San Francisco is home. I wasn’t born here in the sense of being a baby crying and puking with no idea where I was (that was a few Friday nights ago…), and I wasn’t a kid here, wandering the streets like a playground with wide eyes, my bike and an

What happens when wikipedia gets crossed with Thunderdome? Lit Slam. And what happens when the resulting wiki-dome (thunder-pedia?) gives birth to a book? Something called Tandem. But let me back up a bit. Lit Slam is this fantastic idea that goes like this: Hold a poetry slam once a month.

And so begins Halloween in Denver, by Richard Brautigan, one of my favorite holiday stories of all time. It’s not a scary story, unless you’re afraid of sex and candy, but it does take the mask off of a hidden of Halloween activities: what the people with the candy are

Yes, the lead guitarist from Metallica is throwing a party in the Mission the day after Halloween. And it’s to celebrate his new book about his frighteningly large collection of monster-movie memorabilia! It’s called Too Much Horror Business. That means you can stop home on Thursday around noon, looking like

If you like books about self-discovery in SF, want to try the special edition Sidewalk Ritual IPA my friend Aaron Bryan at Artisan Brewing made, and want to hear Stuart read his story about finding love on the Muni, you should come. Register at Eventbrite or on Facebook. A year ago

FREE book readings all over the Mission district this Saturday! For 3 hours this Saturday, October 13, the Mission will be like Burning Man and Coachella COMBINED for books. Published Bay Area authors will be reading a bookstores, galleries, bars and everywhere else you can imagine (even the police station?

This month, you’re invited to the studios of more than 900 SF artists. For FREE. I’m a big fan of the whole program, as it’s a chance to get a glimpse behind the curtain of how some of my favorite artists do their thing, see what they’ve been working on