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
Arts & Entertainment 16 Best Litquake Events To Book On Your Calendar The annual literary phenomenon known as Litquake is now held in 13 cities around the world, but just like with Major League Baseball teams — the best one is in San Francisco. Litquake was
Arts & Entertainment Litquake Preview: 21 Cool Things To Do at Litquake 2015 Litquake is ready to rumble into its 16th year of lit readings both austere and whack, celebrating the Bay Area’s best authors, bookworms and wordsmiths. Kicking off Friday night and running through
Arts & Entertainment The 14 Best San Francisco-Set Novels We live in a relentlessly beautiful place that has inspired many over the years. This has always been a city brimming with artists, writers, and musicians and SF's bohemian streak will hopefully not
Arts & Entertainment Film Based On Michelle Tea's 'Valencia' Premiering At Frameline Mission-based literary types are all more than familiar with Valencia, the 2000 novel that put local writer Michelle Tea on the map, and which was republished in a paperback edition in 2008. It's
Arts & Entertainment Regarding How to Have a Baby, at 40, as a San Francisco Literary Lesbian Today the Bold Italic brings us a new piece by local literary wunderkind Michelle Tea (Valencia, Rose of No Man's Land), who is actually not a wunderkind anymore. She's 40. She's an established
misc 26-26-26 Valencia No, the 26 Valencia is a magical creature - 26 minutes (supposedly) to wait on the balmy evening of the 26th - just the kind of numerology we would expect from this rare
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight *CLUB: Check out Rock Out Karaoke over at Amnesia. What is Rock Out Karaoke? Well, it mean that you will hear neither a Righteous Brothers cover nor a note from everyone's least favorite
misc SFist Tonight Class and Power in Queer San Francisco: Come hear poets Meliza Bañales and Solidad de Costa, circus performer Keith Hennessy, and writer Michelle Tea push forth the homosexual agenda. Mwa ha ha. They
Arts & Entertainment Literary Fest Litquake Opens With Lovely Laura Linney Serialized gem / siren song Tales of the City drew many folks to SF. Well, it brought us here, anyway. And the character of Mary Ann Singleton acted as a temporary stand-in until many
Arts & Entertainment 8/26 Day Festival This Sunday The literary bash will feature live performances, cartooning, Everett Middle School's dance troupe, readings, local writers (pardon me, novelists), paper flower making, haiku writing, bon mots flying to and fro, and much, much,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight --Audacia Ray, the editor of the sex worker zine $pread and a Fleshbot [nsfw] contributor, talks at Modern Times about the commodification of sex on the Internet. 7:30 p.m., 888 Valencia
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 Contest: Win Tickets To The Bitch Magazine Auction! As part of its ongoing 10th anniversary celebration, local nonprofit indie publication Bitch Magazine is throwing a benefit silent auction this Friday, Sept. 8 at 6 p.m. at the Women's Building (18th
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 Wake the Dead With Dr. Hunter S. Thompson moving on to bigger and better things, writers, critics, stoners and other hangers-on are organizing tributes around the country and around the world. But we have a feeling
Arts & Entertainment Bitch Magazine's Arts & Crafts Benefit Auction If you, like us, want to support our local arts community but aren't really interested in buying one of those Hearts of SF -- we're here to help! If you, like us, want
Arts & Entertainment I Read the Earth Moved Litquake started two years ago when groups of Bay Area writers decided it was high time they put on events like those put on by music, film, and arts groups in the area.
