Photography: Paige Parsons
Palo Alto photographer Paige Parsons is showing some of the many images she's captured at pop-music concerts, featuring such artists as Morrissey. Her free exhibition is up at Keeble & Shuchat Photography at 290 S. California Ave. in Palo Alto through Feb. 13. The store is open daily until 5:30 p.m., with the gallery upstairs. Go to kspphoto.com.

Author: Rebecca Solnit
San Francisco writer Rebecca Solnit, the author of 13 books including "Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas," will give a free talk at 6 p.m. tomorrow, Jan. 22. The event will focus on her new research project based on a Stanford Libraries collection of 800 cartographic materials that show California as an island. Solnit is currently a visiting scholar at the university's Bill Lane Center for the American West. The event will be in the Thornton Center, Room 110. Go to events.stanford.edu.

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