misc An Ode to Jack London While mincing down Third Street to AT&T Park to catch some tasty waves, we came across the most darling bouquet of fresh flowers, above, lying on the sidewalk. While trying to
Arts & Entertainment Economics 101 with the SF Bay Guardian's Steven T. Jones This reading list is the result of a conversation that started innocently enough on the SFBG's blogs, in a post about homelessness in Golden Gate Park and, tangentially, the Spanish American War. When
Arts & Entertainment Doris Lessing: the Chloë Sevigny of Nobel Laureates After winning the 2007 Nobel Prize for literature today, reporters asked Doris Lessing how she felt. Her response? "Oh Christ...I couldn't care less." That famous dry British wit! Congrats, Doris. We've yet
Arts & Entertainment We're Awash In Almonds Don't just read words -- read good words, accurate and specific, tasty and gratifying and placed in sequences that make you shake your head in disbelief that anyone could possibly have ever used
Arts & Entertainment Ignatz Award Nomination For SFist Favorite 'Minty' Lewis' P.S. Comics Even though he defected to Los Angeles, we were tickled when local fave Keith Knight took home a Harvey Award. Now another Bay Area sequential artist is up for a prestigious comics industry
Arts & Entertainment Eggers And 826 Get A Little Ketchup Money Dave Eggers, well-known author and tutoring activist via 826 Valencia and its affiliates, has been awarded a grant from the Heinz Family Foundation. $250,000 smackers. Eggers, who had never heard of the
Arts & Entertainment Cartoonist Keith Knight Wins Harvey Award! The 20th Annual Harvey Awards (named for Harvey Kurtzman, genius cartoonist, founder of MAD Magazine, and lont-time Playboy contributor to boot) were announced this weekend at the Baltimore Comic Con. The awards are
Arts & Entertainment CalTrain of Thought Other local trains featured in the book include MUNI's F-line and the famous cable car, with a cameo appearance by your very own Golden Gate Bridge, of course. (Yay! The next generation of
Arts & Entertainment 826 Valencia's Five-Year Anniversary Fair With their usual whimsy, those folks from 826 Valenicia celebrated their five-year anniversary on 8/26. They did so with a community festival at Mission Playground, which is right near the store. Entry
Arts & Entertainment JT Leroy/Laura Albert, Back In The News Okay, there's a very troubling article in today's New York Times about a road trip with Laura Albert (reg. req'd.). Laura Albert is, of course, the 41-year-old mother and local literary scenester who
Arts & Entertainment Local Guys Make Comic Contest Finals With 'Dr. Le Faux' Remember Marcus Thiele and Kevin Buckley (perhaps this interview will refresh your memory)? They are the co-creators of "The Strange and Many Eyes of Dr. LeFaux," a comic book property that has just
Arts & Entertainment Mass Of New Bat Segundo Interviews Include Berkeley Breathed Two-Parter! Holy Cow, Bat Segundo! What do you mean you moved to Brooklyn?!? Gah. A podcast that's truly fun, quirky, and valuable for fans of literature, this pseudonymously produced program made its home base
Arts & Entertainment Final Harry Potter Book Tranforms Noe Valley Into Diagon Alley We hate lines and we shy away from new things -- we're definitely a second- or third-generation adopter for tech, and a wait-for-the-paperback guy for books. But we guess this Harry Potter and
Arts & Entertainment 3 Questions For Another <i>Comic Book Challenge</i> Team We told you a few weeks ago about Platinum Studios' "American Idol"-style contest for comic creators, through which the winners will get a "multimedia development and publishing deal" based on their concept.
Arts & Entertainment 3 Questions For <i>Comic Book Challenge</i> Contestants A few of those contestants are from right here in the Bay Area. Kevin Buckley is the writer on this project and an artist in his own right, though Marcus Thiele, his collaborator,
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 One Book To Bind Them: One City One Book 2007 But you know a banner we can all unite under? The One City One Book: San Francisco Reads program. Imagine, hordes of people reading a sort of narrative story on paper! No electricity
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
Arts & Entertainment The Finest Kind of Writer Friend of SFist Charlie Anders reminds us that her nifty and unusual spoken-word group, Writers With Drinks, will be experiencing yet another stupendous explosion of literary greatness this Saturday, the 9th, from 7:
Arts & Entertainment Swords & Sorcery Anthology: Homage, Send-up, And Wonderful Surprise Please allow us to let our geek flag fly for a few moments. If you've never read a comic book, never participated in a pen-and-paper role playing game, or if you don't know
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 Three Questions For A Graphic Novelist Yesterday, we posted a contest in which we're giving away a copy of Matt Silady's "The Homeless Channel," a new graphic novel. Matt, a Berkeley resident, was both the writer and artist of
Arts & Entertainment Win 'The Homeless Channel', A New Graphic Novel A few months ago, when we talked to Larry Young, the frontman of San Francisco-based comic book publisher AIT/Planet Lar, he pointed to Matt Silady's then-pending book, "The Homeless Channel," as one
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 The ))<>(( on Miranda July's Book Reading At Modern Times ))<>((? Well, it's from her movie. Author/artist/director/performer/etc Miranda July came by Modern Times Bookstore in The Mission last night to read from her new collection of short stories,
