Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Clueless and Mean Girls: Jane Austin's Emma interpreted via a mid-'90s Beverly Hills screens first, starring Paul Rudd (Eee!) and a pre-PETA Alicia Silverstone. Tina Fey's ode to high school bitches follows,
SF News Stalker: Dorks Are Sometimes Scary As reported in the Chronicle today, Marlon Pagtakhan, 29, a Burlingame nerd and "rabid text messager," -- who was arrested several years ago for stalking Seven of Nine/Kirsten Cohen's bitch enabler --
SF News We're Never Going To Get Translink But no! A BART official working on the Translink project has said, while they've got the system running for AC Transit, Golden Gate ferries and buses, and MUNI trains, he doesn't think MUNI
Arts & Entertainment Carmel Hell: 71 Miles' Midsummer Travel Tip/Warning Who doesn't love a weekend jaunt to Carmel? Well, those of us who can afford it, anyway. What's more, those of us who can tolerate its cloying horror. John Vlahides, co-founder and executive
Arts & Entertainment SFist Finds: A Rather Persistent Missed Connection Send your Bay Area finds to found [at] sfist [dot] com, or tag them sfist and found on Flickr! Let us know where and when you found the item and any other helpful
SF News 511.org: Still Incompatible with San Francisco In their August newsletter (sent out after a third of August has already passed), 511 is pushing four bulletins, all of which are useless unless you use a car: - There's new FasTrak
Arts & Entertainment You Can Be On Top (Chef). We'd Like It. The next season of Top Chef is looking for a few good contestants, right here in San Francisco. Applicants that aren't able to attend can submit video profiles instead, but Sunday brings you
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink East Bay Eats: The Vegan Macrobiotic Experience (We were only successfully completely vegan and macrobiotic -- or "macroneurotic" according to our friends -- for two weeks, but our affection for whole grains and veggies-in-season persisted.) Over time, changes and renovations
Arts & Entertainment SFist Finds: Jolly Bingo Markers Submit your Bay Area finds to found [at] sfist [dot] com or tag them sfist and found on Flickr! Let us know when and where you found the item and any other helpful
Arts & Entertainment Calling Local Filmmakers The conference features panels about the ins and outs of Bay Area filmmaking, how to get financing and funding in the area for your projects, getting distribution for documentaries, as well as panels
Arts & Entertainment SFist Finds: Passive-Aggressive Note Submit your Bay Area finds to found [at] sfist [dot] com or tag them sfist and found on Flickr! Let us know when and where you found the item and any other helpful
SF News Cycling: The Marin Centurians On Saturday, the roads of west Marin and southern Sonoma counties were rife with those two-wheel vermin known as cyclists. Nearly 2500 of them. No, Critical Mass didn't make a drunken wrong turn
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Dreamgirls: Jennifer Hudson's performance as Effie White won her an Academy Award, and her end of Act I nervous breakdown ("And I Am Telling You") blew audiences to the back wall of
SF News Megabus Megacheap The big draw are the $1 tickets (yes, you read that right, one dollar to go to LA) -- if you're one of the first four people to book on a particular bus,
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up, the East Bay Express: Letters about the bloggers fighting in small claims court. A Berkeley activist opposed to B-Town Dollar Stores, moves, says it's reverse racism. A fun-loving amputees' group called
misc New SFist Giants Contest Hey Giants fans, hate the Dodgers? Like, really, really, really hate the Dodgers? Wanna have some snarky yet juvenile fun at their expense? Hell, what else can you do considering they're in first
SF News American Football Spectacular Remembers Bill Walsh Yesterday, the gentleman who came to be called The Genius passed away from leukemia at the age of 75. The importance of Bill Walsh to San Francisco sports, and the whole of the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Finds: Boys Gone Wild Submit your Bay Area finds to found [at] sfist [dot] com or tag them sfist and found on Flickr! Let us know where and when you found the item and any other helpful
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink It's Not Easy, Being Vegan But, some days, maybe we want a nice plate of veggies, prepared by people who only eat veggies and therefore understand that more options exist than just steamed. People who might even try
Arts & Entertainment Free Passes To See <i>The Ten</i>! Hey, wanna see ? No, not the LA freeway, a movie of ten short films illustrating each of the Ten Commandments, featuring such of-the-moment actors as Jessica Alba, Paul Rudd (yay!), Adam Brody (pictured
Arts & Entertainment SFist Finds: Jackie Do You Love Him (or Her)? Submit your Bay Area finds to found [at] sfist [dot] com or tag them sfist and found on Flickr! Let us know where and when you found the item and any other helpful
SF News R.I.P Bill Walsh We have some sad news to report-- Bill Walsh has passed away at the age of 75. The Genius had been battling leukemia for awhile and died sometime this morning. We guess at
SF News Day Around The Bay -- Berkeley Kite Festival flies up to the highest height. [Oakland Tribune] -- Another deadly weekend in the Bay Area. [Chron, Oakland Tribune] -- Giants lose; Bonds' bat breaks. [Chron] -- Eviction notices
misc Week Around The -ists Over at Chicagoist, readers weighed in with their favorite memories of a local concert venue celebrating its silver anniversary and railed about the passage of a statewide smoking ban for Illinois. The former
Arts & Entertainment More Bay Area Print Media Jobs Getting Axed Oy gevalt. The Denver Biz Times is reporting that Denver-based MediaNews Group -- the owner of the Alameda Newspaper Group (which includes the Oakland Tribune) and the Contra Costa Times, will be reducing
