Arts & Entertainment Dave Eggers Book Signing Tomorrow Although some claim to dislike local scribe Dave Eggers -- probably because he is successful, something writers and alleged writers hate like holy hell -- you should read his new book. It's a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Artist Dennis McNulty of Infectious Art celebrates the '80s aesthetic in his latest exhibition 1981 Pervert by reappropriating the colors, shapes, and layouts of early 1980s men's magazine design, zeroing in on
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight VARIETY: The Rumpus and Kink.com host a Sex, Music, Comedy Night with Jill Sobule, co-sponsored by The Center for Sex and Culture. The evening includes readings and performances from sex worker authors
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LIT: Novella Carpenter, author of Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer, will be on hand to discuss her adventures with raising chickens, geese, ducks, turkeys, a beehive, rabbits, and pigs in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: SF Sketchfest presents San Francisco-based comedy troupe Kasper Hauser for a special one-night show celebrating the release of their book, Weddings of the Times, a parody of the New York Times wedding
misc SFist Interview with Julia Angwin, Author of <i>Stealing MySpace</i> Wall Street Journal Senior Technology Editor Julia Angwin recently took an investigative look at the back-stories of MySpace founders Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson, who prior to founding the social networking and glitter-gif
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Greg Gossel will exhibit his new collection of appropriated pop culture imagery ranging from pulp novels, romance comics, political references, and fallen icons of the 20th century. His pieces are large-scale multimedia
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Sugary yet melancholic Scottish indie-poppers Camera Obscura, lead by angelic crooner Tracyanne Campbell, will entrance the Fillmore tonight. Lovely, vintage cabaret-inspired, all-female trio Agent Ribbons opens. 9 p.m. // The Fillmore (1805
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Peruse art and enjoy food and drink specials at dozens of venues (including free dessert at Metro Kathmandu!), as part of the Divisadero Art Walk. 6 p.m. // Divisadero Street (from Haight
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LECTURE: The Commonwealth Club hosts an enlightening discussion with Michael Eric Dyson: Can You Hear Me Now? Known as the "hip-hop" intellectual, Dyson examines issues of class, race and poverty, and political strife.
SF News Breaking: Larry Page Is Rich The uber- and always-divine Leah Garchik reports on who the wealthiest person in San Francisco is: Larry Page, co-founder and of Google. (Of course, the award for sexiest-wealthiest person in San Francisco, hands
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight LIT: Canteen magazine, which was edited and launched in San Francisco, is celebrating their fourth issue and the new semester of canTeen, their creative writing tutoring and publishing program in Harlem. Canteen asks
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BENEFIT: The Eighth Annual Cabaret to Fight AIDS features the Company members of the San Francisco production of Wicked, including Kendra Kassebaum, Natalie Daradich, and Angel Reda. The cast will perform favorites from
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Sara Houghteling, Author of <i>Pictures at an Exhibition</i> Berkeley-based writer Sara Houghteling has a debut novel on the shelves called Pictures at an Exhibition, which tells the story of Max Berenzon, son of a Jewish art dealer in Paris and his
SF News Return Your Books During SF Public Library's Amnesty Period Like many of its visitors, we visit to the Main Library only to shower in the sink. Others, however, still use the place to check out books. But some fear returning because of
Arts & Entertainment John Wray, Author of <em>Lowboy</em>, Reading This Week in SF San Franciscans who spend any time around 6th or 7th and Market are no strangers to schizophrenia. Lowboy is a new novel that centers on a young man living with the disease who
misc Photo du Jour 298 Elijah Wood outside the W Sundance Kabuki theater, the day before receiving the San Francisco Film Festival's the Midnight Award. Also, according to the band on his wrist, he would like you to
Arts & Entertainment Buy This: <em>San Francisco Street Art</em> by Lisa Hix Photographer Steve Rotman, with the help of designer and photographer Chris Brennan, have put together a whole book of these awesome public artworks, San Francisco Street Art, which was just
Arts & Entertainment <em>Mommy and Daddy Do It Pro Bono</em> Book Launch Tomorrow Night Pro bono work seems to be all the rage in the current economic climate, and the Taproot Foundation is at the forefront of this inventive new business model. (SFist is currently about to
SF News UPDATE: Amazon "Glitch" Causes Uproar Among the Gays Over the weekend, much of the GLBT community sent itself into hysterics after Amazon seemingly removed sales rankings from a large amount of LGBT books for deemed "adult" in content. That is to
Arts & Entertainment Local Pediatrician Mark Sloan Writes Book About Childbirth Santa Rosa pediatrician Dr. Mark Sloan has written a book called Birth Day, in which he delves into some of the mysteries of childbirth, and the history of the process itself from Aristotle
SF News "Concept-Based" Bookstore Babylon Falling Closes Nascent San Francisco bookstore Babylon Falling is closing its doors, according to SF Weekly. "After two short years in business," says BF's site, "Babylon Falling will be closing its doors for good at
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: <em>Spade & Archer</em> Author Joe Gores Novelist Joe Gores, a former private eye who has written seventeen novels including the acclaimed Hammett, has written a hard-boiled, old-timey noir "prequel" to Dashiell Hammett's Maltese Falcon called Spade & Archer which
SF News Google Honors Eric Carle's <em>Very Hungry Caterpillar</em> OK, we know it's no longer cool to coo over Google's logos anymore -- we're sure most of you would prefer a post on the series finale Battlestar Galactica, a show we simple
SF News Former Valleywag Editor Nets $50K for Twitter Book Further proof that gingers are crafty devils, former Valleywag editor Nick Douglas is (allegedly) being paid $50,000 by HarperCollins for a book on his Twittering capabilities. Specifically, his book, Twitter Wit, will
