Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Doug Benson: How he didn't win the last season of Last Comic Standing is above and beyond all logic. Then again, competitive reality TV makes little sense at times. (See: Banks, Tyra)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- The Gold Rush (1925): The Tramp makes his stamp here (via playing with his food) as one of America's most beloved comedic characters of the silent era. Screens tonight at 8:45
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV Heidi walked on to the runway wearing Uhura's "Star Trek" uniform--seriously--and told the designers they weren't going to need their models for this week's challenge. Ru-roh! She then sent them all to 10
SF News Winterfest! <i>Bikes</i> Winterfest! <i>Fun</i> Winterfest! It's On! Get yourself some art, maybe even something from Matthew Hughes Boyko. Why not? Or, what about "A Day with Ross Mirkarimi?" How much would you bid for a "lunch/dinner date" with him?
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Unspeakable (2007): Documentary about the life of Satanic Priest Steven Johnson Leyba, "ordained by Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey, is known in the underground art world as the 'Father of Sexpressionism.
SF News Chicken John Debates Gavin Newsom In a final tip of the hat that sums up this year's (disappointing) election, Gavin Watch has celebrity candidate Chicken John's surprise Saturday night debate with San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. Not the
SF News Rights Are Wrong? Writing in SFGate yesterday, CW Nevius tells us that the "Rights of Mentally Ill Street People Thwart Efforts to Prevent Harm." Those pesky rights! What happened was that the "Sign Guy" of Justin
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
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>Wiener Takes All</i> There's nothing like a celebrity appearance at a film festival, and Sunday night at the Roxie Theatre, the crowd went wild when it was announced that two of the wiener dogs who star
misc Week Around the -Ists Protest over national vs. regional chains, the never-ending debate over the place of cars and bicycles in our metropolises, professional sports scandals, remembering a solemn day, and being issued a search warrant -
Arts & Entertainment Ingmar Bergman Also Dies It was a deadly weekend to be famous, that’s for sure. As one commenter already pointed out today, famous people tend to die in threes: Bill Walsh, Tom Snyder, and of course,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Food Section (Abbreviated) Round Up Roasted Chioggia beets with nectarine juices & marjoram. We gobble the various food sections up each Wednesday. Here is our short and sweet favorite nibbles from today's offerings. SF Chronicle: Michael Bauer eats
SF News Phoebe Halliwell Back In SF As we mentioned, Alyssa was all over this town for All-Star week: promoting her Touch 'Em All fashion line, hosting the celebrity All-Star game, attending All-Star parties where she was sighted by People
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Dance, get trashed, shove something up your nose in the bathroom, shove something up, um, somewhere elsewhere in the bathroom, have a ball at this iron-hot Thursday weekly. At Tubesteak Connection, Bus
SF News Political Junkie: Gavin's Back (Ow!) Oh, Chris Daly's going to have a with this one for his own blog -- the Chronicle Local News Blog gleefully reports that, at Sunday's Celebrity All-Star game at AT&T Park,
SF News Jesse Jackson to Save us all Only press conferences, snappy slogans, and celebrity do-gooding can save us now! From a recent press release: Rev. Jackson and the Rainbow PUSH Coalition plans to attend a call for peace at Sunday,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Cafe in Need is a Cafe Indeed He writes, In the past, we’ve tried comedy, live music, wine events, family nights, and various “get-something-free” promotions. ... In our perfect world, we’d find some sort of evergreen event that is
SF News Gavin Girlfriends Update A very sincere thank you to the reader who forwarded along this picture of former Mrs. Gavin Newsom Kimberly Guilfoyle with her baby boy Ronan Anthony Villency. All together: awwwwwww! And this got
SF News Bring Your Game, Commenters! Make The Weekly Top 5 The coolest thing about writing for SFist is that often we introduce a topic, then all of y'all weigh in with insightful opinion, crazy knowledge, or even some amusing smarminess. The groupmind of
SF News College Basketball: You Again? That's what the Ohio State University and the entire sporting world, with the exception of diehard Gator lovers and their recently embarked bandwagon brethren across the land, are thinking after the University of
SF News I'm Getting Too Old For this Sh--- Now the rumor was debunked earlier by Luke Thomas on Fog City who said it was a ploy to take heat off the Matt Gonzalez bandwagon. Matier & Ross, however, contacted Danny's publicist
SF News Pelosi Strikes Back What seems to be going on is a case of "I Dare You." The Democrats are making noises of fighting the new policy and the White House is saying we dare you, and
misc It's a Hard Knock Life in California To determine all this stuff, the people behind the study, the nonprofit Editorial Projects in Education Research Center (got that?), factored in things like level of income, types of families, language and education.
Arts & Entertainment Actual Celebrities Come To San Francisco! Yeah, we know, we're stuck here at SFist fetishizing weirdo wonks like Gavin Newsom and Ross Mirkarimi because we don't have any actual celebrities in town that we can follow around and talk
