Arts & Entertainment American Idol in SF: "It is Almost Nonhuman." The show starts with a cheap faux-emo cover of that "If You're Going to SF" song. We don't know who's responsible for this unbearable version of the song (Update! it was Me First
Arts & Entertainment Dispatch from Noir City: NoirQuake! In 1950, the great mystery writer Raymond Chandler wrote of the contemporaneous critical response to his stories and those of James M. Cain, Dashiell Hammett, et. al. that: It takes a very open
misc Dear Mr Ford: Special First Day Of Work Edition So here you are, on your first day of work as the new new Muni transportation director. If your first day was anything like ours usually go, you've probably learned how to use
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Double Double, Toil And Trouble We think we speak for everyone when we shout out at the top of our lungs "NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!" Last Thursday, Board Member and V.P., Richard Boyd filed a lawsuit contending that 23-year-old heir
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV This Weekend OK. We promise never to attempt lame rhyming ever again. But we DID want to let you know that there's a "Creature Comforts" marathon on BBC America tonight, starting at 7:30 p.
SF News American Football Spectacular: To A Frontier Town... There Came A Bowl Game. As pointed out by American Football Spectacular's religious consultant Ms. No, Mormons aren't supposed to gamble. Further, according to the BBC's write-up on Mormon ethical practices, "Gambling in any form is condemned as
SF News Boxer Drops the "I" Word Boxer says she got the idea after speaking with John Dean at a public discussion. Dean, of course, knows a whole lot about illegally eavesdropping on people and lying to cover it up.
Arts & Entertainment Review: Los Straitjackets This tour was special since the Straitjackets shared the stage with the retro-burlesque-dance (but not quite naughty) stylings of the Pontani Sisters. The mostly male crowd LOVED these ladies. The teen hipsters behind
misc SFisting: Sex Machines Slideshow: The Squeaky Thing Gets the Grease With San Francisco as the home of Survival Research Laboratories, the birthplace of Combots and Robolympics, and the location of Fucking Machines secret lair, we have to wonder just what is in that
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Are Very Worldly Teacher: "You could have him gesturing at stuff." Student: "He can't gesture! He's British!" -- Academy of Art University Woman: "You know, in Georgian Republic, I was very religious, but it was banned.
SF News The Perils of Pelosi So we have a political party, the Dems, in a Catch-22: don't propose anything and get criticized for not having a plan only to then come up with a plan and get criticized
Arts & Entertainment Shop Early and Often! The Small Business Commission of San Francisco recognizes both the benefits of keeping our spending close to home and our desire to buy cool stuff with its Shop Local First Week. All this
SF News Pistol Packin' Pardners Piss on Prop H In 2002, nearly 10 in every 100,000 Californians died at the hands of a firearm, for a totaly of 3,410 deaths according to the Center for Disease Control and Injury Prevention.
SF News Oh Really, O'Reilly? As you might imagine, Bill O'Reilly's comments about our fair city deserving a terrorist attack managed to raise a few hackles, including Chris Daly's, who was so angered by Bill's hot-headed comments that
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Brendan Benson SFist liked Lost in Translation because it accurately captured how disorienting traveling can be. Singer Brendan Benson evoked a similar feeling when he spoke with us on Friday as he was preparing for
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
Arts & Entertainment Entrepreneur ... Filmmaker ... and Space Tourguide "Master of the Romantic Thriller -- that's what I'm known for," James tells us. And indeed, it is difficult to think of any cinematic peers to his films, including (tagline: "Can There be
Arts & Entertainment A Wedding Cantata You probably haven't been to a vocal concert since your high school crush object sang that solo from in the annual choir festival. What relevance does choral music have to my everyday life?
Arts & Entertainment Film Arts Fest: Wellstone! KQED listeners and Howard Deaniacs patiently lined up in the on-again off-again drizzly evening outside the Roxie, reading complimentary copies of Mother Jones and blocking the entrance to Dalva, as a sodden and
SF News Berkeley Cancels Veterans' Day Event America may or may not be standing with Cindy, but on Nov. 11, veterans in Berkeley definitely won't be. A Veterans' Day event in the 'zerkeley's been called off entirely, after certain veterans
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: And Ponders, Our TV Choices This Week For instance, we chose Martha's "Apprentice" over the fifth "cycle" of "America's Next Top Model," but apparently we were the only people in America who did, because Martha is moving to 9 p.
SF News Service Cuts: The Only Thing MUNI's Good At Don't get us wrong: we love NextBus, especially the new integration with Google maps. NextBus is the only thing about MUNI that seems to work, and when you consider that it's actually run
misc Win Passes to Cut and Paste at ResFest Congratulations to all our lucky ResFest pass winners! Today we're giving away passes to see Cut and Paste at 6 pm Sunday, September 25 at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre. It's described
SF News Baseball as Oakland Starting this Saturday, the Oakland Museum of California is hosting an exhibition from the Baseball Hall of Fame, called Baseball As America, displaying the history of America's game. The show's been traveling across
