Arts & Entertainment Litquake Preview: 21 Cool Things To Do at Litquake 2015 Litquake is ready to rumble into its 16th year of lit readings both austere and whack, celebrating the Bay Area’s best authors, bookworms and wordsmiths. Kicking off Friday night and running through
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 SFist Jay covered the theatrical aspects of the Berkeley Rep's The Composer is Dead. But since it originated as a classical music edutainment piece from the SF Symphony, we got to see it
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
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
SF News Triskadecaphobia --Weird screwup on the highways today -- due to a software glitch, eleven Bay Area road signs were flashing the message "two lanes closed for construction," when in fact all the relevant lanes
Arts & Entertainment An Unfortunate Announcement Indeed The final volume to this terrible collection will no doubt fill the reader with terror, pity and sorrow once they learn the final fates of the unlucky Baudelaire orphans. Worse - there will
Arts & Entertainment Berlin and Beyond Film Festival: <i>Sergeant Pepper</i> What distinguishes "Sergeant Pepper" from other Films About Children -- it would be a mistake to call it a Children's Film -- is its deft restraint. Sure, there are thrills like a crazy-inventor
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