SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Naia Gelato: Local, Innovative, Cavalcade of Flavors Okay, so nobody ever accused us of being especially observant, but we only recently recognized that "Naia", at 451 Castro Street, was a gelateria. See, the sign only says the name, and there's
Arts & Entertainment Win 'The Homeless Channel', A New Graphic Novel A few months ago, when we talked to Larry Young, the frontman of San Francisco-based comic book publisher AIT/Planet Lar, he pointed to Matt Silady's then-pending book, "The Homeless Channel," as one
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Who needs a little culture after a weekend of mayhem? (We do, we do!) Here are a few things going on tonight that might pique your interest. Spring Art Auction at Mezzanine Visual
SF News Ed Jew Update! We considered calling this post "And then they came for Jew, and we said nothing," but decided that was in poor taste. So what's been up with our favorite beleaguered conservative Sunset Supervisor?
Arts & Entertainment Cocktails With The Man Who Killed America (er, <i>Captain</i> America) On Saturday, fantastic Hayes Valley comic book store Isotope played host to Ed Brubaker, who's as hot a writer in the comics industry as anyone. Recently, a story written by Brubaker made headlines
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today Other events: --Bowling for Rhinos! It's like the name of some kind of ska band, but it's actually a benefit for the zoo. $25 gets you two hours of bowling and pizza at
misc Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big -- really freaking big
SF News PG&E: Here, Sit on This Garbage PG&E claims that the pop-up cafes will appear periodically around San Francisco all summer thanks to their Let's-Green-This-City ad campaign, an attempt to distract us from how unsustainable and grey the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight This weekend is gonna be ginormous, with Bay to Breakers,the Maker Faire, the Prince and Bjork shows - so dive right on in with tonight's top picks: Party with Viv! and celebrate
Arts & Entertainment Three Questions For SFist's Founding Editor It's mostly this guy's fault. Jackson West, who was the first editor here at SFist, got the ball rolling with this post, "The City that Knows How." He helped to grow the site
SF News Day Around The Bay --Gavin's now all pretending he meant for Theresa Sparks to get on the Police Commission after all. --The Merc News names its top five area Venture Capitalists under 40. --The KFOG KaBoom fest
Arts & Entertainment Alexandra Lipsitz, Director of Air Guitar Nation If you’re hoping to get into the competitive side of air guitar, or just prove to your partner that your moves really are totally solid, you should check out “Air Guitar Nation”
SF News Goodbye, Jessie; Hello, Mint Opening the street to pedestrians (aka "humans") has some opponents; some folks claim that it'll make it harder to valet their cars when frequenting the nearby hotels and malls. And to be fair,
Arts & Entertainment APE: Crafty Fun Bits Adding to the estimable Alternative Press Expo coverage by SFist Jeremy comes a little more APE coverage, albeit a teensy bit late. (Hey, its been a busy week!) Among our favs of the
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <em>The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music</em> We're not unique in becoming slightly obsessed with The Anthology, and this film, which combines talking head interviews with live performances from a series of tribute concerts, is proof of that. And yet,
Arts & Entertainment David and Edie Ichioka, Makers of <em>Murch</em> What was the most surprising thing to you about Walter Murch Walter is a true renaissance man. His areas of expertise are varied and surprising. Not only is he an Oscar winning editor
SF News Davis College Republicans Experimenting with Totally Faggy Performance Art Oh, what's become of our good old-fashioned hard-hearted conservative Republicans? What's next, long hair? Berets? Drapes and doilies? Irish cuisine? The Davis College Republicans are sponsoring some sort of symbolic art-game today (Tuesday)
Arts & Entertainment CounterPULSE Second Anniversary Show! We knew very little about the art space & resource center, CounterPULSE, before attending their Second Anniversary Show on Sunday night (yes, we mistakenly kept calling it "Compulse"). This is their second year
Arts & Entertainment Fill Your Belly at Full House Café To tell you the truth, we were hesitant to share this restaurant review with you, because we were worried that you would swarm our favorite neighborhood breakfast place and extend our wait for
Arts & Entertainment APE Escape 2007 Part 3: The Storytellers--Traditional, With A Twist The last of our slightly less-than-timely coverage of the Alternative Press Expo, which took place last weekend, focuses on folks telling their sequential art stories in a longer form. Ted Naifeh, a Western
Arts & Entertainment APE Escape 2007 Part 2: Cute, Cool, And Arty Hey, Folks, welcome to part two of our APE coverage. The Alternative Press Expo was this past weekend, and there was so much fun stuff we had to break our coverage into several
SF News Snitching-- Not Just For Witnesses to Shootings Anymore The bill calls for the DMV to set up a special toll-free number and/or e-mail address for people to report carpool crooks. And hey, that way people who see them will have
Arts & Entertainment APE Escape 2007 Part 1: Strips, Teases, and Gags The Alternative Press Expo (or APE) was this past weekend at the Concourse here in San Francisco. The show, which is put on yearly by Comic-Con International, features indy and small press creators
Arts & Entertainment It's a Blog War! So a bunch of bloggers had a few drinks last night, or as someone on the Wall and SF Junto put it "some lame meeting of whiney bloggers at a hipster bar” when
Arts & Entertainment Muscle Cars Will Rule The Skies: Larry Young Talks AiT/PlanetLar's High-Octane Comics The Alternative Press Expo is this Saturday and Sunday, and hot damn we're psyched. We've covered it the past two years for SFist; this time, we want to spread the luurve ahead of
