Arts & Entertainment It's Peter Berlin Day, What Did You Get Me? Inside the Castro, it wasn't much warmer, but event MC Heklina did the best she could to heat things up as, among other things, the Mayor's office officially proclaimed it "Peter Berlin Day"
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Swearing Festival It did. Unfortunately, while the concept was brilliant, the execution wasn't. The problem wasn't in what was scheduled; it was in how long it took for what was scheduled to take place. Long
Arts & Entertainment Win a Copy of Patrick Roddie's <i>Hips</i>! Photographing people shouldn't be intimidating for the photographer -- or the model. San Francisco based photographer Patrick Roddie explains how to put your subjects at ease, find the best light and come away
Arts & Entertainment Fire (Preparedness) In Noe Valley Ready, aim.... and look out for firebugs this Saturday at the Noe Valley Farmers Market, as the Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (NERT) and the SF Fire Department highlight this month's safety theme, "Light
Arts & Entertainment The Tour Comes to Town Now that the San Francisco Grand Prix is no longer, this race offers Bay Area cycling fans their only chance to see the best road cyclists in the world battle it out on
Arts & Entertainment Classic Cars In The Rain So we're out on our lunch break, with no umbrella, trying to cross Market Street. , we grumble to ourselves. We look up, and -- hey, wow! A parade of classic cars coming down
Arts & Entertainment Hotsy-Qatsi Is it wrong that when we saw the movie Koyaanisqatsi, about not despoiling the earth, we left the theater thinking, "wow, San Francisco would be a great city to live in!" Well, San
Arts & Entertainment The Ultimate Pillowfighting Championship Arriving thirty minutes early, we started warming up, roadwork, push-ups, a couple of rounds of shadowboxing. Sure, we do Muay Thai, but for all intents and purposes we are an embarrassment to the
Arts & Entertainment Design A T-Shirt For The Race Frequently Run Naked While we've never run Bay to Breakers, we've run our share of road races and have the drawer of dorky, lame t-shirts to prove it. That's one of the reasons that though we're
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: S-T-A-G-E-F-O-G, Stage Fog at Post Street Theatre For those of us who have ever been terrorized and traumatized by school spelling bees, or who couldn't get a grip on "i before e except after c," this
Arts & Entertainment SFist checks out the 510: the Get into the Groove edition Two of the Bay Area's cultural treats combine tonight as the feminist pop culture magazine kicks off its 10th anniversary celebrations with an 8 p.m. 9:15 showing of Desperately Seeking Susan.
Arts & Entertainment A Little Wonder, a Little Con WonderCon has come, gone, and left us a little sad. For some reason, the magic we felt last year was lacking this time around. Maybe it's because we're just plain tired of the
Arts & Entertainment Small Space, Big City When we first moved to San Francisco, we lived in a teensy-weensy little basement apartment that was so small we could only have two people over at a time. Plus, it had a
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: <i>Jimmy and Judy</i> High praise indeed! While we had hoped to see the film on the big screen at its IndieFest premiere on February 4, when we heard that Edward Furlong and Rachael Bella, the stars
Arts & Entertainment Insert High-larious Joke About the Gong Show Here Hey, did you see the Falun Gong protestors at the Chinese New Year parade? They were barred from marching in the parade -- organizers say it's because F.G. is too political --
Arts & Entertainment See A Movie, Drink With The 'Fist, Hell Yeah In the event that the shindig is more discussion, less Chuck, we suggest that after leaving the fete, you head on down to the Mission for IndieFest and our final IndieFest party. There
Arts & Entertainment The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and SFist Want You To Fall In Love Cyclist-specific Dating Game will be played, prizes will be given (three dinners for two -- you can find your date at the event, or elsewhere), and Single Exposure's professional photographers will be manning
Arts & Entertainment The South Bay {Hearts} You But if you're looking for smoochy, cuddly things to do down in the south bay (and really, who isn't?) we have some ideas for you. Of course, they're ideas from our bitter, black
Arts & Entertainment The 2006 San Francisco Korean American Film Festival We know, we know, the website is damn near impossible to navigate and just plain confusing. We promise the time you devote to wading through it will be worth your while, as there
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Love Edition If you haven't booked your Valentine's Day restaurant reservations yet, you're in trouble. Lucky for you, our local theater companies have shows much more unique than prix fixe menus anyway. From improv to
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: <i>Initial D</i> With other pre-pubescent import car enthusiasts, we obsessed over the finer points of corner entry theory while using a Mazda RX-7 on 3rd gear versus the efficient exit velocity we will need to
Arts & Entertainment IndieFest Special Screenings Announced We called our friends at Larsen Associates, and got the scoop: February 13 and 14 are devoted to TBA screenings and Indiefest favorites. Well, we're ready T A the lineup, right now! Monday,
Arts & Entertainment IndieFest: F*CK The Women's Building auditorium on Sunday night was filled with IndieFesters cramming themselves into uncomfortable purple plastic seats and giggling about the naughtiness of the upcoming film. Us, we were just thrilled to
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: These Girls We went to the Sunday showing of , a dark, comedic twist on the old "coming of age in a small town" story. The movie was written and directed by John Hazlett, adapted from
Arts & Entertainment The Existential Adventures of the Superfisters Before we forget to mention: Grant Morrison, superheroic comic creator extraordinaire, will be in town at Isotope Comics on Friday, February 10th. Do. Not. Miss. This. The REAL comic news this week, though,
