SF Politics Stanford Backtracks, Will Allow Student Who Mocked Conservatives To Graduate Conservative cancel culture lost its latest fight at Stanford, as a law student will now be allowed to graduate after posting a very funny satirical flyer linking a right-wing group to the Capital insurrection.
SF News Adoptly, The 'Tinder For Adoption,' Keeps Insisting It's Real [Update: It's Not] "Swipe right to parenthood with Adoptly, the world’s first adoption app," declared a highly suspicious pitch to SFist last week. Vaguely outraged at the illegal-sounding idea of adopting children through an app
SF News What Does It Say About SF That No One Knows If This Trashcan-Scooting Startup Is Real? Big takes on These Disruptive Times seem better suited to multimilliondollar, VC-funded, vanity-project sites than to the pages of SFist, but I'll tell you this: if no one can tell if your startup
SF News Sending Up The Sharing Economy There was a time when people sneered at the idea that people would consider renting their homes to unsupervised strangers. And who would have taken a ride in some rando's car a couple
Arts & Entertainment Oh No, Leland Yee: Shrimp Boy Mocked On 'The Daily Show' Bothered and bewildered Senator Leland Yee and optimistic Chinatown gang leader Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow appeared in a segment called “Innocent Until Who Are We Kidding?” on The Daily Show Tuesday night. And
Arts & Entertainment Matt Werner, Mind Behind 'Oakland Unseen,' Talks About Switching To Print, Faking The News, And More Matt Werner, author and tech writer at Google, has had unbridled success with the advent of Oakland Unseen, a popular parody Tumblr billed as Oakland's answer to The Onion. Last Friday, Werner released
Arts & Entertainment Help Make This Tom Hanks Statue A Reality! Wonderment Consortium, who describe themselves as "An Oakland Based Arts Collective Concerned With Uplifting Oakland Public High School Students Everywhere," have started a Kickstarter campaign that pokes a little fun at the types
SF News Osama Bin Laden Doll Alive at Local Pet Supply Store Cashing in on the Osama death craze, local pet retailer Best in Show sent out the following mass email this morning. "Osama bin Laden is dead... but Osama Bone Laden is alive and
misc Samurai Pwned Myth, Militarism + Man Boy Love -- say what? The "Asians Art Museum" have taken quite the piss out of the museum that bears the same name but without the surreptitious "s." Satirical phrases
Arts & Entertainment <em>Point Break Live!</em> Every Friday Night at Cellspace After a successful six-month reign in San Francisco last year, Point Break Live!, the "internationally lauded absurdist stage adaptation" to the Keanu Reeves gem, came back to our fair city in March and
Arts & Entertainment Film du Jour: A Queer Nativity [NSFW] A Queer Nativity from Princeton Sound System on Vimeo. Well, this looked like festive fun. A Queer Nativity, a 15 minute play that happened at Dolores Park on Saturday night, was a holiday
misc Berkeley + <i>Daily Show</i> Segment = Hee In case you missed The Daily Show last night-- not that any member of the self-respecting Bay Area intelligentsia would dare to admit missing a second of sparkling political satire -- check out
SF News Breaking News: Record-Low Voter Turnout Expected Okay, like, people thousands and thousands of years ago, or whatever, totally died in wars and stuff so you all could have the chance to rock the vote. And like, you know, now
SF News Heh: Stephen Colbert Runs for Prez So...there you have it. Go wild with your self-conscious guffawing, Embarcadero Theater audience types!
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Last week's winner, the deceptive SF Weekly. Letters abound, either outraged by the fake Barry Bonds story or entertained by the elk. Why don't the negative letters have the names of the authors?
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>Hot House</i> Filmmaker Shimon Dotan spent about a year interviewing various imprisoned Palestinian political terrorists about their lives and their crimes. We were a little startled that even people serving multiple life sentences in a
Arts & Entertainment Review: Comedy Death-Ray at SketchFest SFist was excited to hit SketchFest’s Comedy Death-Ray act last night at Cobb’s. The line up (full of Mr. Show and I LOVE the ‘80’s alumns) looked promising. After the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews Kasper Hauser's <em>SkyMaul</em> So what kinds of items have the Hauser gang come up with? Well, how's about Medical Test Results Fortunes Cookies. Or a Transforkshire Terrier ("this incredible kids' toy transforms from a dog to
SF News Newsweek Calls Us Loony It's kind of a fun article too in that it's not often you see Bevan, the Bay Guardian, and Tommi Avicolli Mecca quoted in a national newsmagazine. But why, once again, are we
Arts & Entertainment Blah...Blah...Harry Potter...Blah... In order to provide you, dear readers, with the best content we can provide, SFist occasionally has to delve into things with which we might not want to delve into. Case in point
Arts & Entertainment Season of Hate We're just blamelessly living our idyllic lives out here: blue skies, a Democratic mayor, a modern art museum that doesn't cost $20 to get into, a panda bear coming to Oakland..... when suddenly,
Arts & Entertainment B-boy Battle in the Blogosphere! Forget Mount St. Helens - there's been an eruption right here in the blogosphere! While checking out 1115.org's debate recap, we kept scrolling to a post on Nelly dissing political MCs (classy