Arts & Entertainment SFist Raves: Bad Reporter As you can probably tell, we have kind of a love/hate thing going on with the Chron over here at SFist HQ. But since it's Raves Thursday, we're highlighting the love! And
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: Queermation The strongest of the bunch: , a hilarious Dutch cartoon about a massive dom and the puny sub who loves him. The Warner-Brothers-ish superstretchy style sets a great wacky tone for the silly, horrifying
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: The Lady in Question is Charles Busch As a young actor, Charles found it tough to get work as an impersonater of classic film stars. So he turned to writing, creating plays like "Vampire Lesbians of Sodom," which allowed him
SF News Interview: Sam Breach Foodies! As we've been interviewing the new crop of SFist foodies we've noticed a foodie trend: they don't like burritos. We can't cite a systemic cause for foodie disdain of an SF staple,
Arts & Entertainment Current Mood: Live, Local, Latebreaking About a hundred folks showed up (though only 60 or so RSVPed -- naughty bloggers!) and included folks from Craigslist, Technorati, Six Apart, Wordpress, Feedster, Blogger, and so forth. Mark Tamayo, aka SFist's
Arts & Entertainment Everbody Sing, Everybody Dance For those looking to party all night long, Threshing Floor Productions and The Hub at the JCCSF, along with the Progressive Jewish Alliance Present, DAWN, The 2nd Annual Arts Event Inspired by the
Arts & Entertainment Mysterious Boy Berry's parents, friends, shrink, religious leaders, doctors, and the ambiguously sexual eccentrics who admire his moxie all seem to have their own plans for Berry; none of them help him to figure out
SF News Araujo Retrial Under Way As we predicted in our earlier post, the defense is indeed switching strategies in the retrial. When we spoke with Bill DuBois, defendant Jose Merel's new attorney, back in January, he hinted that
misc SFist Blotter/Animal Roundup Nick Faibish's mauling continues to send shock waves across the city -- Gavin Newsom's announced that he's starting a panel to look into possible restrictions on pit bull ownership in San Francisco. Gavin
SF News The Supreme Court Bogarts That Joint By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court voted today to overturn a decision by a San Francisco federal appeals court that allowed the use of medicinal marijuana. The court ruled that in cases
SF News Intel: Not Just for Crappy Windows Machines Anymore Of course it's all over Technorati. Trying to dispel the kind of hand-wringing usually reserved for anytime George Lucas futzes with the original trilogy, Jobs let us in on another little secret: Apple's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Another Fine Trimethyldioxypuri...Oh, Never Mind. So, yeah, we flaked last week. Holiday weekends are always a good excuse, right? We've always been of the opinion that people who do an excess of reviews (movie critics, people employed as
SF News Wanted: New MUNI Boss Burns was hired from Philadelphia after the "MUNI Meltdown" in 1999. As much as we love to kvetch about MUNI, we do have to admit that it has gotten better since he took
Arts & Entertainment (Yet) Another Hole In The Head: Friday Night We moved to better seats and settled in for gory zombie fun.
misc Bay Blogger... Friday Jennifer over at Life Begins at Thirty spent last week blogging about food. Of course, lots of people do that, including SFist. But what made this exceptional is that it was as part
SF News The 49ers Gone Wild Ace public relations director Kirk Reynolds, pictured in the photo still of the video, created it and stars in it. Surprisingly, he is now currently looking for a new job and for the
SF News Shilling Schwarzenegger The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights slammed the ads and has asked Arnold to return the money he received from the advertisers. You can also bet dollars to doughnuts, whatever that means,
Arts & Entertainment Bummer, Dude After thirty-five years, Alameda County sheriff's investigators have finally closed the murder of Meredith Hunter at the Rolling Stones' Altamont concert 35 years ago. Apparently, they’ve been looking for the semi-mythical "second
Arts & Entertainment Review: Architecture in Helsinki AIH’s eight person line-up showed the value of having band members who can multi-task. SFist enjoyed watching the complex rotation through instruments. We’ve always wondered how folk-rock ensembles manage to pay
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Alice Wu If the interview below isn't enough of Alice, make sure to check out her movie, Saving Face which you can check out beginning June 3rd at your favorite Landmark Theater. Heck, SFist liked
SF News Got Housing? First, there are several battles over the tearing down of old buildings to be replaced by condos. Among the buildings being fought over is an abandoned cottage, an old abandoned theater, and an
misc SFist Wants You To Find A Friend: Wiley, from Grateful Dogs Wiley is a 10-year old Belgian Malinois/Greyhound mix and weighs about 70 pounds. Wiley was surrendered to the shelter by the only owner he'd ever known and it's been a difficult adjustment
Arts & Entertainment SF DocFest: <i>ScaredSacred</i> The line snaked down to Albion Street for the teensy Little Roxie theater's screening of Canadian film ScaredSacred for DocFest, filled with an odd mix of earnest well-scrubbed management consultants with expensive handbags,
Arts & Entertainment <i>The Frog Prince</i> and The Mayor As our cab pulled up to La Barca in a part of town we've never felt like we belonged in, we started to feel that high school era anxiousness in the pit of
SF News Root, Root, Root for the Home Team Hey Bay Area baseball fans, take a deep breath of relief as your offensively challenged, injury riddled, questionably GM'ed baseball team faces off against another offensively challenged, injury riddled, questionably GM'ed Bay Area
