By Donna Sachet– The Grand Ducal Council is to be congratulated on a spectacular weekend, starting with their 50th Anniversary Gala on Friday, September 22, at the California Academy of…
By Christopher Vasquez– “Principled,” “brilliant,” and “quirky.” Those are just some of the words that Shannon Minter’s colleagues used to describe him, but probably the most accurate would be “much-beloved.”…
By Joanie Juster– Across the country, people who believe in free speech have been rising up to fight back against the epidemic of book bans that has swept the U.S.…
Banned Books Week ends on October 7, but the San Francisco Public Library will continue to step into the national debate with public programs and displays designed to raise awareness…
By Dr. Bill Lipsky– “He who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.” —John Milton, Areopagitica, 1644 For hundreds of…
By Michele Karlsberg– Michele Karlsberg: This month J.M. Redmann brings us the eleventh Micky Knight mystery, Transitory. As a reviewer at Amazon wrote: “It tells of the horrible things happening…
Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue Donaghue returns to lesbian stomping grounds in Learned by Heart. Tomboys and queer ladies abound in this riff on Anne Lister and her friends…
Ryan and Avery (fiction – hardbound) by David Levithan A blue-haired boy (Ryan) meets a pink-haired boy (Avery) at a dance—a queer prom and both feel an inexplicable but powerful…
The de Young Open has returned this fall as a newly established triennial, building on the success of the hugely popular inaugural iteration in 2020. Designed for local artists from diverse…
A few members of our San Francisco Bay Times team recently stopped for a quick lunch at ACRE Kitchen & Bar in Oakland, just across from the Rockridge BART Station.…
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