SF News The Smoggy Sky Is The Limit We snapped this picture at the corner of Castro and Market, which would be a lovely intersection in a lovely neighborhood if it wasn't overrun with two gas stations and an assload of
Arts & Entertainment Condoms Suck. But They Keep You Safe. The film was introduced by Bridge manager Joshua, who told the audience, "If you find any of the gays to be tired, just stick with it. ...They all pay." Well, "tired" is putting
SF News It Had to be Said It must be 中途ハンパ written in a wrong way. Embarassingly wrong. 中途半端(chew-toe hamper) is the orignal form. 半端 sometimes is written in katakana, thus 中途ハンパ. 中途ハンパ means half-way, unfinished, incomplete, uncompleted. Somewhere
Arts & Entertainment Shameless Yvesdropping Send submissions to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. Woman #1: Those are cute. Where did you get them? Frugal Woman: Payless. Woman #2: No kidding... [Several minutes later, approached
Arts & Entertainment Sex Party in Union Square; Shoes Optional To get our juices flowing, KRON hosted a girly festival in Union Square on Sunday, complete with pink balloons, pink lemonade, pink tents, pink t-shirts, and a giveaway of 1,000 pairs of
Arts & Entertainment Artificial Hip Over 150 shorts, a restropective of the bizarre Tractor group's work, a Beck music video compilation, Jackson and His Computer Band, a Mike Mills (director of keynote, and tours of the very few
Arts & Entertainment Madcat Women's International Film Festival: Amok-imation Also good: "Small & Deep, Love Stories." High-falutin' title, but nevertheless humble and fun; our favorite image was as two coffeecups in love, smooching as their owners, themselves cooing lovebirds, batted eyelids at
Arts & Entertainment Ticket Giveaway to see <i>Hellbent</i> Having enjoyed several years' worth of legitimate real-life horror during Castro Halloweens, we can't wait to see what passes for a Halloween spookiness in that ludicrous city to the south. Ms. Christ herself
misc He Says It'll Be Different Now ... He Says He's Changed ... He Only Vetos Us Because He Loves Us ...
Arts & Entertainment Note To Editor: Have One of the Interns Come Up With a Strained, Jackassy Joke About Russian Monks For This Headline
Arts & Entertainment Extremes In fact, with the help of his friend and websmaster Carl, Thomas is online-novelizing his newly peaceful, conformist lifestyle. The book is titled , and despite being only available in lousy PDF, it's a
misc Arnold Screws Fags The really big news, though, is that He Who Must Not Be Named decided that he would be vetoing AB 849, the gay marriage bill. After being approved by both the Assembly and
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdropping on Drunkards Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the inaugural edition of Yvesdropping. Hopefully, time will show that the cleverest elements of this new feature extend beyond its deliberately misspelled and mostly meaningless name. Thank you
SF News Protect Our Daughters! From, uh, Childlessness. WorkinDevil Originally uploaded by Canon Fodder. Praise the Lord! The latest issue of "SF Faith: The Bay Area's Lay Catholic Newspaper" is out. What do you mean, "newspaper" might not be the right
SF News How Much Clearer Does Muni Need It Spelled Out? These observations are all common sense, but they've been made official in a report released last week by the San Francisco's Planning and Urban Research Association. The report (which, according to Bay Area
Arts & Entertainment What? hey, listen up! Originally uploaded by bitterlysweet. Bonjour, superspies. You're our eyes and ears here at SFist (and occasionally other appendages, too, which we love), always vigilant and alerting us to what's up
SF News Left Behind So let's get this straight: the Lifeline pass, which Muni says will ease the burden brought on by its own incompetance, is only available for the working poor to purchase ... while they're at
misc Marriage = 1 Whomever + 1 Someone Else Possible benefits of gender-neutral weddings: "over $100 million in increased business revenues" for California, including $7 million for the state in sales tax, according to the not-at-all impartial Institute for Gay and Lesbian
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rock Out with Eight Guys Out In the two years that the company's existed, feedback has been positive (such as two guys who met through 8 Guys Out, then paused their membership to focus on pursuing each other), and
Arts & Entertainment Just in Case Having a Wedding Didn't Garner You Enough Attention Already Are you a gay couple planning a wedding? And are you bold and self-confident in the face of overwhelming obstacles? (You'd sort of have to be, wouldn't you?) Well, you might want to
Arts & Entertainment What's this, Another Charo Article? Geez. Several years ago, there appeared a Charo-themed article in the fabulous (and now sadly defunct) local cynicism-zine Bringdown. Writer Jay Owens travelled to Reno for Charo, and described a geriatric-crowd-pleasing first act of
Arts & Entertainment Charo-Guitar is Whatever You Say During the week of August first, fans of Charo -- and who on earth isn't her fan -- are in for a treat: the board of supes has designated it Charo Week in
SF News Apple and Flickr are Giving Each Other a Massage And now for a sentence that, to non-geeks, may sound like gibberish: Check upcoming.org for info on next week's Flickr meetup at the Apple store. The lovely and talented Flickr team (including
