SF News Gary Gygax, Co-Creator of Dungeons & Dragons, Dies Laughing Squid broke the news that game designer Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons (1974)/co-founder of Tactical Studies Rules, died today at the ripe age of 69. According to LS, his
misc Sandra Bernhard's New Year's Eve Extravaganza The last time we saw Sandra Bernhard, which was at Bimbo's earlier this year, we almost walked into her as we were leaving the ladies room and she was making her entrance from
misc Cosco Busan Gets Final O.K. To Leave San Francisco This isn't the first time the Busan needed repairs after an accident. It had a little run in last year around Humbug, Germany that damaged the aforementioned bow. Brush up on your Deutsch
SF News Tina Turner's Abuser/Rapist/Svengali Dies at 76 Well, holy hell. Ike Turner died today. The rock et roll pioneer and hardcore curmudgeon died today in San Marcos, San Diego. He made a name for himself after discovering a young Tina
Arts & Entertainment MediaBistro Takes Its Turn With Phil Bronstein; SFist Community Guest-Stars Today, we really enjoyed an interview of Chronicle Executive Editor Phil Bronstein by Julie Haire, an L.A.-based freelance writer, that was published on MediaBistro. And, yes, we confess, part of that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Dreamgirls: Jennifer Hudson's performance as Effie White won her an Academy Award, and her end of Act I nervous breakdown ("And I Am Telling You") blew audiences to the back wall of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: You Should Know About Dan Carbone Why? Because the stuffed-animal slinging, falsetto-singing, universe-weaving, Dada-referencing, Bay Area playwright and theater artist (and good friend and muse of seminal filmmaker George Kuchar) is all that -- and he's just been nominated
Arts & Entertainment McLaren Park: It's Time Us Full-figure Girls Get Noticed To Little Miss Golden Gate Park, princess of the City, Honey, I'm sick of you and your flat-ass panhandle getting all the attention. You think you're the only park in the whole City
SF News SFist Rita's 2006 From the Starbucks (not really a) bomber in January to the opening of the Daiso in December, it was certainly one heck of a year, wasn't it? There was BUSH TER DOWN; the
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Emmett Malloy You're appearing in Apple stores to discuss how to use Macs in Film and Editing, what is the BEST thing about them? WELL, THESE DAYS I JUST LIKE HOW SMALL AND SIMPLE EVERYTHING
misc Keep Your Hands to Yourself Testifying for the proposed rules was members of the Commission on the Status of Women, currently residing in the top five of our "Things We'll Slash Out of the Budget for Being a
Arts & Entertainment Screw It, We're Moving To Busy Town Our pals at Shanghaiist tipped us of to David Friedman's blog, Ironic Sans. We already had an internet crush on David from his site on GameBoy camera photography (a not so secret obsession
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Have Standards to Uphold Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. Lesbian visiting from out of town: "I was going to try to kiss 38 women for my 38th birthday, but decided
Arts & Entertainment We Have No Idea What Yvesdroppings Are Referring To Yes, we know that technically it should be "to what Yvesdroppings refer." Whatever. Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. Girl on Phone: "He wants to move to
SF News The Guilfency! A very enthusiastic "HER MOTHER AND I DO!" of support to the genius tipster who passed along the Exclusive Details about the impending Kimberly Guilfoyle-Eric Villency (hereinafter, "the Guilfency") Memorial Day nuptials in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Rancho Gordo Beans As soon as the weather presented a semblance of winter, we headed straight for the Rancho Gordo stall at the Saturday Ferry Plaza Market, where Steve Sando sells his excellent dried beans, explaining
Arts & Entertainment Interview with <i>Sidekick</i> Writer Michael Sparaga In a departure from most superhero movies, is told from the point of view of, well, the sidekick. "I think the sidekick, in some ways, is Canada," says Michael "It's not purposeful, but
SF News Political Junkie: He's Just Not That Into You Dear Political Junkie: I'm a very attractive woman with a great job in New York and lots of dating prospects. The problem is my ex. I mean, he said it was over and
Arts & Entertainment Recovering Yvesdropping Boy: "My mom taught me how to use a sewing machine when I was a kid. And I made lots of bags and pillows. They're pretty much the same thing. Except one has
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Ian Lendler Today's victim of the SFist interview has only been in our fair city for a couple of weeks, but that doesn'r mean we're going to take it easy on him! His new book,
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Jill Bliss Bliss answered the question that most artist get all the time, “so, uh, what are you going to DO with that” by starting blissen.com. Blissen is an online boutique where you can
SF News Long Day's Journey Into WonderCon The first program we took in was a talk with some some guys who worked on the special effects for the Spielberg-directed War of the Worlds. The host promised the audience that they
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Whodunnit TV SFist celebrated a birthday yesterday and was unable to post. Apologies. But the little gap in posting also gave us time to think some about the current state of television, and the conclusion
SF News SFist Mary-Lynn Remembers 2004 Hot (Hiltonian "That's Hot", not climatologically. Because... you know...) Country: Canada. I hope it remains hot in 2005 because that passport about the only cred I've got these days. Political Hanger-on/deadweight: Michael
