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June Movie Night

June 21st, 2010 · Comments Off

Thursday, June 24th – Join us for two classics of Asian cinema!
NOTE EARLIER TIME
Doors and cash bar open at 5:30PM
Film start at 6:30PM
The Bride With White Hair – Bai fa mo nu zhuan (1993)(92 minutes, subtitled)
Ronny Yu’s The Bride With White Hair has become a classic of the supernatural genre. Based on a two-volumed 1954 [...]

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Tags: Jun10 · Movies

Storytime! Graphic Novels for Kids of All Ages

June 20th, 2010 · Comments Off

A Cartoon Arts Museum Exhibition
Saturday June 26 – November 14, 2010
Over the past decade, graphic novels have exploded in popularity with children and teenagers. The Cartoon Art Museum’s latest exhibition, Storytime! Graphic Novels for Kids of All Ages, features the work of ten influential cartoonists whose work broke new ground in bookstores and libraries. Their [...]

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Tags: Art · Comics · Jun10

Around the Bay

June 20th, 2010 · Comments Off

Tuesday, June 22
Kids Event
Gail Carson Levine – Fairies and the Quest for Never Land
Kepler’s – Menlo Park
Wednesday, June 23 – 6:30 PM
The Other Realms Fantasy & SF Book Club will discuss The City and the City by China Mieville
Books Inc. in Burlingame
Thursday, June 24, 7:30PM
Aimee Bender – The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
The lush and [...]

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Tags: Aimee Bender · Book Clubs · Jun10 · Scott Sigler

June Movies – A Chinese Night

June 14th, 2010 · Comments Off

For June we are presenting two Chinese films.

The Bride With White Hair (Bai fa mo nu zhuan) (92 mins.)
A Chinese Ghost Story (Sien nui yau wan) (98 mins.)

TIME CHANGED
Doors and cash bar open at 5:30PM
Film starts at 6:30PM – free popcorn! Kids welcome!
The Variety Preview Room, 582 Market St. @ Montgomery, 1st floor of The [...]

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Next Weekend at Borderlands

June 13th, 2010 · Comments Off

Here are some upcoming readings being staged by our friends at Borderlands Books.
Saturday, June 19th at 3:00 pm
David J. Williams, The Machinery of Light (Spectra)
This is the final book in the Autumn Rain trilogy.
Sunday, June 20th at 5:00 pm
Amelia Beamer, The Loving Dead (Night Shade Books)
This event is also a launch party for the book. [...]

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Tags: Amelia Beamer · David J. Williams · Jun10

June Reading: Deborah Grabien and Seanan McGuire

June 8th, 2010 · 2 Comments

It is mystery month in San Francisco in June as we welcome two local writers whose detectives are a long way from anything that Dashiell Hammett ever imagined.
Deborah Grabien’s most famous fiction is the Kinkaid Chronicles series. Her detective, J.P. Kinkaid, is the ageing guitarist with a hugely successful rock band. Kinkaid suffers from multiple [...]

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Tags: Deborah Grabien · Jun10 · Readings · Seanan McGuire