Entries from SFist tagged with 'theworld'
February 21, 2008
In January we mentioned a global Monopoly board game where you could vote on which cities you want on Hasbro's latest version of the popular board game, Monopoly Here and Now: The World Edition. Fun, right? Well, not for some. Hasbro recently removed the country name "Israel" after "Jerusalem" when it received complaints from pro-Palestinian groups. And then, you guessed it, Hasbro received even more heat from people online who noticed the only city......
Continue Reading "Global Monopoly Game Embroiled in Israeli-Palestinian Conflict"
October 16, 2007
Update: Wow, that was lightning quick! The account has been suspended... and we just posted this minutes ago! Still, for shame, bayareatailgater. Don't you know that the only time this kind of thing is ever appropriate is when it's done in a men's locker room? Jerk. First off, we feel a tad icky for the following post. On one hand, we're playing into his game of profiting of his abuse of women. (For argument's......
Continue Reading "Warning: Bay Area Booty"June 21, 2007
--The SF Weekly writes us (us the site and you the readers!) a totally nice note about the mix-up over our dueling Day Around The Bay columns! Hugs! [The Snitch] --An ABC 7 blog doesn't think all this Chris Daly and Ed Jew stuff is funny! Of course it's funny! [ABC 7's The Kitchen Think.] --Thought today in the SFist comments were bad? It could always be worse. [Craigslist's SF Local Politics Discussion Forum.] --The......
Continue Reading "Day Around The Bay"June 1, 2007
There's nothing pedestrians love more than running into groups of college students clustering on the sidewalk with clipboards and messagey t-shirts, making intense eye contact and hollering, "HI OKAY WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAVE THE WORLD AWESOME YAY." Now at last you can be one of those dreadful people, and on behalf of Barry "The Mad Bomber" Hussein Mussolini Obama! The campaign's San Francisco Walk for Change starts this Saturday, the 9th, in Dolores......
Continue Reading "The Pitter-Patter of Obamian Feet"March 25, 2007
It's all about the numbers at tonight's Ask a Scientist: The World's Most Fascinating Numbers event. Ask any burning math (from pi to irrational, imaginary, familiar, and beyond) question to Keith Devlin, who is NPR's "Math Guy," as well as a prof and author. There will also be food, drinks, socializing, and chat about "the universe's most fascinating mysteries!" 7 to 9 p.m. Canvas Gallery, 1200 9th Avenue, SF 94122. If greed and scandal,......
Continue Reading "SFist Tonight"October 16, 2006
Our new favorite trivial pursuit is police radio codes and according to APCO (that's the Association of Public-Safety Communication Officials), 10-16 means "domestic trouble." So, to avoid any domestic trouble, we're heading on over to ATA (992 Valencia @ 21st) to check out the Free Form Film Festival program OUT2, a series of "outsider" shorts about the holidays. High kitsch factor alert! The screening will be followed by a performance by Sabreteeth, who will hyphenatedly......
Continue Reading "SFist Tonight Leaves the House on Monday"October 10, 2006
A few years back, it seemed like everyone we knew was vacationing in Thailand. To keep ahead of the curve in fashionable Southeast Asian travel destinations, we're heading over to the Main San Francisco Public Library (100 Larkin @ Grove) to see Wendy Yanagihara, author of “Lonely Planet’s Guide to Vietnam,” talk about her travels in said country and learn all about the off-the-beaten-path gems so we can nod sagely and make intelligent comments......
Continue Reading "SFist Tonight - Free Stuff to Do"October 4, 2006
It's that anti-war protest time of the year again! Traffic in the city will be tied up tomorrow as your favorite scruffy kettle-drum wielding and peace-flag waving World Can't Wait-ers march up and then down Market Street at noon. Oh, we love The World Can't Wait folks -- remember Bush Ter Down? This is part of an international 190-city protest against the Iraq War (with 70 of the cities are in states that voted for......
Continue Reading "Bush Ter Down!"September 12, 2006
Oh, wow, this sounds so cool! Tonight, at 6 p.m., ITVS Community Cinema, KQED, and the San Francisco Public Library are presenting a screening of The World According to Sesame Street. The World According to Sesame Street is a feature-length documentary, in cooperation with "Sesame Street," that explores the drama and complexities behind producing international versions of the world’s most-watched children’s television program. Get to the Main Library's (100 Larkin Street in Civic Center) Koret......
Continue Reading "SFist Tonight"July 20, 2006
We've clocked more hours in Maiden Lane's pocket-sized social club, Otis than our liver cares to think about, but the only famous people we've ever seen there were our guests. Ah, the nights we've spent scanning the crowd in vain, wondering "Is that Chandler, again?" When we staggered in their unmarked doors last night, the only thing we were scanning the crowd for was a fresh vodka and soda -- but our eyes alit on......
Continue Reading "The Last Team To Arrive"June 13, 2006
SFist Reader Amy tipped us off to these photos of our green mayor at the Walk the Talk eco-fashion show and event Saturday night. Check out how casual he is, all open necked and tie-free! And, as Denise Richards illustrated in her turn as Dr. Christmas Jones in The World Is Not Enough, glasses can make anyone look smarter, so good move with the specs. According to the photographer, monstro (AKA Adaptive Path cofounder Lane......
Continue Reading "Gavin Walks The Talk"June 11, 2006
LAist is flashing a sad peace out to their editor Carolyn Kellogg with one hand and bumping knuckles with their new head typist L.A. blogger king Tony Pierce with the other. Where do ist editors go when they hang up the 'editorial we'? They take on MySpace, apparently. At least Ben Brown does. Austinist reminds of the just rewards of less savory careers this week and then they witness the Arctic Monkeys and We Are......
Continue Reading "Elsewhere In The Ist-A-Verse"March 23, 2006
The Christians are coming! The Christians are coming! This Saturday, San Francisco and SBC Park are hosting "Battle Cry 2006," a youth ministry gathering featuring Christian speakers and rock groups. On Friday, they'll also be holding a "pre-Battlecry rally" outside City Hall, starting at 2:30, "to show America in a very visible way that there are young people who love God and want to build the future of our country on Biblical values. . . . These are the very city hall steps where several months [sic] ago gay marriages were celebrated for the entire world to see." (Click here for the whole information packet. It's a .pdf.)
The World Can't Wait is organizing a counter-rally to show America in a very visible way that there are young people who want Bush to Ter Down. If you're interested in attending either rally, show up at 2 with a group-appropriate sign. (Send us Flickr pictures if you go!)...
February 1, 2006
As promised, SFist in fact did not watch the State of the Union address -- though we did catch part of it as we went to stock up on booze at the corner store (we figured they were watching it by the hard liquor in order to drive up sales.)
The anti-Bush group The World Can't Wait was pretty busy not waiting, though -- SFist received bulletins all day about various events, including one hilarious email reporting that someone was spelling out a message on Bernal Hill that looked like "BUSH IS TER DOWN." That's right, baby, he's Ter Down! This was apparently repaired shortly afterwards to BUSH STEP DOWN.
The day of protests culminated in Union Square, where activists aired the state of the union on a huge screen and banged drums and booed and played trumpets to drown Bush out. The drums looked a little Revolutionary war-like, but that's a minor complaint. We also heard a lovely rendition of the World Can't Wait theme song on KRON 4 News at 11 ("The world can't wait..... the world can't wait....") from an activist whose last name was Makepeace. They then toppled a papier-mache statue of Bush at the end of the protest and everyone went home. Police were watching but made no arrests. If you're so inclined, you should definitely check out KRON 4's video coverage of the event, it was hilarious. The world can't wait.... the world can't wait....
At the actual state of the union, someone else didn't hear the speech either -- Cindy Sheehan, an invited guest of Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Petaluma), was arrested and hustled out of the building for wearing a t-shirt that said "2,245 and how many more?" Isn't that what the whole speech was about? (Well, that and conserving oil.)
Picture of Union Square protest from KRON 4...
September 13, 2005
Where's Frank Chu these days? Maybe at one of these protests:
Over 800 hospital workers walked off the job at Cal Pacific this morning, to protest their lack of input on appropriate patient staffing levels (and pensions and money for continuing education). SEIU had reached an agreement with the hospital's owner, Tenet Health, but Tenet backed out of the deal late last month. Unlike other recent hospital strikes in the area, this is not a one-day walkout and will continue until the outstanding issues are resolved. Cal Pacific says 600 "replacement workers" (cough scab cough) were hired and no medical procedures were rescheduled.
At Civic Center on Saturday, "dozens" of Tibetans and Tibetan supporters protested outside the Asian Art Museum, over its cooperation with the Chinese government in presenting the Tibet: On The Roof Of The World exhibition, which ended last weekend. Protestors are particularly upset that the museum refused to display a picture of the Dalai Lama in the show.
Picture on left from KGO 7, picture from right from the Times of Tibet....
October 22, 2004
If you've ever read this feature before, it will be no surprise to you that our big budget pick of the week is The Grudge. Our love for Buffy is well documented, as is our fondness for crappy movies (see: every Movies This Weekend post ever). We feel like this is going to be chock full of both (SMG and crap), plus that shot with the scary fingers or whatever coming out of SMG's head!......
Continue Reading "SFist Watches: Movies This Weekend"October 5, 2004
Evan Williams steps down at Google's Blogger....
Continue Reading "Evan Williams, Blogger Founder, Semi-Retires"