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
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads: Food Books For Labor Day We also enjoyed some of the essays on cooking and eating alone in Jenni Ferrari-Adler's Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant, particularly Steve Almond's hilarious anti-snotty take on how to make a
SF News Day Around The Bay --A guy jumped onto the field to say hi to Barry Bonds yesterday. Arrested, drunk. [The Chron photo pool, the Snitch.] --They're looking on the Oregon coast now for the missing Alameda County
Arts & Entertainment One Book To Bind Them: One City One Book 2007 But you know a banner we can all unite under? The One City One Book: San Francisco Reads program. Imagine, hordes of people reading a sort of narrative story on paper! No electricity
Arts & Entertainment The ))<>(( on Miranda July's Book Reading At Modern Times ))<>((? Well, it's from her movie. Author/artist/director/performer/etc Miranda July came by Modern Times Bookstore in The Mission last night to read from her new collection of short stories,
SF News Pelosi Goes Viral And what will you find there? Oh, just clips of her playing soccer, lip-synching to pop hits, and ranting into a web cam whenever Tim Russert refuses to take her phone call. And
Arts & Entertainment Gastronomique Reads Hungry Planet They visit a struggling Sicilian family, who, when they do the accounting for the picture with a week's worth of food, is shocked to discover they spend more than $2,000 on cigarettes
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 SFist Reads A Little SFist Rita just finished , by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams. You know, it sounds like Barry Bonds might really have been on steroids! SFist Cedric has been reading the sudoku puzzle in the
Arts & Entertainment Show of Hands: Who Pays For 7x7? Who Pays For 7x7? Suckers, that's who. A treatise on the quality of this magazine is perhaps best left for another day, and for other people to make. After all, what business do
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads, Late Edition: The Boulevard Cookbook. It is not a surprise that such a successful restaurant spawned a cookbook, aptly named Boulevard, following the path of many of the top restaurants in the Bay Area: Chez Panisse, Zuni Cafe
Arts & Entertainment Cody's Books on Union Square So we're giddy about the new Cody's Books at 2 Stockton Street, in the old Planet Hollywood space across from the Apple store. Cody's, a Berkeley institution started by Pat and Fred Cody
Arts & Entertainment Wednesdays, the New Apocalypse Wednesday: Get all in the Wednesday SFist Reads mood with a cavalcade of options: Barbara Ehrenreich at Clean Well-Lighted (7:00), a Dr. Atomic discussion at City Lights (7 p.m.), Caroline Kennedy
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads: Periodicals The books we got this week from our online reserve list were dull, dull dull -- we're so happy that we hadn't gone out and bought them from one of our fine local
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads Special Edition: Leonce Gaiter's <i>Bourbon Street</i> San Francisco knows noir. It's been 75 years since Dashiell Hammett's seminal masterwork, which set the standard for the genre, was finished on Post street. And just as Hammett used the crime novel
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads: Or Do We? Oh, it's a sad day for SFist. Not to encourage undue speculation, but it seems like we have all found better things to do than read this week. Is it that our online
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Mission Statement (Of Sorts) From Your Trimethyldioxypurist After the discovery of the holy grail of Bay Area coffee last week, it's a good time to sit back and take stock of why we do this. And how we go about
SF News Introducing SFist Listens This week SFist Mary Lynn recommends the following as a means of coping if you haven’t yet fled to Canada and are down about four more years of W: "Tragedy" by the
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.
