good fatty crab in Rangoon?
How to order your reindeer medium rare?
How to tell a Frenchman that his baguette is invading your personal space?
Anthony Bourdain is your man and this is your book.Anthony Bourdain is the bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential, the executive chef at Les Halles in Manhattan, the host of the Travel Channel’s No Reservations, and an undaunted global culinary ambassador. No Reservations is a behind-the-scenes world travel journal of his hell-for-leather world tour of food, travel and mayhem. Tracing his trips from New Zealand to New Jersey and everywhere in between, this entirely new work mixes beautiful photos with Bourdain’s outrageous commentary on what really happens when you give a bad-boy chef an open ticket to the world.

Can’t attend the event? Purchase a book in advance and the author will autograph it for you!