SF News Almost 700,000 Items Were Returned To The Library During Fine Forgiveness Period During a six week fine forgiveness program between January 3 and February 14, the San Francisco Public Library recovered an incredible 699,563 books, CDs, DVDs, and other long overdue materials valued at
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
Arts & Entertainment Library Patron Returns Book 37 Years Past Due The San Francisco Public Library's Presidio branch received a pleasant surprise in the mail today when a patron returned a book that was due back in November of 1974, along with its original
SF News City Librarian Luis Herrera Gets A Presidential Nod San Francisco's chief librarian (yes, that's a thing) Luis Herrera received a special nomination from President Barack Obama to serve on the National Museum and Library Services Board. Herrera, who once thought he'd
SF News Police Search For Arsonist Who Torched Main Branch Library An arsonist caused over $5,000 in damage to the Main Branch Library yesterday afternoon after setting fire to some informative pamphlets he found behind the reference desk in the Library for the
misc Registered to Vote? Deadline Tomorrow Those who still need to register to vote in time for the February 5 presidential primaries need to do so by tomorrow, January 22nd. Re-registering is necessary whenever you move, change your name,
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
misc Week Around the -Ists The cold weather - and holiday festivities - descended upon Gothamist. The Rockefeller Christmas tree was lit, Broadway stagehand finally ended their strike, and NASCAR decided to run their victory lap through Times
SF News It's Official: SF Required to Issue ID Cards to Immigrants See what happens, conservative counties of California? Whenever you do something like this, we then have to do something like this. It's the way we balance things out. Tis the circle of life.
SF News More Measure G Lethargy We’re all for citizenship and all—we would even consider ourselves to be citizenship geeks. We love voting (of course) and jury duty (jury opportunity, we like to call it). We love
SF News Prop D: Take a Look, It's In A Book! We're leery of blank-check bonds and the proposition's license to borrow in a kind of indefinite manner, but how many other things on the ballot have the support of the Mayor and the
SF News Buy the Numbers "Statistical tools and methods, like many other technologies, can be employed either for social good or for evil" (the American Statistical Association’s Ethical Guidelines for Statistical Practice). Unfortunately for us, we’ll
misc At Last, Your Vast Collection of Brooding Self-Portraits can be Put to Good Use Ha ha, just kidding, heterosexuals can help too! But seriously, they don't want pictures of straight people. The "Shades of LGBTQI" project is looking for donations from the community; they want photographs --
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- End of Summer Slam Jam for Teens: Are there words prettier than "back to school"? Maybe. But when we start seeing back-to-school commercials and such, we get ever so giddy. And although
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: The Knight Bus Comes to San Francisco A few more shots after the jump. All photos courtesy of Mugglewatch.uk
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 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 Tonight Drop by Books Inc in the Castro for a reading with local author Dr. William Lipsky from his book, Gay and Lesbian San Francisco. 7:30pm, 2275 Market St. Planning a vacation to
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 Win Passes To The SwapSF Book Swap! SwapSF is one of those freecycle groups that encourages people to trade cool things amongst themselves -- and what's cooler than books? So bring $5 and some books you want to trade for
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
