by Leah Garchik

San Francisco Chronicle

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Keanu Reeves, Bonnie Raitt and Michael Tilson Thomas were at "The Black Rider” on Saturday, and Lily Tomlin was there on Sunday. Reeves (but not the others) had a long beard and went unrecognized, save for one autograph seeker: Nicholas Perloff-Giles, son of ACT’s Carey Perloff.

And Sunday night’s tribute to William S. Burroughs, put on by ACT and Litquake, featured Peter Coyote, Lenore Kandel, Michael McClure and James Dalessandro, all more or less non-grizzled veterans of the Burroughs era, reading to a packed house. Author Dalessandro had not seen poet McClure since 1974. He paid McClure $150 he had unwittingly owed him since the Santa Cruz Poetry Festival of that year, organized by Dalessandro.