Daphne Gottlieb, Alvin Orloff, with Giavanna Ortiz de Candia

10 MAY 2018 — thursday

Babar in Exile, a revival and commemoration of the Café Babar, Paradise Lounge, and Club Chameleon reading events in San Francisco during the 1990s, featuring Daphne Gottlieb, Pretty Much Dead, short stories about people hanging on to the edge of the world in San Francisco, Alvin Orloff, author of queer novels such as I Married an Earthling and manager of San Francisco's Dog Eared Books, with "honorary Babarian", writer, musician, and photographer Giavanna Ortiz de Candia, hosted by Paul Corman-Roberts and Richard Loranger, The Octopus Literary Salon, 2101 Webster Street, Oakland, free, 7:00 (www.oaklandoctopus.org/babar-exile-7pm-free-0)