SF News Accused Public Library Chair Thrower Gets Off In a victory for the Public Defender's Office but not necessarily for the safety of the populus, a 26-year-old man who was identified by eyewitnesses as the attacker in that bloody assault-by-chair last
SF News The S.F. Public Library Remains A Dangerous Place In case you doubted that the public library, in particular the Main Library at Civic Center, is an awful place with a clientele akin to the dreaded Walgreen's at 9th and Market, we
SF News We're Doomed, S.F. Main Library Bathroom Edition Anyone who's ever tried visiting the restroom at the San Francisco Main Library knows that it's basically one of the biggest mistakes of your life. The intensity of the urine stench defies science,
SF News (Updated) What Happened to the Main Library's Green Bench? Mayor Newsom and the city's Greening Director Astrid Haryati came up with these nifty plant boxes to segment the long bench that stretches along the main library right off Civic Center Plaza. According
misc Day Around the Bay Tiger attack victims "yelled" at Tatiana. [SFGate] SF Main Library re-opened its first floor. We had no idea that is was closed. Still, yay! [CCBlog] Evacuating together. Aw. (Wasn't this an SNL commercial
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
SF News Zombie Attack & Containment Operation Tonight Beware: staring tonight at precisely 7:30 p.m. the undead will gather around the Double L Gyratory Undead Attractor and wreak havoc around the city. Might you be one of them? Horrors!
Arts & Entertainment Harry Potter and the Smooth Chest (Non-Baseball Event) Anyway, check it: The purple triple-decker Harry Potter Knight Bus will be parked outside the Main Library (Grove St. side) from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on Wednesday, July 11, and a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today Other events: --The Fillmore Jazz Festival continues all day today (10-6) on Fillmore (duh), between Jackson and Eddy. Lots of bands and lots of booths! --The Jim Henson movie festival continues at the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight A variety show a chance to help out Killing My Lobster? But of course! The Romane Event, the monthly music/film/comedy/spoken word event at the Make Out Room the last Wednesday
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today --The heart of rock and roll is still beatin' -- at Stern Grove this afternoon. It's HUEY LEWIS AND THE NEWS!!!! The free show starts at 2, but we assume folks'll be lining
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight If you can't make tonight's reading (7 p.m.), they're in town through Friday, reading at Get Lost in SF tomorrow night and Book Passage in Corte Madera on Friday. They've probably already
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight As part of the National Queer Arts Festival, graphic artist and memoirist Alison Bechdel is speaking at Michelle Tea's Radar Reading Series at the SF Public Library tonight! We've been huge fans of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Other events: --Always mean to get out to Orinda to see the summer Shakespeare? This year, it's Richard III, and tonight's preview is the first performance. $32 for tonight, and prices will go
Arts & Entertainment Bad Kitty! We've told you about Pet Noir here before, the comic anthology published by Manic D Press featuring an impressive list of local talent. If you still haven't picked up a copy get yourself
SF News Muni's Secret Meeting About Your Children: Revealed! These meetings all are part of Muni's ongoing study on how it might go about sucking less. Allow us to suggest the following: STOP HIDING INFO IN WEB-UNFRIENDLY PDFs. It's like printing up
SF News Beautiful City, Ugly Buildings Rybczynski throws us a couple bones (he hypothesizes that part of the problem with architecture in SF may be that the city is already too pretty, and notes that also-gorgeous Rio has horrible
Arts & Entertainment Debates Around The Districts So we're trying to compile a handy-dandy list of all the forums we can find, arranged by district and by date -- but we can barely find anything out there! So we're posting
SF News Live Blogging The Gavster: Municipal Wifi Gavin is set to announce his plans for Municipal Wifi today at 2pm. Rumors are a-swirlin' already as to who's going to be responsible for deploying it. Google has been making apparent moves
Arts & Entertainment While You're At It, You Can Pay Your Late Fees Too For those of you who love the antiquarian hunt, there's also a separate section for the "Best of Book Bay," with rare and unusual books (between $20 and $250), including the first ever
