Hours:
Su-Thu 9am-8pm;
Fri & Sat 9am-9pm
Red Hill Is Turning 5! Come to our Party on June 7th!
It's our fifth year in business, and we'd love to have you help us celebrate! To that end, everything in the store will be 25% off, all day on Sunday, June 7th. We'll be having cake and other celebratory edibles (and imbibables), and we'll of course be hosting the beloved Knuckle Knockers, playing in their usual slot from 3 to 5.
We are so grateful to be a part of the Bernal community- we would never have made it this far without you! Looking forward to many more years of sharing good books, good music and great conversation with you, our friends,
The Red Hill Crew
Story Hour Schedule Change + Hours of Operation Change
Hello story hour fans big and small (and with tails and without tails)! We at Red Hill just wanted to let you know that Patrick has moved his story hour from Wednesday to Friday. It will still start at 10 am- come early for a good seat for the show!
Valerie's story hours will continue on her regular schedule, 10 am on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Also, Red Hill now has an earlier bedtime on the weekends- we need our beauty sleep! We are now closing an hour earlier on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, which means that the latest you can get your literary fix on Friday and Saturday is 8 pm, and 7 pm on Sunday.
Many thanks, and please don't hesitate to call us with any questions you have!
Happy New Year!
It's been an amazing year of growth and change at Red Hill, and none of it would have been possible without you, our fabulous customers and friends. Kate, Sierra, Carole, Matt, Esteban and Patrick would like to take this opportunity to tip our collective hat to you. We know times are tough, and your dedication to spending your hard-earned time and money with us is making it possible for us to dig in for the long haul. Thank you all so much for your love and support!
In January, we'll be taking a little breather from doing extra events in order to recover from the holidays and gear up for another exciting year of bookselling. We'll still have all our usual fantastic bands on Sundays, and we're still doing three reading hours a week for the wee ones. Check back with us in February for more fantastic music and book-related events!
For now, we're going to start actualizing our New Year's resolutions:
*develop a frequent buyers' program
*shift sections around to make the store . . .
Red Hill's Short Attention Span Book Club Gets a Makeover
As many of you may know, Red Hill's own Short Attention Span Book Club has been on hiatus for several months now. Good news: the book club's been totally retooled and revamped, and will now take place at Dog Eared Books, under the eager and learned stewardship of Dog Eared's own Dan. The first meeting is set for Wednesday, December 17th, at 7 pm. The first pick is The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, which Dog Eared has available on remainder right now, so you can pick it up for cheap! Huzzah!
Please call the Dog Eared folks at 415-282-1901 for more information about the club.
Thanks to all of the SASBC's loyal attendees- your patience has been much appreciated, and has allowed us to approach the club with renewed verve. Happy reading!
Autumn Notes
It's officially Fall in San Francisco- time to put your clothes back on, can the last of your tomatoes and finish knitting that scarf you started last winter.
We've been busy at Red Hill Books too- when you visit us next, you may notice that a lot of things have been moved around (yes, the couch is still here, never fear!). If you can't find your favorite section, don't be afraid to ask us to point you in the right direction. We hope you'll agree that the changes are for the better; we love how much more open the store already feels.
We've pared down the events schedule this month, which means that although all your favorite Sunday bands will be playing their regular schedule, we won't be doing a Full Moon Concert for October. We will, however, have a fabulous mystery writer reading from her new book on Halloween Eve (Halloween-een?), and we will be handing out treats on Red Hill's front steps starting at dusk on Halloween. We also have a ton of great events planned for . . .
Sunday, July 5 - 1:00PM
When the Time Comes Reading and Discussion
When the Time Comes: Families with Aging Parents Share Their Struggles and Solutions is a timely and compassionate book about the often difficult decisions facing many families that include elderly parents. Written by journalist Paula Span, a regular contributor to the New York Times' "New Old Age" blog and an award-winning member of the faculty at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, When the Times Comes is like a support group in print, following a dozen families who help their aging parents navigate old age in a variety of ways. While it is not a how-to manual, it is practical and useful; it includes a resource lists, distillations of a great many academic studies, and interviews with researchers, experts and advocates.
For more information on Span and When the Time Comes, please visit her website.
We hope you'll join us for this important reading and discussion!
Sunday, July 5 - 3:00PM
No Knuckle Knockers Today- But There Will Be Klezmer!
The Knuckle Knockers have their traveling hats on this month- we'll miss them! However, we are very lucky to be welcoming accordionist Rob Reich and his equally musically gifted friends back to Red Hill today from 3 to 5! Rob et al play amazing klezmer music, so if you missed it last week, come by this week to experience it firsthand.
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 five-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 and brimstone.
The Knuckle Knockers are: Karen Celia Heil, of the Creole Belles on fiddle, guitar, banjo, and vocals; Martha Hawthorne of the Stairwell Sisters, 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, . . .
Haruki's Pick
Book Advice from Haruki Murakami
This month, our resident canine biblio-expert will address two burning book-related questions. The first is, "What do I do with a moldy or musty book?" Haruki says, "There are several things you can do. One is to put it in the freezer, in a sealed plastic bag, for several days; that should kill the active mold. Also, if it is not a really valuable book, or is more sentimental in value, baking soda liberally applied can help get rid of that distinctive rotten-book smell. Sunlight will also slow the mold and mustiness, but long exposure to sun and heat will warp the boards of a hardback and cause browning and curling in paperbacks.
Rubbing alcohol will also slow mold and must growth, but again, this will discolor and stain the book, so be careful how much and where you apply it. It's fine on a plastic cover, but applying it to raw paper will damage the material.
The second question of the day is, "Why on earth did I so much enjoy that book that I know is horrible and trashy and . . .
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