Arts & Entertainment What's There To Love About The East Bay? Lots! Next Up: New and Creative Theater If you've ever wondered what the Weather Underground and The Book of Jeremiah could have in common, then check out the innovative new production from Berkeley-based theater company, Just Theater. We don't claim
SF News Smelly Gas By St. Luke's The smell itself wasn't poisonous or anything (beyond to the nose, of course) -- it turns out the pipe, which hasn't been used since the 1940s, had retained, along with some stale water,
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes To The SwapSF Book Swap! SwapSF is one of those freecycle groups that encourages people to trade cool things amongst themselves -- and what's cooler than books? So bring $5 and some books you want to trade for
SF News Your Commute: Lumber Spill In Golden Gate Park The driver is reported to be fine; the accident happened around 5:15 a.m. It sounds like the driver took that turn a little too fast. We expect to see SF PartyParty
SF News Your Commute: Cars In The Chron Remember how everyone was so upset because it turns out that SF doesn't collect on like 60% of parking meter money? Well, the second half of the study is in and it turns
SF News Elie Wiesel's Return To San Francisco You may remember when Wiesel was in San Francisco earlier this year for a peace conference, a delusional New Jersey Holocaust denier attacked him in a hotel elevator. So we're making extra efforts
SF News Your Commute: "People Love To Talk About MUNI" Guess who's back talking about MUNI for the ABC 7 I-Team?????? (4:33 on the video). Since Gavin hasn't done anything outrageous lately, Dan Noyes turns his attention to the perennial favorite of
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>On Fire</i> A few minutes before the movie started there was a strange buzzing coming from the front of the theatre and we noticed an older man fiddling with his hearing aid. That's when we
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Congorama</i> It's easy to make a heroic character lovable and the bad guy despicable, but it's much more of an accomplishment to turn a fallible, sweaty, chubby guy with real flaws, including a seriously
SF News Shooting At Fresno State The shooter, Jonquel Brooks from Hayward, is still at large and considered armed and dangerous. From the information the police have released, Brooks got in a fight with three men (all of whom
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Once</i> SFist Wendy's favorite SFIFF film fest movie yet! It doesn’t get any better than this. Really. We headed to the Clay Sunday night, very relaxed and content as it was, having spent
SF News Shipwreck'd At Ocean Beach Every now and then, when the sand moves, you can see the remnants of shipwrecks on the shore of Ocean Beach -- and yesterday, folks enjoying the warm weather at low tide caught
misc Curbed SF Gets Its Revenge You know, sometimes maybe it's just better to rent -- a local family attempting to restore their Sunnyside/Glen Parkish area extreme-fixer-upper accidentally slid the house off its foundation and it collapsed into
SF News Your Commute: Lower Level Go It's the A-Race-Ing Maze! (and not related, but SFist Rain, how awesome that the finale of Amazing Race All-Stars was in SF?) As promised, Caltrans's work around the clock paid off handsomely, with
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Peter Morgan and <i>The Deal</i> We'd been wanting to see ever since we saw The Queen, and it did not disappoint! We're grasping for analogies here! It's like the Godfather, only about politics! It's like Amadeus, if Salieri
Arts & Entertainment Pictures From The SF Film Society Awards Red Carpet The always-reliable and smartly-snapping Drew Altizer stopped by the SF Film Society's red carpet awards ceremony on Saturday and passes along these views of the scene! Award recipients this year included: Robin Williams
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>7 Years</i> and <i>Dans Paris</i> This weekend we took in a couple of French dramas at the SFIFF, but because at least one of them is slated for distribution in the near future, we’ve been asked not
SF News Political Junkie: Conan O'Brien's Newsom Jokes! Do you guys think it's true that Gavin Newsom refused to do anything with Conan O'Brien when Conan was in town last week because his feelings were hurt by Conan's jokes about him?
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Cold Prey</i> We’ll start off this review by saying we love Stella Artois…or more specifically the free Stellas we had at the mini-beer garden before the midnight horror movie screening of at the
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Family Ties After having watched and Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project on the very fancy SF Int'l Film Fest screener DVD machines this afternoon, we're thinking the theme of the afternoon was family obligations. (This
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Private Fears In Public Places</i> We knew very little about the SF Int'l Film Fest's Private Fears in Public Places but were intrigued by the title. Turns out the play is based on an English play by the
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Audience Of One</i> A movie about local filmmakers wrangling with local politicians? We are so there! The SF Int'l premiered the documentary Thursday night in one of the big newly-renovated theaters in the Kabuki Sundance. Audience
SF News Walnuts McCain Goes To Google! From the Daily Show to the Googleplex -- Republican presidential hopeful Walnuts John McCain, struggling in the polls and in fundraising, gamely stopped by Mountain View yesterday afternoon for an hourlong forum with
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>The Road To San Diego</i> The Road to San Diego, at the SFIFF, is the story of Tati, from Pozo Azul, a small town in the Northeast Argentinian Misiones province (between Paraguay and Brazil), who embarks on a
