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 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
Arts & Entertainment Let's Go See Some Art Lisa Dent Gallery (660 Mission Street, 4th Floor) Hank Willis Thomas March 3rd – April 8th, Wednesdays through Saturdays 12-6 In his second solo exhibition in San Francisco Willis Thomas presents “Unbranded: Reflections in
SF News What's Going On At SXSW 2006? Our pals at Austinist have been busy with all sorts of fun at this year's South by Southwest conferences and festivals. Let's see what they'be been up to: In film, Austinist Bre went
misc SFist Whines & Dines: Russian River So the next time you hear a New Yorker tell you how much better everything is there than San Francisco (and you are living here because?), ask them if they have a dog.
SF News Guess What? Peeing in Public is ILLEGAL It's all rooted in the case of David McDonald, who was arrested and searched by Oakland police while urinating in a Berkeley parking lot. At the time, the office charged McDonald with littering
SF News You Want Me To Wear What? Apparently, it's less stupid than we thought, as clown-masked gunmen successfully robbed a South San Francisco bank this morning. Thieves entered the 211 Airport Blvd branch of the First National Bank of Northern
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes To <i>Unknown White Male</i>! (see the trailer here) is a documentary following Doug Bruce, a successful former stockbroker suddenlyand unexpectedly afflicted with a seemingly causeless form of retrograde amnesia. The filmmaker, Rupert Murray, is a longtime friend
Arts & Entertainment Austinist Brings SXSW to Us In Style Instead, we'll be relying on our BFFs at Austinist for the scoop. They're even archiving all their SXSW 2006 coverage here, for super-easy SXSW news access. You'll also be able to find daily
Arts & Entertainment In Control Of All Things Returns No, this isn't the same thing as this one shot last year in SF and LA -- this one stars Grey's Anatomy's Justin Chambers, Prison Break's Robin Tunney, and Lost's William Mapother. (Are
Arts & Entertainment Viva Boulware! It feels like truly local coverage -- and SFist means that as a compliment. Boulware included punk culture, the literary scene, talk about when the Mission and Potrero Hill were affordable, the sex
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Just Take Me With U And that's why the Gothamist Brain Trust has brought us mobile versions of all your favorite -ist sites, SFist included. Just go to http://www.sfist.com/pda.htm to see us in
Arts & Entertainment There’s A Brand New Dance But I Don’t Know Its Name When SFist Jackson announced, "Hey, I saw your BFF Dede today", we went scarlet (we don't wear green) with envy. When do we get OUR Dede Wilsey sighting? Taunting our jealousy, Jackson sent
SF News Don't Pee on Pooh This LA Times piece asserts that, among other things, proudly Christian Kinkade "heckled illusionists Siegfried & Roy in Las Vegas, cursed a former employee's wife who came to his aid when he fell
SF News Are All The Would-Be Buyers Fleeing The State? We were feeling pretty good about the state of the California housing market after reading the PDF of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight's most recent report. Housing prices up 18.8%
misc SFist Whines & Dines: The 540 Club So what is this ‘pet-friendly’ group hiding from the dog blogging community? Having seen photos of earlier Bark and Whine Balls, we can only assume it is the unbridled humiliation of dogs in
SF News Suspect in Fat Tone Murder Captured Andre "Mac Minister, Choppa, Chop" Dow, the prime suspect in the Fat Tone's murder was captured yesterday in a San Francisco apartment, by SFPD SWAT and FBI agents. There was a standoff for
SF News Honk If You Can See Frank Chu I just realized this morning on my way to work that I have not seen Frank in like 2 weeks! What is the deal? Is he on vacation? Is the SFist investigative team
SF News The Gray Lady: Bring Your Wallet to SoMa What we saw instead was a wallet-busting tour of an area that's got a lot of great bargains. Although SFist totally applauds the inclusion of City Kayak's Bay Bridge tour, we were wishing
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Jeremy Stoppelman And, hey, we even use yelp ourselves -- either to get recommendations or to avoid those places recommended by folks we don't like the looks of. Maybe not the intention of the site's
SF News We're Betting on iTunes We have a lot of the screeners lying on our desk, gazing at us reproachfully as we while away the hours watching Tyra crap out on stripping and . We're pretty dubious that we're
misc InsideOut Travel Magazine Wants Your Photos They're having their annual photo contest right now, the theme of which is “Wonders of the World” and should be "photos of something (things, people, places, and/or moments) extraordinary you caught on
Arts & Entertainment A Tribute to Leacock and Pennebaker Film Festival Sure, we've seen a lot of these movies before, but never on the big screen. And the best part of all this -- all shows before 7:30 are FREE. We love free!
SF News Fun with BART BART is a far less colorful subject, but that doesn't make it any less of an object of obsession for some. Two BART-related treats have come across our desk lately, and we're hard
