the Mission
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #29: Poetry Is an Affliction
On Thursday night, May 25, an amazing event will take place outside a BART train station in the Mission District of San Francisco, as it has every Thursday night for the past fourteen years. If you were to pass by, you…
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This Week in Short Fiction
After ten long years without a new story collection from Joy Williams, we are finally rewarded this week with The Visiting Privilege, containing thirteen new stories and thirty-three stories collected from across Williams’s career. Williams is a writer’s writer, a storysmith of the…
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Mission Art Explosion This Weekend!
San Francisco! Come out this weekend to Art Explosion Spring Open Studios. The opening reception will be held this Friday night at two locations, 2425 17th St and 744 Alabama St, from 7pm-11pm. There will be open studios on Saturday and…
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The Comical Son Returns
Bay Area comedy fans may remember the many happy years comedian and Rumpus Radio guest W. Kamau Bell spent in San Francisco before moving to New York for his TV show Totally Biased. The good news is: the show is terrific,…
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Kurt Vonnegut Loved Adobe Books, And You Should Too
Here’s a lovely addition to the ongoing up-again-down-again saga of Adobe Books: Herbert Gold describes Kurt Vonnegut’s last trip to San Francisco, during which the two visited the “eternal no-rent bookshop.” Vonnegut ended up signing a $1.95 used copy of Slaughterhouse…
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SF’s Adobe Bookshop Lives!
Good news: Adobe Bookshop, which has spent twenty-three years in the Mission, will not be closing despite rising rent. Andrew McKinley, the proprietor of Adobe, explains his plan to transform the shop. “I choose to be an optimist and believe that…
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Morning Coffee
It’s nice when green design actually look pretty cool, such as this Mexico City stackable solar powered park. On the other hand you have these bus shelters, which leave something to be desired. Actually, it turns out the answer to…