Arts & Entertainment 10th Annual Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival Sunday kicked off the 10th annual Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival featuring over 170 music acts, most of them local but some of them national (Vincent Gallo) and international (Ane Brun). The
SF News Bay Area Representatives Representin' In the first round, Pelosi is up against a tough challenger, #1 seeded Cynthia McKinney. McKinney is the Tupac quoting, police beating congresswoman from Georgia who is, for all intents and purposes, bat
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: <i>On Food and Cooking</i> The SFist test kitchen staff has a tiny list of essential food books. At the top you'll find Harold McGee's . Our copy's tattered cover and stained pages broadcast our love for this accessible
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: John Vanderslice Hopefully you're the lucky winner of the Feist tickets tonight so that you can catch John Vanderslice opening. This interview first ran last August, and SFist is republishing it to enhance your Noisepop
misc SFIAFF: <em>Linda Linda Linda</em> The soundtrack for the film revolves around three songs by The Blue Hearts, who were apparently a big deal in the ‘80’s in Japan. By the end of the film we were
misc SFist Answers (Or Do We?) We try our best here at SFist Answers, but we have two very real limitations: 1) If y'all don't ask us questions, we have nothing to answer; similarly, the more questions we get,
SF News SFist Tech Labs: What's Inside the Google Cube? But as it turns out, all the excitement has been going on here in our very own idyllic backyard of Mountain View. As adventure-seeking tech writers sought to unlock the Mysteries of the
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Mara Sohn How did you get involved with Yerba Buena? I have been in the arts world for the last 5 years. I started out at a large regional theatre planning fundraising events. There was
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Ted Weinstein Ted Weinstein is a fierce proponent of the Bay Area’s literature scene. He is also good at getting the authors he represents to finish their manuscripts. His methods are a trade secret,
misc SFist Answers: New Year's Special A reader of SFist Answers writes in anonymously: This year, I'm celebrating my last under-21 New Years Eve. What fun things can the local twenty year old chick do to bring in the
SF News SFist Wants A Pony For Christmas Known as "the holidays", this is the time of year when we have to quit blowing all our expendable income on candy and pr0n, and must use it instead to buy what they
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Pomegranates Back in the day, Hades abducted Persephone while she frolicked in the fields. Boo on that, we say. Her mom, Ceres, goddess of the harvest, eventually found her and brought her back to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Stock Though this column usually focuses on farmer's market finds, we want to occasionally offer some advice on common kitchen techniques. Great ingredients make great food, but so do great skills. Have something you'd
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Your Pre-Halloween Party Hey, the party's not till Monday, so check out some crazy characters hitting SF stages this weekend. Sure, go ahead and dress up: They've got bandits, Hollywood stars, a boy that looks like
misc SFist Answers--Fantastic Fourth! Howdy, fellow 'Fisters and fans of the SF Bay Area -- it's another episode of SFist Answers, where we strive to provide helpful answers, or at least decent-sounding BS, to those burning, itching
Arts & Entertainment Sex Party in Union Square; Shoes Optional To get our juices flowing, KRON hosted a girly festival in Union Square on Sunday, complete with pink balloons, pink lemonade, pink tents, pink t-shirts, and a giveaway of 1,000 pairs of
misc SFist Answers Greetings, folks. Welcome to SFist Answers. We think the name of the column says it all. If you have a question you'd like us to answer, you can either e-mail us or leave
Arts & Entertainment Interview: John Vanderslice The best things in life really are free. Free shows at Amoeba fall into the category of one of the reasons that living in San Francisco is totally awesome. Tomorrow (Tues.) the day
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rock Out with Eight Guys Out In the two years that the company's existed, feedback has been positive (such as two guys who met through 8 Guys Out, then paused their membership to focus on pursuing each other), and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Opinionated Loudmouth: The Corral Steakhouse Remember in , when the pre-Skeletor-phase Jennifer Connelly, on the advice of a talking worm, walks through what appears to be a solid wall, but is actually a gap in the maze when she
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Niffer Desmond How did you get into puppet making? Actually that’s an odd story. When living in Santa Cruz I used to come up to SF with my friend Caitlyn for good times. Occasionally
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Corn Farmers bred the super-sweets for a good reason. As soon as you pick corn, enzymes begin to convert the sugar in the kernels to starch. Hence the old advice to boil water before
Arts & Entertainment SFist Raves: Bad Reporter As you can probably tell, we have kind of a love/hate thing going on with the Chron over here at SFist HQ. But since it's Raves Thursday, we're highlighting the love! And
misc SFist Blotter/Animal Roundup Nick Faibish's mauling continues to send shock waves across the city -- Gavin Newsom's announced that he's starting a panel to look into possible restrictions on pit bull ownership in San Francisco. Gavin
misc Real Questions the Essefficist has Received in the Past Week We're not making this up. Any of it. In the last week I have gone on two dates with a Canadian book artist whose DNA is 100% Frisian, i.e. parents from Friesland,
