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4/19/2012

     With its slumbering warehouses and block-long empty lots, Folsom Street, in the Mission, looks like the kind of neighborhood you'd turn to for taco trucks and... Read More»

4/17/2012

Most San Franciscans already have at least a passing familiarity with the history of our famously liberal politics. But David Talbot's new book delves to impressive depths in tracing the city's transformation from parochial... Read More»

4/17/2012

Meet the authors this weekend at the Steinbeck Festival in Las Salinas May 3-6. Ken and Melanie Light speak at 3 p.m. on Friday, May... Read More»

4/17/2012

Loquat's third full-length album achieves an impressive feat - it blends folky soft rock with synthy pop and makes it sounds great. This spunky record feels slightly more rock than electro, so for music lovers looking for an... Read More»

4/17/2012

Duane makes an appearance at Omnivore Books May 15 at 6 p.m., 3885A Cesar Chavez St., S.F., 415-282-4712, omnivorebooks.com As the... Read More»

4/17/2012

These days, it's nigh impossible to swing a dead cat in San Francisco without hitting a '60s-style garage-rock band. All you need is a couple of guitar amps that go to 11 and a drummer who bashes skins like Animal from the Muppets... Read More»

4/16/2012

Coachella is running two weekends this year and because all the bands had to agree to not perform at nearby venues, they’ve all trekked up to the Bay Area for this week in between. So if you didn’t shell out the $450... Read More»

4/2/2012

Adam Levin’s 1,000-page metafiction monstrosity of 2010, The Instructions, is a hard act to follow, but McSweeney’s has released the author’s latest effort, and it leaves you just as pleasantly stunned–at... Read More»

4/2/2012

Master memoirist Anne Lamott is back with, yes, another memoir, this one about the out-of-wedlock birth of her first grandchild by her 19-year-old son Sam, whose own out-of-wedlock birth she had chronicled in her bestseller ... Read More»