SF News Newsom Must Still Must Attend <del>Detention</del> Board of Supervisor Meetings Much to our surprise, the motion that almost allowed our fair Mayor Gavin Newsom to eschew his monthly cameos Board of Supervisor meeting was tabled. That is to say, it was killed. Dead.
SF News Broadway Community Meeting to Open Soon This is most exciting news, folks. The theater scene here sucks so hard now that even the San Francisco Police Department is working on the problem. Check it: Subject: Broadway Community Meeting with
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Hal Holbrook in "Mark Twain Tonight": Julia Sugarbaker's husband and Oscar nominee for this year's Into the Wild, Broadway veteran Hal Holbrook won a Tony Award in 1966 for playing satirical American writer
misc New Tunes Tuesday #17 Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar. 2. Shelby Lynne - Just A Little Lovin': If you are looking for some music to accompany your
SF News "Pill Hill" Standoff Ends This morning's brief Oakland standoff between police and an old-fashion robbery suspect ended today with neither fuss nor muss. (That is to say, no bloodshed. Good for you, Oakland.) The robber surrendered outside
misc "Leg Bones for Baseball Bats" - 1902 San Francisco Chronicle Researching San Francisco history means spending way too much time sitting in the dark. In the library, we mean, staring at microfilm of old newspapers. Hours of scanning those scratched and blurry archives
Arts & Entertainment Calling All Type-As: Your San Francsico Casting Calls Await Gus Van Sant isn't the only one who might make you a shiny, coke-addled star here in San Francisco. Take, for example, MTV and NBC who want to use you for their up-and-coming
misc New Tunes Tuesday #15 Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar. Don't be fooled by the juvenile hand-writing or Crayola markers on the cover of this album. This is
Arts & Entertainment SFist Spencer's Top 15 Albums of 2007 We're sure you've read, by now, Pitchfork's or Paste's, "Best Albums of 2007" lists. Now we could get all "official" and post a similar list to Austinist's Top 15 (which we agree pretty
misc Week Around the -Ists The cold weather - and holiday festivities - descended upon Gothamist. The Rockefeller Christmas tree was lit, Broadway stagehand finally ended their strike, and NASCAR decided to run their victory lap through Times
SF News Late-Night Pizza Ban? That's Crazy Talk! Noted Pizza-Roll fans, we're not one to patronize pizza establishments in order to stifle late-night sodium cravings brought on by binge drinking. (Really, with Pizza Rolls you transition from freezer to toaster oven
SF News Polk Street Fire Kills Two Two people were killed this morning after a single-alarm fire broke out at the Star of India restaurant on Polk and Broadway. "The kitchen was fully involved in flames when firefighters arrived," said
SF News Update: East Contra Costa County Residents Evacuated According to CBS 5 (interrupting us right in the middle of The People's Court, no less!) "East Contra Costa County residents are being evacuated from an area near the unincorporated town of Knightsen
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Life of Reilly: He starred in Hello, Dolly, won a Tony and an Emmy, a Broadway director, and had one hell of a mother, but Charles Nelson Rilley will always be
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Shining (1980): "Honey, I'm home," "Here's Johnny!" etcetera, etcetera, Kubrick, and so forth. (No one wields a baseball bat like Shelley Duvall. So awkward. Also, what ever happened to her?) Screens
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Carmen Jones: Based off of Georges Bizet's famous French opera Carmen, the adaptation was made into a successful Broadway musical, and then a '50s film staring Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, and Pearl
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Grilled Cheese Invitational : What's better than a grilled cheese sandwich? Nothing, that's what. (Our apologies go out to all and any lactose-intolerant readers. You live a life of heartache we can only
misc Blocker: 1000 Broadway Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a weekly series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist each Wednesday, around the lunching hour. View the map of all
SF News Day Around the Bay -- San Mateo Bridge shuts down, then opens. Ta-da. [Examiner] -- Dan Noyes on Jerry Lucas, the sanity-estranged man who followed a then-pregnant Jill Rabinowitz into her garage, severely beating her with a
Arts & Entertainment Edward Gorey's Dracula Stuff At Cartoon Museum of Art!! Edward Gorey's art is perhaps the greatest combination of cute and grotesque we've seen. And it's not just for goth kids; everyone can enjoy the new exhibit at the Cartoon Museum of Art
SF News iPhone! Cheap! Gimme! Now! Steve Jobs -- who still boasts a decent shelf butt (see image) while doing God's work -- has cut the price of the iPhone. Now "the 8-gigabyte iPhone will be $399 -- $200
Arts & Entertainment SF Tonight -- Metropolis (1927): Set in 2027, "the thinkers" and "the workers" overlap, shooting off a million theses and dissertations for years to come. Fritz Lang's gorgeous, science-fiction masterpiece. Oh, and there's a sexy
SF News SFist Blotter Samson Wong, the editor of Asianweek, reports that a local Asian media group has rejected an apology from the San Francisco Neighborhood Theater Foundation for screening in Dolores Park a few weeks ago,
Arts & Entertainment The Gallant Pussycat. Well, we won’t spoil the story, but thanks to the performance of the Merola program apprentices, the light comedy did fire, and on all cylinders. We found it gutsy for these aspiring
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Trannyshack's Siouxsie and the Banshees Night: Trannyshack icon and Scissor Sisters [NSFW] star Ana Matronic returns home to help Heklina host tonight's Siouxsie tribute. Also, we heard a rumor that Ana likes
