Arts & Entertainment Tales Of Mere Existence: "HEY MAN, SCREW YOU, I GOT A GIRLFRIEND" SHOW FRIDAY: There is going to be a low-key show South of Market that I will be in on Friday night. My friend Jose will be screening stuff too. It's a Loft space
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Still plenty of shows for the Frameline , SF Improv, and the Hole in the Head festivals.... Inside Storytime, a monthly reading series at the Rickshaw Stop, features five local authors, reading from their
Arts & Entertainment Cycling: Reviewing the Soul of Cycling Let's face it, the great American cycling novel has yet to be written (not lately, anyway). And what cycling-related literature there is falls into one of three categories: inspiration, celebration, or perspiration. If
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Drop by Books Inc in the Castro for a reading with local author Dr. William Lipsky from his book, Gay and Lesbian San Francisco. 7:30pm, 2275 Market St. Planning a vacation to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight --As part of this month's Queer Arts Festival, the LGBT Community Center presents "Are You There God? It's Me, Ben McCoy" (brilliant title), a genderqueer performance about gay culture that's described as a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Finds: '80s Wedding Send your Bay Area finds to found - at - sfist - dot - com or tag them as sfist on Flickr! Tell us where and when you found the items, plus any
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Friday night at the de Young never looked so good! Get a sneak peek into the closet of Nan Kempner, San Francisco native turned famous New York socialite as part of an upcoming
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight If you can't make tonight's reading (7 p.m.), they're in town through Friday, reading at Get Lost in SF tomorrow night and Book Passage in Corte Madera on Friday. They've probably already
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Giants 3 Blue Jays 2- Once again, we ponder what exactly the meaning of a save is when Brad Hennessey goes in the record books as getting one, yet he got it only
Arts & Entertainment McSweeney's Has Good Stuff To Read For Cheaper Than Usual We usually keep things pretty simple around here -- so if you want something a little more literary, there's a plethora of clever, quirky, smart, and wonderful writing at McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and
SF News Day Around The Bay --What with all the excitement about the arrest warrant for Ed Jew, we didn't get a chance to tell you about how just about 50 miles away, the Santa Clara DA's office had
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight --At Intersection for the Arts, an evening of performances, readings, and conversations with formerly-incarcerated youth in The Prison Project, their year-long artistic exploration of the California penal system. $5-15, 7 p.m., 446
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today --CounterPULSE is hosting Paint Out!, a breast cancer fundraiser with comedians, slam poetry, and women getting their chests painted ($50 mininum donation to get painted). 3:30-7:30, $25, 1310 Mission St. (x
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight What happens when nearly 30 local artists create works of art made entirely from reclaimed and recycled materials? Head over tonight (or sometime this month) to find out at the Market Street Gallery
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV Tonight First off, if you haven't read The Road by Cormac McCarthy yet, drop everything and do it. It's a fast read. It's also one of the most amazing books we've ever encountered--don't let
SF News Swells By The Numbers Number of people pictured whom we recognize: 2 -- Charlotte Maillard Shultz and a way-too-skinny-looking Vanessa Getty. Minority count: 6 (10.9%). Getty v. Traina: 1-7. Big ups to C.Big for the
Arts & Entertainment 'Nothing Like the Funk of 200 Liberals': Sherman Alexie Talks 'Flight' Flight was already at the top of our list of books to read. Then we read the New York Times review of it this past Sunday and felt a new urgency to go
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Other events: --Always mean to get out to Orinda to see the summer Shakespeare? This year, it's Richard III, and tonight's preview is the first performance. $32 for tonight, and prices will go
Arts & Entertainment SFist Finds: Funions Send your Bay Area finds to found at sfist.com! We call on you to submit discarded photos, objects, letters, and other items that you plucked from the streets, used books, thrift stores,
misc Remembering Voxtrot Sometimes even SFist is ahead of our time. Like last year when we made Voxtrot our official summer 2006 crush. They’ve just released their new, full length, self titled album, and they’
Arts & Entertainment Cocktails With The Man Who Killed America (er, <i>Captain</i> America) On Saturday, fantastic Hayes Valley comic book store Isotope played host to Ed Brubaker, who's as hot a writer in the comics industry as anyone. Recently, a story written by Brubaker made headlines
Arts & Entertainment Things Get Scrappy at the Cable Car Museum Yesterday we mentioned a book by Dr. Walter Rice and Emiliano Echeverria about transit that isn't sold at the museum. And in fact, the CCM has flat-out refused to sell any of their
SF News Something to Read During Your Long Long Bus Ride ...the book tells the story of the Key Route’s transbay lines from the handsome 1903 wooden interurbans to the famous 1930s Bridge Units, the ornate Key Route Pier, the ferryboat fleet, and
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes To The SwapSF Book Swap! SwapSF is one of those freecycle groups that encourages people to trade cool things amongst themselves -- and what's cooler than books? So bring $5 and some books you want to trade for
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Profs Wrote Some Good Books The Commonwealth Club's 76th Annual California Book Awards have been announced, and two Cal faculty members are big winners this year: Ishmael Reed for "New and Collected Poems, 1964-2006," and journalism professor Michael
