Arts & Entertainment Mike Taylor from The Court and Spark One word to describe The Court & Spark: Affable. One word to describe your music: Shady. What's it take to get a gig in this town anyway? Other than the belief that what
SF News One More To the Babe Considering Barry's love of drama and his love of hitting most of his momentous home runs here at Whatever-the-hell-it's-Named-Park, it'll be a good bet that he’d hit both 715 and 716 this
SF News Meanwhile, in San Jose... We're going to talk about something we rarely talk about-- hockey. Why? Because the San Jose Sharks are now up 2-0 against the Edmonton Oilers in the second round of the playoffs, after
SF News Let's Buy Us A Damn Webby! Waaay back in January, we got an email from the Webby folks: I am delighted to let you know that members of the Int'l Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences (IADAS), the judging
SF News Hate is Such a Strong Word Now that our long, national nightmare is over and Brett Favre has announced that he's both playing this season and maybe next season, it's time to check in with our Bay Area teams
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes To <i>Art School Confidential</i>! That's right: SFist MiHi, denied entrance to ! Given that we always want what we can't get, that makes this movie hott hott hott in our eyes. Enrage MiHi and enter below to win
SF News Keep It Well-Lighted! We can't take any more of this Bay Area independent bookstore stress -- first the Kepler's drama and now this? Venerated SF independent bookstore stalwart A Clean Well-Lighted Place For Books is on
SF News Not Too Late to Catch Olympic Fever "We are honored to have been selected as a candidate for the 2016 Summer Games. San Francisco embodies the Olympic ideals of peace, friendship, universality and tolerance. This is a testament to the
SF News The Mandatory NFL Draft Posting Being part of the Award Winning SFist news desk, we suppose we should say something about the NFL draft tomorrow. So we started up with the researching and decided we were so sick
Arts & Entertainment Ghosts of the Pioneers In Shasta County, mentioning the Lemurian is like giving the secret handshake. Outsiders won't know what the hell you're talking about; locals will give you a long, interpretative look, at once impressed and
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Cockbyte: Masters of Machinima</i> Sorry to be crude. "Red vs Blue," if you're not familiar, is sort of sketch-comedy series made by dubbing dialogue on top of pre-scripted game footage. We'd estimate that Sunday night's screening was
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Are Looking Rather Fetching This Evening Submissions go to Yvesdroppings at gmail dot com. Girl in Brown Velour Jumpsuit: "I haven't been alone for 4 years. How long were we friends-with-benefits for -- 3 years?" --From Luisa/On a
Arts & Entertainment The Chron In the Blogosphere Anyways, first they started off by letting some of their hipper writers-- Peter Hartlaub, Mark Moford, and Aidan Vaziri (for the record, we're pro-Vaziri)-- let loose on the Culture Blog. That was
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,
Arts & Entertainment The Small Stake's Jason Munn We first consciously notice Jason Munn in last month’s ReadyMade Magazine where he was featured for the screen printed posters he makes for performances of touring bands at local venues. Then we
SF News Craigslist Encounters: Bay Area, Craigslist Paradise One of the more amazing facts about Bay Area Craigslist is its complete ubiquity. It is almost to the point where you can't live your life with it. How do people find rentals?
misc Win Passes To <i>L'Enfant</i>! People seem to really dig , the Golden Palm winning story of 2 young residents of a Belgian steel town who make some very bad parenting decisions. We hope you'll like it, too. So
SF News Bevan Dufty's Babymaking Congratulations, Supervisor Bevan Dufty and Rebecca Goldfader! They're expecting a baby in October. "Wait a minute!" you say. "Isn't Dufty gay?" And those of you who go to the Menlo Clinic or take
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Bibendum to the Rescue. If obnoxious and smelly French people show up in your restaurant and make a scene, just accommodate them kindly. It might not be the Michelin reviewer, but it might be us all the
SF News Only Happy When It Rains Well, at least Shirley Manson from Garbage is happy: it's still raining and we've got more rain predicted, off and on, for the next two weeks. Thanks to the persistent rain, newscasters have
Arts & Entertainment Henry Rosenthal, producer of "The Devil and Daniel Johnston" Enter director Jeff Feuerzeig whose film “The Devil and Daniel Johnston” played at Sundance 2005 and won Feuerzeig the best direction award. SFist was lucky enough to catch the film at the San
SF News Righteousness Is Its Own Reward How to get money, how to get money...hey, we'll solve some crimes! Arnold has offered rewards for information leading to the arrests and convictions in three Bay Area lukewarm cases. Apparently, if
SF News Claremont Resort Settles Labor Dispute All you good Bay Area limousine liberals can finally relax -- both figuratively and literally -- now that the four and a half year labor dispute at the Claremont Resort and Spa has
SF News It's Raining, It's Pouring Tired of squishy socks? You and the rest of the Bay Area -- today's wet weather makes it 25 days of rain in a <30-day [ days hath March!] month, making March 2006
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique Shoe-Shines The Birkenstocks. The purpose of the organization is to "protect the pleasures of the table from the homogenization of modern fast food and life," and we cannot agree more. However, in its fight against fast
