Ambrose Bierce

October Book Events: Literary Happenings in San Francisco

Pisco Punch, a Butt-Kicking Sip of S.F. History

Kenn Wilson/FlickrThe version at Pisco Latin Lounge: From the Monkey Block to your lips.​The mind can touch on all sorts of topics when allowed to wander unimpeded. So it was that as we reflected on Chinatown's annual Double 10 celebration commemorating the overthrow of the Xing Dynasty on Oct ... More >>

Right in the Kisser

Kenn Wilson/FlickrThe version at Pisco Latin Lounge: From the Monkey Block to your lips.​The mind can touch on all sorts of topics when allowed to wander unimpeded. So it was that as we reflected on Chinatown's annual Double 10 celebration commemorating the overthrow of the Xing Dynasty on Oct ... More >>

Doo Ron Ron

Kenn Wilson/FlickrThe version at Pisco Latin Lounge: From the Monkey Block to your lips.​The mind can touch on all sorts of topics when allowed to wander unimpeded. So it was that as we reflected on Chinatown's annual Double 10 celebration commemorating the overthrow of the Xing Dynasty on Oct ... More >>

The Best Minds

An epic reading for the 50th anniversary of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl"

Best Place to Walk Your Dog

Buena Vista Park

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Buena Vista Park

Squeezing the Best From Summer

The Cotati Accordion Festival isn't your grandmother's accordion festival. Well, yes it is. But it's more. Lots more.

Best Street Name

Ambrose Bierce Street

The House Of Tudor

Flagrant "Sin," guerilla guitar, super elegance, and poetic Tourettes

The Long Way Home

Looking for that Great Bay Area Writer? He's been here for two decades, composing in longhand.

Strangest Little Bar

Heinold's First and Last Chance

Crossroads

A daring new opera from ACT gives seven accounts of a slave owner's mysterious disappearance

Sound Advice

Punk goes to the Dogs, and Stephanie Galetti succumbs to darkness.

A Man Out of Time

Donald Sidney-Fryer reads at the "Tentacle Sessions"

Night Crawler

The Accouterments of Death

The Enemy Is Us

The Accouterments of Death

Snatching Saroyan

How Stanford University aced out UC Berkeley and acquired the million-dollar archives of San Francisco's most prolific author, William Saroyan -- without paying a dime

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

How Stanford University aced out UC Berkeley and acquired the million-dollar archives of San Francisco's most prolific author, William Saroyan -- without paying a dime

Aisle Seat

How Stanford University aced out UC Berkeley and acquired the million-dollar archives of San Francisco's most prolific author, William Saroyan -- without paying a dime

Hinkle, Hinkle, Little Star (Part II)

There are two joys in life - making things and breaking things - and pirate journalist Warren Hinkle has excelled at both

S.F.s 10 Tiniest Conspiracies

There are two joys in life - making things and breaking things - and pirate journalist Warren Hinkle has excelled at both