Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Back in the News Thanks to a 5.6 earthquake and tonight's "Will there be a Halloween in the Castro or not?" question plaguing the minds of locals and bridge and tunnelers alike, San Francisco is back
SF News Whew, That Was Fun 9:30 Update: Things seem to be settling down. We're going to move the bulk of this post behind a jump. The only really big news at the moment is that there's a
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Judge tosses out California's new lethal injection procedures. [SFGate] -- DA Kamala Harris and the quality o' life. [BeyondChron] -- Robert Goulet dies. Sniff. [CBS5] -- Not everyone is happy about BART's
SF News Shot 12+ Times? No Problem! Last night in the city of Richmond, a 22-year-old man was shot over 12 times. And? He is expected to live. According to the Chronicle (via the formidable service that is Bay City
Arts & Entertainment Found Magazine Event Tonight and Thursday Night Found has become a household name in recent years, with fans and contributors from all walks of life. And on this tour, Found followers have been able to keep up with the brothers'
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interview: Mike Birbiglia Here at SFist we like to think of ourselves as givers. We give. You take. Again and again. So here you go, we're doing our part. We've got a pair of tickets for
SF News No Snoop for You: SF Dishonors Dogg, Exotic Erotic Ball Founder Yesterday, we got a press release touting the fact that the city was going to issue a proclamation to Perry Mann, founder of the Exotic Erotic Ball, and Snoop Dogg. Our reaction? Get!
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Bay Area firefighters wait and wait and wait for SoCal assignments. [SFGate] -- Curbed SF: traumatizing one daughter at a time. Beasts! [Curbed SF] -- Bay Area stock soar today. [Examiner] --
SF News CODEPINK Dares to Touch Condi's Hair Jezebel already saved us the trouble from making a horrifying, insensitive, racist, and un-Bay Area comment about never touching a black woman's hair. Ever. ("Condi Rice To Anti-War Protester: Never Mess With A
Arts & Entertainment Cardboard Tube Fight Tournament -- This could very well be the most exciting extracurricular activity in the world, ever. Next to building a fort out of couch cushions and blankets, that is. (Why, yes, we are in
SF News Join Us, Won't You? We're looking for contributors in the following areas: Politics (and the local political machinations, people, and slap fights), arts & entertainment (what's happening in clubs or on the Internets), and general city news.
Arts & Entertainment Tonight: Sex & Song (& Talk) "A must for music lovers, musical comedy lovers, and in fact lovers of any sort," claims the Center for Sex & Culture about tonight's "Sex & Song". And, really, don't they deserve your
Arts & Entertainment Interview Glenn Kotche The SF Jazz fest is in full swing (sorry, we couldn't help the pun). Thursday and Friday the Herbst Theater will hose the world premiere of Anomaly, a new piece by Glenn Kotche
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thomas Keller Still Kicks Alice Waters's Michelin Ass! The bay area Michelin Guide 2008 is out, and there’s not much changed from last year: the French Laundry is the only place with 3 stars (the most) in the wider bay
Arts & Entertainment Mini-View with Charlie M. from the Happy Hollows Do you have any Bay Area ties? Yes, our singer Sarah is from here. And she went to SF State. Actually, none of us are from LA. Chris and I are from DC.
misc Finally, An Alternative to Clubbing Baby Seals Bay Area polluters (that's all of us, kids) are responsible for contaminating the Bay with such nasty toxic materials as sewage, flame retardants, and Teflon. Mother seals who eat contaminated fish, pass the
Arts & Entertainment Aliza Cohen's <em>Bundles & Passages</em> After living in Shanghai for several years, 27-year-old Bay Area artist Aliza Cohen returns home to boast her new series, Bundles & Passages, featuring work that reflects her feelings of time-honored culture shock
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Breasts of Sherry Glaser: The protest-y Miss Glaser's comedy and peace activism show runs the gamut from her unsheathed mammary glands to an interpretation of 9/11 and the Twin Towers
SF News Warning: Bay Area Booty First off, we feel a tad icky for the following post. On one hand, we're playing into his game of profiting of his abuse of women. (For argument's sake, let us presume his
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interview: New Yorker Writer Alex Ross So Alex Ross has a new book out, , which covers the history of 20th century music in his trademark accessible-musicological style, and he'll be in town to promote the book this week. Ross
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Emmy-winner Al Gore might also win the Nobel Peace Prize. Weren't Bono and Princess Diana supposed to win that at some point, too? (You know, before she...vroom.) [Wired News] -- Bay
SF News Not Just Prestige... <i>Super</i> Prestige The best sports, we say, combine beauty and ridiculousness, and that’s why cycling is a favorite of ours. But, like many others in the Bay Area--too many, it turns out--we’ve recently
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>Eat At Bill's: Life In The Monterey Market</i> Now this is why we love DocFest so much! is a completely charming love letter to the famed local organic Monterey Market in Berkeley and its perpetually-cheery (and perpetually-free-sample-eating) owner Bill Fujimoto. The
