misc Greenpeace Stages "Fossil Fools Day" Protest SF Weekly has a slideshow of pics from yesterday's theatrical Greenpeace demonstration, where the basic idea was "fossil fuels are from the stone age." We think some of the participants took their slogan
SF News <i>UK Guardian</i> Feels Need to Explain Its April Fools' Jokes via YouTube It's rather English (or just dorky) of them to walk us through all these jokes, no? We're actually not sure that the whole Twitter-based reporting idea isn't a good one for the old
SF News <i>Guardian</i> Endorses Gavin for Governor... Nyuk Nyuk... April Fools! With a series of cover headlines that don't exactly (in our book) qualify as lawls, the SFBG is greeting this April Fool's Day with healthy scoopful of irony and a headline about Gavin
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: <em>Spade & Archer</em> Author Joe Gores Novelist Joe Gores, a former private eye who has written seventeen novels including the acclaimed Hammett, has written a hard-boiled, old-timey noir "prequel" to Dashiell Hammett's Maltese Falcon called Spade & Archer which
SF News <em>The New York Times</em> Discovers Dogpatch In the NYT Travel section over the weekend, Vanessa Gregory wrote a piece about the revival (read: gentrification?) of Dogpatch thanks to the T-Third Street line and the presence of upscale establishments like
Arts & Entertainment Pics from the 2009 GayVN Awards in the Castro The gay porn Oscars went down over the weekend (pun intended) at the Castro Theatre, and the kids over at The Sword have pics from the red carpet (site semi-NSFW), the awards show
SF News Conficker Internet Worm Set to Get Wormier on April Fool's Day According to the Associated Press, the now widespread Conficker internet worm, which is estimated to have already squirmed its way into 3 million PCs, will suddenly spread itself and do even more damage
misc Fake Explosion on Freeway Draws Oohs, Aahhs Starved as San Franciscans are for an occasional touch of Hollywood magic, crowds gathered--actual people, actually gathered--to see some pyrotechnics on I-280 yesterday which capped off a few weeks of shooting for the
Arts & Entertainment Jill Sobule's "San Francisco" Video Directed by Margaret Cho Jill Sobule and pal Margaret Cho recently shot this video for Sobule's song "San Francisco," off her new album due out April 14th. The video features several local personalities including sex columnist Violet
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Cantina's Laughing Buddha To kick off spring in the booziest of fashions, SFist is going to bring you a weekly cocktail column* featuring a recipe and few words from a local mixologist / chef de cocktail. This
misc Quake Quack Predicts 6.0 Temblor in L.A. A particularly vigilant YouTuber by the name of Luke Thomas has been posting semi-weekly earthquake prediction forecasts for the San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego areas for a couple of years. As
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interview With Lillian Groag, Director of ACT's <em>War Music</em> ACT's latest production, War Music, which has its world premiere tonight (buy tickets here) is a modern retelling of The Illiad adapted from Christopher Logue's new translation of the epic poem. We spoke
SF News San Francisco Unemployment Rate Less Horrible Than State Average The Sacramento Bee has this cool interactive graphic showing county unemployment rates for February 2009 throughout the state. Consider yourselves lucky: San Francisco and Marin Counties have two of the lowest rates, at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wine Editor Reviews Tasting Rooms North, South & East Jon Bonne, wine editor at The Chronicle [ed note: we were trying to come up with a clever nickname, something along the lines of calling the NY Times "The Gray Lady," but more
misc A Modest Proposal Regarding Musicians Who Twitter In her "Open Letter to Would-Be Twitticians" (we prefer the term "twits"), SF Weekly's Maya Kroth asks that musicians who've become avid users of Twitter to please stop posting boring shit. Specifically, she'd
Arts & Entertainment Discount Tickets and Raffle for Gay Porn Oscars at Castro Theatre Hear ye all fans of gay porn and its many, many "stars": The GayVN Awards (the gay porn Oscars) are this Saturday at the Castro Theatre--with hosts Janice Dickinson, Margaret Cho and Alec
SF News New Bike Lanes and Racks To Come From Stimulus Funds? Three years after a court-ordered injunction on citywide bicycle improvement projects, an impact study by the SFMTA is expected to be adopted by the City as early as June. Just to back up,
SF News Anti-Loitering Law Goes Before Board of Supes San Francisco nightclub owners are lobbying for a law that would make it illegal for "troublemakers" to spend more than three minutes hanging out within ten feet of a nightclub. The owners went
Arts & Entertainment Video Game Developers Descend on Moscone The 2009 Video Game Developers Conference kicked off today, and so the city is more filled than usual with the designers and programmers who bring you everything from Grand Theft Auto to iPhone
Arts & Entertainment DIY Drag Meets 'The Swan': Tiara Sensation at The Stud For six months now there's been a little mixed party happening every Monday night at The Stud featuring do-it-yourself tiaras, Project Runway-style 2-hour design competitions, and a craft table complete with glue guns.
SF News Local Billionaire Proposes Turning <em>Chronicle</em> Into a Non-Profit Warren Hellman, chairman of local private equity investment firm Hellman & Friedman, amateur banjo player and major sponsor of the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, has come up with some crackpot scheme to turn
SF News Following Oakland Cop Shooting, San Francisco YouTuber Says 'Down with the 2nd Amendment' San Francisco resident and YouTuber Jacquelineveronique has posted a number of anti-gun videos on the site, and in the wake of the tragic murders of 4 Oakland police officers yesterday, she is renewing
SF News Yelp Extortion Story Grows Kathleen Richards in the East Bay Express followed up her February story about the many-headed and allegedly democratic monster that is Yelp with a new story in which she responds to Yelp founder
SF News Obama Makes YouTube Video For Iranian Holiday, Begins Pledge Drive Today marks the Iranian holiday of Nowruz--translated as "new day" and marking the beginning of Spring--and Barack, being the first actual 21st Century President, decided to make a YouTube video and post it
Arts & Entertainment Facebook Group and Twitter Feed Starts for Oaklanders to Save Parkway Theater As SFist reported yesterday, a sad press release went out from the owners of the Parkway Speakeasy Theater in Oakland saying that they would be closing their doors after Sunday's screenings. A Facebook
