Arts & Entertainment Mr. McNamara's Vacation In the truly tasteless department, Low Culture tipped us off to the "Apocalypse Now" tour of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, one of Wild Frontiers "Reel Adventures." Kate Watson of Wild Frontiers, quoted in
Arts & Entertainment Grand Theft Auto Stolen Well, we have some interesting developments regarding the upcoming release of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Seems the game has been leaked and is now all over the internet. That's right - rather
SF News Sausage King Could Cook Stuart Alexander has been convicted of three counts of first degree murder, one count of attempted murder and the special circumstances of public employees on the job and a multiple homicide. Whew. You
Arts & Entertainment FIGHT!!! One of the reasons we read the weeklies is because, thankfully, we live in a town big enough for two of them. They don't always see it that way, however - the relationship
Arts & Entertainment No, Please, Not Our Precious TV! So you're sitting there at a casual restaurant, sipping a beer or munching on french fries, and over your date's shoulder is a television that just happens to be playing an episode of
Arts & Entertainment The Soundtrack Alone is Worth Fitty Bones! There are video games that are popular with gamers - Counter Strike, Half-Life, Halo - and then there are video games that become cultural phenomena. The audience is drawn not so much by
SF News And They're Out of the Fajitagate! If you've been living under a rock for the last year, then you'll have no idea what we're talking about. But then we had enough trouble getting DSL in our home, so it
Arts & Entertainment We're Too Sexy for this Blog Ever wanted to hobnob with VIPs, sipping top-shelf liquor and ogling models? Well, tonight's your chance. GenArt, a national non-profit organization dedicated to promoting emerging artists in film, art and fashion will be
SF News Coming Out Party Shares started trading today on a hot IPO. Or should we say hott IPO. No, it's not some Richard Branson venture, technology firm or national retailer. The buzz on this offering is about
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interview: Toby Dixon By the way, Toby - we were gonna totally run that other picture you sent, honest, but we're lame. Feel free to call us prudes in the comments.
Arts & Entertainment B-boy Battle in the Blogosphere! Forget Mount St. Helens - there's been an eruption right here in the blogosphere! While checking out 1115.org's debate recap, we kept scrolling to a post on Nelly dissing political MCs (classy
SF News No Choice But to Use Their Voice Every morning on our way to work, we raise a fist in support of the locked out hotel workers. Today we were looking forward to the last day of the strike, when picketers
SF News Gaming the System As the days to the November 2nd elections wind down, many folks are getting anxious over the potential for impropriety at the polling stations. After the debacle in Florida in 2000, many people
SF News You May Not Be Able to Buy That Hummel Figurine SFist was finally looking forward to some ad revenue from BlogAds when we noticed an AP story noting that San Jose's PayPal, a division of eBay, is experiencing glitches in the wake of
SF News Crazy Carmelites Strike Again Okay, we'll admit it, Californians have a reputation for being wacky. Nutso. Bonkers. Flakey. Weird. Crazy. So maybe we are. Certainly the folks of Carmel-By-The-Sea have had their fair share of "Only in
SF News Oakland Panda-ring to China Chang has just returned from a trip to Chengdu, Sichuan province, where he traveled with representatives from architecture firm Y.H. Lee Associates - who were there to examine the local panda research
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Weekend Getaway - Point Reyes National Seashore Not everyone at SFist had Columbus Day off, but that did not stop us from taking advantage of a beautiful, cloud free Saturday to head up to Point Reyes National Seashore. Point Reyes
Arts & Entertainment Self-Powered Marshmallows If you were walking down 24th east of Mission yesterday around 6:15 like SFist was, you may have been treated to the sight of a few dozen bicyclists tricked out in white
Arts & Entertainment Open Studio in the 'Town One of the things SFist loves about Oakland in all its post-industrial glory is that it's a great place for young artists to find studios. Take a walk through Temescal, West Oakland or
Arts & Entertainment SFist First Thursday Tonight at Lisa Dent's gallery at 660 Mission will be a special viewing of the work of Hank Willis Thomas, local photographer and recent California College of the Arts MFA graduate. SFist has
SF News Former Raider Wanted in Nevada Drive By The Raiders are known for cultivating a bad-boy image. When your creation myth involves going around Oakland bars looking for the biggest, meanest guys you can find in order to field your team,
Arts & Entertainment Going to the Theater Makes You Feel Smarter, We Promise SFist is not above shilling for our friends - Phil Bronstein does it, why shouldn't we? So we'd like to invite you to visit tonight or tomorrow's performance of , written and directed by
SF News Gary To Barry: No Love As though things weren't bad enough on the Bay Area sports scene, we get the catty remarks of Yankee Gary Sheffield about BALCO and Barry Bond's failures as a person in this week's
SF News Evan Williams, Blogger Founder, Semi-Retires [W]hen I took a week off a few months ago just hanging out reading books and walking around and not thinking about Blogger for a while (I accidentally hurt my mom's feelings
SF News Just Tell Your Friends Back Home You're Experiencing "The Real San Francisco" The noisy unrest outside many of San Francisco's hotels continued over the weekend as ten other hotel members of the San Francisco Multi-Employer Group (which we'd link to if they had a web
