Books and Media

Between the Lines: City Lights marks 60 years in S.F.

Allen Pierleoni - Published: 12:00 am

The landmark City Lights Booksellers & Publishers in San Francisco is celebrating its 60th year, to be highlighted by an open house June 23.

Authors of Southern cookbook plan Sacramento appearances

By Debbie Arrington - Updated: Wednesday, April 3 2013 - 6:31 am

One invention transformed the course of Southern cooking.

Recipe: Lazy girl peach batter cobbler

Between the Lines: Southgate branch librarian wins acclaim

By Allen Pierleoni - Updated: Sunday, March 31 2013 - 1:52 pm

If you haven't been inside a library lately, here's news: Things have changed. More than ever, librarians have gone high-tech in their jobs as gatherers and distributors of information, and they're very much involved in the communities they serve.

Local cook's unlikely recipe for friendship with Southern chef Nathalie Dupree

By Debbie Arrington - Updated: Tuesday, March 26 2013 - 12:04 pm

When Nathalie Dupree needed a big favor, she turned to Facebook. And that social media link brings the "Julia Child of the South" to Sacramento next week for two special appearances, celebrating the book "Mastering the Art of Southern Cooking."

Sacramento poets flex their word power at public readings

By Allen Pierleoni - Updated: Monday, March 25 2013 - 1:25 pm

Sacramento's vivid poetry scene make it clear that people of all ages still want to connect in face-to-face settings to share a sense of community, exchange ideas and express themselves through creative use of language. Sacramento's vivid poetry scene offers that chance.

The Writers Circle poetry night

Finally, Cather letters to be published - Mar 22
Furloughs will shut down all Sacramento public libraries on March 30 - Mar 20
Between the Lines: Writers workshops coming up - Mar 17
Garden reading - Mar 17
McClatchy buys firm that tracks online ads - Mar 14

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Music

Poliça is bringing its electronic buzz to capital

Channy Leaneagh's haunting, ethereal voice doesn't really sound haunting or ethereal these days.

Technology

Neighborhoods create communities with new online networks

Your dog has escaped from your backyard. You need to borrow a ladder. You're worried about a suspicious character who keeps showing up on your cul-de-sac.

Wire Book News

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Facebook unveils interface for Android phones - Apr 4
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Children's book details how a little girl became pals with a baseball legend - Apr 4

Movie News

New DVDs this week

"John Dies at the End" (R, 99 minutes, Magnolia Home Entertainment): This dark comedy is a mash-up of grindhouse gore, film-noir narration and a headache-inducing sci-fi premise about a drug that opens a portal to a parallel universe inhabited by evil creatures bent on human destruction.

Movie Reviews

Movie review: 'On the Road' – Kerouac as a buddy film

Depending on your generational vantage point, Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel "On the Road" was the defining literary event of its generation or, as Truman Capote famously observed, "just typing."

Theater and Art