Mesh Magazine

PostSecret started as a community art project and has totally blown up… giving its creator Frank Warren three bestselling books. His newest effort is called A Lifetime of Secrets and he’ll be signing copies & giving a talk at The Booksmith @ 6 pm tonight.

He’ll be followed by actor, radio host and satirist Harry Shearer who will be reading selects from his first novel, Not Enough Indians.

Friend of Mesh Jason Cassidy started an MP3 blog today, Your New Favorite Song, where he promises to feature one new favorite song per day, five days per week, everything from ’80s-era Paul-Simon-sounding indie rock to Kelly Clarkson to Bone Thugs featuring Akon. Jason hails from Chico, California (that all-important tour stop between Portland and San Francisco), where he plays music, writes about music, and organizes shows.

Emily Donelan is a writer and television producer in San Francisco with a passion for art and design. Check out her posts on artists, design trends and events in the Bay Area.

Born in Washington, DC, an SF transplant by way of Chicago. When Emily’s not eating burritos in Dolores Park, she’s writing for tornados in brooklyn.

Molly Ivins, the incredibly intelligent, funny and populist writer from Texas died today after a battle with breast cancer.  Here are some words from last column, published January 11th:

“”We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war.”

I saw this on SF Party Party and just may have to nerd-out and head down to the Mission Branch Library (300 Bartlett @ 24th Street) tonight for a lecture on the history of the Mission District by Bernadette C. Hooper, author of San Francisco’s Mission District.