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
SF News Peruse Dave Eggers' Latest, A Children's Book About How The Golden Gate Bridge Got Its Color In Pixar's Inside Out, which beautifully illustrates not just the inner workings of a child's mind but the sights of San Francisco, a voice in a young girl's head exclaims, "The Golden Gate
SF News Palo Alto Library-Goers Freak Out Over Bedbug Infestation Some patrons of Palo Alto's public library are scratching themselves silly, after reports of bedbug sightings at a local branch have them worried they got a side dish of "parasite" when they checked
SF News Biz Stone Says Nobody At Twitter 'Was Trying To Do Harm' Every single person who had stock in Twitter all had the best of intentions. Whether 'the best' and 'aligned with each other' could be questioned, I guess. But everybody thought that they were
Arts & Entertainment Armistead Maupin Thinks We Should All Ease Off On The Techies In a new interview, novelist and chronicler of the San Francisco we all think was way cooler than it is now, Armistead Maupin, gives some choice quotes about how lame it is to
Arts & Entertainment Regarding Dave Eggers, BuzzFeed, And Our Culture Of Smarm Maybe finally, O Internet, there will be a hearty intellectual backlash against the Great Snark Backlash of The Early 2010s, as we're now going to call it. At least essayist, blogger, and overall
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alice Waters Releases 'The Art Of Simple Food II' It's official. Alice Waters released The Art of Simple Food II today. Among other tidbits, the book discusses the importance of a plant's life cycle, and how it parallels with taste and cooking.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Watch Daniel Patterson Cut Something Off A Tree, Talk Lichen Chef Daniel Patterson (Coi, Haven, Plum) can be seen in this video ordering from the drive-thru at Wendy's and later picking out his favorite bulk Halloween candy at CVS. Heh. No, not really.
Arts & Entertainment The SFist Guide To LitQuake, Happening This Week Sure, Treasure Island may be happening this weekend, but so is LitCrawl, and throughout the week there are dozens of small events around the city for the literarily inclined. LitQuake, for those unfamiliar,
Arts & Entertainment S.F. Literary Map: Do You Live In A Famous Author's Apartment? Do you live at 891 Post, 620 Eddy, 1155 Leavenworth, or 20 Dashiell Hammett? If you do, you're walking the hallowed halls of one of Dashiell Hammett's apartments. But there's nary a neighborhood
Arts & Entertainment A Few Words About Jonathan Franzen, iPhone Gazing, The Death Of Books, And Hating On Technology The arguably great, inarguably astute Jonathan Franzen wrote an essay this past week that has taken even the literarily inclined a few days to get around to, as most good essays should. It's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Boitano Meets World: One Man's Quest To Cook His Way Through Brian Boitano's Cookbook "I really like entertaining," writes 1988 Olympic men's figure skating gold medalist Brian Boitano in the introduction to his new cookbook, What Would Brian Boitano Make? "Maybe that's why I was attracted to
Arts & Entertainment Do This Tonight: Shipwreck At The Booksmith As literary events go, we're not sure you can do better than "competitive erotic fanfiction." Tonight, The Booksmith hosts Shipwreck, a contest billed as "fun for the literary pervert" wherein six writers square
Arts & Entertainment Book About Famed Mob Hitman Killed In S.F. To Become Film Joseph “the Animal” Barboza, the first mafioso to turn government witness and testify against other mobsters, was a brutal and widely feared hitman in the Boston mob of the 1950s and 60s, and
Arts & Entertainment Buffalo Are Immensely Stupid, So You Should Probably Read A Book "The buffalo owes his extermination very largely to his own unparalleled stupidity," conservationist William T. Hornaday wrote in 1887, speaking of an animal that would literally stand around waiting to get shot. Of
Arts & Entertainment Map: San Francisco, As Seen By A Cat Local artist Wendy Macnaughton's latest work is a collaboration with author Caroline Paul and their missing cat Tibia. When Tibia went missing for five weeks, Wendy and Caroline used everything from a GPS
SF News Gavin Newsom's Book On Social Media Channels Farmville, Angry Birds The Lite Gov. is, as you know, an expert on social media. He tweets (sometimes angrily). He blogs. He even has a Google+ account. That's why he smartly (read: questionably) named his long-awaited
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink And Now, Tyler Florence On 'Late Night With Jimmy Fallon' Tyler Florence is one of the few celebrity chefs in the Bay Area to make it big and remain in the Bay Area. (So many leave for NYC or LA, alas.) The noted
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chef Matthew Accarrino Helps Cleanup Home State of NJ Shortly after winning his first Michelin star for his work at SPQR, Chef Matthew Accarrino headed back to his native New Jersey to help clean up after his home state fell victim to
Arts & Entertainment Steve Jobs' Baby Momma To Pen Memoir Chrisann Brennan, high school sweetheart to late Apple CEO Steve Jobs and mother to his daughter, Lisa, will pen the next great remembrance of revered tech guru. Brennan, who currently works as a
SF News Schwarzenegger Pimps New Book, Says Maid Affair Was Stupid Former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has a new tell-all memoir to promote, and he'll be on 60 Minutes this Sunday doing just that. The book is called (ahem) Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life
Arts & Entertainment Regarding Michael Chabon's New Oakland-Set Novel, <em>Telegraph Avenue</em> We haven't yet had the time to read it ourselves, but the reviews are coming in for Michael Chabon's new novel Telegraph Avenue, which is set in 2004 in Oakland but which reaches
Arts & Entertainment Cute: Bookstore To Transform Into Record Store For Michael Chabon Book Release In an effort to promote noted scribe Michael Chabon's latest work, Telegraph Avenue — a fictional piece about "longtime friends, bandmates, and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in the
Arts & Entertainment Judy Blume Coming to the Castro Theatre Sunday! Perhaps the most important young-adult author of the twentieth century, Judy Blume, is coming to the Castro Theater on Sunday to take part in a screening of a new film by her son,
