SF News Your Commute: (408) 850-6125 Caltrain service is delayed in both directions this morning after a suicidal man jumped in front of a northbound train at Mountain View around 7:15 a.m. today. As of around 9:
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Berkeley Edition at Berkeley Repertory Theatre We don't know what's bigger news: the fact that Rita Moreno stars in The Glass Menagerie, one of the greatest plays in the American canon, or the fact that
SF News Your San Francisco Giants 2006 Season Preview Here's how this phrase works in terms of this year's team: you say "the Giants starting rotation could be one of the best in the NL. Schmidt is healthy, Morris is a stud,
SF News SFist is Talking Baseball SFist Jackson: I'm predicting Oakland and New York in the ALCS this year, and am looking for the Phillies to take on the Cardinals in the NLCS. Oakland looks really strong this year,
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Wim Wenders Written by and starring Sam Shepard, tells the story of fallen Western star "Howard Spence" (Shepard), who sort of blurilly bails on his current film in an effort to reconnect with estranged family
misc SFIAFF: <em>Linda Linda Linda</em> The soundtrack for the film revolves around three songs by The Blue Hearts, who were apparently a big deal in the ‘80’s in Japan. By the end of the film we were
misc SFist Rants: Couldn't Stand the Weather It's not that it's rainy. We can handle the rain, or at least be okay with it. It's always rainy this time of year. No. What's getting to us is the whole schizo-ness
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Memories In The Mist</i> Hey, we scored a free fan! NBC 11 was giving out free handheld fans to SFIAAFF-goers attending last night's screening of Bengali movie . We're not really sure what the fan had to do
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Sobhraj</i> As much as we were ready to love this slender (70 minutes) documentary, we bristled at the introducer's assertion that the reason for the inclusion of this film in the festival was because
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Rules of Dating</i> The pervy teacher, Lee (played by Lee Yu-rim) is part clumsy lothario and part relentless sexual predator whose creepiness is only mitigated by his over-riding goofiness. In one scene he drunkenly looks at
SF News Your Commute: Road Rage Kills Folks, you've just gotta learn to let it go: today's fourth-runner-up in the Great SFist Blotter Crime News Gathering (i.e., a frantic search of all the area news sites to find something
SF News The Final Frontier Sure it's no secret, but it's no American Idol either. The women's game has been nipping at the heels of the cultural consciousness for about ten years now, but hasn't quite grabbed the
Arts & Entertainment SXSW: You Will Never Find a More Wretched Hive of Scum and Villany As far as we know, SFists Jackson and Krissy continue their tear though Austin, Texas at SXSW, but who the hell knows? We haven't heard from Krissy since yesterday (which might be an
SF News There...Is...Another....Book.... The big news concerning the ESPN book, "Love Me, Hate Me: Barry Bonds and the Making of an Antihero" by Jeff Pearlman concerns, of course, steroids. In an excerpt published in the upcoming
SF News Your Commute: On The Blotter Lots of death and transit events to report today: Did you hear the helicopters whirring overhead in the Mission last night? The SFPD came in full force after reports of a serious shooting
SF News SXSW Update We were wondering why it was so easy to get a parking place in the Mission last night when we remembered that all the cool people are at SXSW. Cool people like SFist
Arts & Entertainment The San Francisco Asian American Film Festival: SFist Has You Covered We're going to be seeing a ton of the movies, as well as hitting parties and other fun stuff like this Friday's and Saturday's Directions in Sound music events (we love Kero One!
Arts & Entertainment Review: Voxtrot Hipster posing, shoegazing indifference, emo angst, and punk anger have taken the joy out of being a rock star. A lot of bands make it seem like they would rather be somewhere else
Arts & Entertainment Intercontinental Giveaway! Win a copy of <i>Sea Otters Gambolling in the Wild, Wild Surf</i>! That's right, we got your otters, your internerd, and your fancy-pants foreign book all wrapped up in one giveaway. Holy crap! So, enter below to win a copy of the book that had
SF News Our Freedom of Speech is Freedom or Death In a 3-0 ruling, the court based their decision upon a 1969 ruling by the Supreme Court, which ruled that a 15-year-old girl had the right to wear a black armband to protest
SF News Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow It snowed in the Bay Area this weekend -- the first March snowstorm since 1896. And we're not just talking snow like in the Sierras or maybe on the top of Mount Tam
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV Tonight Don't get us wrong. We totally dug "The Sopranos," but we must have suffered from some severe, Uncle Junior-level memory loss in the two years since the last season ended. We were...confused,
SF News QB Kerry Cut Remember how we said the Rai-duhs weren't going to release Kerry Collins? Oops. Yesterday they officially released Collins in an attempt to save the Raiders 9.1 million against the salary cap. We
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food Blogger Roundup The food blog world is aflutter over the biggest awards ceremony of the year. The Oscars? Don't be silly. It's all about the food, baby. The 2006 Independent Food Festival and Awards are
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Mysterious Origami As for us, we're just confused by the marketing. Early teaser ads (which have since been removed from the internets) showed the predictable groups of young, attractive hipsters exchanging pictures and e-mail and
