Arts & Entertainment Things Get Scrappy at the Cable Car Museum Yesterday we mentioned a book by Dr. Walter Rice and Emiliano Echeverria about transit that isn't sold at the museum. And in fact, the CCM has flat-out refused to sell any of their
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Profs Wrote Some Good Books The Commonwealth Club's 76th Annual California Book Awards have been announced, and two Cal faculty members are big winners this year: Ishmael Reed for "New and Collected Poems, 1964-2006," and journalism professor Michael
Arts & Entertainment APE Escape 2007 Part 3: The Storytellers--Traditional, With A Twist The last of our slightly less-than-timely coverage of the Alternative Press Expo, which took place last weekend, focuses on folks telling their sequential art stories in a longer form. Ted Naifeh, a Western
Arts & Entertainment APE Escape 2007 Part 2: Cute, Cool, And Arty Hey, Folks, welcome to part two of our APE coverage. The Alternative Press Expo was this past weekend, and there was so much fun stuff we had to break our coverage into several
Arts & Entertainment APE Escape 2007 Part 1: Strips, Teases, and Gags The Alternative Press Expo (or APE) was this past weekend at the Concourse here in San Francisco. The show, which is put on yearly by Comic-Con International, features indy and small press creators
Arts & Entertainment Muscle Cars Will Rule The Skies: Larry Young Talks AiT/PlanetLar's High-Octane Comics The Alternative Press Expo is this Saturday and Sunday, and hot damn we're psyched. We've covered it the past two years for SFist; this time, we want to spread the luurve ahead of
Arts & Entertainment <i>Death Note</i>: Story Of Killer Diary Is Grim, Intriguing, Excellent Entry Into Manga We've long been a fan of Japanese comics, or manga, as they're commonly called. Local publisher Viz, who is responsible for much of the product that American audiences see, sent us a review
Arts & Entertainment A Mighty Shearer It's difficult to categorize Shearer's art because he's done radio (KRCW), TV (Jack Benny, SNL, Politically Incorrect, Ellen, Friends, Murphy Brown), movies (This is Spinal Tap, For Your Consideration, Abbott and Costello, A
Arts & Entertainment It Was A Dark & Stormy Bite: <i>Pet Noir</i>'s Shannon O'Leary We first met Shannon O'Leary at the last Alternative Press Expo, where she was showing the floppy versions of her books and Fortune's Bitch. Now, she's about to publish a hardbound, 120+ page
Arts & Entertainment What Else is Going on For Litquake Well, if you want to check the schedule of events, go here. There's plenty to choose from and it seems like something is going on everywhere at all hours. Everyone's favorite event is
Arts & Entertainment Local Publisher's Graphic Novel Highest Placer on USA Today List? BELIEVE IT! Viz Media is a local publisher that, among other things, imports all sorts of great Japanese comix ("manga") and cartoons ("anime"), translates them, and distributes them to the U.S. markets. Naruto Volume
misc East Bay: Animals Gone Wild Contra Costa Times columnist, Sarah Jacobson, writes about a raccoon cocktail party on the front porch of her Pittsburg home in the wee hours of the morning.And while we would disagree with
Arts & Entertainment Gastronomique Reads Hungry Planet They visit a struggling Sicilian family, who, when they do the accounting for the picture with a week's worth of food, is shocked to discover they spend more than $2,000 on cigarettes
Arts & Entertainment Author Events Roundup: June is Jam-Packed! Cody's Books - We'll start with the soon-to-close Telegraph Ave location. Wednesday, June 7 - 7:30 p.m. Nando Parrado talks about his experience as a member of the Uruguayan rugby team
Arts & Entertainment Authors Go On Tour - Why Can't You? We'll start with SFist Peninsula headquarters in Menlo Park at Kepler's: The kickoff to their travel series comes from Frances Mayes (warning, there's sound at that link), on Saturday, April 1, 7:30
Arts & Entertainment The South Bay {Hearts} You But if you're looking for smoochy, cuddly things to do down in the south bay (and really, who isn't?) we have some ideas for you. Of course, they're ideas from our bitter, black
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 Kepler's Winter Author Events - Not Too Shabby! As avowed book lovers SFist was thrilled to see Kepler's com back and they're (almost) better than ever. We'll remove that bracketed condition when they open online ordering because we always get our
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads, Late Edition: The Boulevard Cookbook. It is not a surprise that such a successful restaurant spawned a cookbook, aptly named Boulevard, following the path of many of the top restaurants in the Bay Area: Chez Panisse, Zuni Cafe
Arts & Entertainment An Excuse To Read Some Funnybooks--Al's Comics In The Mission In Trouble Recently Al's Comics has run into a bit of financial trouble, it involves landlords, tax collectors, zap gun wielding lizard men from another dimension, the city; in short, the usual suspects. He could
Arts & Entertainment <i>San Francisco: The Unknown City</i> Reading a guidebook about your own town is always interesting. What did they forget? What did they get wrong? Not to mention what they found that you still haven't. And we have to
Arts & Entertainment A Night of Comedy: Lap-Pop! Across from the homeless shelter on Capp street in the Mission District, at the Space180 venue, there was a cosmic convergence. The first ever (it should be held again) Lap-Pop event from Locus
Arts & Entertainment Gastronomique Interviews Julie Powell Julie Powell first got her fifteen minutes of fame as the author of the Julie/Julia Project. She decided to cook every recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking over
Arts & Entertainment Cody's Books on Union Square So we're giddy about the new Cody's Books at 2 Stockton Street, in the old Planet Hollywood space across from the Apple store. Cody's, a Berkeley institution started by Pat and Fred Cody
