Here's something you don't read every day: A new bookstore opens today on 24th Street (near Humphrey Slocombe at Treat) called Alley Cat Books, from the same owner of Dog Eared Books on Valencia and two Phoenix Bookstores in Noe Valley. (Uptown Almanac caught the movement in the former Wizard Smoke Shop last month, but today is the official opening.) Proprietress Kate Rosenberger insists to Mission Local that she is not crazy. "My romance is with the used book," she says, "the stories they come with, the inscriptions, the ephemera … the smells." Well, that's nice. more ›

The Adobe bookshop (3166 16th Street), that beloved, cozy, second-hand shop on 16th Street with a backroom gallery, is facing some hard times. They have an alarming sign up in the window for a sale last week, and we had to inquire within what the story was. Must everything, in fact, go? more ›

We like to think of Liz Ross' music as sounding like an electric pillow. Her voice lulls you into sweet, poppy melancholy while her guitar sends a current through your spine, but we like how one of her other fans described her voice better: "as the feeling one gets when the sun finally rises after being up all night with horrible insomnia." more ›

SFist interview artist Suzanne Husky more ›

Make it an evening of art. Drop by Ross Mirkarimi's office at five and check out art by Mohammed Hourian while drinking some wine on Ross's dime. Then check out the long anticipated (at least here at SFist) release of Pet Noir: An Anthology of Strange But True Pet Crimes at Adobe Books starting at 7. more ›

Photographer Rob Kunkle spent last week taking pictures of the acts at the Mission Creek Music Festival, which was held at multiple locations across The City last week. Pictured are The Gentlekin. Check out all the pics on Flickr. more ›