Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About Words Well, surely you have $5. Five whole dollars buys you all the pizza you can eat at Poetry and Pizza on Friday. That's tomorrow. We double-checked the hipster central calendar. You're free. Don't
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Jared Rusten Functionally beatiful, since Jared encourages looking and touching. Not something many artists encourage you to do when you see their art, but Jared hopes that you will feel compelled to touch his chairs.
Arts & Entertainment The Dave Matthews Band is Newsom's Favorite We'd never lie to you, so let's just be upfront: this correspondent loathes the Dave Matthews Band. The insipid guitar solos, the faux-brohemian jam'n vibe -- why? why? Dear Lord, why? Frankly, we
Arts & Entertainment Rivera in the City Killer ocean views and Diego Rivera? Sounds like a dreamy vacation in Mexico, no? Well, actually no. Climb up the hill above Bimbo's 365 Club to the San Francisco Art Institute, and you'll
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Byron Brown Byron is a Graphic/Fashion Designer and "GrassRoots" marketing specialist who works in San Francisco under the moniker of VIRGIN69. VIRGIN69 is a boutique and clothing company and SO much more. We're still
SF News Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration Rafkin puts her money where her mouth is as Head Instructor at Studio Naga, which teaches the art of Poekoelan Tjimindie Tulen. In addition, she oversees the Women's Self Defense and "Street Smarts"
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About Kids Expressing Themselves Of course, we could do this and imagine these things from the comfort of our Crayola-laden, early-70s cozy bungalow. The foundation for these dreams was already in place. Drawbridge, based in San Rafael,
Arts & Entertainment Are You Stoned and Have Twenty Large to Burn? We love to watch a meme spread on the internet. In this case we can trace the explosion of the JL421 Badonkadonk from Palo Alto's NAO Design. It looks like it first appeared
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Judith Zissman When Judith isn't inciting interview revolution, she may well be found inciting the bison of Golden Gate park. If you've ever thought that they seemed suspiciously docile, you're right-- and Judith is their
Arts & Entertainment Everybody Loves the Circus! We're sorry this is such short notice -- we had asked to be reminded before the show date, and by chance contacted our friend today asking when her event was to be held.
Arts & Entertainment Neck Face SFist loves us some writers. And by writers, we mean "bombers," "graffitos," "vandals,", "artists," what have you. One in particular caught our eye on our travels around the city -- that inimitable man
Arts & Entertainment Creative Commonists It's good to be a nerd. At least that's how SFist feels after hanging out at the Swedish American Hall, taking full advantage of the open bar, nodding our head to the DJ's
Arts & Entertainment Interview: DJ Neta DJ Neta is a Bay Area native who is actually happy to provide guidance on how a non-native might pass as a native. After reading her interview below you'll understand that if we
Arts & Entertainment We Come for the Art...But We Stay for the Greased-hog-catching Contest The Stephen Wirtz Gallery is located at 49 Geary St, third floor; and if you feel as through you absolutely must visit their dreadfully framed website, fine, here it is.
SF News This Old House As we said, there's nothing legitimately wrong in what the Giants are doing, and as die-hard supporters of the Orange & Black we're okay with the Giants searching through the sofas looking for
SF News SFist Emily Remembers 2004 Everyone seems to have their own form of "year in review" type articles. I have a hard time rank ordering anything, mainly because the thought of having to defend why I rated one
SF News SFist Gift Guide: 24th Street, East Mission We walk past Galeria de la Raza every day. It's on the other side of the street from Villa, Kahlo, El Campesino, Zapata, Chavez, Rivera y El Gordo y el Flaco, interspersed with
SF News Political Junkie: You're A Mean One Mayor Gavin the N, fresh from meat-slicing duties, found his press conference on how he plans to use funds from Prop 63 (money for mental health services) upstaged by caroling progressives protesting his
Arts & Entertainment All Is Calm, All Is Bright Well, SantaCon has come and gone, but you still have that urge to make with the merry this holiday season, preferably through participatory art? Well, you're in luck -- San Francisco is hosting
Arts & Entertainment Get Drawn By An Ape Looking for a unique gift for your favorite music lover? Send a photo of them to local label Birdman Records to "Get Drawn By An Ape". If you're lucky enough to get chosen,
SF News Fight the Power? San Francisco’s hep cat of a Board of Supervisor, Matt Gonzalez, made perhaps his final statement as outgoing President of the Board with his latest piece of artwork installed in his office-
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Viva La Trimethyldioxypurist Holy crap, man -- pass the sweetener! Straight up, before anything else is mentioned about Cafe Macondo, it must be known that this is a super dark, wickedly bitter cup of coffee. This
Arts & Entertainment Animal Instincts SFist isn't going to apologize for our unnatural love of anthropomorphized monkeys. Particularly when they're wearing pants. We love that! Ahem. What we mean is that we find the people/animal connection an
Arts & Entertainment They Want Two States Further amplifying the rivalry between here and there, the San Francisco Convention and Visitors' Bureau has launched a new website, called Not in L.A., supposedly to lure Angelenans up what they call
