Mary-Lynn

Recent Actions

• Posted SFist Cares ... Educational Funding Sucks to SFist
  Ok, so perhaps SFist's own Donor's Choose challenge isn't going to break any records (and we're not the best promoter's are we?). But that doesn't mean there's a flaw in the system... well not a flaw in the Donor's Choose system anyway, don't even get us started on flaws in the public school system. So from now until September 30, Donor's Choose is trying to raise $250,000 for California school proposals and half of...
• Posted SFist Cares ... Give a Kid a Book Already to SFist
  News of this organization came across our now very sleepy Cares desk last week and we thought it interesting and helpful and stuff but then got stopped dead by one line of their press release: This fall 3,700 Bay Area/Northern California disadvantaged youngsters, many of whom have never owned their own book, will take part in an innovative literacy program featuring a cast of centuries-old characters from halfway around the world. ...screeeeetch What?! Never...
• Posted SFist Cares ... About Yummy In Our Tummy to SFist
  We don't want to sound naive or anything but can you believe things are still a complete frickin' mess down in the gulf region and hurricane seasons starts for serious next month? I mean, people are probably still up in trees and shit. It isn't right. Luckily, while we've been working on our tan other people have been working on more important things. Our inbox contains an email from one of our readers who's...
• Posted Interview: Clark Kepler to SFist
  After a bit of a rough year, Kepler's bookstore in Menlo Park recently celebrated its 51st anniversary as one of the great independent bookstores in the area - a dying breed as you well know. We got Clark Kepler to take some time out and answer a few of our most burning questions: For any readers who might not know, tell us why Kepler's is so awesome. For me and many others who've been...
• Posted Author Events Roundup: June is Jam-Packed! to SFist
  Maybe it's just us but for some reason we read more in the summer than in the winter. It goes against expectations, sure, but something about the summer is just lazier than the winter. And as our ghostly white skin betrays, we hate sun, so it isn't all beach reading. Local bookstores are being helpful by providing a good slate of upcoming author events and we've picked a few faves below. Who are you...