[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

This should be a good show: Former Assembly Speaker and San Francisco Mayor Willie L. Brown Jr. will speak at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Crest Theatre as part of the California Lectures subscription series. He will be in conversation with former Sacramento Mayor Phil Isenberg. A 6:30 p.m. lecture preview will be hosted by Professor Tim Hodson of California State University, Sacramento.

Brown is promoting his autobiography, "Basic Brown: My Life and Our Times" (Simon & Schuster, $26, 368 pages; in collaboration with P.J. Corkery).

Individual tickets ($25) are available at tickets.com or (800) 225-2277, and at the Crest box office, 1013 K St., (916) 442-7378. For more information: (916) 737-1300 or http://www.californialectures.org.

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