Entries from SFist tagged with 'blackoakbooks'
November 30, 2006
Last week's winner, the SF Weekly. First, Dianne Feinstein came for the animal rights activists, and we said nothing. What are some of the election day losers doing now? Well, Krissy Keefer has been offered $100,000 to run against Gavin Newsom. Cover article: Chron blogs editor (and SFist editor emerita) Eve Batey must save the Chronicle!! (In a travesty of justice, Eve is not mentioned in the piece. Boooo!). It's actually a pretty decent article......
Continue Reading "We Read The Weeklies"November 27, 2006
Like us, you may have been inundated over the holiday weekend with stories of relatives' vacations and medical maladies or the accomplishments of the person sitting next to you on the plane's prodigious offspring. Tonight, we are looking forward to more interesting narratives: At Femina Potens, (465 South Van Ness @ 16th St) Sarah-Katherine Lewis reads from Indecent: How I Fake It and Make It as a Girl for Hire, a sex-worker memoir. Lewis......
Continue Reading "SFist Tonight"September 25, 2006
Busy, bookish night! First, we're heading over to (if you work someplace conservative this link could be NSFW) Good Vibrations (603 Valencia Street at 17th) to have Stephen Elliot sign a copy of his new book, My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up, at tonight's party to celebrate its release. The party runs from 6:30-8:30, but we have to rush out sooner, so we can get to... Berkeley's Black Oak Books......
Continue Reading "SFist Tonight"June 27, 2006
Independent opinion journal The Nation magazine kept us sane through a red state adolescence and early adulthood, and we ripped off opinions from editor Victor S. Navasky on a pathetically pathological basis. Times have changed -- now, we're far more likely to try to pass off the thoughts of Lisa Schwarzbaum as our own, but that doesn't mean our fondness for Navasky has decreased even a whit. That's why we're so happy to see the......
Continue Reading "Win a Copy of Victor Navasky's A Matter of Opinion!"