Arts & Entertainment Three Gorges Project At The Asian Art Museum Chinese artists have been painting the Yangtze River valley and its famous Three Gorges canyons for millennia, adhering to the tradition of painting not just what the valley looks like physically, but also
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Cartography Of Ashes</i> It is to tell people that an outdoor movie screening at the fire station on 19th and Folsom, begins at 8:00 p.m. and to get there early to ensure a seat,
SF News Craigslist Encounters: On The Warpath We didn't expect a Craigslist Encounters entry would ever quote Matthew, Mark, Luke or John, but then again, we didn't think that Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster would ever need to quote scripture to
SF News Really, We're Just Posting This So We Have An Excuse To Use This Picture Again Look how happy Gavin was when San Francisco was awarded the stem cell research center last May! Hope he's got his knuckles ready and another lackey around this afternoon, because Alameda Superior Court
SF News Bush In Town Hey hey, ho ho, George W. Bush is at Cisco. Yep, ol' 43 himself is in town, down in the South Bay. He's landing at Moffett Field this morning (where he fired all
SF News Off To The Village Voice Our secret boyfriend is breaking up with us! The Village Voice media juggernaut has just announced that our WRTW crush Rob Harvilla is taking over the New York flagship alt-paper's music editorship, replacing
SF News Caption Contest Winner! The votes are in, and the SFist staff has spoken -- who's the winner of our first ever SFist Caption Contest? Well, wait no longer! It's: That button is for shine, this button
SF News Aftershocks Well, it's April 19, 2006, and the goodwill created by celebrating disaster disaster has now officially dissipated. The Chronicle reports that numerous public officials are disgruntled at various protocol lapses that left them
SF News Your Commute: Bad Day A lot going on: *A pedestrian by the old US Mint on Fifth and Mission was hit and killed by a 26 Valencia bus shortly after 9 a.m. today. Footage from the
SF News Just So You Don't Think.... ....that we only post the hilarious pictures that we find of Gavin Newsom, we've got your equal-opportunity hilarious Flickr pictures from all over the San Francisco political spectrum! Unfortunately, we can't find any
misc SFist Caption Contest! When we were putting together that photo montage of fun pictures of Mayor Gav yesterday, we came across this picture in the Mayor's Photo Gallery section. (Can we earmark more of our city
Arts & Entertainment April 18, 2006 As promised, we completely slept through the 5:14 a.m. bells and sirens commemorating the 100th anniversary of the big quake -- but some of you more diligent San Franciscans didn't, to
SF News Gavin Newsom Eats A Child! You know, they have some pretty awesome pictures of Hizzoner Mayor Newsom in the "Mayor's Photo Gallery" page on sfgov.org. We've been dying for an excuse to use this picture for weeks
SF News Big Wheels Keep On Turnin' We did a little Flickr searching and found this excellent picture of the Bring Your Own Big Wheel race down the curvy part of Lombard Street yesterday by kwajkid. There's some more pictures
SF News Set Your Alarm For 5:12 A.M. We're just trying to spare you some panic tomorrow morning, folks -- if you hear bells and sirens at 5:12 a.m., no need to wonder about the cosmic coincidence of an
Arts & Entertainment Reel SF: <i>San Francisco</i> There's something vaguely weird in reviewing a movie that came out in 1936 (Who this young rising star Clark Gable? He's going to go far!), but we had a great time at the
SF News Everybody Hates Chris: The District 6 Election (Part I) This week's episode: Everybody Hates A Scoop! A super-secret source passed on the word that the Downtown Lobby has a new candidate to run against Chris Daly in the November 2006 election for
misc Craigslist Encounters: Non-Discussion Discussion We're generally not one to sneer at anything Craigslist related, but oftentimes the "discussion" (if anyone can really call it that), which occurs on Craigslist's discussion forums look more like the redundant, back
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Rising, Part Three There's so many 1906 earthquake related events, we've gotta do a third post rounding up your tourism options! Keep sending those events on in! Previous posts here and here. Additional events listings here,
SF News Your Commute: Grab That Cash We don't often wish we commuted by car from the East Bay to San Jose, but today's a special day -- bank robbers trying to flee the cops on 680 are throwing their
SF News Vanity Fair Connect Thanks to our super-secret sources for sending along the Vanity Fair picture that we didn't have earlier, of Gavin Newsom moodily contemplating eco-friendliness with two fatter guys! We kind of want to draw
SF News Gavin's In Another Shiny Magazine! SFist Jon, on the East Coast this week, took a break from his family vacation to excitedly email us that our boy Gavin's featured in national magazine photo spread, this time for Vanity
SF News Congratulations, Michela Alioto-Pier! Now Get Back To Work. Michela Alioto-Pier and her family are proud to announce that the supervisor for District 2 gave birth to their third child, a healthy baby girl, last night. They don't have a name picked
SF News Fight For Your Right To Party Party One of our readers just forwarded along an email announcing the creation of a new political animal in town -- not the Green Party, not the Democratic Party (and the press release seems
SF News SFist Eve/Unscripted: The Drinking Game Guess who's going to be on Art Bruzzone's SF/Unscripted show this week? Who's in the hot seat for our local version of Oprah, Larry King, and Joe Scarborough all wrapped up in
