SF News Political Junkie: Gavin's Rubber, We're Glue Update: When we originally called this post "Gavin's Rubber, We're Glue," we didn't mean THAT kind of rubber. How the hell did we miss this? Check out the first few seconds of anti-Gavin
SF News Why Asianweek Hates Samson Wong Remember dragon-loving, African-American hating Asianweek columnist Kenneth Eng, and the stir he set off a few weeks ago? Well, after national embarrassment, red-faced apologies, and the now-obligatory pro-tolerance panel attendance by its staff
Arts & Entertainment The SF Women's Film Festival's On Its Way! The Women's Film Fest has put together an eclectic group of movie screenings, running from April 11 through Sunday the 15th, and organized into intriguing categories like LGBTQ short film (honoring Guinevere Turner
SF News Instant Recall (District 1 Edition) The recall campaign, which is spearheaded in part by one of the six candidates who ran against McGoldrick for the Board of Supes seat and lost (David Heller), is focusing primarily on McGoldrick's
Arts & Entertainment DJ AM's Birthday Party Photographer Drew Altizer goes to all the good parties! Drew reports in from Saturday's birthday party for DJ AM (Adam Goldstein, former fiance of Nicole Richie and just-dumped boyfriend of Mandy Moore) at
SF News Go To The Third Fake Question Time For Us! Man, we can't believe Team Newsom scheduled Third Fake Question Time at the last minute like that -- your Political Junkie is out on vacation so we can't make it to the Cesar
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: Snoozing Through The <i>Century</i> Recipe for a nice nap: A beer and a whopping bbq turkey sandwich from Tommy’s Joynt followed by last night’s SFIAAFF film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, actually titled Syndromes and a Century.
SF News News Of The Gavin: Late, Delayed, and Cancelled Late word: What? Gavin Newsom lied to us! At the last Fake Question Time, Gavin clearly told us that the next "town hall meeting" would be in April and address the issue of
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>The Great Happiness Space: Tales Of An Osaka Love Thief</i> As SFist Mihi so wisely put it in her review, "Don't hate the player, hate the game." As we got totally caught up in the -like mind games between the host men and
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>The Girl Who Leapt Through Time</i> This is why we go to film festivals. Once in a while you get to see a movie that you probably would have missed if it weren't for film festivals, but has made
misc SFist Blotter Update The teen said he knew it wasn't right to take Tai, but that he took good care of him. The teen was willing to accept the consequences of his actions, but the SPCA,
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>The Year Of The Fish</i> We love a good Cinderella story and apparently so do a bunch of people on dates. Year of the Fish, a modern interpretation of a 9th century Chinese folk tale played at the
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Shanghai Kiss</i> The world premiere of played on Saturday night at the Castro Theatre and the house was packed. One of the themes running through the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival last year
SF News Political Junkie: Watching The Watchers As the political season starts to heat up, there's so many bloggers monitoring politicians' activities that we're thinking we need to start a new column, the _____Watch. There's so many people needing to
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: Looking For Love at <i>Summer Palace</i> and <i>Mistress of Spices</i> This was a good weekend, thanks in large part to the Asian-American film festival. We spent part of the past two days at the Castro checking out a couple of remarkably different films:
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Baby</i> Preview for the movie Baby, which premiered last night at the SF Int'l Asian-Am Film Fest. (Movie's not rated but this clip probably should be rated R for violence.) The clip is a
Arts & Entertainment We Asked And You Delivered! (Obama Edition) Aw, you guys! Have we told you lately how much we love you? We sent out a plea for pictures from yesterday's Barack Obama rally in Oakland and all you awesome readers who
Arts & Entertainment Please Send Us Obama Rally Pictures! We missed the Barack Obama rally in Oakland because we were at the movies, but it sounded amazing -- 10,000 people in front of City Hall, and the unofficial word from the
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>The Cats Of Mirikitani</i> What started out as a project about the drawings of homeless SoHo street artist and cat-lover Jimmy Mirikitani turned into a quest to save a man from his present and from his past
Arts & Entertainment Pictures From Fashion Week Live As promised, Naomi Campbell came back to town for her very first San Francisco runway walk for our city's night of Fashion Week Live last Thursday -- and as noted by SFist Elaine,
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Na Kamalei: The Men Of Hula</i> The moving and inspirational has the distinction of being the first movie to sell out in this year's San Francisco Int'l Asian-American Film Festival -- and the buzz only got better once the
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>The Trouble With Romance</i> (The Jennifer Siebel Movie) The infamous SFist Rita took time away from her remote cave lair and evil blogging minions to hook me up with an advance copy of , starring none other than SFist commenter herself, Jennifer
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: Opening Night! On our tightly-packed MUNI ride to the Castro to the opening night festivities for the San Francisco International Asian-American Film Festival, we were squooshed next to three thrilled Asian-American film lovers eagerly listing
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: Not Just Film But Music Too The SF Asian-American Film Festival hosts not only ten days of the latest and greatest in Asian and Asian-American film, but two nights of current highlights from the Asian-American music scene too: one
SF News SFist Is The Culprit: The Comments In all seriousness, thank you guys for keeping the conversation in the comments relatively civil (snarky, but civil -- our favorite!). We always knew our readers and commenters were the best and this
