misc SFist Cares ... About Your Wheels SFist is so excited! Next week we start biking to work. We've taken our pink, retro 3-speed out of storage, pumped up her tires and fastened on the wicker basket. We're nearly ready
misc SFist Cares ... About the Long Weekend Memorial Day is also meant to honour those service men and women who have died in military service to the United States. Memorial Day services will be held at the Presidio, at the
misc SFist Cares ... About Yer Snappers SFist knows our readers are already super cute. But we'd be remiss if we didn't let you know how to get cuter and help a good cause at the same time. This Saturday
Arts & Entertainment Still Independent After All These Years One of the mothers of all intellectual crack dens - Kepler's Bookstore - turns 50 this year. Fifty years of social consciousness (Roy Kepler was an anti-violence activist) and social unconsciousness (this is,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About Art Sneaking in at the very end of Cinco de Mayo, we want to remind you about the Mexican Museum. It's their 30th anniversary this year and they're also gearing up to begin construction
misc SFist Cares ... About Sexual Violence April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, which is sort of a dreary topic but an important one. San Francisco Women Against Rape is one of the local resources women (and those who love
misc SFist Cares ... About the Earth Last week, we talked about Ultimate Recycling. Today, we want to remind you about Regular Recycling. Because tomorrow is Earth Day.
misc SFist Cares ... About Your Bod SFist loves a recycler. Cans, bottles, newspaper. That's all awesome. But the awesomest recycling is recycling yourself. We've already asked you for money, for time, for old prom dresses. We're upping the ante
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About Dogs We know what it's like to spend your days running around in circles while bunches of people yell at you, so we're especially sympathetic to the beneficiaries of our featured organization this week.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About Laughing Ha! Hee! Yeah, we need a laugh. Who doesn't? And we don't mean the normal April Fool's Day prankish jokes either. We want belly laughs. So we're looking towards the 7th Annual Funny
misc SFist Car... Oh just get off your butt already! Yeah, we know. You are soooooo busy and sooooo important. Shut up. Get out of the house and do something to make the world a better place. SFist Cares has had just about
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About Boozin' Well, okay, let's be honest - it isn't just the Cares department here that loves the boozin'. We're not really snooty but we know what we like and we like good wine so
Arts & Entertainment Cinequest Review: Amazing Grace: Jeff Buckley is a sentimental and beautifully crafted portrait of the young man as an artist. Jeff Buckley was a singer-songwriter who started out singing in cafes in New York and recorded and released a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About Birds We know that Menlo Park might be a bit far for some of you to travel, but we thought you might want to know about a special showing of The Wild Parrots of
Arts & Entertainment Cinequest Review: Wilderness Survival for Girls Three girls go into the woods. They get drunk, they get naked, they get high. Do you think they might get dead? Wilderness Survival for Girls takes all the tension of a well-done
Arts & Entertainment Cinequest Review: Stephen Tobolowsky's Birthday Party Stephen Tobolowsky is the ultimate "Hey! It's That Guy!". He's been in more than a hundred movies and on dozens of television shows but until you see him you probably think you don't
Arts & Entertainment Cinequest Review: The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess Hugh Dillon is back, as obnoxious late-night talk show host Bobby Tomahawk who interviews/taunts (intertaunts? We're just making up words here all over the place) Gillian Guess - a juror who slept
Arts & Entertainment Cinequest Review: Sunnyvale SFist is still thinking about Sunnyvale, which we saw at Cinequest last night. We decided to go to this movie because, well ok, the title was a draw, and it is also described
Arts & Entertainment Cinequest Event: An Afternoon with Sir Ben Kingsley After viewing a sort of Oscar lifetime award nomination-esque series of clips from some of Sir Ben's more notable movies (i.e. Ghandi and House of Sand and Fog included, Rules of Engagement
misc SFist Cares ... About Growing Things No kidding that SFist loves libraries. But libraries aren't just books you know, sometimes they're collections of other things. BASIL is the Bay Area Seed Interchange Library. Yes, seeds. Like, growing things seeds.
Arts & Entertainment I Got The Ice Cream... and You Don't Have... oh... And while they have a very interesting little retrospective feature on their website (dudes, The Spot is !?) let's ignore that for a moment and focus on something really important. There is free ice
Arts & Entertainment Coming Attractions: Cinequest 2005 The San Jose Film Festival is in its 15th year (The gift for that is crystal by the way. I'm sure they'd appreciate it.) and once again is bringing a jam-packed lineup of
misc SFist Cares ... About Cleaning You know, Kermit was right about it not being easy being green. Though, we have to say, SFist looks fab in a light sage green. It brings out our eyes. They offer a
Arts & Entertainment "Hi, this is Gavin. Leave a message." We know that you're recently single. And okay, we can accept that the hot, SF-appropriate love affair we were hoping for between you and Matty G just isn't in the cards. Still... PARIS
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About Pirates Well, yeah, smarty-pants? Put your time where your quick to comment fingers are and volunteer at 826 Valencia. Their online form for applying to become a tutor is genius. Let us know if