Arts & Entertainment Win Passes To SFist Night at Impact Theatre! Join us on Thursday, April 20 at 8 p.m. as Impact turns all of La Val's Subterranean (1834 Euclid in Berkeley) over to our readers. We hope they know what they're getting
Arts & Entertainment Young Yvesdropping in Love Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. One climber to another: "This rope is fat... like your Mom." -- From DD/At Mission Cliffs climbing gym (the coolest
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Berkeley Edition at Berkeley Repertory Theatre We don't know what's bigger news: the fact that Rita Moreno stars in The Glass Menagerie, one of the greatest plays in the American canon, or the fact that
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 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
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Something for Everyone, Again at Berkeley Repertory Theatre Who said interactive theater is uncool? One of the coolest things about Culture Clash's production of Zorro in Hell is that you can download your very own Zorro mask
Arts & Entertainment Get Out Of My Dreams And Onto My Couch cinematic superimpositions, symbolic imagery of razors and knives, and menacing shadows create a frightening world. A professor (Werner Krauss) is driven into a state of terror by strange intense nightmares accompanied by compulsive
Arts & Entertainment The San Francisco Asian American Film Festival: SFist Has You Covered We're going to be seeing a ton of the movies, as well as hitting parties and other fun stuff like this Friday's and Saturday's Directions in Sound music events (we love Kero One!
SF News Guess What? Peeing in Public is ILLEGAL It's all rooted in the case of David McDonald, who was arrested and searched by Oakland police while urinating in a Berkeley parking lot. At the time, the office charged McDonald with littering
misc Late Registration Looks like the UC Registrar's going to have to cut some refund checks -- $33.8 million worth! A San Francisco court has ruled that the UC's fee hikes for professional students were
SF News ChronicleWatch Watch -- Day 1000! In Roman numerals, it's the letter M -- ChronWatch hits its very first one-oh-oh-oh of civic inaction, as the Berkeley fountain it first began pestering back in June 2003 remains in the exact
SF News Shake Shake Shake Man -- we were so distracted this morning with that spam attack that we totally missed the earthquake! Two quakes rumbled through the area this morning, around 11:30 a.m. The first
SF News The Heartbreak Of Reply-All There are so many good reply-all stories: the person in the office who accidentally distributes their snide response to an office-wide email; the fun-loving fake email sent to #ALL PERSONNEL from the computer
SF News Tiiiiiimber! But now that honor has been taken away, as she was suspended from Tree duty, after February 9th's Stanford-Cal basketball game. She first drew the attention of UC Berkeley 5-0 when she began
Arts & Entertainment If You're Looking for Sin, Look in Berkeley Though we do tire, at times, of the alpha-male genre, few comic books or movies do it with more relish and gusto than Frank Miller's . So unless you're some kind of sobbing tree-kisser
SF News Spies On Us The ACLU is trying to find out why the student's groups were targeted and when, as well as what else is out there. Seriously, if Quakers are targeted, who will be next? The
SF News SFist checks out the 510: The Vibrant Economy Edition See "East Bay: More Affordable, But Only Compared to Its Neighbors" (January 18, 2006) and "California's East Bay Area Offers Relative Bargains" (January 19, 2006). SFist is always interested to read about bargains
Arts & Entertainment Harupin-Ha: Not Your Parents' Butoh Dance Company Our friends at the Asian Art Museum continue their tradition of cool events with this Thursday's 7pm performance by Butoh legends Koichi and Hiroko Tamano and their dance company, Harupin-Ha. Credited for bringing
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Shake It Up From the cultural legacies of black radio and French writers to physical theater and psychology, there's something for just about everyone in this week's offerings by Bay Area theaters. at The Marsh Berkeley
SF News The Ivory Money Tower Former Cal chancellor Robert Berdahl got an annual salary of $315,000 for a 13 month leave, provost MRC Greenwood is on a 15 month leave at a $301,840 salary, and the
SF News Chronicle Watch Watch Update: Day 439. Your Chronicle Watch Watch, where we mock the Chronicle's award-winning efforts to improve our neighborhoods one step at a time, is finally back! Okay, this Sunday? You're on Day of
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: The Usual Suspects Google bought stock in AOL, after the latter turned down possible deals with Microsoft, and earlier Yahoo and Comcast. Google also made additions to its services by adding GMail access from mobile phones,
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Are Well-Connected Woman on cell phone: "If you ever get nominated for the Grammies, you are SO taking me as your guest." -- From Edward/Montgomery Street Station Dude: "WHOOOO! I cant wait for Jason's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: an American Tragedy We saw the Met's new production on Monday, and one thought sprung to our mind: there is an East Coast-West Coast divide that would make the gangsta rappers proud. Oh, we are not
SF News Bay Bridge Shut Down Thomas Hawk shares this picture of a very, very quiet Bay Bridge from the Oakland side. According to the Mercury News, there were two closures during the day due to a suspicious package:
