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Off the Syllabus: "The Best American Non-Required Reading" is a Pleasure

An Education on Education

McSweeney's Lucky Peach Food Journal Throws a Party!

​What: Lucky Peach Party Where: Heart When: Tue., November 15, 7-10 p.m. Cost: $12 The rundown: Lucky Peach, McSweeney's newish journal of food and writing, is throwing a party to celebrate the release of their second issue. The theme is "the sweet spot," and the throwdown includes David ... More >>

A Single Duality

​What: Lucky Peach Party Where: Heart When: Tue., November 15, 7-10 p.m. Cost: $12 The rundown: Lucky Peach, McSweeney's newish journal of food and writing, is throwing a party to celebrate the release of their second issue. The theme is "the sweet spot," and the throwdown includes David ... More >>

An Education on Education

​What: Lucky Peach Party Where: Heart When: Tue., November 15, 7-10 p.m. Cost: $12 The rundown: Lucky Peach, McSweeney's newish journal of food and writing, is throwing a party to celebrate the release of their second issue. The theme is "the sweet spot," and the throwdown includes David ... More >>

Thank a Teacher — If You Can Find One

​What: Lucky Peach Party Where: Heart When: Tue., November 15, 7-10 p.m. Cost: $12 The rundown: Lucky Peach, McSweeney's newish journal of food and writing, is throwing a party to celebrate the release of their second issue. The theme is "the sweet spot," and the throwdown includes David ... More >>

Atelier Crenn: Beautiful Food Falls Short

​What: Lucky Peach Party Where: Heart When: Tue., November 15, 7-10 p.m. Cost: $12 The rundown: Lucky Peach, McSweeney's newish journal of food and writing, is throwing a party to celebrate the release of their second issue. The theme is "the sweet spot," and the throwdown includes David ... More >>

Amanda Hesser Talks Food Writing at 826 Valencia Benefit

Amazon.comAmanda Hesser.​East Coast food scribe Amanda Hesser (food52, the New York Times, Cooking for Mr. Latte) is helping raise money for kid-centric writing center 826 Valencia via a special two-hour seminar called "The Art of Food Writing" at the Women's Building Nov. 7. If you've ever wo ... More >>

This month's literary events

Amazon.comAmanda Hesser.​East Coast food scribe Amanda Hesser (food52, the New York Times, Cooking for Mr. Latte) is helping raise money for kid-centric writing center 826 Valencia via a special two-hour seminar called "The Art of Food Writing" at the Women's Building Nov. 7. If you've ever wo ... More >>

Crunk's Not Dead, the Haberdash, Kelley Stoltz, Godwaffle Noise Pancakes and More

Jenna Riot plays El Rio this Friday​Let's get cultured, San Francisco. Put on your leopard-skin pill-box hat and paint the town red. But before you brave those cruel streets, check our list of cheap things to do this weekend for less than the cost of a quality whiskey sour. Here are ten things fo ... More >>

Starved Budget Kills Subsidies for Cartoon Museum, School That Trains Pornographers

​Barbara Garcia, the tough-talking deputy director of the city's Department of Children, Youth, and their Families, was quoted in Friday's Chronicle saying it's no more Ms. Nice Gal for San Francisco nonprofits who don't produce a good bang for their taxpayer buck.A new city report however su ... More >>

Free Ice Cream Social in the Mission's Garfield Square

​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 - ... More >>

Rump Up the Volume

​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 - ... More >>

Alain de Botton's Pleasures and Sorrows of Work ― and Food

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 foo ... More >>

Dog Is My Co-Pilot

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 foo ... More >>

Art on the Page

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 foo ... More >>

New York, San Francisco Swapping Hipsters Like Spit

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 foo ... More >>

Eggers NYT OpEd: Debate Over Torch Heats Up

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 foo ... More >>

A Heartbreaking Groove

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 foo ... More >>

Writers’ Block Party

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 foo ... More >>

Notebooks From the Underground

This is the summer to put pen to paper

Plugged in -- ASD's music picks for Tuesday, June 5

This is the summer to put pen to paper

School's Out for Summer

Be a kid again when you share some time with local youngsters

Our guide to readings, spoken word, and other literary events

Be a kid again when you share some time with local youngsters

Our guide to readings, spoken word, and other literary events

Be a kid again when you share some time with local youngsters

In the Stacks

Making a case for libraries

Mad Doodling

A comic gross-out

Music by Thistle

Lyrics by LeRoy

Further Browsing

Our guide to readings, spoken word, and other literary events

Protest Song

What Are Words For?

Further Browsing

Our guide to readings, spoken word, and other literary events

The Paminator

DJ "I rule the school"

Further Browsing

Our guide to readings, spoken word, and other literary events

Improve Your Karma in the New Year

Volunteering can fill your spiritual tank – and be cool, too

Further Browsing

Volunteering can fill your spiritual tank – and be cool, too

Further Browsing

Our guide to readings, spoken word, and other literary events

Get Lit

The Bay Area's homegrown literary fete offers an all-out orgy of word love

Slumming

The underbelly of San Francisco's bar scene

Fiery Lizards

Play on wheels is a real hot tomato

Reclamation Project

Pirates and other hooligans retake Haight Street for the only cause that matters -- love

Port in a Storm

The cool nautical art of Bill Daniel, complete with a "back-to-the-land punk pirate"

Weathered

Underground but not forgotten

Best Writing School for Youth

826 Valencia

Letters to the Editor

Week of February 12, 2002

Boyz Night Out

Jeez, can't these Raiders players take a joke about golden showers?

SHOPS

Jeez, can't these Raiders players take a joke about golden showers?

Letters to the Editor

Week of September 4, 2002

Letters to the Editor

Week of August 28, 2002

Scrambled Eggers

Even at a benefit for kids, the spotlight still shines on the world-famous author