Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation Evicts SF Booklovers' 'Institution'
By Peter Jamison
In a section of the Tenderloin just off Market Street and 5th, where check-cashing outfits and strip clubs give way to desolate, garbage-littered streets, is the kind of store that San Franciscans love to say they love. It's McDonald's Bookshop, an emporium of more than a million used books, magazines and records that's been doing business on Turk Street since 1926. In its cavernous reading roo
Hidden in the city's special day classes, like the roots of San Francisco's segregation itself, are disproportionately high numbers of African-American and Latino kids.
New school superintendent Arlene Ackerman has fostered educational excellence -- and ignited political firestorms. Her first major initiative? A significant shift in funding, from wealthier to poorer schools, being planned behind closed doors.
Farm CityNot as idyllic as you might think.Oakland farmer and Ghost Town Farm blogger Novella Carpenter has a book detailing what it's like to nurture a farm plot -- in an "affordable" part of downtown Oakland. Carpenter is reading from her book, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer, at Omnivore Books (3885a Cesar Chavez at Church) from 3 to 4 p.m. on Sunday. The book describes dumpster-diving for vegetable scraps, delivering salad greens to the Black Panther's youth literacy progr
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