16 Oct 2017

SF Public Library Now Lets You Stream 30,000 Free Movies at Home

This is incredibly cool. Effective today, the San Francisco Public Library has launched Kanopy, an on-demand video platform that allows users to experience a curated collection of more than 30,000 of the world’s best films. All you need is a library card! This comes on the heels of LA and NYC

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31 Jan 2012

FREE Screening of “On the Street,” Tomorrow at the New York Public Library

Seriously, how cool is this– during 1980 to 1990, photographer Amy Arbus took pictures of local New York City color for the “On the Street” section of the  Village Voice.  Years later, as she was preparing to publish a book of her work, she wondered what happened to many of her

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23 Sep 2009

The Public Library: Perks and Pitfalls

I love me an overstuffed bookshelf but let’s face it, books are pricey (especially new ones) and storage space lacking.  So, the library it is.  Don’t get me wrong, I really love the library: its musty smell, its quiet’”it’s a core-of-society kind of place’”plus remember what a rite of passage

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03 Mar 2023

The Most Obscure Secret Library in San Francisco: The Whybrary

In The Mission, situated on the corner of 14th Street at Woodward, you may see a small pink neon “why?” sign hung in the window of an unassuming apartment building. Like a bat signal, the “why?” sign is a not-so-subtle sign to say you’ve reached the library. To enter into

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13 Oct 2021

Brilliant Tactician Trump Tells Republicans To Stop Voting

We do not pay much attention to the double-decker sandwiches of baloney and horsecrap  served as “statements” on former president Trump’s website. After all, he is kicked off Twitter and Facebook, and there is no need to amplify his rambling, fascist nonsense.  But in this case, we are definitely making

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50% off New Glasses + Free Shipping!

We wrote about the 6 rad reasons why shopping for glasses on GlassesUSA.com will change the way you buy glasses forever. You can read about that here. But here's the important part: YOU GET 50% OFF + free shipping on your first pair of frames. Click to find out more!

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19 Jul 2021

These 9 SF Public Libraries Reopen This Week!

The SF Public Library Main Branch reopened on May 3 to all manner of cheering, but it was a pretty limited ‘You can just go to the Front desk’ kind of deal. They reopened the upper floors in June, yet there are still just a mere seven of the 27

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11 Mar 2021

SF Launches Free Summer Programming for Public School Students

Yesterday Mayor London N. Breed, Superintendent Dr. Vincent Matthews, and community organization TogetherSF announced the launch of the Summer Together Initiative, a newly formed coalition of San Francisco community organizations, nonprofits, businesses, San Francisco Unified School District, and City departments partnering to offer a combination of free in-person and virtual

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06 Jan 2020

Did You Know the Library Lets You Stream 30,000+ Free Movies?

This is so damn cool. Kanopy is an on-demand video platform that allows users to experience a curated collection of more than 30,000 of the world’s best films. All you need is a library card! I wrote about Kanopy when it first launched in 2016 but my buddy Sayre reminded

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