Meredith BrodyWe thought that attending the recent conversation between Alain de Botton and Will Hearst at City Arts and Lectures on the occasion of the publication of de Botton's new book The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work would be a night off from our obsession with the pleasures and sorrows of food.
But noooo! After briefly citing his source of inspiration (Richard Scarry's What Do People Do All Day, which de Botton read to his two young children), it turned out that de Botton had spent four
​Don't scream, but there will be free ice cream in Garfield Square Park (3100 26th St. at Harrison) in the Mission on Saturday, August 22, 3-5 p.m., hosted by San Francisco Neighborhood Parks Council. The frozen delights are from Humphry Slocombe, while Anthony's Cookies is providing cookies -- sounds like some potentially awesome ice cream sandwiches in the making. 826 Valencia will also be on hand to present a free creative writing class for kids, which is great because it might distract