) at the SF Jewish Film Fest, the mood of wicked glee was somewhat sobered by the person that we abruptly realized was security standing in front of the theater. (Nothing happened, though, as far as we know.) more ›

There's so much going on across the Ist-a-Verse that it's almost impossible to keep track these days. Fortunately, we do it so you don't have to! more ›

With Rita's blessing, we bring you a brand new column called "We Read the Glossies." It's just like "We Read the Weeklies" only with monthly glossies. Here we review the February issues of Diablo, San Francisco Magazine, San Jose Magazine, and 7x7. more ›

From NWZCHIK, we get today's batty neighbor story concerning someone in San Mateo who is drawing ire from her neighbors for scribbling messages supposedly from God all over her house. And by house, we mean like the roof and the walls. And her car. Which also has signs on top of it. Not all of the postings are about religion too, some are about politics and the deeds of the government. The house, actually, looks like this shed we had by our High School in which everyone from the Senior Class wrote graffiti on it to celebrate their graduation. more ›

The San Francisco Film Critics Circle announced their season ending yesterday, something of which we are constantly told could mean something when it comes to the Oscars. The idea, we guess, being that these awards are like the NCAA brackets: Movie A wins the SF Flim Critics and movie B wins the LA Film Critics award, then they go off to meet the winner of the New York Critics Awards with the winner being the front-runner for Oscar gold. Or something like that. more ›

Cultural Learnings of Blogosphere for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of -Ist-a-verse more ›

That eavesdropping case we've been following took another step to eventually seeing the light of as an appeals court has decided to review the decision by U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker that the lawsuit should move forward despite the whining of the Federal Government. The eavesdropping case, for those who don't remember, was brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation against the Government and AT&T for reading things they shouldn't be reading. Of what, we don't know but its super serious and of utmost importance to the War on Terror. And porn. We're sure somewhere they're checking out porn. more ›

--Are the A's moving to Fremont? more ›

Niners 9, Vikings 3-- In all honesty, we didn't watch any of this game. We went to see Borat instead. And you know what we thought of the movie? It was fine but we're a little concerned in that for the next month or so ,everyone will be going around saying "high five" or "very nice" or even "va-GINA" in that faux-accent of his. Fear it. You want to know why we think David Chappelle went crazy? Because everywhere he went, every white guy would go up to him and either say "I'm Rick James, bitch" or the L'il Jon impression. It would drive anyone crazy. We're pretty sure the Bush administration uses it at Guantanomo. more ›

Last week's winner, the East Bay Express. DAMN Choreography objects to an article about them with the title "Tits and Assets." It's their special East Bay politics issue! Political bloggers wreaking havoc in Alameda, that Democrat running against Pombo might actually win, hipsters are voting for Aimee Allison. The EBX recommendations, plus a genius move -- polling people about fake propositions. We liked the school vending machine tax to go to anti-bullying programs, and the requirement that the voter info guide be written at a 6th grade reading level the best. Jonestown the documentary is opening. Sichuan food in Fremont. A Rock The Voter blows off learning about the propositions to tool around town. And the Sunday morning rap radio show on KALX has been cancelled. more ›

As fall settles in and another calendar page gets turned, thoughts turn from bbq's and vacations to holidays and the realization that '06 is coming to an end. With all that going on, with change in the air, we wonder what is it that made that makes the -ists ponder? more ›

Our vulgar friend to the south, Defamer, points out why: more ›