Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>On Fire</i> A few minutes before the movie started there was a strange buzzing coming from the front of the theatre and we noticed an older man fiddling with his hearing aid. That's when we
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Artist Paul Madonna In artist Paul Madonna's weekly comic series All Over Coffee, San Francisco architecture—and coffee—seem to be the main characters. Beautifully detailed drawings of SF scenes, combined with disembodied voices that almost
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Heavenly Kings</i> The North American debut of Heavenly Kings for the SF Int'l Film Festival premiered at the Castro Theatre Friday night and it must have been a sweet moment for Berkeley-born, Bay Area-raised, local
Arts & Entertainment Fill Your Belly at Full House Café To tell you the truth, we were hesitant to share this restaurant review with you, because we were worried that you would swarm our favorite neighborhood breakfast place and extend our wait for
SF News MacArthur Maze Collapses Update: 11:45 a.m.: Here's your roads: W-80 to S-880 is closed (from Berkeley to the Oakland airport). E-80 to E-580 is closed (from SF to Lake Merritt and Piedmont). Alternate routes:
Arts & Entertainment APE Escape 2007 Part 2: Cute, Cool, And Arty Hey, Folks, welcome to part two of our APE coverage. The Alternative Press Expo was this past weekend, and there was so much fun stuff we had to break our coverage into several
SF News Station to BioStation On Tuesday, Gavin cut the ribbon on the city's very first commercial B20 biodiesel refueling station. B20 fuel is fuel made up of 20% biomass, 75% diesel, and 5% tomato juice and the
Arts & Entertainment APE Escape 2007 Part 1: Strips, Teases, and Gags The Alternative Press Expo (or APE) was this past weekend at the Concourse here in San Francisco. The show, which is put on yearly by Comic-Con International, features indy and small press creators
Arts & Entertainment All We Meant To Do Was Get A Burger You may know by now that we prefer our meat grass-fed, pedigreed, pasture raised, and without ooky hormones, antibiotics or other additives. So when we had a craving for a burger the other
Arts & Entertainment Sad News For Cody's SF We're getting so upset to have to keep writing the same post over and over again -- yet another San Francisco independent bookstore is shutting its doors. This time, it's the not-so-long-ago opened
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Mark Mulroney Artist Mark Mulroney lives and makes art in Berkeley but hails from Dutton, PA. He came over to the Bay to teach at the San Francisco Art Institute and participate in an economy
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What’s There To Love About the East Bay? Lots! A Penny-Pincher’s Guide to Albany You wouldn’t know it from the property values or the chi chi restaurants on Solano Avenue, but Albany has many a cheap option that can accommodate our miserly lifestyle. Option #1: Albany
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Pollan Cares About the Farm Bill (And You Should Too) No longer a little-known piece of farm legislation that would dictate agriculture funding and policy while no one was paying attention. This year, food and farm advocates are pushing hard to publicize the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Your Sunny Weekend: Thai Brunch in Berkeley (Yet Another Reason to Visit the East Bay) It can get pretty crowded in the cafeteria-style seating area, but on warm weekends it’s nicer to sit outside on the lawn outside of the temple anyway. While the lines to get
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>The Great Happiness Space: Tales Of An Osaka Love Thief</i> As SFist Mihi so wisely put it in her review, "Don't hate the player, hate the game." As we got totally caught up in the -like mind games between the host men and
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>The Girl Who Leapt Through Time</i> This is why we go to film festivals. Once in a while you get to see a movie that you probably would have missed if it weren't for film festivals, but has made
Arts & Entertainment Local Zine Scene: Ker-Bloom! Local zine Ker-bloom! never fails to supply a light meditation on various topics (love, gamer culture, mid-life crises and more) – the latest issue, #63 deals with topics of forgiveness. Each issue is gorgeously,
SF News War is Over if The Board of Supervisors Want It And look, it might be working too-- today the Senate is actually considering a resolution on having a phased withdrawl starting in 2008. We wonder if Harry Reid was finally moved to get
Arts & Entertainment Ready For The SFIAAFF? Kwon and Hammer will be kicking off a week and a half of the latest and greatest in Asian and Asian-American film -- a week in SF (at the Castro, 1000 Van Ness,
Arts & Entertainment What’s There to Love About the East Bay: Lots! Next Up: The Troubled Tale of the Speakeasy Theaters But apparently all is not well in the land of discount movies and cheap beer. The Contra Costa County Times is reporting that the new Cerrito Theater is having some trouble trying to
SF News Nobel Prize Found UC Berkeley police said Sanchez showed the prize off to his friends and one of them tipped off the cops. Probably because there was a $2,500 reward for information about the stolen
Arts & Entertainment Fly Us to the Moon Spring is springing all around us (Hello, Sunshine!) and while we can't afford to go on a real vacation on our salary, we can afford to dream. Which is why we love Flight
SF News Grand Theft Berkeley One has to wonder who would actually go around stealing a Nobel Prize in physics. A rival physicist who didn't get the award? A really smart thief? An international Nobel Prize thief who
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop Interview: Bart Davenport of Honeycut Best show you've ever played MacDonald's at 7 in the morning in Rochester NY. I knew I had finally made it. Favorite venue? The Rickshaw Stop Where are the best fans? Spain Dream
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Face-Off: Michael Pollan v. John Mackey The talk, held at Zellerbach Hall on the Berkeley campus, was supposed to be at a smaller venue but so many people wanted to watch Pollan and Mackey go head to head that
