Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Come for Dinner, Stay for the Hell We know, you've got a lot of pulls on your time these days, what with company holiday parties and SFist's first Bay Blotto tonight, but you really should know about a couple of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads Addendum: Author Events SFist enjoys going to literary events for a number of reasons, the least of which being that being at an actual book signing or reading makes us realize that these author are "Just
Arts & Entertainment Like Bill Graham, But Alive If you don't know, now ya know. The party is this Thursday, December 9th (we assumed you plugged it into your PDA) at Milk, across the street from Amoeba Records at 1840 Haight.
Arts & Entertainment Put On Your Yarmulke, Here Comes Hanukkah The big event happening is the annual lighting of the Bill Graham Menorah at Union Square. The fun starts at 5 p.m. and lasts 'til 6 p.m., so for those who
Arts & Entertainment FunCheapSF How many times have you faced Friday wondering what you're going to do with your weekend that's fun and cheap, or better yet, free? If you were to consult the funcheapSF list, you
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: It's Not Who You Know To paraphrase Norm, it's not who you know, it's who know. With that, this week's live theater recommendations consist of shows featuring friends of ours. Pretty good deal, being SFist's friend, isn't it?
Arts & Entertainment Nerds and Frat Guys Rejoice at the DVDs This Week So, let's see what the fuss is about this week: Spider-Man 2 was pretty popular, we hear. We had a good time when we saw it in the theater, and we like Alfred
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 SFist Watches: Thanksgiving TV This Week Television has become as a much of a Thanksgiving staple as turkey, cranberries, and drunken uncles. Let's face it: when you've just eaten a week's worth of calories, and you've got a house
Arts & Entertainment Elephant Four Local filmmaker Ryan Junell went to New York for the Republican National Convention back in August and filmed what he saw. is the result. See the Elephant is a documentary that runs on
Arts & Entertainment If You Want Something Sung Right... That's why every year we go to the San Francisco Conservatory of Music's Sing it Yourself Messiah. Yup, that's right. The whole damned thing, sung by you and selected soloists. What? You don't
Arts & Entertainment Rising From the Depths... Nothing caps off a day at the office like the site of a misunderstood monster stomping the corporate towers of Tokyo. When we watch Godzilla we can almost imagine what it must have
Arts & Entertainment Toy Story 3 Will Probably Be Really Crappy In another blow to an already failed relationship, Disney has begun ramping up production for Toy Story 3 at their new digital production facilities in Glendale -- meaning that it isn't likely Pixar
Arts & Entertainment Where the Books Match the Drapes SFist was looking for a book the other day. But we, like, totally couldn't remember what it was called or who the author was. It was really popular, we might have seen it
Arts & Entertainment An Update on Our NaNoWriMo Writer When we last met Friend of SFist and NaNoWriMo participant, Brenda, she was about to begin her month-long sojourn into writer-hood and wondering whether she keeps on agreeing to do NaNoWriMo because she
Arts & Entertainment Let the Stalking Commence Filming has started for the upcoming Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo romantic comedy "If Only It Were True," based on an adaptation of local novelist Marc Levy's 2000 novel of the same name.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Movies This Weekend All Festival Edition If SFist answered to mammon instead of to you, our readers, we might bother to have a big budget pick this week. But look at what's out there! Dude, it's so not going
Arts & Entertainment SFist Is Giving It Away For Free It's come to this. We don't know if it's a failure of the imagination or simply a lack of inspiration, but we're just not getting enough questions to fuel the acerbic wit machine
Arts & Entertainment So That's How they Make Cameron Diaz Ugly Not geeky enough? If your Wednesday (next) is free (SFist has book club, sorry), check out "The Making of Shrek 2" presented by the SF Bay Area Chapter of the ACM. The presentation,
Arts & Entertainment New Release Tuesday Sure, there are new releases this week by Britney, Eminem and Shania, but what love have they ever shown to San Francisco? "Talkin' in the Mission / Over coffee, this is my utopia," sings
Arts & Entertainment 9th Circuit to Beasties: "You Have The Right to Party" In a victory for the Beastie Boys, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today declined to review an earlier decision which upheld a lower-court dismissal of a case brought by James
Arts & Entertainment Existential Angst, Plumbing Problems, and Spandex in Berkeley SFist's eclectic group of contributors includes a member of Impact Theatre. This means we've gotten to see this and past shows for free, but we still look at them from our traditional candid
