Arts & Entertainment SFist Finds: Funions Send your Bay Area finds to found at sfist.com! We call on you to submit discarded photos, objects, letters, and other items that you plucked from the streets, used books, thrift stores,
Arts & Entertainment It's Spelling Bee Time! Tomorrow's the finals of the National Spelling Bee! We've already got our TiVo set for the semifinals (which happen while we're at work), we've cancelled all our evening plans for the finals (on
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: RiffTrax Live We say almost only because the movie they did, which they kept secret until the night of the show, was the Sylvester Stallone arm-wrestling epic and all the comedic riffing in the world
Arts & Entertainment Three Questions For A Graphic Novelist Yesterday, we posted a contest in which we're giving away a copy of Matt Silady's "The Homeless Channel," a new graphic novel. Matt, a Berkeley resident, was both the writer and artist of
SF News Day Around The Bay --Carnaval went well! --Jack Daly for mayor! Quote of the day: "Daddy, this party is no fun. Let's go to another party." Don't the progressives say that? Bonus tidbit: Sarah Daly says there
Arts & Entertainment SFist Finds: Submit Your Found Photos/Objects/Letters! In the spirit of Found Magazine, the U.K.'s Is This You?, and the FoundPhotos community in Livejournal, we call on you to submit your interesting Bay Area finds, including photos, objects,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Can you still remember how to roller skate backwards? How about shoot the duck? For $2 skate rentals, you can give it your best shot at Mighty to the tune of really bad
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Food Section Round Up We gobble the various food sections up each Wednesday. Here are our favorite nibbles from today's offerings. San Francisco Chronicle: The gorge-gorge weather makes it easy to imagine all sorts of picnics, in
SF News Day Around The Bay --Looks like Pat Murphy got in the last conversation with Ed Jew before Jew's new lawyer told him to zip it. --Matier and Ross are liars! Chris Daly was when he barged in
misc Ranking Bay Area High Schools So Newsweek's come out with its rankings of "the top public high schools in the country," and the Bay Area has 9 10 schools in the top 300: Magnet school Lowell High in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Who needs a little culture after a weekend of mayhem? (We do, we do!) Here are a few things going on tonight that might pique your interest. Spring Art Auction at Mezzanine Visual
Arts & Entertainment Jolene Garcia of Penny and Maude Why'd you start your own company? Because I want to be able to work my own hours while my kids are little. Favorite items? I love Super Chick and all the bobbi pins
Arts & Entertainment Cocktails With The Man Who Killed America (er, <i>Captain</i> America) On Saturday, fantastic Hayes Valley comic book store Isotope played host to Ed Brubaker, who's as hot a writer in the comics industry as anyone. Recently, a story written by Brubaker made headlines
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Wanderer: China Camp Eucalyptus Frame * Bay Area Wanderer: China Camp State Park, out on Point San Pedro Road, San RafaelDrove out to China Camp State Park with Sufjan Stevens on the stereo singing about Chicago. The air sat
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Diego Burrito Enthusiast Talking Smack About S.F. While intra-city burrito debates are a San Francisco tradition, we were a bit shocked to come across this article from a San Diego-based pub in which a "burrito expert" of sorts totally disses
Arts & Entertainment Try Out For The Boston Pops! (Keep Your Shirt On) We can't stop laughing about the fight at the Boston Pops concert last week! Classical arrangements of popular music make us crazy too! So we're psyched to pass along the news that the
SF News Belmont: More cars! More pollution! The idea behind the Climate Protection Agreement is that dense housing (that's multi-unit buildings, like a duplex) near transit will reduce car usage and oil dependence and air pollution, transforming miserable freeways to
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine Interview: There Has Got To Be A Twist, S'got Such A Supple Wrist. Still, he keeps coming back to his roots here in the Bay, and will perform this Friday, May 11 at 8pm at the Florence Gould theater and the day after, Saturday, May 12
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco World News - Tonight! In other local TV news items that have managed to make their way into our In Box, this Saturday, NBC 11 is airing a documentary called "Dreams to Dust: Americans Interned," which follows
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fat Kids, Skinny Kids, Kids Who Climb On Rocks Looks like there's a budding trend for private companies to supply healthier school lunches in schools throughout the greater Bay Area. Some of these companies, as seen in the article in the SJ
Arts & Entertainment James Beard Awards Are Good To San Francisco Media Culinary legend James Beard has some prestigious awards named for him. The winners of the Journalism and Broadcast Media awards have been announced, and the Chron came up big. Seriously, I know we're
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
SF News The Warriors: Moving On, with Authority! Go ahead Bay Area, whoop it the hell up. Call in sick to work, pick up a twelver at the corner store, order some team gear online, call your boys over, and replay
SF News Barkley vs. the Bay Area We somehow missed this, or more like didn't care, but Charles Barkley has now become Public Enemy #1 here in the Bay Area. This is because during the NBA Playoffs, Barkley has said
