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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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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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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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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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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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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