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The Best of Books

What people are reading (April 2013)

By Sandy Mullin

Books Inc. hardcover best-seller list CHLOE’S VEGAN DESSERTS, by Chloe Coscarelli CITY OF THIEVES, by David Benioff FRIENDSHIPS DON’T JUST HAPPEN: THE GUIDE TO CREATIN... Read More
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In the mood for a melody? Hit the City’s last piano bars

By Maryann LoRusso

Some say it’s a nightlife tradition that’s gone the way of barbershop quartets and burlesque. Thanks to clubs, concerts, and karaoke, San Francisco’s piano-bar sc... Read More
The Best of Books

What people are reading (March 2013)

Books Inc. hardcover best-seller list TENTH OF DECEMBER: STORIES, by George Saunders GONE GIRL: A NOVEL, by Gillian Flynn MY BELOVED WORLD, by Sonia Sotomayor TO SELL IS HUMAN: TH... Read More
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Nightlife venues moonlight as art galleries

Art rocks
By Maryann LoRusso

It is a typical Friday night at the 111 Minna Gallery in SoMA. Hipsters crowd the dance floor, drinks in hand, scanning the room for something or someone interesting. A few gazes l... Read More
The Best of Books

What people are reading (February 2013)

By compiled by sandy mullin

Books Inc. hardcover best-seller list Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn CITY OF THIEVES: A NOVEL, by David Benioff TENTH OF DECEMBER: STORIES, by George Saunders A MEMORY OF LIGHT, by R... Read More
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The Book and the Binding at the Legion of Honor

By Sharon Anderson

Through May 12, 2013, the Legion of Honor museum will feature the art of book design in the exhibition The Book and the Binding. It features unique selections from the Reva and Dav... Read More
The Best of Books

What people are reading

By Sandy Mullin

Books Inc. hardcover best-seller list GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn THE SIGNAL AND THE NOISE: WHY MOST PREDICTIONS FAIL — BUT SOME DON’T, by Nate Silver  HELP THANKS W... Read More
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We have well arrived: The backstory on the end of the Mayan calendar

By Sharon Anderson

If you’re reading this, then the world didn’t come to an end on Dec. 21, 2012. But was that the real story behind the Mayan calendar end date? My cousin sends me letter... Read More
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SFJazz founder and executive artistic director Randall Kline and the transcendent moment

By Ernest Beyl

SFJazz will open the first freestanding building in this country completely devoted to “the sound of surprise.”... Read More
A & E, Features

Blast from the past: For one longtime Marina hairstylist, everything old is new again

By Maryann LoRusso

I sit in a salon chair as my long hair is slowly unraveled from huge plastic rollers. I have just spent a half-hour under an old-fashioned hooded hairdryer, so that my locks, satu... Read More
The Best of Books

What people are reading

By Sandy Mullin

Books Inc. hardcover best-seller list 1. GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn 2. SIGNAL & NOISE, by Nate Silver 3. FLIGHT BEHAVIOR, by Barbara Kingsolver 4. BLASPHEMY, by Sherman Alexi... Read More
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Sociopolitical art: Ai Weiwei retrospective in Washington D.C.

By Sharon Anderson

“Liberty is about our rights to question everything.” — Ai Weiwei In early 2011, the artist Ai Weiwei was arrested at an airport in Beijing. He was held for months ... Read More
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Flea market find turned stolen goods: The adventures of a Renoir painting

By Sharon Anderson

Treasures are found in the strangest and most unexpected of places, sometimes in our own backyard. That’s what a woman in Virginia discovered recently when she found a box in... Read More
The Best of Books

What people are reading

By Sandy Mullin

Books Inc. hardcover best-seller list CITY OF THIEVES, by David Benioff AN EVERLASTING MEAL, by Tamar Adler NOW YOU SEE ME, by S.J. Bolton SENSE OF AN ENDING, by Julian Barnes 50 ... Read More
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Marina author Kimberly Lovato lands travel writing awards

By John Zipperer

Proving that a lifelong love of France can pay off, Kimberley Lovato received two awards in September from the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation. Lovato’s book Wa... Read More


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