misc Happy Holidays From SFist: Win a Copy of Smoke and Guns! As part of our big fun December, we're giving away lots of stuff, including review copies of materials previously discussed on the site. Why? Because we like you! For example, do you remember
misc Keep your Eye On The 'Fist This December First, you'll wanna come see us pretty regularly, because we'll be giving away fabulous prizes every stinkin' day of December. That's right, 31 days of free stuff from SFist! Some of our contests
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads -- Or Listens to Others Read A couple literary events have made their way into our inbox lately, and we want to tell you about them. It's just that simple. Sometimes we like to watch people reading, it's like
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Jason Shiga Ahh, the allure of the world wide web. How well SFist remembers those first months out of college, working a real job. While we were being trained we had an inordinate amount of
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Suzanne Husky A transplant from France, Suzanne has done nicely putting down roots in the area (ok, no more plant metaphors, but come on! You totally would have snuck that one in too). In addition
Arts & Entertainment Cody's Books on Union Square So we're giddy about the new Cody's Books at 2 Stockton Street, in the old Planet Hollywood space across from the Apple store. Cody's, a Berkeley institution started by Pat and Fred Cody
Arts & Entertainment Yay! Kepler's Re-Opening - October 8th! To prepare for the re-opening, and to help Kepler's stay open, volunteers are needed. They do mention they need people to take membership pledges so it seems they'll be going ahead with the
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Ian Lendler Today's victim of the SFist interview has only been in our fair city for a couple of weeks, but that doesn'r mean we're going to take it easy on him! His new book,
Arts & Entertainment Wednesdays, the New Apocalypse Wednesday: Get all in the Wednesday SFist Reads mood with a cavalcade of options: Barbara Ehrenreich at Clean Well-Lighted (7:00), a Dr. Atomic discussion at City Lights (7 p.m.), Caroline Kennedy
Arts & Entertainment An Evening with The Paris Review It sure is a literary week here at SFist, with our Andrew Sean Greer interview and giveaway on Monday, the Picador Birthday event and book giveaway (you can still enter to win today!
Arts & Entertainment Happy Birthday, Picador! In case you missed our passing mention in yesterday's interview with Andrew Sean Greer, Picador, the publishers of such SFist faves as and A Death in Brazil, is celebrating its 10th birthday with
SF News Interview: Andrew Sean Greer Who is that charming young man riding his scooter up Divis for the early-bird special at the Metro Cafe? It's Andrew Sean Greer, California Book Award winner for , San Franciscan, and one of
Arts & Entertainment Save Kepler's! Kepler's turned 50 this year and it would be an understatement to say that its closing has really hit people hard. Even the New York Times had noted its passing. The rally will
SF News Kepler's Bookstore Closes This is really just awful. Kepler's, the Menlo Park independent bookstore and jewel of the South Bay, suddenly announced that it was closing today -- for good. Kepler's has apparently been having problems
SF News We've Got a Feeling We're in Kansas Religious organizations filed suit in a Los Angeles federal court last week claiming that the UC system discriminates against religion for not allowing classes taught in Christian schools to count in regards to
SF News Mobility Device for Disabled Cats, or Hoax? Yesterday, browings the internerd, we were intrigued by a little video linked from BoingBoing of a cat in a box tooling around a workshop on a set of wheels. The video [QT] purportedly
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Jill Bliss Bliss answered the question that most artist get all the time, “so, uh, what are you going to DO with that” by starting blissen.com. Blissen is an online boutique where you can
Arts & Entertainment Happy Birthday, Jerry This is the third year of the event and is celebrated in honor of Jerry's birthday, which was August 1st. Why the party in the Excelsior is because it's where Jerry grew up
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog the Musical at the Orpheum Theatre Based on the best-selling book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, Wicked makes its triumphant return to San Francisco, where
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Paula Kamen We can say that with some assurance because she's had a headache for over a decade now. For most of us, the idea of suffering from a headache for more time than it
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads: Periodicals The books we got this week from our online reserve list were dull, dull dull -- we're so happy that we hadn't gone out and bought them from one of our fine local
Arts & Entertainment SFist Does the San Diego Comic-Con SFist attended the 36th San Diego Comic-Con International (SDCC) this past weekend. Last year's SDCC drew almost 100,000 attendees; after trying to negotiate the crowds, we can't see how there could have
Arts & Entertainment Blah...Blah...Harry Potter...Blah... In order to provide you, dear readers, with the best content we can provide, SFist occasionally has to delve into things with which we might not want to delve into. Case in point
SF News A's Brand Baseball Midseason Report: Bye Bye Byrnesie The All-Star break, which ends when games start today, is a time for the players to give back to the fans (or some such nonsense). It's also a time for baseball writers to
SF News We're Counting to Ten -- the City Attorney and the Mayor's Office are pointing (counting) fingers at each other about a screwup over the number of days Mayor Newsom has to exercise his veto power. So on
