SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Joyeux Anniversaire to Us! And we want to hear from you guys too, like which place we should check out, who we should talk to, what juicy tip you want to whisper in our ear, what we
Arts & Entertainment Win a Copy of Patrick Roddie's <i>Hips</i>! Photographing people shouldn't be intimidating for the photographer -- or the model. San Francisco based photographer Patrick Roddie explains how to put your subjects at ease, find the best light and come away
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Crashing Daly's Party Everybody may or may not hate Chris Daly, but we all agree -- everybody looooooves little Jack! Your Junkie's Best Celebrity of 2005, resplendent in his orange Che Guevara onesie, graciously received guests
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
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Claudia Graziano But actually writing the book was the easy part. After writing it and finding an illustrator, Claudia threw herself into the murky and often frustrating world of self-publishing, and found that it ain’
Arts & Entertainment Dispatch from Noir City: NoirQuake! In 1950, the great mystery writer Raymond Chandler wrote of the contemporaneous critical response to his stories and those of James M. Cain, Dashiell Hammett, et. al. that: It takes a very open
Arts & Entertainment Kepler's Winter Author Events - Not Too Shabby! As avowed book lovers SFist was thrilled to see Kepler's com back and they're (almost) better than ever. We'll remove that bracketed condition when they open online ordering because we always get our
SF News Did the SF Weekly Scapegoat Harmon Leon? Well, L'affaire Leon at the Weekly certainly didn't come to a conclusion we expected. We crawled out of bed this morning only to read that he'll no longer be appearing in their pages.
Arts & Entertainment The Hastily Assembled Adventures of the Superfisters We also enjoyed the genre-experimentation of "Doc Frankenstein," a series of books set in a universe in which Frankenstein's monster survived and evolved into a mercenary, a liberal activist, and an enemy of
Arts & Entertainment Berlin and Beyond Film Festival: <i>Sergeant Pepper</i> What distinguishes "Sergeant Pepper" from other Films About Children -- it would be a mistake to call it a Children's Film -- is its deft restraint. Sure, there are thrills like a crazy-inventor
SF News Your Commute: A New Bart Stop Add 15 cents more to your BART card -- Bernal Heights, Baja Noe Valley (what a name), and Upper Mission neighborhood advocates are trying to get BART to revive its 2002 plan to
SF News SFist checks out the 510: Happy Birthday, Jack London The Oakland High School attendee went on to extract revenge against schoolchildren everywhere by writing a series of books guaranteed to be used in classroom lessons on everything from symbolism to manifest destiny.
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Multigenre Edition Theater isn't just theater anymore. Throw in some dance, circus, puppetry and even a bit of some horror and comic books, and you've come a long way since, say, Neil Simon. Women on
Arts & Entertainment The Affectionate Adventures of the SuperFisters "Loveless" (not to be confused with the Anime series of the same name) is a romance, too, of sorts; set in the post-Civil War south, it's the story of a former Confederate soldier
SF News SFist checks out the 510: The One City, One Book Edition Or maybe we'll just head back into the bookstore for a copy of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's The Mistress of Spices. It's the inaugural selection for Oakland's "One City, One Book" campaign. Oakland Library
misc Happy Holidays From SFist: Win a copy of <i>Saturday</i> has been met with acclaim by a zillion reviewers more reputable than we are, so we'll just tell you that it's a really good book that we recall enjoying very much. You can
Arts & Entertainment The Attentive Adventures of the Superfisters Though we like to pall around with victims of corporate censorship, occupies a genre you might wish to enjoy from arm's length -- lest you be sucked into the world created by Dwyer
misc 'Fisties: Best Place to Shop -- Retail Our favorite place to shop for non-essentials is, bar none, Super 7. We wander their tiny store for ages, certainly inciting suspicions of shoplifting. But we swear we're not! We just love everything
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
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tech Labs: OK to Play We're happy about the injunction, and not just because it guarantees kids will be able to develop the skills they'll need to survive in an increasingly zombie-slaying and drug-dealing economy. The bigger picture
Arts & Entertainment The Holistic Adventures of the SuperFisters Next up on our reading list: , by Doug TenNapel, the guy who created Earthworm Jim. His new book is about a scientist exiled to his hometown to study supernatural phenomena. But what's it
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Ted Weinstein Ted Weinstein is a fierce proponent of the Bay Area’s literature scene. He is also good at getting the authors he represents to finish their manuscripts. His methods are a trade secret,
misc SFist Holiday Gift Guide: Memento Press Memento Press provides us with the best of both worlds, allowing you to upload or send photos to them, for placement in a variety of books, calendars, and cards. They're highly focused on
misc The 'Fisties: Best Bar, or, Staggering Through FISTies It’s about that time again (for the first time). Time to heap a whole year’s worth of praise on to several lucky and talented establishments that did us the kind service
Arts & Entertainment The Superlative Adventures of the SuperFisters Kablammo! Oh excuse us. We were just reading some comic books. This week, courtesy of Isotope's guidance, we're checking out Harvey Pekar's new book, ; as well as Desolation Jones, a newish series inked
