Arts & Entertainment High Varnish Meticulously crafted as it was, we were ready to dismiss the horse as yet another nod to art star Maurizio Cattelan’s use of taxidermy in contemporary art, when we learned that A.
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Casey Smith We like to think that SFist interviews with locals are like catching little glimpses in to parts of the city you don’t know as well. For today’s interview Casey Jex Smith
Arts & Entertainment SF DocFest: <em>Derailroaded</em> It can be hard to separate an artist from his art. Can anyone listen to "Beat It" these days and not feel a little...icky? Stories of Phil Spector's "eccentricities" are a little
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes Back To (Art) School As an incoming student to California College of the Arts' grad program, we hopped on the chance to meet and greet while scoping out the competition, by infiltrating CCA's MFA Thesis Show opening
Arts & Entertainment SF DocFest: <i>Pop-aganda</i> All the culture jammers said hey (haaaa-yeeee) on Friday night at the Women's Building, for the first SF DocFest screening of by Pedro Carvajal, and the film short Fridge by Brian Perkins and
Arts & Entertainment SF DocFest: SFist Has You Covered Usually, we try as hard as we can to avoid the real world, but we'll make an exception for the fourth San Francisco Documentary Film Festival. There are so many unbelievable films to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Gets <i>The Skinny</i> SFist loves local magazines, from to Other to Dwell. (And before all you "Wavefans" from the same IP address write in, the answer is "no".) We're so happy to welcome The Skinny, a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About Art Sneaking in at the very end of Cinco de Mayo, we want to remind you about the Mexican Museum. It's their 30th anniversary this year and they're also gearing up to begin construction
Arts & Entertainment Ho U The classes are part of the 4th Annual Sex Worker Film & Arts Fest, Sex Worker, of course, being the nice, politically correct term for a hooker (SFist, being the essence of politically
SF News Odeon: Sold-eon? SFist had just recently been introduced to the venue, but had heard about the exploits of its patrons all the way over on the east coast before even getting out here. Nearly every
Arts & Entertainment The Gates: West Coast Version Once it's finished later this year, Octavia Boulevard -- that eastern-edge-of-the-Castro strip where once squatted a disused offramp -- will be a sort of lasting, permanent demonstration of SF's long-held disdain for urban
Arts & Entertainment Painted Rooms: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly The good? Kelly Tunstall's work and room were fan-f**king-tastic. We also loved the big cartoon acrylics of Isis Rodriguez. And the international art collective Vinyl Killers had up a huge series of
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Borf'd Amongst the graffitos, San Francisco has a reputation for being uber-tolerant of their guerilla art. Which is why folks from as far away as Washington, D.C. drop by on occassion to throw
Arts & Entertainment Pet Noir Party Well, we didn't actually go to the Pet Noir party prepared to cover it on the site. We just went to drink and see some art, maybe run into some friends. But we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gettin' Wild at The Civic Center, Trimethyldioxypurist-style Jury duty. Ack. While we won't get into the specifics behind our general reluctance in doing our civic duty, we were glad for the opportunity to revisit one of our favorite coffee joints
SF News Where's The Wifi? Well, it seems that the laptop-carrying set at San Francisco's Academy of Art University are stuck for quick, handy wireless internet access. Around three weeks ago during the school's spring break, some h4XX0r
SF News Bay Blogger Thursday: Don't Get Dooced Oh, if only this had been around for Mark Jen. SFist's nerd crush Annalee Newitz and Kurt Opsahl of the EFF just passed us a press release to highlight their on-line instructional pamphlet
Arts & Entertainment See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Play Me Also performing: Pamela Z, a local composer-performer-sound artist (sound clips are available on her site, but for some incomprehensible reason some of them are in Shockwave format); Joel Ryan of STEIM; Laetitia Sonami,
SF News Anarchy Out The EssEff Here in The City, hordes of anarchists are as mundane as hordes of shoppers at Union Square or crab-cracking tourists at Fisherman's Wharf. But in the rest of the country -- particularly over
Arts & Entertainment Eyes Wide Open If you made it by Civic Center in the last few days, you probably noticed a very somber art installation occupying the plaza. Row upon row of boots and shoes stood at quiet
Arts & Entertainment Signs of Spring. Hey, you like bunnies, right? That is, you aren't some kind of bunny-hating monster, are you? We didn't think so. Well, we've got good news for you, Bugs -- tomorrow night's your big
SF News Your Commute: Yikes! So there you are, a Palo Alto mom driving down Charleston Road, with your precious baby carefully strapped into your state-of-the-art car seat. As you reach the Alma Street train tracks, you hear
misc The Essefficist Crawls in on Little Rocket's Feet Sure it's grey and rainy out, but at least you've got the Essefficist's shoulder to cry on. We've got two questions this week. One's about burrito-inspired tattoos and the other one's about fog-inspired
Arts & Entertainment They, Robots Why watch the cartoons when you can see the real thing? SF State is hosting the second annual RoboGames this Saturday and Sunday. Robots will set things on fire, sumo-wrestle, bartend, and open
Arts & Entertainment Santa Rosa: San Francisco's Best Kept Secret Though SFist can't possibly imagine why, there are in fact human settlements outside the immediate vicinity of the city. Life is rough out on the frontier, but these terraformed colonies all enjoy the
