Thursday, Sept 7th, 2006 - The Mechanics’ Institute Library, at 57 Post Street in San Francisco, will open their Autumn season with a one-off performance of Strange Travel Suggestions. The show starts at 7 p.m., with the box office and café open at 6:30. Tickets are $10 for members, $16 for non-members. Tickets are extremely limited to this event, so if you are interested don’t hesitate… call the MI for details at 415-393-0100 or visit their website. 

April, 2006 - The slogan of Berkeley-based Seacology Foundation is, "Saving the world, one island at a time." During March, I’ll be visiting their project to save the endangered Golden-Maned Langur on Cat Ba Island,   Vietnam. My writings and photographs from the field will appear on the Seacology website, as well as on ThingsAsian. You can also read the  dispatches I wrote last November, from Sulawesi and Bali,  on Seacology, as well as  on Ethical Traveler and Salon.