By Katie Sue Ambellan Books, beer, babes and Blue Angel Vodka?  Sounds like one of my dreams!  Wait, it’s an after-hours party in a library?  Count me in! Friends of the SF Public Library invite you IMBIBE in every sense of the word at the Eureka Valley Branch Library. The quarterly event series kicks off [...]

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By Katie Sue Ambellan Poetry, coffee, books and the Bay-what do all of these stimulants have in common?   Readers Cafe & Bookstore! In addition to slanging the Bay Area’s best priced used books and Blue Bottle Coffee, the folks over there have just announced the Thursdays at Readers 2011 Poetry Series. Beginning in March, Readers [...]

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Is there really anything you can’t find at the library?  Hat tip to our very own Mary Abler, who was the fabulous host!  Read more about the event here!

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By Byron Spooner Saturday night my wife and I went to a benefit for our friend Dee Allen, a poet/activist/anarchist who was busted last May Day at a demonstration near Civic Center.  As I understand it, he was arrested for being involved in a running fight between him and his anarchist friends and a bunch [...]

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Yesterday was an exciting day for San Francisco literary arts, as WritersCorps, a project of the San Francisco Arts Commission and the San Francisco Public Library, was recognized with a prestigious national award by First Lady Michelle Obama! WritersCorps was chosen from a pool of more than 400 nominations and 50 finalists as one of [...]

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Michelle Jeffers Imagine that you’ve just rode out one of the worst disasters in a century inside your home. You’re feeling lucky to be alive and uninjured and now you’re trying to help your neighbors cope with the disaster’s aftermath. Instead, you’re dumped in jail without being told why and without being allowed to call [...]

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By Mary Ellen Hannibal To many of us, Tibet means the Dalai Lama, perhaps by way of Richard Gere.  Slipping along with our cultural assumptions, we have completely missed what Canyon Sam has carefully culled in Sky Train:  Tibetan Women on the Edge of History. Not only are the stories of Tibetan women more than [...]

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By Michelle Jeffers Nope we’re not banning books. But San Francisco Public Library is joining in Banned Books Week to call attention to the hundreds of challenges that public and school libraries receive every year for what some deem as objectionable material. As the American Library Association points out, there were 460 recorded attempts to [...]

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By Mary Ellen Hannibal William Bivins has been caught in a storm – the perfect one, from the perspective of a playwright.  In the space of a year, he’s had four plays produced, to great acclaim.  All his work is mordant, noir, funny, and the action keeps happening.  Bivins’ starting point is usually already over [...]

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By Michelle Jeffers At my house, we’re eagerly awaiting the annual summer ritual. Yep, I’m talking about walking down to our neighborhood library to sign up for summer reading.  Both my kids visit the library all year long and they certainly no longer need my help to sign up for their respective children and teen [...]

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