Arts & Entertainment Get Your Knit On Hark! Do you hear the hosannas of angels wearing roomy striped ponchos and the clicking of bamboo sticks? That's right -- the hipster goddess of knitting, Debbie Stoller, is in town promoting her
Arts & Entertainment First Third Friday At Ross's Office The refreshements? Uh, free. SFist would like to suggest that if you want to score the wine and snacks, show up early -- they were all gone in a little over an hour.
SF News The Great Flag Fight With the two-year anniversary of the start of the Iraq War this Saturday, the SF Board of Supervisors (once again delving into foreign policy) unanimously passed a resolution to have the flag at
Arts & Entertainment What? There Are SF Supes <i>Besides</i> Daly? It's no Smash The State, but friend of SFist Windy Chien (isn't that the best name ever?) tipped us off that our boy Matty G (and before you ask, we DO have a
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Caitlin Atkinson Today’s interview subject has a literal lens trained on the Bay Area. Caitlin Atkinson is a photographer whose art focuses mainly on her experiences (both real and dreamed). You can catch her
Arts & Entertainment Cinequest Review: Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley is a sentimental and beautifully crafted portrait of the young man as an artist. Jeff Buckley was a singer-songwriter who started out singing in cafes in New York and recorded and released a
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: Parties To Which We <i>Were</i> Invited SFist was thrilled to receive an invitation to opening night of the 23rd Annual San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. After the screening of the fantastic , the action turned to the gala
Arts & Entertainment 2005 Photobloggies West Coast reprazent! They're taking nominations for the 2005 Photobloggie awards -- click through and make sure our Bay Area photographers and their gorgeous art get some love! (Full disclosure: Our cuddly publisher
Arts & Entertainment Gaming the Downtown Art Scene SFist loves it when punk kids get embraced by advanced-degree wielding curators, independently wealthy socialites and other high-art hangers-on. So when Robin tipped us to Thursday's "Video Game Art Show" we had to
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The After-the-Oscars Edition Well, the Oscars are over, so you can stop your vain attempt to see all the nominated movies -- a disappointing lot of them blew anyway -- and do something more interesting with
Arts & Entertainment Bitch Magazine's Arts & Crafts Benefit Auction If you, like us, want to support our local arts community but aren't really interested in buying one of those Hearts of SF -- we're here to help! If you, like us, want
Arts & Entertainment Piss and Vinegar Only three chances left to see Circo Zero perform at Dance Mission and it is not to be missed. An amalgam of circus, performance art, political commentary, with juxtapositions between angelic virtuosity and
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Making It Up As We Go Along Edition In this week's stage roundup, we'll take "Improvised Game Shows" for $200, Alex: at the Temescal Art Center It's been a while since we saw improv. It's been even longer since we saw
Arts & Entertainment Wanted: Penises. Pubic Hair Optional. BoingBoing's David Pescovitz recently posted a call for models by his friend Richard Hansen. And when we say "models" we mean "people with penises," since Richard is working on a book project about
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: As Hollywood Preps for Their Prom And then there's something called The Academy Awards on this Sunday. Ahh. We kid. (Or pray at the Church of Ironic Detachment, take your pick.) Of COURSE TV is all about the Oscars
Arts & Entertainment Abercrombie and Goebbels So, in practical terms, where does this bring us? To The Castro, to a major clothing retailer, and to Hitler. Obviously.
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Mike Arcega We like Mike, even if those stupid spell checkers don't. Mike is a an artist worth taking note of-- something that's impressive in an art scene as saturated with talent as San Francico's
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Courtney Fink Courtney is the executive director of Southern Exposure. If you somehow haven’t clued in that SFist really likes what Southern Exposure is about, take a second and click on all the links
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: The Devil and Daniel Johnston We should confess that, before seeing the Sundance award-winning documentary this Sunday for the second weekend of IndieFest, we didn't know very much about the eponymous singer-songwriter -- we liked that charmingly-naive "Speeding
Arts & Entertainment Walk About (or Get Off That Couch!) Two of SFist's favorites from the local art scene are teaming up to bring you a guided walk tomorrow. Kate Pocrass, creator and perpetuator extraordinaire of Mundane Journeys will personally be leading the
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Jason Blalock Jason Blalock combined inspiration from an old SFist fav, Heavy Metal Parking Lot, and his shock and awe-induced state from encountering the Raider Nation, and turned this all into art. Jason's film Oakland
SF News Burning For School So apparently the San Francisco school board held some public meetings to decide on the start of the new school year. Before Labor Day? After Labor Day? Decisions, decisions, decisions. Everyone was pretty
Arts & Entertainment Has Ribity Gone Too Far? Art critic and photographer Claudine, who has been something of a modern-day Chalfant or Ahern by cataloging photos of graffitti pieces throughout the city, left a comment in our Get Ur Geek On:
Arts & Entertainment Dance Review: Facing Mekka [] In restless anticipation we sat staring at the stage, waiting to see the dance performance acclaimed by so many. Yerba Buena Center for rhe Arts Theater was hosting the first of three performances
