The new SFCB location rocks. This Friday they are inviting all of San Francisco to come by, check it out, and learn some of the awesome skills they teach and feature every day. The San Francisco Center for the Book is all about the joys of books and bookmaking. It’s

Cancel your plans and go to the Makeout Room this Saturday. It’s time for Writers with Drinks. It’s hard to do better than the write-up they got from JetBlue.com, so I’ll just steal it: Back in 2001, writer Charlie Jane Anders set out to create a new kind of reading

What’s that? You want to walk through a maze made out of books, then get some poetry for $1? No problem. The International Poetry Library is making that happen for you this weekend at San Francisco’s Fort Mason Pavilion. To be clear, this picture is not of the actual Fort

Have you been to Noisebridge? It’s an amazing FREE hacker and DIY space in the Mission dedicated to the idea of helping and hosting people who want to be creative. They’ve been around for 5 years in a space that feels something like a cross between a woodshop and the

Good books + local authors + drink specials = Books and Booze Club at Two Sisters in Hayes Valley. The owners of the bar pick a new book every month, design a cocktail around it, and then invite anyone who has read it to come to the bar and talk

What do you know about the history of art in San Francisco? If you’re like me, not much. But next week Thursday you could find out plenty at the book launch party for San Francisco: Arts for the City Civic Art and Urban Change, 1932–2012. If you’ve ever enjoyed the

Want to sketch a Mission adventure? This is your kind of class. Local artist Courtney Cooper has a series of Skillshare classes going where she leads groups through different SF areas on sketch-friendly walk-abouts. You get a sketch-friendly tour of a sometimes-sketchy neighborhood from a sketch-artist. Sounds sketch-tastic. I love