Arts & Entertainment <i>The Dharma of Dollars</i> To have these problems, right? Mark paints a great portrait of the politically self aware and righteous young man who marries the girl of his dreams, only to find that she is the
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
Arts & Entertainment Asian Heritage Street Celebration In the email we received from the organizers, we're told "You'll enjoy...LIVE ENTERTAINMENT...FOOD...VENDORS...ARTS & CRAFTS...MARTIAL ARTS...ANIME...J CAR GATHERING AND MORE!" Hey, it's in all-caps so you
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads: Literary Events We first heard of Tayari Jones when we read her novel , which details the coming-of-age experiences of three children under the shadow of the (recently reopened) Atlanta child murders. We've been reading reviews
misc SFist Raves: Tostadas Tostadas, where have you been all our lives? We're turning 34 next week, but it wasn't until recently that we discovered your glory. There we were, whining about how we couldn't decide what
Arts & Entertainment Impact Briefs 7: The How-To Show Last weekend, we hit the East Bay to witness SFist Cheshire's on-stage debut in Impact Theater's . There we sat in the basement of La Val's Subterranean (1834 Euclid in Berkeley) drinking our beer
Arts & Entertainment SF DocFest: <i>Why Should The Devil Have All The Good Music?</i> We're not sure what attracted us to . Maybe it's because Sons of Provo, a mockumentary about a Mormon boy band, opened our eyes to the possibility that there was more to Christian music
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Opinionated Loudmouth: Half Moon Bay Brewing Company Beer: We like it. So Half Moon Bay Brewing Company — a waterfront restaurant that brews its own — seemed a great choice for a foggy afternoon on the coast. We had s**t to
Arts & Entertainment Punk Farm Then he emailed us about his newest opus, . He told us, "I'm especially excited about it, so any plug that you could give it would be so appreciated (Ed note: Ask, and ye
Arts & Entertainment They May Be Losers, But They're Our Losers As compelling as the season finale of "The Bachelor" is, wouldn't you rather spend tonight doing something a little less lame? Our friends at Porchlight have been running their monthly series of 10-minute
misc SFist Wants You To Find A Friend: Kiva, from Grateful Dogs This week's adoptable pet (he'll be featured on SFist all week long on the right side of the site, below the ads) comes to us from Grateful Dogs Rescue. We're just so happy
Arts & Entertainment SF DocFest: SFist Has You Covered Usually, we try as hard as we can to avoid the real world, but we'll make an exception for the fourth San Francisco Documentary Film Festival. There are so many unbelievable films to
misc SFist Wants You To Find A Friend: Betty, from Grateful Dogs This week's adoptable pet (she'll be featured on SFist all week long on the right side of the site, below the ads) comes to us from Grateful Dogs Rescue. We think she's adorable
SF News Has Flickr Lost Its Baring? Without a doubt one of the most useful web applications around and the single best photo sharing doodah out there, Flickr really is in a league of its own. And we love Google
SF News Stizzem Cizzells in Sucka Free, Boyee! After a selection process that left many of the participants wondering if the voting was being done completely objectively, San Francisco has been crowned the next American Id...oh, wait, never mind. We
SF News This Weather Blows And It's Not Even Windy What in the name of Sam Francisco is going on here? We paid our dues. We holed up in our homes for the winter storms. We crawled along in Bay Area traffic thanks
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Palindromes</i> Back on April 13, Gothamist published this great interview with director Todd Solondz. At the time, we wondered if he'd be screening his new film, , at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Sure
Arts & Entertainment SFist Gets <i>The Skinny</i> SFist loves local magazines, from to Other to Dwell. (And before all you "Wavefans" from the same IP address write in, the answer is "no".) We're so happy to welcome The Skinny, a
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Princess of Mount Ledang</i> The thing that amazed us was that it only cost $4M, as it was as lush, detailed, and beautiful as an American film of ten times the price. From the intricately beautiful credits
Arts & Entertainment SFist Raves: Cinco de Mayo Before we moved to the Bay Area, all our knowledge on Cinco de Mayo came from our time spent at our local Chi-Chi's, (which played host to a perennially broken sign reading "17
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Opinionated Loudmouth: Nick’s Seashore Restaurant Remember in when Henry Hill's talking about how he and the other gangsters used to take their wives out on Friday nights? They'd go out for a nice dinner, and maybe there'd be
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Youth Voices and Visions So far SFist has been covering the San Francisco International Film Festival as a spectator, but SFist Paolo has graciously agreed to offer his perspective as a festival participant. His short, "Elements" appears
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Wants You To Find A Friend: Emily, from Grateful Dogs This week's adoptable pet (she'll be featured on SFist all week long on the right side of the site, below the ads) comes to us from Grateful Dogs Rescue. She shares a name
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Film Society Awards Night Keep reading past the jump for bona-fide celebrities and how we almost lost our sh** with one of them!
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>November</i> There we were with our litle digital camera that seemed so fancy when we bought it at Best Buy, surrounded by big bad shooters. OK, that's kind of a lie, all the photographers
