Arts & Entertainment Yvesdropping on the Fairer Sex Submissions go to Yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. Man: "It's cold." Woman: "It's so cold I'm going to freeze my tiny nipples off." --From Eve/ In front of the
SF News Getting Around Town About $6 million's going to Muni, the Karl Pilkington of transit agencies, to continue work on the 3rd Street Light Rail. That's sure to go well. We'll be getting $91,000 in bike
Arts & Entertainment The Self-Contained Adventures of the SuperFisters Sounds great, right? Yeah, we were totally into it up until the last three pages. You know that feeling you get at a movie, where you know the closing song is playing but
Arts & Entertainment Love in the Time of Cleveland Steamers Call us bitter, but we simply don't have any words in us to express love beyond "I'd hit it." It is therefore astounding to us that Lee Lessack deftly assembled seventeen swoony-croony ballads
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings on Like, Whatever A rich college girl is talking loudly to her friends. A sample: "I went through SEVEN laptops in high school!" "You know the microwave and mini-fridge in my room? Those are mine. My
SF News Fourteen-Year-Old-Men and Other Faithful Logic Awhile back, we somehow found our way onto the mailing list of "San Francisco Faith: the Bay Area's Lay Catholic Newsletter." Though we have no particular beef with Catholicism, we just can't quite
SF News "The Contractor Is Performing Re-Work" and Other SF Transit Classics When the the Central Freeway replacement budget allocated $5.75ish million for "ancillary projects," nobody knew what exactly that meant, so they did what San Franciscans love doing -- a study! Now the
Arts & Entertainment The Unanticipated Adventures of the SuperFisters Michael Kupperman's "Tales Designed to Thrizzle" have precisely the effect their title promises. You'd better be daaaaaaaaamn funny if you deign to write in a nonsensical dada-aspiring Monty-Pythonic stream of gibberish. And luckily,
misc Good one, Judy. A trainload of subway riders was startled and a little starstruck Saturday afternoon when Assemblymember Mark Leno stepped on board at Civic Center heading toward Embarcadero. "Look who it is!" yelled a guy
Arts & Entertainment Insert High-larious Joke About the Gong Show Here Hey, did you see the Falun Gong protestors at the Chinese New Year parade? They were barred from marching in the parade -- organizers say it's because F.G. is too political --
Arts & Entertainment SF Indiefest: <i>Sidekick</i> Michael Sparaga (the writer/producer) set out to make a realistic indie superhero movie, in which superpowers are complicated afflictions with repercussions and consequences and, you know, smartypants stuff. It's a bumpy ride,
Arts & Entertainment SF Indiefest: <i>Filmic Achievement</i> The story tracks a handful of aspiring twits who've enrolled at UNY, a film school that's almost as clueless as its students. Teachers advise that sets should be meat/dairy free, and that
Arts & Entertainment The Most Stupendous Collection of Hyperboles Ever in the History of Human Experience The Master appears to specialize in something called "Yun Sculpture," which as far as we can make out, are detailed three-dimensional renderings of goopy caverns. To be sure, his sculpture, paintings, and caligraphy
Arts & Entertainment If You're Looking for Sin, Look in Berkeley Though we do tire, at times, of the alpha-male genre, few comic books or movies do it with more relish and gusto than Frank Miller's . So unless you're some kind of sobbing tree-kisser
Arts & Entertainment Interview with <i>Sidekick</i> Writer Michael Sparaga In a departure from most superhero movies, is told from the point of view of, well, the sidekick. "I think the sidekick, in some ways, is Canada," says Michael "It's not purposeful, but
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Exercise Some Self-Control Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail dot com. Foreman: "We only have about half an hour of stuff left to do, so you can go ahead and start drinking, OK?" --
Arts & Entertainment The Existential Adventures of the Superfisters Before we forget to mention: Grant Morrison, superheroic comic creator extraordinaire, will be in town at Isotope Comics on Friday, February 10th. Do. Not. Miss. This. The REAL comic news this week, though,
SF News The Supes Kill Us With Transportation-Authority Suspense (Unlike Muni, Which Just Manslaughters Us Vehicularly) So until that report finally hits the news stands, we'll have to content ourselves with another recently-completed document pertaining to the Authority: a rootin'-tootin' brand-spanking shiny new finance report! (Part One and Part
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdropping Eats Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. CompUSA employee speaking to himself: "Jerry, where's Jerry? HE'S WITH BEN MAKING ICE CREAM, YOU IDIOT!" -- Montgomery Street / Submitted by
Arts & Entertainment All The Subtlety of Roller Disco, Plus the Nuance of Scott Baio Last Friday, roller films were the theme, with , Roller Boogie (one of the many missteps in the management of Linda Blair's career) and the aborted foetus that is Skatetown USA (which marks the
Arts & Entertainment SF360 Revealed! Part Five: Festfest No, apparantly, according to the SF Film Society. As a part of their recently-launched SF360 campaign, they're pleased as punch to announce three new fests, and boy they're really cool. One of them
Arts & Entertainment SF360 Revealed! Part Four: Schooled Now, no doubt there are Brugmans among us who recoil at the "private" component of the "public/private partnership," but we're reserving judgement until more details emerge. What is clear is that if
Arts & Entertainment American Idol in SF: "It is Almost Nonhuman." The show starts with a cheap faux-emo cover of that "If You're Going to SF" song. We don't know who's responsible for this unbearable version of the song (Update! it was Me First
