Tag: bookstores

Eleven SF bookstores get cash assistance from city

Oct 17, 2018 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Nearly a dozen local bookstores received a special gift from the city Tuesday morning — $103,000...

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Mission: Comics & Art needs your help

Feb 15, 2018 | Business, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

Mission: Comics & Art, the Mission’s only comic book store, is struggling to stay open, and...

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A cultural oasis at Dog Eared Books celebrates 25 years in business

Oct 21, 2017 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Dog-Eared Books will celebrate its 25th anniversary this Saturday. It’s been at 20th and Valencia...

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Saved by reader sponsors, Borderlands Books now aims to buy a building

Oct 18, 2017 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Valencia Street

When Alan Beatts announced in early 2015 that he would close his science fiction, mystery, and...

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Alley Cat Books doesn’t just sell books, it supports writers too

Jul 3, 2017 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

In 2014, Simon Crafts and his fellow employees thought the old-fashioned school desk displayed in...

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A Week After Trump, Leftist San Francisco Bookstore Modern Times Closes Doors

Nov 15, 2016 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Modern Times is closing after 45 years in San Francisco. Today is the bookstore’s last day, coming...

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Mission Bookstores Unite at Make-Out Room Tonight

Oct 11, 2016 | Events, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

The Make-Out Room will host a “words and music celebration” to benefit the literary...

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VIDEO: Artists Contemplate Homelessness, Solutions

Aug 31, 2016 | Art, Events, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Multimedia, Newsletter, SF Homeless Project, Today's Mission, Video

Poets got on their soapboxes, photographers and painters displayed their work, and screen-printers...

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Mission Designer Pens Cat-Themed History Coloring Book

Aug 30, 2016 | Art, Front Page, Mobile, Today's Mission

If you’re an adult who has been swept by the coloring book craze or have youngsters who have...

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Homelessness and the Cost of Neglect at Alley Cat

Aug 18, 2016 | 24th Street, Art, Events, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Neglect is more expensive than compassion – that’s the message of the artists exhibiting...

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Sponsors Support, Save SF Mission Genre Bookstore

Apr 4, 2016 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Valencia Street

A science fiction, mystery and horror bookstore that has weathered some 19 years on Valencia...

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Modern Times Bookstore Seeks New Owner

Nov 25, 2015 | Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission

Capp Street Crap reported on Monday that the 44-year-old Modern Times Bookstore on 24th Street...

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San Francisco’s Dissident Voices Unite at Book Fair

Nov 16, 2015 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Newsletter, Today's Mission, Topics

While San Francisco may seem to have lost its radical edge, grassroots activists who...

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Bookstore Robbed With Taser

Jun 16, 2015 | Front Page, Mobile, Today's Mission, Trouble

At around 10 a.m. on Monday, a 30- to 40-year-old man entered Alley Cat Bookstore on 24th Street...

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El Maíz nos Hace Volar en Luna’s Press & Bookstore

Mar 27, 2015 | En Español, Mobile

El escritor Salvadoreño Jorge Argueta y su esposa, Holly Ayala, han establecido un gran sueño...

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At Luna’s Press & Bookstore Corn Makes Us Fly

Mar 26, 2015 | Business, Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Today's Mission

Inside a sliver of upper Mission Street, Salvadoran writer Jorge Argueta and his wife, Holly...

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