Arts & Entertainment Dirty Laundry: Fab! Holy Cow, has San Francisco actually been able to get something done? A few months ago, everyone was hemming and hawwing about how nobody shoots films here anymore and that the city really
Arts & Entertainment Santa Rosa: San Francisco's Best Kept Secret Though SFist can't possibly imagine why, there are in fact human settlements outside the immediate vicinity of the city. Life is rough out on the frontier, but these terraformed colonies all enjoy the
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: The Grace Lee Project How many times today have you encountered a woman named Grace Lee? One? Two? Five? A BILLION? It's a pretty common name, you know. But it's more than just a common name; a
SF News Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord. The quality of San Francisco's eavesdropping has never really impressed us -- the character of our overhearings always seemed more like disembodied one-chuckle quotes from "Kids Say The Darndest Things" than anything having
Arts & Entertainment Love: Complicated. Loving Foreigners: Complicateder. SF Film Commission: Fantastic. At around the same time that anti-gay activists were making frantic declarations about preserving marriage by excluding queers, two of our friends embarked on two legal, heterosexual, loveless marriages. One of the grooms
Arts & Entertainment Breaking News (Posted During Idol, no Less!) A quick recap on the anonymous Abercrombie & Hitler posters drawing gasps and artsy-fartsy analysis in the Castro. Horribly, some bastard has defaced the trademark-infringing Nazi images! But oddly, it wasn't the swastikas,
Arts & Entertainment A Cultural Exchange (of Fluids) We're baffled by the party's omission of any local professional pervert (NSFW) and burlesque performers, not to mention the near-total heterosexuality of the event -- fer pete's sake, by SF standards, this event's
SF News Have You Swashed Your Bum Today? There is a member of the SFist staff who is so crazily germ-phobic that he has not made physical contact with a toilet seat in 18 years. It is therefore entirely appropriate that
Arts & Entertainment Abercrombie and Goebbels So, in practical terms, where does this bring us? To The Castro, to a major clothing retailer, and to Hitler. Obviously.
SF News Why, Our Morning's Been Just Splendid, Thank You One disadvantage to umbrellas is that they have a tendancy to block sidewalk traffic, particularly the ginormous, beach-sized variations weilded by imperious executives. Truly, a treacherous and double-edged sword. But it is a
SF News A Good Lay Be still our hearts, the latest issue of our favoritest newsletter ever is finally out: "San Francisco Faith: The Bay Area's Lay Catholic Newsletter." This issue's highlights include a balanced look at Baptism
Arts & Entertainment SF Indie Fest: Born in a Barn We bring this up because, for much the same reason, it's so easy -- even for us permissive, enlightened San Franciscans -- to look askance at an adult who likes to dress up
Arts & Entertainment SF Indie Fest: White Skin But first, a word from local filmie Tom Pankratz, whose short film precedes White Skin. Tom's been making films in the bay area for several years, and we like him -- at a
Arts & Entertainment SF Indie Fest: Munch on This The high point of this collection of short animations: "Petunia," a simple, lovely story about a moody guy and a flower; if it was CG rather than hand-drawn, it would be the sort
Arts & Entertainment Teen Versus Teen Versus Teen Versus Alex But Had he not been a semi-famous local we'd have had a hard time deciding who to vote for. His colleagues, Michael Braun and Anne Shivers, both seemed like such young people -
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: The Dry Spell Hey, have you heard? Apparantly men and women are very different, and at times they have problems connecting romanically! Who knew? Somebody ought to make a movie about that. Ha ha ha, we
Arts & Entertainment Please Abandon Us As Well Our theory is this: American Idol is like sex, in that it's freakin sweet when it's going on, but a few minutes after it ends you've forgotten most of it. We know, it's
SF News It's Only Exciting Until Your Laptop's Battery Dies Our neighbor, we learned, received a minor electrical shock from his keyboard - "I was just typing," he said, "and then, bzzzzt!" He shook his hands and widened his eyes like Marty Feldman,
SF News Arguably, January's Second Most Important Birthday The fulltext of David Pogue's nifty and semi-hard-to-find 1997 article, "It's a Wonderful Mac," follows after the jump.
SF News If You Can't Beat 'em, Join 'em ... and THEN Beat 'em. The women on AskMen.com's tedious list are all extremely thin, coiffed, and wealthy...in other words, probably not you. Big yawn. We'd much rather have seen a list of "Top 99 Women
Arts & Entertainment Our Hairy Backs Are But Blank Canvasses The group exhibiton at The Lab's nifty gallery opens January 28, and promises to be a celebration of bears - and the fetishization thereof, an activity in which we're only too happy to
SF News There's Stairs, of Course, but Some Prefer to Take the Fast Way Down Can you stand to hear even more news about gravity-complicit suicides at the golden gate bridge? An editorial in last week's Chron that argued in favor of an anti-jumping barricade has gotten folks
SF News Get Off Your Ass...Or Whoever's Ass You're Currently On As everyone knows, gays and lesbians spend their free time seducing children with tales of cross-dressing necrophiles. But for the first time ever, they'll be taking a break from all that on Sunday,