misc SFist Contest: Win Tickets To Litquake’s Opening Night! Lineup includes: Dave Eggers and END OF SUFFERING, Mark Eitzel (American Music Club), Jay Farrar (Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt), Dan Hicks, Penelope Houston (The Avengers), Ray Manzarek (The Doors), Dan "The Automator" Nakamura
misc Go South, Young Househunter However, those housing stock gains were totally puny when compared to how dramatically the median home values for those cities jumped. From 2000 to 2005, the median value of a San Jose house
misc SFist Week in Review: MUNI, MUNI, MUNI Elsewhere, with the elections coming up, there was a lot of politics happening. The governor went green, his opponent went to Loserville, Population 1, Rob Black went back to Africa, Nancy Pelosi tried
SF News Pelosi's PageGate Resolution Prohibited from Passing Foley, for those who haven't heard, was forced to resign yesterday when news of his flirtatious and extremely sick IM messages to a 16 year-old male page were made public. Yesterday, as the
Arts & Entertainment Musicians, Literature and Little Cable Cars When: Friday, October 6, 2006, 8pm Where: The Regency Center, 1290 Sutter St (Van Ness at Sutter) Call: (415) 673-5716 Admission: $25.00 Purchase Tickets Here SFist Mary Ladd, contributing, is on the
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Opposites Attract at San Jose Center for the Performing Arts Hell yeah, we'd trek all the way to San Jose to see Molly Ringwald! What self-respecting John Hughes-fanatic/thirty-something would pass that one up? Well,
SF News Support Local Architecture You can pick from 25 sites, which include perennial favorites like the Roxie and the Fox Theater in Oakland, but also some gems you may not have thought of, like the neon signs
SF News American Football Spectacular: <a href=http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/blackalicious/shallowdays.html>"I Just Keep Movin' On, Movin' On..."</a> * St. Louis vs. San Francisco Sunday, September 17, 2006. 1:15 PM, PST. Week 02 The Battle Of The Incompletes And no, we're not referring to a glance at our college transcript. These
SF News We Snoozed, But We Didn't Lose! For the second year in a row, we talked smack about our nomination for a Pubby Award, the SF Bay Area Publicity Club's Media Excellence Awards. However this year's awards banquet had a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Taqueria Round Up SFist Mary gives us the tasty carne asada filling to the Chron's grand tour of burrito joints in town! News flash: Chronicle's Bill Addison eats lots of tacos and burritos as "research." Today's
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Three Chosen Almost at Random at Exit Theatre Quick! The SF Fringe ends this week, so here's your last chance join the stampede from venue to venue to see the good, the bad and the ugly. Exit Theatre
Arts & Entertainment Local Publisher's Graphic Novel Highest Placer on USA Today List? BELIEVE IT! Viz Media is a local publisher that, among other things, imports all sorts of great Japanese comix ("manga") and cartoons ("anime"), translates them, and distributes them to the U.S. markets. Naruto Volume
Arts & Entertainment Annalee Fery from Monsters are Waiting Put yourself in their shoes, you’re really busy and you haven’t been in LA long, but you really want the kind of internet superstardom that only an SFist interview can confer—
SF News Going, Going, Sold! Long-standing live music venue, The Ivy Room, in Albany is also closing "as we know it." The current ownership relinquishes the premises in two weeks. Kimberly Chun and the Guardian have the details,
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Bay Area Tour at Berkeley Repertory Theatre Sorry, this isn't the same production of Mother Courage starring Meryl Streep, which recently closed in New York. Nor is it Tony Kushner's translation of the great Brecht play,
SF News The SFist NFL Preview: What the Experts Say So this year, as we approach NFL '06, we read through the experts to see what they have to say about our two local teams. This year, they all pretty much said the
Arts & Entertainment F*** That Bridge: East Bay Events Over Labor Day Weekend As we mentioned here before, the Bay Bridge eastbound will be closed Labor Day weekend. For those of us who live East of the Edenic S.F., here are some cultural offerings on
Arts & Entertainment You Are What You Eat There really aren’t that many better ways to spend an evening. The show posed the question: which is better, words or music? We aren’t any closer to answering that for you
Arts & Entertainment John Ringhofer of Half-handed Cloud John recently underwent the grueling SFist interview process and has produced the gem below. In it you’ll find instructions on how to be a good fan to your favorite up and coming
SF News Tragic End To The Missing Baby Story For those of you who thought something about this case didn't sound right, consider yourselves vindicated: the father is now considered the main suspect in the murder. (We knew those Mission hipsters going
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Melting Pot at Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts TheatreWorks revives its 1992 production of David Henry Hwang's deconstruction of Puccini's Madame Butterfly--even bringing back some of its stars. Francis Jue (recently on Broadway
misc SFist Cares ... Give a Kid a Book Already This fall 3,700 Bay Area/Northern California disadvantaged youngsters, many of whom have never owned their own book, will take part in an innovative literacy program featuring a cast of centuries-old characters
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Matt Nathanson Best show you've ever played and what made it great? It's hard to pick just one but if I have to... my 6th grade talent show. I played 'message in a bottle', 'twist
Arts & Entertainment It's An Honor Just To Be Nominated However, it was not to be, as we just recieved notification that we were nominated again this year! (This is the part where we'd link to the award information on the BAPC site,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Anatomy of a Burrito(phile) Dan Johnson of Burritophile wants to meet up at Taqueria El Castillito, on Golden Gate Avenue, just a stone's throw away from City Hall. This SFist knows this to be a good thing,
