Arts & Entertainment SFist Interview: Jane Kim The next time you complain about how busy you are, take a look at Jane Kim's packed schedule. Between her job as youth program director at the Chinatown Community Development Center, her position
SF News Temporary Reprive for Local Theaters Update and Clarifications: Thanks to Jerry Threet, legislative assistant to Supervisor McGoldrick, for his great follow-up! He noted that the primary sponsor of the ordinance to create a CU process (as described below)
SF News The Gentle Art Sfist has steered clear of Santa Cruz ever since we heard the fictional city of Santa Clarita was based on Santa Cruz. But this weekend, you're far more likely to say that something
Arts & Entertainment Tours Aren't Just For Tourists It's a sad truth that people who live in an area rarely sample their cities' local wonders. New Yorkers don't go to the Statue of Liberty, Los Angelenos don't walk down Hollywood Boulevard,
Arts & Entertainment So Delicious! SFist always has a good time in Japantown. We enjoy the bookstore, the many restaurants, and the chance to pretend we're in The Executioner. And there's another reason to head down to the
SF News In My Tribe Unless you're really active in using these sites as they're intended - that is, to meet new people - things get old pretty fast. And we don't really want to meet new people,
SF News Where's the Whoop? Does anyone remember Big Whoop magazine? It ran for a couple of years and was a great SF and pop-culture zine. If it was a blog, it would have been huge. I think
Arts & Entertainment Beauty's Where You Find It SFist is the first to admit that we subscribe to a sh**load of magazines. The upside of this is tons of fun reading for the N Judah, gym, and plane ride. The
SF News Starf**ker SFist is the first to admit that we've had a hand in a lot of crappy press releases, but there's something about Godiva's ‘Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner’ Celebrity Charity Auction that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Movies Thie Weekend Pocket-Sized Edition SFist wishes we had more time to tell you about movies this weekend, but our server is going down in 10 minutes! So, we want to encourage anyone out there who loves zombies
misc Tonight We're Gonna Party Like it's 5765 Sunset this evening marks the beginning of Yom Kippur, considered by many to be the most important holiday of the Jewish year. For a full explanation of the holiday, we recommend reading this.
Arts & Entertainment Ready For Our Close Up Watching last night's premiere of "Lost" (by the way, that show kicks total a**) brought back fond memories of Lost star Matthew Fox's previous show, "Party of Five." While SFist isn't necessarily fond
Arts & Entertainment Unleash Your Inner Coen SFist wants to encourage all of you Bay Area folks to get out there and actually use your degrees in film for something other than the local pub quiz. That's right, people. it's
misc Namaste Ok, that's not really fair. More than 20 million people across the US practice some form of yoga, so it's not just us here in the Bay Area. But we do have an
misc Shana Tova! SFist is so happy to be living in the Bay Area, where celebrations of the Rosh Hashanah holiday are as diverse as the populace itself. "What's Rosh Hashanah?" you might be wondering. (You've
SF News Your Kiss is on my List Wow, does it seem like Craig Newmark is suddenly everywhere? His baby, craigslist, has played a huge part in the last few years of our life (our past and present apartments, car, and
misc The Long Dark Teatime of the Movies Oh, man. SFist is underwhelmed by the movie offerings this weekend, and is considering staying home with our DVDs of MI-5, season one. But if we had to go out and see a
Arts & Entertainment I take the family shopping round / The markets of the world If it weren't for the locally-based site Splendora, SFist would be even more of a sartorial disaster than we already are. Fortunately, we receive their Friday For Play style report, which lets us
misc Labor Week: Somewhere Over the Rainbow No discussion of the Labor Movement in food-obsessed San Francisco would be complete without a mention of Rainbow Grocery, our own "independent, collectively run, worker-owned and operated" grocery and general store. Rainbow's history
Arts & Entertainment Three Guys, a Girl, and Pizza Place Basement... SFist had a great time at , Impact Theater's ninth season opener. If you don't know Impact Theater, they're a Berkeley-based company focused on "producing new plays by emerging playwrights that are relevant, interesting,
Arts & Entertainment Let's Go Out To The Lobby! SFist is worried that our a faithful readers will begin to think of us as the cinephile equivalent of a rice queen, but we promise we don't discriminate. It just seems like every
SF News Sunset Tragedy Police have identified the most recent victim of a hit-and-run on 19th Avenue as Tu-Cuong Tran. Tran, aged 26, was found lying on 19th near Lincoln at around 12:30 this morning. Read
Arts & Entertainment Oh You Pretty Things SFist is frequently complimented on our glowing skin and healthy hair. Is it clean living? A healthy diet of fruits and vegetables? Yet another unplanned pregnancy? No, we owe it all to Kiehl's.
SF News It's a Gas SFist is not personally a car owner, but our frequent companion is. We can't tell you the number of times we've driven from our home in the Sunset to the cheap gas station
misc Love Rescue Me Every time SFist hears tales of the exploits of our single bretheren, we give thanks that we're no longer "out there". We appreciated our frequent companion all the more when we saw this