Arts & Entertainment Last Week, This Week: SF LGBT Center’s Building the Block House Party This weekend: Scenes from Carnaval and Chinatown Pride. Last week: A BART wedding, a Muni tram, a Seth Rogan rom-com, and AI bots on the fritz; This week: book festival, menstrual dignity day, pro-wrestling, and SF LGBT Center block party.
Arts & Entertainment SF Author Kate Folk's 'Sky Daddy' Explores Objectophilia, Takes Place Largely At SFO SF author Kate Folk is releasing a new book, Sky Daddy, which deals with the taboo subject of objectophilia set against the backdrop of SFO and Silicon Valley. The main character, an online content moderator, gets her thrills via AirTrain rides around SFO, fantasizing about encounters with aircraft.
Arts & Entertainment New Book Reframes The Story of Magid Bateh, The Young Arab Boy Accused Of Burning Down Jefferson Elementary School in 1959 Local author Raine Bajalia-Evans recently released a book about her uncle Magid Bateh, who in 1959 was wrongfully accused of burning down his school in the Sunset in 1959.
Arts & Entertainment SFPD Sergeant’s Crime Novel Just Got Picked Up to Be Developed As a TV Series San Francisco police sergeant Adam Plantinga’s new novel ‘The Ascent’ is in some ways autobiographical, with one major exception — the protagonist cop is forced to break out of a maximum security prison.
Arts & Entertainment 'Jeopardy!' Champ Amy Schneider's First Book, 'In the Form of a Question,' Hits Shelves Next Week The Bay Area's own 40-game 'Jeopardy!' champion Amy Schneider has been at work on a book in the 20 months since her historic run on the game show ended, and it is set to land in stores on October 3.
SF News The LGBTQ Book-Banning Debate Comes to the Bay Area Suburbs Lest you think the Bay Area is immune to the sort of fights that are raging in school districts across the country, we are not, and a school board meeting in the East Bay was just this week filled with vitriol over books for LGBTQ kids.
SF Politics San Ramon Parents Want To Jump On The Public School Book-Banning Bandwagon Angry parents have taken to Facebook to condemn a handful of books carried in San Ramon Valley Unified School District libraries, and the pitchforks are coming out for an upcoming school board meeting at which the board is set to discuss banned books.
Arts & Entertainment Rainy Weekend Reads: Three New(-ish) Books Set In San Francisco Winter, especially the cold and wet variety of winter we've been having, is a perfect time to catch up on reading. And here are some locally focused reads to put on your list this year.
Arts & Entertainment Undiscovered Mark Twain Story Found In UC Berkeley Archive Published This Week As this week sees the much awaited publication of a brand new, previously undiscovered Mark Twain children's story, one scholar at UC Berkeley is talking about the day he found evidence linking it
Arts & Entertainment Sad: Another Bookstore Nears Death As Aardvark Books' Building Goes Up For Sale Well loved Church Street new and used bookstore, Aardvark Books, will be calling it quits after 39 years at some point in the near future as the landlord is selling the building for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alice Waters Debuts Long-Awaited Memoir, 'Coming To My Senses' Berkeley's grande dame of local eating, sustainability and Cal-Med cuisine, Alice Waters, has as of today released her first memoir, titled Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook. The book
Arts & Entertainment Caitlyn Jenner To Make Book Tour Stop At Castro Theatre In May Remember Caitlyn Jenner? The Trump-supporting trans woman who used to be an Olympic athlete and reality TV star and recently decided maybe Trump isn't such a hero because of his administration's decision to
SF News Almost 700,000 Items Were Returned To The Library During Fine Forgiveness Period During a six week fine forgiveness program between January 3 and February 14, the San Francisco Public Library recovered an incredible 699,563 books, CDs, DVDs, and other long overdue materials valued at
Arts & Entertainment One Hundred San Francisco Strangers Just Wrote A Book Together Many of us (*cough*) have literary aspirations, but, as the creator of The Book by Strangers correctly points out, "writing a book is hard." It was perhaps this realization which gave birth to
Arts & Entertainment 16 Best Litquake Events To Book On Your Calendar The annual literary phenomenon known as Litquake is now held in 13 cities around the world, but just like with Major League Baseball teams — the best one is in San Francisco. Litquake was
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: What Are Your Favorite San Francisco Books? Dear Rain, Do you have a favorite set-in-SF book? Novel, biography, short stories, whatever. Signed, SF Reads Dear SF Reads, I'm a pretty voracious reader. In fact, I'm a little over halfway to
Arts & Entertainment Author Dennis Cooper Says Google's Blogger Ate His Novel Envelope-pushing novelist Dennis Cooper, known in the past couple of decades both for his sexually explicit fiction involving teenagers as well as genre-bending work like his 2005 book God Jr. that centered on
Arts & Entertainment Castro Books Inc. Will Close June 15, Storewide Sale Of 30% Off 'Til Then Bad news in March that Books Inc.'s location in the Castro would close was tempered by good news later that month that the Castro would not be bookstore-less thanks to an expansion
SF News Marin's Men Only 'Man Book Club' Sounds As Awful As You'd Expect Having seemingly missed the memo that starring in a New York Times trend piece is the fastest way to look like a fool short of declaring your support for the candidacy of Donald
Arts & Entertainment Dog-Eared Books Announces Castro Location Coming In May Excellent news, book-readers: The Castro will not be short another bookstore come June following the upcoming closure of Books Inc. As SF Weekly reports today, the Mission's own Dog-Eared Books one of SF's
Arts & Entertainment Another SF Bookstore Bites The Dust: Books Inc. In The Castro Sad news for Castro neighborhood book lovers, and bookstore browsers: Books Inc. has just announced that their Market Street location in the heart of the 'hood will be closing at the end of
SF News Man Beaten For Books At Site Of Earlier Cookie Mugging Just steps from the site of a brazen cookie theft, we hear tell of another strange and dastardly crime — but this time, a box of books was the target. Yes, books, the items
Arts & Entertainment James Franco, Helena Bonham Carter, Kristen Stewart Sign On For JT LeRoy Film The story of JT LeRoy, the fictional persona and nom de plume of San Francisco kook Laura Albert, feels vaguely embarrassing now, even more than it did when local writer Stephen Beachy first
Arts & Entertainment Anonymously Written Tech-Skewering Art Book Gets Actual Publisher My favorite page from "Iterating Grace" See more here: https://t.co/QMGEJRqFvL pic.twitter.com/zlfa7ZY81i— John Susoeff (@jsusoeff) June 9, 2015 Remember this odd book of letter-pressed, handwritten-like reproductions of epigrammatic
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Barman And Booze Scribe Duggan McDonnell On SF's Cocktail Legacy And <i>Drinking the Devil's Acre</i> Bar owner, spirits writer, pisco brand owner, and longtime friend of SFist Duggan McDonnell has just published his first book, which is titled Drinking the Devil's Acre: A Love Letter from San Francisco
