Start the year off with a good laugh at SF in SF. On Saturday January 9th we present:

• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Life of Brian

Doors open at 6PM, films begin at 6:30PM
The Variety Preview Room, 582 Market St. @ Montgomery, 1st floor of The Hobart Bldg., San Francisco

Raffle for a special Spamalot giveaway before the film starts!

Nothing says “Happy Friday December 25th” like bagels & lox and Star Trek. Bill and Leonard are kvelling!

What the heck – it’s a day off from work, the stores are closed, we can sleep late, and then head to a party!

We’ll be opening the doors at 11:30 with a bagel & lox brunch, coffee, tea and cocoa, and maybe a little Xmas cheer nog!!! Feel free to bring anything else you like!

Before the show begins, we’ll be raffling off some Star Trek schwag…tshirts, posters and stuff.

12:30ish – Where No Fan Has Gone Before
1:00ish – Star Trek (2009)
3:30ish – Trials & Tribble-ations

Times are approximate – we’ll take a few minutes break in between each screening.

No need to spend the ordinary day doing laundry at home – come live long and prosper with us!

Please RSVP just so we know how many bagels to bring along 🙂 Bring your friends and family, but no pets.

The Variety Preview Room Theatre, The Hobart Bldg. 1st Floor – entrance between Citibank & Quiznos, 582 Market Street at 2nd & Montgomery, San Francisco.

Take BART or MUNI to Montgomery Street – we’re right there. Street parking meters will be free since it’s Friday, December 25th!

Our first reading of 2010 will take place on Saturday January 16th and will feature Nancy Etchemendy and Jeff Carlson. Details to follow.

Update: Sorry – sold out

One last gift for the holidays to you and yours from SF in SF….

We’ll be screening Disney’s new fantasy movie The Princess and the Frog on Saturday, December 19th.

Set in the city of New Orleans comes a modern twist on a classic tale, featuring a beautiful girl named Tiana , a frog prince who desperately wants to be human again, and a fateful kiss that leads them both on an adventure through the mystical bayous of Louisiana. (Rated G)

This event includes lunch, cookies, cocoa, coffee & tea for the adults, and a gift bag for each child. The film will begin at 1PM, and is 97 mins. long. We’ll also be showing Fred Claus afterwards, if you want to stay for the double-feature.

Reservations are a must – cost at the door is $15 for one adult, one child, and $25 for one adult, two children ($10 for each additional child). Seating is limited, hence, you must RSVP for this event as it will sell out.

If you would like to attend, please email us to assure your place at the event. You must have a child attending with you 🙂

Just when you thought you were safe from great movie events, look what’s coming to San Francisco!

Sunday, November 22nd: 5:30 PM

Where the Wild Things Are

2009 – 101 minutes. Director, Spike Jonze / Screenplay, Dave Eggers
Based on the classic children’s book, Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak.

Movie will begin at 6:00 PM

POPCORN AND CANDY!

Seating is limited to 60 – first come, first seated. Numbers will be given at the door to ensure that seating is available.

A $5 donation at the door, or cash at the bar goes directly to Variety Children’s Charity of Northern California.

Variety Preview Theatre, The Hobart Building, 1st floor – entrance is between Quiznos & Citibank, 582 Market Street at 2nd & Montgomery, San Francisco,

Saturday, November 14: 7:00 PM

This is our last author event for 2009!
There will be cupcakes 🙂 Yes, they go with whiskey!

SF in SF presents an evening of readings, schmoozing and book signing to close out our 2009 event year. Authors will read a selection, followed by Q & A moderated by author Terry Bisson. Book signing follows in the lounge; books for sale courtesy of Borderlands Books.

Jeff VanderMeer, recent Guest of Honor at the World Fantasy Convention 2009, is touring for his final novel in his Ambergris Cycle, Finch, published by Underland Books, and for his writers’ guide Booklife, published by Tachyon Publications. His associated Booklifenow website focuses on sustainable creativity, and is a unique writing guide to sustainable careers and sustainable creativity – the first to fully integrate discussion of the role of new media into topics that have always been of interest to writers. With his wife, Ann VanderMeer, he’s edited the charity anthology Last Drink Bird Head, New Weird, and Steampunk. His short fiction has appeared in Conjunctions, Library of America’s American Fantastic Tales, and several year’s best anthologies. He writes nonfiction for The Washington Post Book World, Omnivoracious, The New York Times Book Review, the B&N Review, and many others. Do ask him about the release date for SquidPunk!!

S. G. Browne, is the author of Breathers: A Zombie’s Lament, a dark comedy about life after undeath told from the perspective of a zombie. His second novel, Fated, is a dark, irreverent comedy about fate, destiny, and the consequences of getting involved in the lives of humans. His take on zombies: “So what happened to make them so popular today? I’ll tell you what happened. Zombies were taken out of their proverbial archetypal box. No longer are they just the shambling, mindless, flesh-eating ghouls we’ve known and loved for most of the part four decades. They’ve expanded their range, become more versatile. More well-rounded. And who doesn’t enjoy a well-rounded zombie?” Introduce the modern complications of a zombie trying to find himself in this mad, mad world, and how best to bring your undead girlfriend home to meet mom, and you’ve got yourself a story!!

Seating is limited – first come, first seated

The Variety Preview Theatre, The Hobart Bldg., 1st Floor (Entrance is between Quiznos & Citibank), 582 Market St. @ 2nd and Montgomery, San Francisco

For those of you who can’t make it to SF in SF, you can see Jeff VanderMeer on tour in the Bay Area for Finch and Booklife at these venues:

Friday, November 13th 7:00 PM

Copperfields Books, Petaluma store

Sunday, November 15th 3:00 PM

Clayton Books, Clayton

Tonight there will be another mass signing at Borderlands by authors who attended World Fantasy over the weekend. Mary Robinette Kowal will be there, and she mentions Laird Barron, Marie Brennan, Lynn Ceasar, Nancy Etchemendy, Cody Goodfellow, Elaine Isaak, Nick Mamatas, Diana Paxson, Mark Teppo, Tony Richards, Michael Shea and John Skipp as also attending. To that we can add Paolo Bacigalupi, Ellen Datlow, Nina Kriki Hoffman and Cecelia Holland. There will probably be others. The event is timed for 6:30 – 8:00 pm.

There is anther event at 7:00 pm on Tuesday evening featuring authors who are involved with the Interfictions 2 anthology. That should include Amelia Beamer, Delia Sherman, Ellen Kushner Anna Tambour, and Ray Vukcevich. Some of those may turn up tonight as well.

And finally, on Saturday, November 7th at 3:00 pm Katharine Kerr will be doing a signing for The Silver Mage.

Tomorrow night (Wednesday 28th) Borderlands books is hosting a group signing for many of the authors who are attending the World Fantasy Convention in San José over the weekend. The current line-up is: David Drake, Kate Elliot, Graham Joyce, Patricia McKillip, Garth Nix, Ken Scholes, Michael Swanwick, James Anderson, Carol Berg, Marie Brennan, Gail Carriger, David B. Coe, Steven Erikson, David Farland, David Lunde, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., John Picacio, Barbara and Christopher Roden, Mark Sebanc, S.M. Stirling, Mark Van Name, Bill Willingham, Zoran Živković, Kari Sperring, Chaz Brenchley. The signing runs from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm.

There will be a similar event on Monday Nov, 2nd. See the Borderlands web site for more details.

Join us Saturday, October 24th to start celebrating Hallowe’en a bit early…

THE SIMPSON’S TREEHOUSE OF HORROR!!

Boo! It’s a party!

If you have been living on another planet for the past 20 years, you’ll have no idea that these are a series of infamously hilarious and over the top Hallowe’en episodes for the animated series, The Simpsons.

As Halloween specials go, there’s no Great Pumpkin and no fairy princesses…but they are all the funnier for it! Usually involving the Simpson family in some horror, science fiction, or supernatural setting, they go completely overboard in abandoning any pretense of being realistic. Uh, that is, being realistic if you are an animated cartoon character on TV. We all know how mundane that life can be…

Special short before the main event!

Join us for refreshments before the film – the usual eyeballs, fingerbones, and brains, along with a cash bar benefiting Variety Children’s Charity, and for you scaredy-cats, cookies and cupcakes.

Doors open at 6PM, Film starts at 7PM

The Variety Preview Theatre, The Hobart Bldg., 1st Floor, Entrance between Quiznos and Citibank, 582 Market St. @2nd & Montgomery, San Francisco

Our Saturday reading will feature multiple Hugo Award winner Kim Stanley Robinson and Eric Simons. As usual the readings will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by host, Terry Bisson. Also come and hear news of the veritable flood of authors who will be descending on Borderlands Books in the coming weeks.

The Variety Preview Room, 582 Market St. @ Montgomery, 1st floor of The Hobart Bldg., San Francisco.

Doors Open 6:00pm. Readings start 7:00pm. Cash Bar. Proceeds, as usual to Variety.