Arts & Entertainment Return To The Caffe Cino The SF Public Library, in conjunction with its James C. Hormel Gay and Lesbian Center, is sponsoring a free event tomorrow (Sunday Jan. 21) from 2-4 p.m., to promote an anthology called
Arts & Entertainment Big Ass Book Sale! So, when we hear statistics like "400 volunteers, 7,000 boxes of books, 300 tables and 200,000 books in over 50 categories", we might ordinarily have to reach for the NoDoz, but,
Arts & Entertainment JK And The Rowlings Okay, let's get the premise of this band over quickly, and with a minimum of references to Hufflepuff badgers and flying Bludger balls -- the band Harry and the Potters is made up
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads SFist Cheshire is trying to get into Jonathan Lethem's , but so far it's a little impenetrable. Too much writerly acrobatics for Chesh's taste in the first 40 pages or so. Disappointing considering his
Arts & Entertainment SF360 Revealed! Part Three: It Wouldn't Be SF If It Wasn't At Least Slightly Orgiastic Whew. Let's catch our breaths, here. Celebrity chefs? Srsly? We're not totally sold on this one. While we like the whole one-city/one-book thing that the SF Public Library hosts, this "expanded theater"
SF News How Berkeley Can YOU Be '05 Quick! Name an event that can combine politicians, naked folks (ok, just a few), Klingons, hippies, bunnies, art cars, and cheerleaders on a Sunday afternoon. Only the Tenth Annual How Berkeley Can You
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Nathalie Roland Gallery you'd most like to show in? There are so many interesting galleries in the city that I enjoy visiting like Tinhorn Press, Low Gallery, Receiver and pretty much any one on this
Arts & Entertainment 81 Albums of Jessica Simpson On The Wall You probably remember that brouhaha about the CD price-fixing antitrust case, where that judge was going to give everyone who'd ever bought a CD from 1995 to 2002 around $14.99 if they
SF News Where's The Wifi? Well, it seems that the laptop-carrying set at San Francisco's Academy of Art University are stuck for quick, handy wireless internet access. Around three weeks ago during the school's spring break, some h4XX0r
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads or Something SFist Rain makes a good point today when she reminds us that our friends at the San Francisco Public Library have more to offer us than just the printed word. You can also
misc rita: 2004's So-Bests It was a good year, it was a bad year. Here's my list of the so-best parts of 2004, in no order at all. So-Best photo: Nope, not Gav+Kim (you all breathe
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads: Next Year Sfist Jon grudgingly admits: "Okay- I want to read War & Peace this year. Because every year I say to myself it's time I should read (aren't we supposed to read it?) and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads: Holiday Fun Edition SFist is celebrating the holidays in many ways, as some of us will travel to far-off lands (or just the Midwest), while others of us will remain right here. All of us are
SF News Salinas to Close Its Public Libraries The libraries would have been saved had Salinas voters passed a ballot measure in November that would have hiked sales taxes slightly, as Oakland and Modesto voters successfully did in the March 2004
SF News [SIC] Alquilar is unapologetic. "The mistakes wouldn't even register with a true artisan," she says. "The people that are into humanities, and are into Blake's concept of enlightenment, they are not looking at the
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
misc Lean on Me SFist feels promoting literacy is something everyone should be involved with. Yes, we read alot, but we wanted to do more than that. So, we became a Project Read volunteer. The San Francisco
Arts & Entertainment Esseff Private Eye This Saturday, SFist was browsing the Sunset Branch library new books section, when we came across Fade to Clear. We were intrigued enough by the jacket copy to check it out, and we
