misc Save the World From Bomb-Wielding Grandmas But because we all have to go through the rigmarole, we all have experienced the silliness of it. In our trip back east, we saw perhaps the silliest thing we have ever seen
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews <em>9/11: Press for Truth</em> We all know the anger of extremist Muslim fundamentalists, but what we don't know and what the White House keeps conveniently hidden from the American public is how we let them get so
Arts & Entertainment What Else is Going on For Litquake Well, if you want to check the schedule of events, go here. There's plenty to choose from and it seems like something is going on everywhere at all hours. Everyone's favorite event is
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Seeds Of Doubt</i> "Papa, are you a terrorist?" We spent several very fun, yet dark weeks in Hamburg, Germany (when you don’t get up before noon in December there, you don’t see much light)
SF News Elsewhere in -istville Seattlest saw a house party get senselessly attacked with a shotgun and end in seven dead. A local senator is debated and their version of the big dig is investigated. To truly get
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes To <i>Punching At The Sun</i>'s Screening AND After-Party! We've been told that "South Asian immigrant culture, post 9/11 politics, interracial relationships, violent streets, and the American firestorm of hip-hop culture all mix into a fierce concoction" in . Winners will see
SF News BART Fire Aftermath Now that yesterday's BART fire is out and trains are moving again, the inevitable finger-pointing has begun. Who bears the blame here? Is it BART? Why does BART use flammable solvents on its
SF News SFist Doesn't Watch the State of the Union Which raises the question of what to do? Well, there's always NetFlix, of course, as well as good old TiVo. It's also a good night to go to the movies and while Brokeback
Arts & Entertainment SF Int'l South Asian Film Festival: <i>It's My Country Too</i> As we settled into our seats at the Castro for the world premiere of documentary , part of the SF Int'l South Asian Film Festival, there was a generalized hubbub as a tall man
misc SFist Rants: Blue Angels We're not afraid to admit it -- loud jets have always scared the crap out of us, and 9/11 certainly didn't help that fear. The Blue Angels are undoubtedly amazing. We have
Arts & Entertainment Fred Korematsu, 1919-2005 The Asian-American civil rights community has lost a hero with the passing of Fred Korematsu yesterday in his daughter's home in Marin. Korematsu, an American citizen and Bay Area resident, was 22 years
Arts & Entertainment Piss and Vinegar Only three chances left to see Circo Zero perform at Dance Mission and it is not to be missed. An amalgam of circus, performance art, political commentary, with juxtapositions between angelic virtuosity and
Arts & Entertainment Muni Photography Ban: Update To follow up on our previous story, we're not sure whether the Muni photography ban is the biggest threat to our personal freedom, but we have a feeling that if we don't blow
SF News Homeland Insecurity: Photo Ban on Muni? We've been a bit remiss in keeping up with all our blog reading, or we would have caught this story on BoingBoing ourselves. But it was big enough to have been forwarded to
misc Dr. Evil Dr. Philip Zimbardo is the Stanford Professor who conducted the original prison experiments. On Thursday he will be presenting a lecture entitled "The Psychology of 'Evil' and the Politics of Fear" at Stanford.
SF News Pick Up Your Own Towels After six weeks of fruitless negotiations, the San Francisco hotel workers union, UNITE 2, has called for a two-week strike against a number of local hotels. The boycott is against the San Francisco
SF News Blue Angels Blues Fleet Week may only be a little less than a month away, but that still hasn't kept us from already hitting the phones to find out whose friend of a friend of a
