SF News Library Patrons Gone Wild: Antioch Library Temporarily Closes After Reports of Sex, Drugs, Car Break-Ins The Antioch Public Library was temporarily closed this weekend after reports of on-site drug use and sex, plus the discovery of pools of blood and bullet casings, though the library is expected to reopen Tuesday with beefed-up security.
Arts & Entertainment Right-Wing Media Flips Its Wig Over 'Drag Queen Story Hour' It is none too unusual for the conservative blogosphere to gin up conniptions over any LGBTQ artistic endeavor or any institution with rolls of public employees. But the latest coordinated takedown attempt hilariously
SF News Supervisor Avalos Wants To Ban Oil Extraction From Public Land That Currently Benefits SF Libraries And Parks In his 1941 will, local businessman Albert Fuhrman left the city of San Francisco 800 acres of oil land in Kern County. Since then, San Francisco has leased the land to oil companies
SF News Man Gets Stabbed In The Face During Altercation At SF Library Restroom An altercation over a bag ended in grisly fashion Monday, after a man was stabbed in the face in the restroom of the San Francisco Public Library's Main branch. According to San Francisco
SF News Here's What You (Still) Can't Do In The Library: The SFPL Revises Their 'Code Of Conduct' When the Chronicle reported that, following a "frosty note" sent to San Francisco Public Library officials by Mayor Ed Lee, the library had come up with "a laundry list of offenses and penalties"
Arts & Entertainment S.F. City Librarian, Super Bowl Bet Loser, Reads 'The Raven' While Wearing Ravens Jersey Sporting a Ravens' jersey and siting in a rocking chair at the San Francisco Public Library, city librarian Luis Herrera makes good on a bet he made with Pratt Library CEO Carla Hayden
SF News S.F. Public Library Makes Super Bowl Bet With Baltimore Library In what's being called a "cross-country battle of the libraries," the fine folks at San Francisco Public Library have placed a bet with the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore. Both of them
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 Library Patron Returns Book 37 Years Past Due The San Francisco Public Library's Presidio branch received a pleasant surprise in the mail today when a patron returned a book that was due back in November of 1974, along with its original
Arts & Entertainment Today Through Sunday: Friends Of The Library Spring Book Sale Perhaps you're itching to score a paperback copy of Fear of Flying, Catcher in the Rye, or Motley Crue's The Dirt? Or how about some great showtunes on vinyl? Well, you're in luck!
Arts & Entertainment The Big Book Sale Returns This Week! Looking to score a bunch of awesome kids' books, older-edition cookbooks, self-help guides, parenting manuals, or art books? Got a hankering for laser discs or '80s one-hit wonders and musical soundtracks on vinyl?
Arts & Entertainment 1920s Sign Exposed During Third Street Demolition in S.F. During demolition to expand the Bayview library on Third Street, a 1920s sign for Boss of the Road work clothes was exposed. "The sign dates from before 1921, based on San Francisco Assessor's
SF News Oakland Library Safe For Time Being Thanks to a huge outcry from the Oakland community, its libraries and many other invaluable public services have been saved for the time being. If you recall, the Oakland City Council was looking
Arts & Entertainment Banned Book Week: 'To Kill a Mockingbird' 50th Anniversary, Teen Blog Challenge As part of the annual Banned Books Week, San Francisco Public Library will celebrate the 50th anniversary of To Kill a Mockingbird on Tuesday night. The classic Harper Lee novel is on the
misc The Baby-ry Coast The San Francisco Public Library has come up with a great idea: The Family Pass, which is available through December 31. The pass can be checked out for a week at a time
SF News Man Reads James Joyce's <i>Finnegans Wake</i> Out Loud at Civic Center Plaza As SF Weekly noted yesterday, Lars Russell, a San Francisco-based writer, starting reading the entirety of Finnegans Wake out loud at Civic Center Plaza near the San Francisco Public Library. The work, Jocye's
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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Books and Burritos: A Mobile Match Made in Heaven We gasped at the sight: the San Francisco Public Library's Bookmobile cozying up to our favorite El Tonayense truck on Harrison near 20th. Now we truly have everything we need. Well, almost. Maybe
Arts & Entertainment How Now Brown Cow: Poets 11 Accepting Submissions Are you a poet? Do you know it? (Ouch.) Well, Poets Eleven, a citywide poetry contest showcasing prose created by residents of each of San Francisco's 11 districts, above, is now accepting submissions.
SF News CoCo County Bart Stations to Receive ATM-Like Library Book Machines Starting sometime in April, library books will be available at Contra Costa County BART stations via "ATM style lending machines." A new program called Library-a-Go-Go, along with the Contra Costa County Library, will
misc Ask a Librarian New feature alert, folks! Ever want to know more about your local library? Or anything about libraries of the world. The art of receiving a masters in library sciences? Or why people use
Arts & Entertainment Hey, Where'd First Stop Go? Ever since the SFist Reads column turned us back onto the awesomeness of checking books out of the SF Public Library, we've been big fans of the First Stop area of the Main
misc Locked Out in the City: What to Do? We lucked out this time, but it got us thinking, What would we do if there is a next time we find ourselves out of our abode with no keys, [update] no money,
SF News SFHomeless Yahoo Group Oh, this looks like fun. While hogging the Internet today, we came across this Yahoo group for the homeless, which bills itself as a "unique, independent, community based support group, moderated by anonymous
misc Week Around the -Ists The cold weather - and holiday festivities - descended upon Gothamist. The Rockefeller Christmas tree was lit, Broadway stagehand finally ended their strike, and NASCAR decided to run their victory lap through Times
