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. […]

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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 […]

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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 – […]

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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. […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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