Arts & Entertainment New Daniel Handler Play 'Imaginary Comforts' To Premiere At Berkeley Rep In October A new play by local author Daniel Handler, of Lemony Snicket fame, by the name of Imaginary Comforts, or The Story of the Ghost of the Dead Rabbit, will be having its world
Arts & Entertainment This Komondor Took Top Honors At 10th Duboce Park Dogfest Every day is a dog fest in Duboce Park, a central green space where canines often outnumber humans. But an annual, more formal version of a typical Saturday afternoon in the park this
SF News Writer Daniel Handler AKA Lemony Snicket Pledges $1 Million To Planned Parenthood Fortune has favored Daniel Handler, the Bay Area author who penned the Edward Gorey-meets-Charles Dickens children's books A Series Of Unfortunate Eventsunder the pseudonym Lemony Snicket. Now he and his wife, illustrator Lisa
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Maira Kalman and Daniel Handler, 'Visions Beyond the Badge' Photo Show, The Phenomenauts SOCIAL STUDIES: City Arts presents illustrator Maira Kalman and author Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket) in conversation at the Herbst Theater. Kalman, a frequent contributor to the New Yorker, is known
Arts & Entertainment Lemony Snicket's Take on Occupy Wall Street San Francisco gem Daniel Handler recently penned a clever synopsis of Occupy Wall Street through the voice of Lemony Snicket, entitled "Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall Street from
Arts & Entertainment The Composer Is Dead You have to enjoy the irony of a composer whose most widely played piece is titled The Composer Is Dead. Indeed, it's so popular that it got turned into the cutest, funnest children's
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Since SFist Sarah L didn't get to the SJ Metro last week, we hit them next! There are too many pigeons in the South Bay, says Gary Singh. Moms other than Pat Tillman's
misc SFist Contest: An Evening of a Thousand Scowls This will be the fifth year Eggers and his peeps have put this show on and Dave promises that unlike previous years, this year will be a "a pretty sordid affair" as a
Arts & Entertainment Dispatch from Noir City: NoirQuake! In 1950, the great mystery writer Raymond Chandler wrote of the contemporaneous critical response to his stories and those of James M. Cain, Dashiell Hammett, et. al. that: It takes a very open
Arts & Entertainment Howl Turns Fifty It's almost exactly fifty years later, and it still smacks you upside your beret-wearing cool-cat bongo-beating head, man -- Allan Ginsberg debuted his classic poem "Howl" on Friday, October 7, 1955, at a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Gets <i>The Skinny</i> SFist loves local magazines, from to Other to Dwell. (And before all you "Wavefans" from the same IP address write in, the answer is "no".) We're so happy to welcome The Skinny, a
