Hours:
Su-Thu 9am-8pm;
Fri & Sat 9am-9pm
Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema, Baby
Save the dates! Red Hill Books is participating in this year's Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema.
We will show short independent films for kids on August 30th. Yes...we will be showing the films indoors....
It's gonna be a blast!
Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema a whirl-wind 10+ days of screenings and special events - starting on Saturday, August 23 and finishing on Sunday,
September 7. If you can't keep up with all of the scheduled screenings, look no further than one of the 5,000 postcards mailed out to Bernal neighbors. We've got quite a stack on our front desk!
Also, team up for the first "24-hour Video Challenge" as Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema invites individuals to produce a 1-minute video in a one-day competition similar to Cinemasports. The competition
requires a team of individuals to meet, conceptualize, shoot, edit and post a
1-minute video in a 24-hour time period. A screening of the participants' work
follows with the best of the contestants' work to be . . .
Story Hour is Now Three Mornings a Week at Red Hill
Nothing like getting the day started with a good story and a song or two.
Every Wednesday at 10am, all the kids can count on Patrick Sosa to provide the best show on Cortland Avenue as Story Hour continues with Cherrios, board books and the hokey pokey! Patrick's always got a good story to tell!
Every Tuesday and Thursday at 10am, artist, itinerant librarian, and longtime Bernal neighbor, Valerie Reichert gets everybody reading, clapping and singing along. We are happy and we know it.
We'll Trade Ya!
Huzzah! Making Cortland Avenue the Grand Trunk Road of Bernal Heights, we've got trade for your books happenin' again at Red Hill. So thanks for your patience as we took a deep breath and picked apart the shelves so you can get cherry picked editions for your summer reading! So bring it in!
Let's see what you've got! Cause we always love a good trade.
Happy Pride Everybody!!
Just a quick note to say we hope everyone continues the spirit of Pride Week everyday.
It's been so great to hear people greet each other with "Happy Pride!"
Read Fast, Leave a Good Looking Shelf or Book Buyer Gone Fishin'
There's nothin' we like more than a good book trade. But right now, fact is, we've got more books than we've bargained for! So all the buyers at Red Hill are making serious shelf space. This means two things for you: our cash/trade deals for books are on hold for a bit...so we can't buy any books off you BUT we have a ton of great books marked way down so you can take advantage of our piles and grab some great reads for summer! And not to worry, our fishing trips never last too long, just long enough come back with a good story. In the meantime, if you want to make a trade now, bring your books to our sister store Dog Eared on 20th and Valencia.
Saturday, August 23 - 7:00PM
Chris Carlsson: Nowtopia!
Chris Carlsson is a Renaissance San Franciscan. The Bay Guardian named him a true local hero because of so many vital areas where he puts his visionary thoughts and energies into serious actions for the better of us all. He is an initiator of Critical Mass, he is the heart rate of Counter Pulse, he directs and edits Shaping San Francisco, he has edited four collections of political and historical essays. His most recent book is After The Deluge, a utopian novel of post-economic San Francisco. He was one of the original founders and long-time editor of Processed World magazine. So he's not only really smart and engaging, but he's utterly affable and inspiring.
His new book, Nowtowpia uncovers resistance and rebellion amidst fractions of a slowly recomposing working class in America. Rarely self-identifying as mere ‘workers,’ people from all walks of life are doing incredible amounts of work in their “free” “non-work” time. This unpaid work is creating immediate practical . . .
Sunday, August 24 - 7:00PM
The Knuckle Knockers
Homey hayseeds hailing from the Heights of Bernal, the Knuckle Knockers stoke the raging fires of the vintage American music tradition. Blazing fiddles, mandolin, guitar, and 5 string banjo set the bookstore in front porch toe tappin mode. The Knuckle Knockers pipe in on all the favorite themes that fill any narrative need: love & death, fire & brimstone.
The Knuckle Knockers are: Karen Celia Heil, of the Creole Belles (look for them at this year's Fiesta on the Hill) on fiddle, guitar, banjo, and vocals. Martha Hawthorne of the Stairwell Sisters (who have just released a new hot-selling album) on guitar, banjo, vocals. And Bill Foss a beloved Bay Area Old Timer who performs in everybody's band (the Crooked Jades and the Earl Brothers, et al.) because he's so dang good, on mandolin, fiddle, banjo, vocals.
http://www.myspace.com/theknuckleknockers
Tony's Pick
Netherland
Just finished "Netherland" and wanted to jot down a few impressions.
One is that I enjoyed reading this novel very much. O'Neill's
descriptive powers are awesome and images he creates linger on. The
title "Netherland" refers to Holland, where the narrator [and the
author] grew up, and also to New York State, which was the former
Dutch colony "New Netherland." But "Netherland" also means literally
"low land," as in the French term for Belgium and Holland "les pays
bas." This is the nadir of Hans van der Broek's life: his lawyer wife
has taken his son back to her parents' home in England, fleeing NYC in
the wake of the 9-11 attacks. [Her criticisms of the U.S. response to
these attacks are severe.] Hans wanders the island of Manhattan, lost
in his reveries of his childhood in Holland and his failed marriage,
until by chance he's reunited with an old beloved hobby from his
youth: the game of cricket. Thus enters the transitional figure Chuck
Ramkissoon, who . . .
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