misc Unskinny Bop This is actually part of a long standing battle in the city over the private booths. Critics have called them exploitive as club owners make it so the women who work in the
Arts & Entertainment The Treatable Adventures of the Superfisters This isn't a comic book you can approach lightly; it's a graphic novel that requires you take a few deep breaths before diving in. Childhood awfulness led Madison to dissociate herself into a
SF News Your San Francisco Giants Are Looking For a Few Good Men. Hopefully With Power So then, the question becomes what is there to do about it? The trading season is a month away-- trading deadline is July 31st-- but that hasn't stopped Giants fans from wistfully looking
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 30: <i>George Michael: A Different Story</i> In messaging that seems very tightly controlled by the Michael machine, GM and the filmmakers lead us through his initial success with Wham!, his solo career (which emerged nearly concurrently with his realization
Arts & Entertainment See Jon Blog As we mentioned earlier, our own SFist Jon is spending the day at our favorite sports blog, Deadspin, liveblogging this afternoon's Austria vs Croatia game. Join him as he recounts the game in
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Selected Shakespeare San Francisco Shakespeare Festival Free Shakespeare in the Park returns with starring the magnificent Julian Lopez-Morrilas as Prospero. (If you haven't seen this man in action, you're missing out.) Local director Kenneth Kelleher
SF News This Week's BART F--- Up As a result, trains were stopped between Balboa Park and Daly City. Once everything was back up, there were delays of up to half an hour as BART played catch-up. According to reports,
SF News The Warriors: Does Anybody Feel A Draft? It's less than two weeks until the NBA draft, and the Warriors' game plan remains, uh what's the word we're looking for, undetermined? undeveloped? or just undisclosed? Quick to point out what others
SF News The Vista from the Valley on Microsoft Of course Microsoft is not an empire that will fall quickly. We doubt Ray Ozzie will pull a Nero and set the Redmond campus alight or feed open-source advocates to lions (that's Steve
Arts & Entertainment Another Hole In The Head: <i>The Ghost of Mae Nak</i> and <i>Dark Remains</i> Though the haunted newlyweds at the film's center are just too cute for words, the more saccharine elements in the film are balanced by several gruesome deaths and some genuinely spooky dream sequences.
SF News Barry in '07? Just Say No While most of the speculation has it that Barry will be AL-bound, to some place where he can just DH and while away his time on the bench during the other team's ups,
SF News Going to the World Cup With Fabian Núñez Hey, we just found out a way to go-- just give tons of money to Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez? He's taking some of his biggest fund raisers to Germany to watch the Finals.
SF News Your San Francisco Giants: Grrr...Aaarrggh... Yesterday's game was a complete study in frustrating suckitude. The Giants went into the eight inning with a 5-3 lead, only to see Tim Worrell-- aka the Guy Who Is Supposed to Hold
SF News End Prejudice Against Backward Baseball Cap Wearers Our story began last week when a mens softball team headed off to the Connecticut Yankee for some post-game celebratory drinks. As is softball players' wont as the Yankee is known as a
Arts & Entertainment SFist's Guide to the World Cup Part 1- Why You Should Care Instead, we're going to try and get you into it by showing you just how much fun the World Cup can be. Picture it not as something you have to do because you
misc Interview: Nathaniel Ford, Part Seven Eve Batey: Something that we always wonder when we go fill out that form on the website, when we have a complaint or a comment or something, where does it go? What happens?
SF News Free Lance Williams And Mark Fainaru-Wada Don't know what to do with that formerly-trendy FREE WINONA t-shirt? Just cross out her name and write in "LANCE WILLIAMS AND MARK FAINARU-WADA" in sparkle-pen instead -- the Chronicle's getting ready to
Arts & Entertainment Philistine: Madame Butterfly As for the 3,000 inside, they were treated to a glorious show. Madame Butterfly is a crowd pleaser, as far as tragedies go, and this production came up with a recipe for
SF News Ma vs Ja: Losing My Religion Well, it turns out that the eldest Reilly daughter goes to not just any private school, but a Catholic one. So in retaliation, Reilly supporters stepped up and took it to the next
misc SFist Cares ... About Getting Your Ride Clean The AIDS/LifeCycle is coming up and one of the locals riding it sent us a message about a bike/moped/scooter wash this Sunday 11am-4pm on Market & Sanchez to raise money
SF News Hey There, Big Guy As part of the plan to build a new transit tower in SoMa, planners are tentatively proposing that the area near the terminal-to-be be zoned to allow construction of three skyscrapers, one of
misc Craigslist Encounters: Can I Get A Witness? We would be lying if we said that the Craigslist community section is anything but a good-ol' hodgepodge. There are nearly no off-limit topics and much of the free-form discussion is devoid of
SF News Everybody Hates Chris: The District 6 Interview We're continuing our series of interviews of the Anyone But Chris Daly hopefuls in the upcoming District 6 election! Today's guest: Matt Drake. Hi, Matt! Check out Matt's campaign blog too. Matt emailed
SF News The NSA Wiretapping Scandal: Not Just For Phone Calls Anymore Well, AT&T denied the claim but this morning, Wired News posted documents given to them by Klein of inter-office documents detailing just what the NSA was up to. These documents were
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: More Beard Awards Beard Papa does not serve twinkies, but their cream puffs are driving San Franciscans to insanity all the same. Oh, no one with vanilla cream on their lips has lunged at Chris Daly
