Arts & Entertainment The Awkward Adventures of the Superfisters In Roanoke of 500 years ago, the settlers clash with a creepy bestial native tribe. In Berkeley of the present day, a young boy comes of age as he discovers that a creepy
Arts & Entertainment The Morbidly Morbid Adventures of the Superfisters "Amerikan Freak," by John Leekley, Ahmet Zappa (yes, him), and Brendan Smith is not about to embrace comedy of any sort. It is serious, serious, serious, serious. But on the other hand, "Polyglot
SF News A Peek Into the Secret, Exciting Life of the MTA Board The excitement begins with a call to order! Then a roll call, an announcement of prohibition of sound producing devices, approval of minutes, and then, at long last, "communications." Communications with whom? We're
misc New Year's Bash The facts appear to be these: The Baker's Dozen, an all-male (but not exclusively gay) chorus from Yale was asked to perform at the house of Reno Rapagnani, a retired SFPD officer and
Arts & Entertainment Tonight at Eleven: A Sad Reflection on Today's Society Among the questions asked while leaning conspiratorially forward: "Is this a sad reflection on today's society?" Why, yes, Jean, it is. In fact, we feel that everything about today's society reflects sadly on
Arts & Entertainment The Decontextualized Adventures of the Superfisters All of our comics this week have been struck by some kind of diabolic decontextualization ray, leaving them to fend for themselves in the bleak tundra of WTF. From local artist Chris Wisnia
SF News Street Map of FastPass Vendors Created by Heroic Secret Underground Resistance Y'see, if you want to find out where FastPasses are sold, Muni won't show you a map of locations -- instead, they provide a text-only list of vendors, sorted by their zip codes.
SF News Muni's Contempt for all That is Good and Holy Becomes Even Less Thinly Veiled Than we Ever Thought Possible We thought we'd seen it all -- surly drivers, electrical failures, manslaughter -- but tonight Muni managed to outdo itself yet again. After waiting 30 minutes for the 33 (a bus that's supposed
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Should Probably See a Doctor Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. And! If you think you might forget your Yvesdropping, you can just call our special new Yvesdroppings voicemail hotline and leave
misc I Could Do With A Spot of Jolliness That is why you must ABSOLUTELY NOT participate in this year's Santarchy, which departs from Pier 39 at 11:30 tomorrow morning. Do not, under any circumstances, follow these instructions, which will allow
misc I Could Do With A Spot Of Brains San Francisco's a lovely city, but it would be even nicer if someone did something about this damn zombie issue. Seriously, it's getting to be a real problem. We have no problem with
Arts & Entertainment Beach + Politics = San Francisco This Sunday (the 10th) at 10:30am on Ocean Beach, Brad's going to get a bunch of volunteers (maximum capacity: 1200) to lie down in the shape of the word "IMPEACH!" and then
Arts & Entertainment Deliberate Yvesdroppings Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. And! If you think you might forget your Yvesdropping, you can just call our special new Yvesdroppings voicemail hotline and leave
SF News And Now For Some Bikes Have you been following the drama with the city's bike plan? It's BANANAS, and there's no end in sight. Basically: the city wants to paint bike lanes and allow bikes on trains and
Arts & Entertainment The Gothamist Adventures of the Superfisters After two issues, "Pirates" is shaping up to be a really gorgeous book, with a sort of headstrong style that reminds us of Jamie Hewlett (the artist for Gorillas and Tank Girl). Rival
Arts & Entertainment Manly Yvesdropping Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. And! If you think you might forget your Yvesdropping, you can just call our special new Yvesdroppings voicemail hotline and leave
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings are Strangely Familiar Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. And! If you think you might forget your Yvesdropping, you can just call our special new Yvesdroppings voicemail hotline and leave
Arts & Entertainment Little Girls Say the Darndest Yvesdroppings Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. And! If you think you might forget your Yvesdropping, you can just call our special new Yvesdroppings voicemail hotline and leave
Arts & Entertainment Let's All Be YouTube Stars After the jump: calm your endorphin-frazzled nerves with a more familiar brand of Castro chaos: yet another Muni Meltdown.
Arts & Entertainment Fedorov + Ventriloquism = Our Idea of Heaven And now, here's where you folks come in: After you've bought your ticket, let us know in the comments which of the entertainers you'd like us to interview. We can't absolutely guarantee that
Arts & Entertainment The Genre-Faithful Adventures of the Superfisters Shirley you must know the premise: a heroic masked man gallops about the West, righting seemingly-insurmountable wrongs with the aid of a whip-smart ally Tonto and his horse Silver. In issue one of
SF News Give the Gift of Front-Page News To be fair, The Examiner is co-sponsoring the event that was being advertised; so they're not completely giving away control of the front page. (They're saying goodbye to actual news.) And fortunately, even
Arts & Entertainment Apple Tree Please join us in welcoming Lev, a local cartoonist, author of , and brand-spanking new SFist contributor. He'll be running a weekly comic here, and we think he's going to be the next big
SF News Where Do The Children Play (MarioKart)? We can't read about Penny Arcade's Child's Play charity without getting all misty-eyed. Back in 2004, the gaming website (spurred by the misconception that videogamers are violence-addicted jerks) created a big awesome geeky
