Arts & Entertainment Interview: Clark Kepler For any readers who might not know, tell us why Kepler's is so awesome. For me and many others who've been around for a while, growing up in the bookstore was awesome. Kepler's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Fishing on Craigslist Walk around the corner, and you'll be at Market and 14th. You'd imagine the hustle and bustle to propagate half a block away. But it's almost like the video rental place with the
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 30: <i>101 Must-See Movies for Gay Men</i> Saturday's screening of "101 Must-See Movies for Gay Men" was like a clip show of gayish movies -- presenter Alonso Duralde made a few quick introductions, and the rest was a whirlwind of
Arts & Entertainment City Hall Welcomes Back Harvey Milk Contrary to what you might be thinking, Mirkarimi has not discovered a rift in the space-time continuum; instead he's continuing his monthly art exhibitions in his office. Up now through mid-July is, “Let’
Arts & Entertainment Asian Art Fun For Free All day (well, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.) this Saturday and Sunday, admission to the museum is free, with the bonus of all sorts of celebratory events. See their calendar here
SF News What's Green and Bangs the Drums? Like a lot of you, we stumbled into the election booth last Tuesday and discovered much to our surprise that we had to vote for Nancy Pelosi. Did we know that? Does she
misc Craigslist Encounters: Free Stuff! Buy your own store! Or an Airplane Hanger! Right now there are over a dozen free pianos on Craigslist. It seems that budget cuts to state sponsored art programs are finally having an effect on music appreciation! There are also over
Arts & Entertainment MATCHA! The first MATCHA event runs from 6-9 Thursday night, and features electronic artist collective Dhamaal. Admission is free with Museum admission, which is $5 after 5 p.m. See their site for upcoming
Arts & Entertainment Mission Creek Music Fest: Night Of Electronica They should really have more shows in art galleries -- as we walked into the Lab on Sunday night for the Mission Creek Music Fest ambient noise show Sunday night show, we saw
Arts & Entertainment Between the Walls: Southern Exposure Gets Ready for a Major Metamorphosis Arguably one of the best places in the city to see innovative art from emerging artists, SoEx has been a mainstay of the Potrero Hill neighborhood for 32 years and will close its
Arts & Entertainment The Frolicking Adventures of the Superfisters How can you not love Long Tail Kitty, you heartless fiend? The answer is that you cannot. You are powerless to resist his high-spirited capering. Drawn by local artist Lark Pien, sees LTK
Arts & Entertainment City CarShare's Old Enough to Start Kindergarten Happy birthday to you! City CarShare (it's basically a membership-based car rental program with extra perks) turns five this year, and they're throwing a party and giving out awards. Nancy Pelosi will be
Arts & Entertainment Cutting No Corners: Caesurae Opens at Urbis Artium Normally, we get a little grossed out by work that uses blood (although we admire the chutzpah of the artist) – Andres Serrano and Gina Pane come to mind, but their work was more
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes To <i>Art School Confidential</i>! That's right: SFist MiHi, denied entrance to ! Given that we always want what we can't get, that makes this movie hott hott hott in our eyes. Enrage MiHi and enter below to win
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tech Labs: Boobs The story began when the Entertainment Software Ratings Board announced a re-rating for the game, bumping it up from its original "Teen" rating to "Mature." [] The ESRB claimed that Bethesda and publisher Take-Two
Arts & Entertainment One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Titian: Vik Muniz Pictures of Junk You know how some people just can’t seem to throw anything away? Well, Vik Muniz is one of those people and he has amassed a collection of junk that would make any
Arts & Entertainment Wednesdays, The New Wednesdays Wednesday, please pack your knives and go. Tonight: We're keeping it bipartisan for once! You can stop by the Democratic County Central Committee monthly meeting at the State Building at 455 Golden Gate
Arts & Entertainment 3 to the 3rd: Varnish Fine Art Celebrates Three Years of Giving Us Culture and Getting Us Drunk The trio of artists chosen to exhibit their work at this milestone show was a diverse group, featuring cast metal sculptor Brian Elliot, intaglio printmaker Kevin Evans and ceramicist Liz Orleans. At first
Arts & Entertainment The Miniature Adventures of the Superfisters We're suckers for any story about the Monkey King, and we also love the cozy art and fierce personality of Oakland-resident Gene Yang's "American Born Chinese." The six-book series explores Asianness, whatever that
Arts & Entertainment Three Gorges Project At The Asian Art Museum Chinese artists have been painting the Yangtze River valley and its famous Three Gorges canyons for millennia, adhering to the tradition of painting not just what the valley looks like physically, but also
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Cartography Of Ashes</i> It is to tell people that an outdoor movie screening at the fire station on 19th and Folsom, begins at 8:00 p.m. and to get there early to ensure a seat,
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Old Friends (and Old News) Of course, it wouldn't be Apple without that sense of smug self-superiority, so we're glad to see the company got some digs in on the sidebar of its Boot Camp website: accusing Windows
Arts & Entertainment The Small Stake's Jason Munn We first consciously notice Jason Munn in last month’s ReadyMade Magazine where he was featured for the screen printed posters he makes for performances of touring bands at local venues. Then we
SF News Vanity Fair Connect Thanks to our super-secret sources for sending along the Vanity Fair picture that we didn't have earlier, of Gavin Newsom moodily contemplating eco-friendliness with two fatter guys! We kind of want to draw
SF News SFist Eve/Unscripted: The Drinking Game Guess who's going to be on Art Bruzzone's SF/Unscripted show this week? Who's in the hot seat for our local version of Oprah, Larry King, and Joe Scarborough all wrapped up in
