misc Debating The Funny Pages Every now and then, we get this sinking sense that we do not understand the mindset of people different from ourselves. And for once, we're not talking about the presidential primary! We're completely
misc What Happened To The Uptown? In our new series of "hey! We have no idea what's going on around here!" posts -- we just walked by our favorite dive bar the Uptown on 17th and Capp, and it's
misc Jackie Speier Opposes The War, Gets Booed By Republicans Our newest member of Congress just got booed by pro-war Republicans! Jackie Speier, who was just elected this Tuesday to fill out the remainder of Tom Lantos's term in the House of Representatives,
misc What Happened To No Name Sushi? We were craving some cheap, cheap tuna rolls the other day, and figured we'd head out to our favorite sushi place in the whole wide world, Yokoso Nippon, which is, of course, the
misc HA HA HA HA Olympic Torch Hilarity So the torch is going from Pine and Van Ness down to the Marina? It's like the Gavin Newsom tour of San Francisco! Will the torch go see Beach Blanket Babylon and shoot
misc SFIFF Time! It's getting to be that time of the year! Where the ads on MUNI buses as they drive by beckon you to escape the usual Metreon-flavored cinematic lineup of Run Fat Boy Run
misc SFIAAFF: <i>Kissing Cousins</i> We caught the world premiere of Kissing Cousins at the SFIAAFF this week, and yes, it’s true, they really do kiss! In fact you almost (but not quite) actually forget that their
misc SFIAAFF: Music Video Asia WE LOVE MUSIC VIDEO ASIA!!! The annual SFIAAFF program, of videos by Asian and Asian-American artists, was entirely sold out this Wednesday night, with artists and directors happily milling about, as SFIAAFF program
misc SFIAAFF: <i>Ping Pong Playa</i> Here's the crazy thing we learned about the movie Ping Pong Playa from the film's website. Jimmy Tsai who plays the buffoonish Chinese-American version of the arrested development suburban guy who appropriates all
misc SFIAAFF: <i>West 32nd</i> This is how much we enjoyed director Michael Kang's feature film, West 32nd, on Sunday night. We nearly got thrown down the stairs in the crazed frenzy for seats at the Castro Theatre,
misc SFIAAFF: Actually, Love No, this isn’t the funny little holiday fairy tale with Hugh Grant as the British PM, who along with nearly everyone else in Love Actually, ultimately finds love amidst chaos. Instead, Actually,
misc Fire On Valencia And 25th Are you also hearing helicopters and sirens in the Mission? Per KRON 4 (and the Chron), there's a four alarm fire at Valencia and 25th, which is in a residential building. The reporter
misc SFIAAFF: <i>Pretty To Think So</i> Before the world premiere screening of Pretty To Think So at the Clay Theatre on Friday night for the SFIAAFF, one of the directors of the movie, Francis Hsueh, walked the ticket holders
misc SFIAAFF: <i>881</i> Okay, we're still trying to figure out exactly what happened in 881, a Singaporean musical at the SF Int'l Asian-Am Film Fest about the magical adventures of two aspiring pop singers, but that
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Harold And Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay</i> Ha ha ha, we saw Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay yesterday at the SF Int'l Asian-Am Film Festival -- ha ha ha! It was pretty awesome. We're not going to spoil
misc SFIAAFF: <i>Behind Forgotten Eyes</i> The women's stories were pretty much to a one extremely disturbing, and the interview footage of Japanese veterans uncomfortably recounting their wartime sexual experiences was unsettling as well. The audience was in tears
misc An Answer To The Crushed Tomatoes Question As for the mystery of why Farber also allegedly tossed crushed tomatoes on the [historic ceremonial fire] house's floors and walls? We're told he was drunk at the time and trying to make
misc MUNI Underground We don't usually read the Op Ed pages of the Chronicle, because it's always either rehashed columnists from other papers or something like "give birth control pills to deer in Point Reyes" --
misc It's The Asian-Am Film Fest! Ooooh!!! You know we love the Asian-American Film Festival! We love the feature films by the young ambitious Asian-American directors, we love , we love the KQED-ready documentaries about identity and history, we love
misc Crazy Boyfriend Distracts Fire Chief On Birthday Happy birthday, Leap Day babies! Since it's leap day, there's the obligatory quadriennial articles about how people born today are 75% younger than the rest of us, and the Chron is no exception.
misc Crazy Boyfriend Has Headaches Making that splitting headache even worse, Farber was also formally presented with the paperwork for the second restraining order that Rahaim filed against him after Rahaim discovered the fire. (Farber violated the first
misc Crazy Boyfriend Of New SF Planning Director Sets Fire To Firehouse We're a little late to this story, in part because we spent all day yesterday trying to separate out the hilarious comments from the offensive ones on SFGate.com (it looks like the
misc Oh No, Ed Jew!: Calculated Attack Hooray! We're back with more Ed Jew news! And this time, with a vast Sunset-wing conspiracy. Former District 4 supervisor Ed Jew may have pled out of his state court civil suit ("okay,
misc Disneyland In Germany On Howard Street It's debatable whether Walt Disney ever really did meet with Adolf Hilter in 1935 -- but what if they did? What if he met with Leni Riefenstahl and Joseph Goebbels and they talked
misc The Maze Catches On Fire.... AGAIN? They don't know the cause of today's fire yet, but it sounds like it's not too far from where the fire in May was -- again on the westbound 80 interchange, but this
