Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Dunk Tank! The Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Center is sponsoring their 16th Annual Celebrity Pool Toss this Tuesday (tomorrow the 17th) from 6-10 p.m., where brave local celebrities volunteer to be tossed into the swimming
SF News Hairwatch (Brittanie Mountz) We're looking around for pictures of the new do for you to check out (check back to see if a link has magically appeared here in the next few hours!), but meanwhile, the
misc Photoshop Gavin Contest! Where was Gavin Newsom last week? a) On the playa at Burning Man; b) On a date with a barely-legal model; c) On a date with a C-list reality TV star; d) Trying
SF News What Happens When Gavin Stops Being Polite -- And Starts Getting Real Oh, Gavin. Is it that hard to find love while running a major American city? Here's our mayor at the SF Opera opening with reality TV star Erin Brodie. (Brodie apparently created a
SF News Operating Thetan Level IV Seventy-five million years ago, Aaron Peskin was the ruler of a Galactic Confederacy which consisted of eleven planets, including his home planet North Beach. The Galactic Confederacy was comparable to our own, with
Arts & Entertainment A (Diaper) Change For The Better: Local Mom/Inventor Grace Welch It's the kind of success story many dream about, having a simple idea and turning it into a successful venture. Grace Welch, local inventor, businesswoman, and first and foremost, mom, did just that.
Arts & Entertainment Creativity Explored Portrait Auction Creativity Explored is an organization that fosters the artistic talents of developmentally-disabled adults, not only to provide independence and self-sufficiency to the artists but also to give the general public access to their
SF News Frank Chu Is Looking For Love Anyways, because it's always fun when the Gawker gang posts online dating profiles of various celebrities, we thought we'd post Frank's even though his profile, at this point, is pretty nothing. We do,
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Tyrone Davies The Bay Area has its fair share of web celebrities, but sometimes something surfaces that stands out for its awesomeness. After both VH1’s Web Junk and BoingBoing featured this clip, we knew
SF News Moonbeam Thug? According to the woman, a fight broke out outside Club @17, on Telegraph and 17th, and her friend was hit in the face with a stiletto heel. As she was tending to her
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Sex and the U.S. Government Here at Stage Fog we try, a bit desperately at times, to wrench the week's picks into some sort of theme. "Sex and the U.S. Government" seems a bit of a stretch,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: The (Possible) End of the Laughter It seems like a lifetime since we've seen a new episode, and the last episode they aired could have very well stood as a season (or series!) finale unto itself, what with its
misc The 'Fisties: Best San Francisco Celebrity We here at SFist like our celebrities like we like our men: insane, rude, dirty, and fabulous. Oh, wait, that's NOT how we like our men anymore (that's 12 years of therapy finally
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>The Tribe</i> First off, we have to give Ms. Shlain credit for wracking up the PR as the Herbst was almost sold out. She also managed to turn a fifteen minute movie into almost an
SF News Parties To Which We Were Not Invited But We Bet We Could Go To If We Were Slightly More Desperate As you can guess from the fact that we're still posting instead of primping, we didn't get invited to the H&M opening party. Sure, we're a little bit pissed, but we
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: You Voted, Now Go to the Theater at La Val's Subterranean Theater OK, before we get into explaining the crazy title of this play, the disclaimers: SFist editor at large Cheshire Dave is involved with producing company Impact Theatre, and
SF News A's Brand Baseball: Servin' Up Summertime Our friends and family tried to tell us, but we had to find out for ourselves anyway: July in an ivy-covered Northeastern college town is no place for a California boy. We mention
SF News Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth Err, no. This is San Francisco after all. During a vote on whether or not to accept it, possible soon-to-be City Assessor Geraldo Sandoval kicked it out to the Rules Committee because, we
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Film Society Awards Night Keep reading past the jump for bona-fide celebrities and how we almost lost our sh** with one of them!
Arts & Entertainment Deconstructing Leah: Paris Hilton at the SF Ballet Gala Since some of you may not be as thoroughly addicted to gossip as SFist is, we would like to present to you a primer on how to interpret Leah Garchik's column. You see,
SF News We'll Always Have So Best You might not have been able to tell but we here at SFist have some mixed feelings about the Newsom breakup. On the one hand, there's been an increase in single female staff
SF News Parties To Which We Were Not Invited Question: where does one go if one were to celebrate the birthday of an Orchestra Conductor? Why the Tosca Cafe, of course! Last Tuesday, San Francisco Symphony conductor Michael Tilson Thomas (that’s
Arts & Entertainment Oh, hello Mr. Soul While book signings themselves are not that big of an event in and of themselves, they can be depending on who is doing all the signing. Like ex-Presidents. Or skanky “celebrities.” And especially
SF News Suffrage For All It's true that the main goal of the Vote or Die campaign seems to be to get celebrities to wear shirts that say Vote or Die on them. But that doesn't mean you
