Arts & Entertainment Notable Kids' Book Author Reading in Laurel Village For those who have kids in SF and we're guessing a lot of them are the precocious types who read a lot and collect vintage LPs you may want to take note of
Arts & Entertainment The New Frugality: Public Reading by Rachel Brodsky According to personal finance aficionado and BusinessWeek's economics editor Chris Farrell, frugality is back. And while this isn't anything we didn't already know, no one ever tires of taking in
Arts & Entertainment Ethan Watters Book Launch Party by Rachel Brodsky Remember back in college where the English professors would badger you to come up with the best paper thesis possible? Your thesis had to be focused, controversial, and most importantly,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight by Amy Crocker FILM: Quentin Tarantino's Holocaust re-imagining Inglorious Basterds screens at The Independent as part of their "Best of 2009" Monday night film series. The revenge fantasy features Nazi scalping. 8 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: John Ortved, Author of <em>The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History</em> Looking for a gift idea for the Simpsons fan in your life? Reporter John Ortved has written an unauthorized, uncensored history of the still popular, still witty, longest running prime time TV series
Arts & Entertainment Buy Sarah Palin Book at Green Apple Books, Help Alaskan Wildlife Oh, what joy. Brittney Gilbert at Eye On Blogs brings our attention to this: Green Apple Books, located at 506 Clement, will donate proceeds of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's new book Going
Arts & Entertainment Litquake Kicks Off Tonight The annual week-long Litquake festival starts tonight, featuring a daunting line-up of events. Below is a list of our picks featuring one event per day (otherwise this post would take us all weekend)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Filmmaker Ken Jacobs is making a rare Bay Area appearance to present Shocked by Existence, a series of his new works in digital video format, some of which feature animated stereographs of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LIT: The untimely death of David Foster Wallace prompted hundreds of his fans across the world to read Infinite Jest together over the summer, ie. Infinite Summer. Tonight, Bay Area participants will join
Arts & Entertainment Friends of the Library Annual Big Book Sale Now Through Sunday All books for $5 or less -- what a deal! The 45th Annual Big Book Sale, put on by Friends of the SF Public Library, is going on all weekend at Fort Mason
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: Catch the first preview night of the world premiere of The First Day of School, which opens SF Playhouse's seventh season. The play, which was written by Billy Aronson, creator of the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FOOD: Learn how changing your diet can reduce carbon emissions as effectively as buying a new fuel-efficient car in the new book Cool Cuisine: The Global Warming Diet.. Tonight, Cool Cuisine co-authors Eugene
Arts & Entertainment David Cross at Union Square Borders on Saturday The irreverent David Cross, who captured America's hearts (or at least the smart part of America) as the "never-nude," "analrapist" Tobias Funke and who graced SFist's comments with his controversial presence back in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: SFMOMA is holding a Memorial Service honoring Bay Area sculptor and conceptual artist David Ireland, who passed away in May. Ireland's highly idiosyncratic body of work focused on the creation and function
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LIT: New York Times food critic Frank Bruni celebrates the release of his new memoir, Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater, in which he talks about his rise from a
SF News Man Reads James Joyce's <i>Finnegans Wake</i> Out Loud at Civic Center Plaza As SF Weekly noted yesterday, Lars Russell, a San Francisco-based writer, starting reading the entirety of Finnegans Wake out loud at Civic Center Plaza near the San Francisco Public Library. The work, Jocye's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: SF Camerawork celebrates its 35th anniversary with a two-part exhibition. Part 1: San Francisco Plays Itself features the work of artists who have contributed to the cultural make-up of the San Francisco
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The documentary Bird's Nest: Herzog & de Meuron in China follows two star Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, who are building bridges between two cultures, two architectural traditions, and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: It's your last chance to view the current exhibitions at SF Camerawork. The Summer Exhibition Cool-Down Party features Ersatz Group Exhibition, Leaving A Mark: Cutter Photozine, and The 2009 James D. Phelan
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Japanese cowboy possessing amazing yodeling skills Toshio Hirano will perform his beloved bluegrass favorites for adoring fans as part of Amnesia's free Bluegrass Mondays. 8:30 p.m. // Amnesia (853 Valencia St)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: Joe Goode Performance Group presents Traveling Light, an installation combining dance, language, irony and reflection, which will take the audience on a journey through the vaults and chambers of the oldest stone
Arts & Entertainment Book 'em, Dan-o So, do you like books? Do you like people? Do you like people who like books? Then spend Saturday afternoon on the first-ever San Francisco Indie Bookstore Tour, starting at Get Lost Travel
Arts & Entertainment Dave Eggers Goes Back to His Journalistic Roots One of San Francisco's favorite writers in residence, Dave Eggers, was on KQED's "Forum" this morning discussing his new book Zeitoun. It's a non-fiction work, just out from McSweeney's press as of last
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight SIDESHOW: Wrestling circus performers compete with wrestlers performing circus stunts in the When Legends Collide Tour: The Jim Rose Circus vs. Jake “The Snake” Roberts, with special guests Sinn Bohdi, Bebe the Circus
