Arts & Entertainment Interview: Michael Maxfield Color of America? Red, white, blue! Color of the Giants? Orange! Color of San Francisco? Hot Pink! Wearing a Unitard! Way back when SFist self-interviewed, we shared a special San Francisco moment that
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Jeffrey Anderson Worst movie of all time: Too many people dump too much abuse on horror and sci-fi movies when the real horror comes in the form of "Forrest Gump" -- truly the most monstrous
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Miranda July Miranda's first feature length film won big at Sundance, and opens next week in San Francisco. "Me and You and Everyone We Know" is about connecting in a disconnected world, and about meeting
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Carlton Evans Our indebtedness to Craigslist doesn't even come close to that of Mr. Carlton Evans, who claims that everything he owns is from Craiglist. Although he MAY be indulging in a smidge of hyperbole,
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Cedric Westphal From the get go our venerable editor, Jackson West, had a vision for SFist to become a cultural force. Key to his plan for cyber domination was forging strong ties with capital C
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 Parties we WERE Invited to Like many of you, SFist didn’t manage to get a ticket to the Dove’s show at the Fillmore last night. Luckily it seems like SFist has almost become an "it-blog", seriously,
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Derrick Schneider In his weekly column, SFist in the Kitchen, Derrick picks up something up a farmers market and tells you what to do with it. Voila! No more perplexed staring at the dried mandarins
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Jacob Leland Hometown team loyalty and keen insight into local's seasonal wardrobe? You may have noticed the Oakland pride creeping into new SFist contributor Jacob's posts. When he's not cyber heckling the Red Sox Jacob
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Dewey Decibel And so Flip Out Guitars was born. Why Flip-Out? Well this SFist doesn't actually play the guitar, but if you scroll down you'll see a guitar that is plainly different. You'll also get
Arts & Entertainment Review: Bloc Party @ Slim's First things first: the opening band. SFist is loathe to hate on local acts, trying hard to make it in this town. BUT ... we will say that Oakland’s "The Death of a
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
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz has been in they Bay Area since 1987, when she was an undergrad at UC Berkeley. She stayed on and did a Ph.D. at Berkeley, where she edited a book
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Casey Smith We like to think that SFist interviews with locals are like catching little glimpses in to parts of the city you don’t know as well. For today’s interview Casey Jex Smith
Arts & Entertainment Queen of Soul? DJ Motion Potion did a nice job warming up the crowd with a 'Soul Sisters' set that ranged from the Jefferson’s theme song to more standard soul fair like Aretha and Diana.
Arts & Entertainment Giving Back Sunday or The Guy Even the Emo Kids Want to Beat Up. They’re kidding, right? It’s got to be a joke! Thus went most of our conversation as we took in Taking Back Sunday as the openers on Friday at Henry Kaiser Arena
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Teresa Williamson Regardless of its etymology, Tango Diva is a great service for women travelers. Plus it’s rife with inspiring quotes about life, love and the like—really, Tango Diva should be in the
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Sarah Lefton What’s in a name? Depends on the name. As far as names go, the Jewish Fashion Conspiracy says a lot about the proprietor’s sense of humor. So does the company motto:
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Nic Harcourt There are approximately 3300 Bay Area Dwellers who listen to subscribe to an LA radio station. While SFist has our own beef with local radio, we were a little curious about what makes
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Beth Allen Now SFist isn’t naïve, we know that most of you never actually read to the bottom of these interviews. That would be a major mistake in this case. Make sure to check
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Aqueduct Is being a rock star all it's cracked up to be? Am I a rock star? If you say so. What is your favorite Guns and Roses Song? Patience. But it's more of
Arts & Entertainment Stuff You Totally Missed Bonus: Overheard in the ladies room by some fans who were there for the headliner, Rooney: Where are you from? Canada, Yah, we’re here from Omaha. That’s right; people came to
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Jennifer Gentle Luckily, Marco Fasolo from Italy’s Jennifer Gentle (on Sub Pop) couldn’t have been nicer about the persistent fuzz on the line. We caught up with Marco as the band was heading
