Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Rob Reger Now meet the man who started it all 13 years ago, Rob Reger, after the jump. SFist Christina Loff contributing
SF News Libraries-- Cesspool of Sex & Violence Why do we bring this story up? Because KGO, Channel 7, sent their very own I-Team out to investigate our libraries and discovered that, well, bad things happen there. And you know what?
Arts & Entertainment Little Girls Say the Darndest Yvesdroppings Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. And! If you think you might forget your Yvesdropping, you can just call our special new Yvesdroppings voicemail hotline and leave
SF News Where Do The Children Play (MarioKart)? We can't read about Penny Arcade's Child's Play charity without getting all misty-eyed. Back in 2004, the gaming website (spurred by the misconception that videogamers are violence-addicted jerks) created a big awesome geeky
Arts & Entertainment It Was A Dark & Stormy Bite: <i>Pet Noir</i>'s Shannon O'Leary We first met Shannon O'Leary at the last Alternative Press Expo, where she was showing the floppy versions of her books and Fortune's Bitch. Now, she's about to publish a hardbound, 120+ page
SF News Sandra Day "Jay Z" O'Connor O'Connor's doing a tour of the country -- she also recently sat on the 2nd Circuit (based in New York), and is planning on visiting the 8th Circuit (based in St. Louis). She's
SF News Beautiful City, Ugly Buildings Rybczynski throws us a couple bones (he hypothesizes that part of the problem with architecture in SF may be that the city is already too pretty, and notes that also-gorgeous Rio has horrible
Arts & Entertainment Big Ass Book Sale! So, when we hear statistics like "400 volunteers, 7,000 boxes of books, 300 tables and 200,000 books in over 50 categories", we might ordinarily have to reach for the NoDoz, but,
SF News SchwarzenWatcher Goes to the Library The book was written by Barbara Outland Baker who was his live in girlfriend during Arnie's weightlifting heyday, back in the early 70's. Of course, y'all want the dirt and there's plenty of
Arts & Entertainment Local Publisher's Graphic Novel Highest Placer on USA Today List? BELIEVE IT! Viz Media is a local publisher that, among other things, imports all sorts of great Japanese comix ("manga") and cartoons ("anime"), translates them, and distributes them to the U.S. markets. Naruto Volume
SF News Going, Going, Sold! Long-standing live music venue, The Ivy Room, in Albany is also closing "as we know it." The current ownership relinquishes the premises in two weeks. Kimberly Chun and the Guardian have the details,
Arts & Entertainment An Unfortunate Announcement Indeed The final volume to this terrible collection will no doubt fill the reader with terror, pity and sorrow once they learn the final fates of the unlucky Baudelaire orphans. Worse - there will
misc SFist Cares ... Give a Kid a Book Already 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
misc SFist Rants: Our Poor, Poor Favorite Book Of course, with anything coming out of the White House, we first have to plead skepticism. It would be like this Administration to leak out the names of hefty tomes as a way
Arts & Entertainment The Mysterious, Scientific, and Theatrical Adventures of the Superfisters And then there's "Frank Ironwine," by Warren Ellis and Carla Speed McNeil. Warren certainly does seem to like writing about gritty, flawed characters who have nothing left to lose and are willing to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Plays Perplex City We found the Rubik's Cube behind some puzzle books, led there by clues around the Main branch of the library. Once solved (by taking it apart and reassembling it; we're not proud), a
Arts & Entertainment Negative People: SFist's Bread and Butter The party's happening this Saturday, the 12th, from 7:30pm to 10. It's at the 540 Club, mnemonically located at 540 Clement Street (near 6th Ave). On the agenda are screenings of some
Arts & Entertainment The Blissful Adventures of the Superfisters But first, a caveat regarding Linda Medley's : not a whole heck of a lot happens in issue one. It's sorta like at the beginning of a role-playing game, where you have to spend
Arts & Entertainment Who Wants To Be A Non-Local Superhero? So the premise of is that Stan Lee, of Spider-Man and Fantastic Four and X-Men fame, is picking the best action hero character, and the winner gets a comic book issue dedicated to
SF News Thanks For Stuffing The Ballot Boxes For Us! Thanks for reading us, everyone, and thanks for voting for us too. We're thrilled to be in such august company as Taqueria Cancun and Green Apple Books (and Baker Beach, which has a
Arts & Entertainment Craftster's Leah Kramer Leah Kramer is the mastermind behind the craftster forum. She’ll be in the Bay Area this week to promote her book, “The Craftster Guide to Nifty, Thrifty, and Kitschy Crafts”, and SFist
Arts & Entertainment Win a Copy of Rachel Howard's <i>The Lost Night</i>! Rachel's reading at Oakland's A Great Good Place for Books (6121 La Salle Ave) tonight at 7, and Thursday at 6 at the Cody's in Union Square (2 Stockton), and you should totally
Arts & Entertainment It Was A Dark And Stormy Night Yet another reason for Cody's to close -- writing like this! San Jose State University runs the Bulwer-Lytton Bad Fiction Writing contest -- and has announced this year's winner. Bulwer-Lytton is, of course,
SF News Cody's Books, 1956-2006 Happy 50th birthday, Cody's Books, and rest in peace, Cody's Telegraph Street -- the most iconic branch of the Cody's Books triumverate is closing for good tonight at 8 p.m. Folks are
