Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Branford Marsalis SFist recently sat down with Marsalis for our first-ever email interview. Q. First off, did you have anything to do with the fact that the top view of the "Braggtgown" CD looks like
SF News Had A Bad Day Okay, to start things off, that's a YouTube clip of Daniel Powter's Had A Bad Day. Play it as you read this post! Gavin Newsom started off the first day of the rest
SF News SFiS By The Numbers SFiS -- more than just SFist minus the T! We give the new glossy advertorial section of the Chronicle our patented By The Numbers treatment below. (Warning -- SFiS only appears in .pdf
SF News Aqua Teen Hunger Force Strikes San Francisco After the events of today, the marketing company behind it all told the SFPD where they could find the things so the police could disable them. It’s not quite known where all
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork Gets Soft It's been a productive year for us. Between knitting and cupcakes, we've been crafting up a storm. Our favorite new craft has absolutely no function other than looking cute. We're talking about softies,
misc Interview: JL Aronson What is the best thing about the Danielson movie? It’s done. No, just kidding. But seriously, it took a long time and I’m still shocked that it’s completed. The best
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork Plays in the Kitchen In case you don't think there's anything crafty about baking a batch of cupcakes, we've got the pictures to prove you wrong. And we've had so much sugar today, we doubt you would
Arts & Entertainment The Awkward Adventures of the Superfisters In Roanoke of 500 years ago, the settlers clash with a creepy bestial native tribe. In Berkeley of the present day, a young boy comes of age as he discovers that a creepy
misc Week in -Ists Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by
SF News 14 Murders in 17 Days So what's the deal? On January 2, the city had just patted itself on the back for reducing the murder rate in 2006 by 11% over 2005. Well, in today's Examiner, local Republican
SF News American Football Spectacular: Baltimore vs Indianapolis vs Baltimore vs Cleveland * Indianapolis vs. Baltimore Saturday, January 13, 2007. 1:30 PM, PST. 2007 Divisional Playoffs The Battle Of The Stolen Much has been made of the Colts' exit from Charm City -- one of
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Liz Hickok Why Jello? It actually started because I had been photographing scale models that other people had made. I’ve been a photographer for a long time. I was in Havana shooting and came
SF News The Yale Choir Story, Again First up, the cops. After the fracas, they detained four of the assailants but let them go. As of right now, nobody has been arrested as police are saying they're still collecting evidence.
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork: Places we like on the Interwebs. Before we go into our craft blog round-up for the week we wanted to be sure to give a nod to the great work Lisa Congdon and her family did on the art
SF News American Football Spectacular: Drink An <i>Art Shell</i> For Art Shell It was announced today that Art Shell would not return as the Raiders head coach in 2007. Fired? Resigned? Stepped down? Stepped aside? Stripped of his title? Canned? Whatever, it was Al's decision.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Have An "Art Shell" For American Football Spectacular This New Year's Eve The Art Shell drink works like this: * Drop a shot of Jagermeister into a pint of O'Doul's. * Toast to Art. * Slam it. * The drinker of the beverage must then hold a stoic Art
SF News Jobs iNnocent Not everyone, however, thinks that all of this settles the case. One guy interviewed for a story and who obviously doesn’t worship at the cult of Steve Jobs (blasphemer) thinks Jobs is
SF News American Football Spectacular: Around The World Again On A Boat That Sinks As It Sails No source was named to have given this statement. There are no postings on SFGate.com or the Oakland Tribune's website regarding this rumor yet. A bit of context: Schefter covered the Broncos
Arts & Entertainment Upper Playground's Andrew Revelli Name Andrew Revelli Introduce yourself in one sentence Retail legend Age and Occupation 29, Vice President, Upper Playground and FIFTY24SF Gallery
SF News Political Junkie: Chris Daly Mustached We went to our very first Ross Mirkarimi Third Friday art show yesterday, and had a very nice time -- loved the eggnog! We also picked up the following piece of gossip: Chris
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Movies Up first is the movie that's the talk of everything, Apocalypto. You know, we actually kind of want to see this movie. And yeah, we are fully aware of the fact Mel has
Arts & Entertainment A Mighty Shearer It's difficult to categorize Shearer's art because he's done radio (KRCW), TV (Jack Benny, SNL, Politically Incorrect, Ellen, Friends, Murphy Brown), movies (This is Spinal Tap, For Your Consideration, Abbott and Costello, A
Arts & Entertainment What We Did Last Night: Pet Noir Book Release Party. Last night was the book release party for Shannon O'Leary's Pet Noir, a comic anthology of true pet crime stories published by San Francisco's very own Manic D Press. If you weren't there
Arts & Entertainment Beach + Politics = San Francisco This Sunday (the 10th) at 10:30am on Ocean Beach, Brad's going to get a bunch of volunteers (maximum capacity: 1200) to lie down in the shape of the word "IMPEACH!" and then
SF News Your Commute: Cars There was a huge accident on eastbound I-80 today, near Pinole -- a five-car pileup. It originally started when a Civic spun out in the fast lane and was hit by a Camry.