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 One City, One Book Maybe this is just stemming from a misplaced nostalgia for our fourth grade class, where everyone was required to buy the exact same edition of The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander, but we
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Ian Lendler Today's victim of the SFist interview has only been in our fair city for a couple of weeks, but that doesn'r mean we're going to take it easy on him! His new book,
Arts & Entertainment Kepler's May Re-open Members of the Board include Clark Kepler, President, CEO and Chairman of the Board; Daniel MeĢndez, a Menlo Park resident and co-founder and CTO of Visto Corporation, a wireless technology firm in
Arts & Entertainment Extremes In fact, with the help of his friend and websmaster Carl, Thomas is online-novelizing his newly peaceful, conformist lifestyle. The book is titled , and despite being only available in lousy PDF, it's a
Arts & Entertainment Save Kepler's! Kepler's turned 50 this year and it would be an understatement to say that its closing has really hit people hard. Even the New York Times had noted its passing. The rally will
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Paula Kamen We can say that with some assurance because she's had a headache for over a decade now. For most of us, the idea of suffering from a headache for more time than it
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About Drinking for Literacy Artists for Literacy takes a really unique and fresh approach to getting people to read - they do it by using all kinds of media, not just the written word, to get people
Arts & Entertainment Blah...Blah...Harry Potter...Blah... In order to provide you, dear readers, with the best content we can provide, SFist occasionally has to delve into things with which we might not want to delve into. Case in point
Arts & Entertainment Hey, That Rhymes! There's an advantage to this -- if you don't like one page, just look to the next for something completely different. But it's also a little numbing after a while; how many times
Arts & Entertainment Mysterious Boy Berry's parents, friends, shrink, religious leaders, doctors, and the ambiguously sexual eccentrics who admire his moxie all seem to have their own plans for Berry; none of them help him to figure out
Arts & Entertainment Indie Rock <em>Believer</em> The June music issue of The Believer will come packaged with a CD compilation of pure indie rock gold. We hear that local do-gooder and author extraordinaire Dave Eggers is behind the compilation,
Arts & Entertainment Still Independent After All These Years One of the mothers of all intellectual crack dens - Kepler's Bookstore - turns 50 this year. Fifty years of social consciousness (Roy Kepler was an anti-violence activist) and social unconsciousness (this is,
Arts & Entertainment The Alternative Press Expo (APE) Kicks Our Ass And Takes Names At the Alternative Press Expo (or APE), overstimulation is an understatement. There is a ton going on here. Held yearly in San Francisco, heretofore in February, APE took place this past weekend, April
Arts & Entertainment Get Your Knit On Hark! Do you hear the hosannas of angels wearing roomy striped ponchos and the clicking of bamboo sticks? That's right -- the hipster goddess of knitting, Debbie Stoller, is in town promoting her
Arts & Entertainment R.I.P Hunter Thompson Gonzo journalist and counter-cultural icon Hunter S. Thompson died today of an apparent suicide. Thompson was the author of the classic , a book that inspired multitudes to take lots of drugs and go
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About Pirates Well, yeah, smarty-pants? Put your time where your quick to comment fingers are and volunteer at 826 Valencia. Their online form for applying to become a tutor is genius. Let us know if
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About Words Well, surely you have $5. Five whole dollars buys you all the pizza you can eat at Poetry and Pizza on Friday. That's tomorrow. We double-checked the hipster central calendar. You're free. Don't
Arts & Entertainment This Is What Would Happen If Waldenbooks and the "Feel The Beauty" Theater Had a Baby Meanwhile, at Eros is a release event for "Bottoms Up: Writing About Sex," with pieces by local literary luminaries such as Bob Gluck, Dodie Bellamy, and Red Jordan Arobateau, who would surely frown
Arts & Entertainment Gimme Indie Books Good news for city readers -- Berkeley indie bookstore legend Cody's Books is following in the lead of its across-the-street neighbor Amoeba and opening a branch in San Francisco. Cody's has signed a
Arts & Entertainment Comic Relief Getting the Boot Annoyingly, Christmas seems to come earlier every year -- an egregious example of this being that new flick with Ben Affleck and Tony Soprano. However, we'd like to spread the word about an
SF News Proposition It Seriously, reading through all the ballot initiatives is one, big-huge time suck. While we were waiting in line at a store over the weekend, we heard one guy behind us talking to a
Arts & Entertainment Got Some Spare Time in November? SFist spent a nice day at the beach on Sunday with some friends and learned about a rather interesting project over drinks at the new Sutro's at the Cliff House (a review of
Arts & Entertainment Crunk Critics, Drunk Didacts and Lush Literates Writers and drinkers go together like Bogie & Bacall, like Brad & Jen, like Hall & Oates. Which is why we, the underpaid and over-inebriated writers at SFist, couldn't be more excited about
