SF News Day Around The Bay: Bibliophiles Celebrate Indie Bookstore Day Saturday As Amazon Holds Overlapping Sale A former San Bruno elementary school teacher was sentenced to 25 years in prison for molesting four of his students; Cornell removed Kehlani from its Slope Day lineup due to her pro-Palestine views; and Amazon is holding a major sale the same time as Independent Bookstore Day.
Arts & Entertainment Sad: Another Bookstore Nears Death As Aardvark Books' Building Goes Up For Sale Well loved Church Street new and used bookstore, Aardvark Books, will be calling it quits after 39 years at some point in the near future as the landlord is selling the building for
Arts & Entertainment Former Red Vic Movie Theater/Second Act Transforms Into Bookstore-Cafe Called The Bindery Up in the Haight, the space that was formerly the beloved Red Vic movie theater, later briefly reborn as Second Act Marketplace, has undergone a new transformation and has just softly opened as
SF News Book Passage Sues The State Over Uptight Autograph Law Passed last year, California Assembly Bill No. 1570 expanded the state's law on autographs from its original focus on entertainment and sports memorabilia to include signed books and basically anything with an autograph.
Arts & Entertainment Mission Bookstore To Host Anti-Trump Aerobics Class Adding to the list of creative ways that Bay Area folk have found to sort out their political emotions express their resistance to the Trump regime, Alley Cat Books on 24th Street will
Arts & Entertainment The 12 Best Independent Bookstores In SF Bookstores may be becoming things of the past in many parts of the world, but San Francisco is still home to a bevy of wonderful, stalwart neighborhood bookshops that are quietly thriving and
Arts & Entertainment Castro Books Inc. Will Close June 15, Storewide Sale Of 30% Off 'Til Then Bad news in March that Books Inc.'s location in the Castro would close was tempered by good news later that month that the Castro would not be bookstore-less thanks to an expansion
Arts & Entertainment Dog-Eared Books Announces Castro Location Coming In May Excellent news, book-readers: The Castro will not be short another bookstore come June following the upcoming closure of Books Inc. As SF Weekly reports today, the Mission's own Dog-Eared Books one of SF's
Arts & Entertainment Another SF Bookstore Bites The Dust: Books Inc. In The Castro Sad news for Castro neighborhood book lovers, and bookstore browsers: Books Inc. has just announced that their Market Street location in the heart of the 'hood will be closing at the end of
SF News Borderlands Books Owner Again Blames Closure On Minimum Wage, Not Amazon Though he mentioned the problems posed by e-readers and Amazon in his initial statements on the impending closure of Borderlands Books, owner Alan Beatts would now like everyone to know that the real
SF News The Mission's Borderlands Books Will Close Borderlands Books "will be closing very soon... no later than March 31st," according to a statement from the Valencia Street bookseller. For 18 years, the Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery, and Horror Fiction-focused store
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Authors of 'Thug Kitchen' Can't Take Heat, Cancel Bay Area Appearances Since the authors of f-bomb-friendly vegan cookbook Thug Kitchen revealed themselves to be a white couple from Hollywood, a firestorm of controversy has brewed around the possible racist implications of the book's title.
Arts & Entertainment Green Apple Books Expanding Into Le Video Space To Save Two Dying Media Things looked grim for Le Video when the quirky movie rental spot announced they would stop renting videos at the end of April. Today, however, it looks like their calls for a co-tenant
Arts & Entertainment Adobe Books Hosts Marketplace Event This Satuday As discussed last month, we haven't seen the last of embattled used bookseller Adobe Books, which is getting ousted from its longtime home on 16th Street to make way for a Jack Spade
Arts & Entertainment Adobe Bookshop Still Kicking, Will Become a Co-Op We've been hearing since 2010 about the impending demise of beloved, raggedy used bookstore Adobe Bookshop on 16th Street. Well, now it looks like owner Andrew McKinley has come up with a plan
Arts & Entertainment Summer Reading (Or, Beach Reads for People Who Don't Go to the Beach) In the same manner that the summer fashion seasons mocks our fog-beleaguered city with its inappropriate trappings (short-shorts, really?), so it follows that the beach read is the bane of the literate San
Arts & Entertainment Newsflash: Bookstore Actually Opens, Instead Of Closes, In The Mission Here's something you don't read every day: A new bookstore opens today on 24th Street (near Humphrey Slocombe at Treat) called Alley Cat Books, from the same owner of Dog Eared Books on
SF News Borderlands Owner Expresses Bitterness Over "Nanny State" Smoking Laws The owner of Borderlands Cafe and Borderland Books in the Mission is apparently not pleased about San Francisco's smoking laws. Here's what he has to say in the above sign: Our Nanny State
SF News A Different Light, Modern Times Books Closing Sad news for book lovers in San Francisco. According to reports, independently-owned A Different Light (489 Castro) in the Castro and Modern Times (888 Valencia) in the Mission will close their doors this
SF News Pat Cody, Co-Founder of Cody's Books, Dies at 87 Patricia Cody, who with her husband Fred co-founded Cody's Books in Berkeley in 1956, died Thursday at Kaiser Hospital in Oakland. She was 87. The Codys settled in Berkeley after meeting at Columbia
Arts & Entertainment Adobe Books to Maybe Possibly Shutter? The Adobe bookshop (3166 16th Street), that beloved, cozy, second-hand shop on 16th Street with a backroom gallery, is facing some hard times. They have an alarming sign up in the window for
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: David Eagleman, Author of <i>Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives</i> Neuroscientist David Eagleman's new book Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives is a series of fictional explorations of the afterlife that range from downloading one's consciousness to a computer to meeting God (both