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2005 | Best Used Bookstores

The good used bookstore is a civic necessity: You can tell a town or a neighborhood is in decline when such shops start disappearing. The Castro District hasn't been the same since its used shop shut down several years ago. A phantom experience in hyperspace isn't right either. We like to pick up a volume to get its heft, and to check for loose bindings, foxed corners, and the snail trail of ink scrawls and yellow highlighter. Good used bookstores smell of time. Here are a few we hope... More »
2000 | Best Bookstore for Used Books

Green Apple's victory in this category is, well, hardly a stunning upset. After all, if our readers' poll is anything to go on (and we hope it is) it's San Franciscans' favorite used bookstore year in and year out. And the pleasures of Green Apple are many -- its well-organized stock is tucked into so many odd nooks, accessible by several pleasantly creaky staircases, that any normal person can easily spend a whole afternoon browsing unexpected title after unexpected title, inhaling the... More »

The BrokeAss Gourmet Cookbook: $20 Meals Feed Four

By Erin Browner | Fri, May 4, 2012

How do San Franciscans afford to eat out every other night? It's time for the sensible (and broke ass) to kick the $40 fried mac 'n cheese habit and eat at home for a change. Thank the food gods for ... More »
Katie Arnold-Ratliff Reads from Bright Before Us Friday at Green Apple

By Jonathan Kiefer | Wed, May 4, 2011

At the start of Katie Arnold-Ratliff's debut novel, Bright Before Us, a 25-year-old teacher takes his second-grade class to a beach in San Francisco. It's a field trip. With discoveries. "The children... More »
Homesteading Maven Harriet Fasenfest at Green Apple Books

By Mary Ladd | Thu, November 4, 2010

Author and DIY expert Harriet Fasenfest shows up at Green Apple Books (in the Granny Smith Room, no less) to read from her paperback A Householder's Guide to the Universe (Tin House Books, $16.95). Th... More »
DIY Author Digs into Nitty-Gritty of Handmade Living at Green Apple Tomorrow

By John Birdsall, SFoodie Editor | Fri, April 30, 2010

Maybe you thought of doing the jam class thing but didn't, got shut out of the kombucha tutorial at the Women's Building, gave in and bought bogus perennials for the backyard strip. Atone for your lac... More »

2005 | Best Used Bookstores