misc Week Around the -ists Gothamist found that an explosive set off outside the Times Square army recruiting center may be similar to five past bombings in New York City. Seattlest worried when severed right feet and bottles
Arts & Entertainment Charlotte Martin at Cafe du Nord Critics have lauded her latest efforts saying, "Stromata follows adventurous suit...reveling in wild time signatures and stark, synthesized percussion, its only constant her unadorned, operatically trained vocals." (Paste Magazine) Collected Sounds wrote
misc We Are All Equal...Except You, Tranny Queer rights groups freaked out, threw a tizzy (understandably), and nixed their support for a workplace discrimination civil rights bill "after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco and Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.
SF News Free Earthlink WiFi Deal Dies Gavin Newsom says he's committed to finding another private company to set up the whole system, and blames the Board of Supervisors for the deal falling through because they wanted more information before
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Bonus Photo for the Barry Bonds Party We have team coverage for today's big event. We've ID'ed Lou Seal, Senator Carole Migden, Omar Vizquel, Rich Aurilia, Barry's family, Mayor Gavin Newsom, the Willies (Mayor Brown, Mays, and McCovey), Peter MacGowan
SF News The Warriors: Ciao, JRich " . . . and with the 18th pick, the Golden State Warriors take . . . Marco Belinelli." Uhhh, come again? Damn, we hate being this good. Was there ever any doubt that Don Nelson would use the Warriors
SF News Swells By The Numbers Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column: 67. Total number of people pictured whom we recognize: 4 (including Molly Sims and her BFF Jennifer Siebel.) Minority count: 4 (5.
SF News Swells By The Numbers Number of people pictured whom we recognize: 2 -- Charlotte Maillard Shultz and a way-too-skinny-looking Vanessa Getty. Minority count: 6 (10.9%). Getty v. Traina: 1-7. Big ups to C.Big for the
SF News Swells by the Numbers SFist Rita is out of town for work, so we are donning our tiara and gown for this weeks Swells analysis. Tra-la-la! Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column:
SF News Swells By The Numbers Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column: 65. Total number of people pictured whom we recognize: 9 (including George Shultz, Dianne Feinstein's husband, and Spike Lee). Minority count: 6
Arts & Entertainment Gearing Up For the SF International Film Festival To celebrate their gold anniversary, the SFIFF is not only presenting the always-dazzling film festival itself, but hosting a huge array of events as well: from tributes to Spike Lee (and a screening
Arts & Entertainment Pop That Collar, Bro Orange Photography just posted these pictures of Gavin putting on a green tie for the Irish National Day Flag Raising Ceremony at City Hall. We love how he goes back to his preppy,
SF News The Warriors: The Season's Biggest Game If you were born after 1994 you have no idea what it's like. If you're a long-time fan, you might have a hazy, vague recollection of it. If you come from places like
SF News SF Ballet Gala By The Numbers Hip, hip, HOORAY! Hip, hip, HOORAY! Catherine Bigelow, the Chron society columnist, is back from vacation, and here with a special report on Wednesday night's SF Ballet Opening Gala! Number of people pictured:
SF News Not So Sweet Charity To determine all of this, the people in the NewTithing Group measured everyone's income, including investments and all that stuff, and then measured it with the amount of money they gave to charity.
SF News (A Late) Swells By The Numbers Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column: 73. Total number of people pictured whom we recognize: 11. Minority count: 11. Not the same 11 whom we recognized. (15.3%
SF News Bush's Lapdog Comes To Town Blair gets out here today, is having dinner on Saturday with George and Charlotte Maillard Schultz (oooh, we hope Swells gets some good snaps of that one), hangs with Gavin Newsom at Delancey
Arts & Entertainment The Dystopian Adventures of the Superfisters Look at her! Glint in her eye, ashy cigarette in her lips, hair tied back and camera poised! Oooh, she's just WAITING to give some poor chowderhead what-for. Charlotte lives in a futuristic
SF News A Tree Grows in the 'Loin There is, however, a catch. And that catch is that more trees mean more maintenance and more maintenance means more people and more people means more money. Money that we don't have and
Arts & Entertainment Prince For A Day The media orgasmatron following Prince Charles and Duchess Camilla through their edge-free trip to San Francisco practically peed itself the other night as the royals on-deck chortled their way through that old chestnut,
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: Queermation The strongest of the bunch: , a hilarious Dutch cartoon about a massive dom and the puny sub who loves him. The Warner-Brothers-ish superstretchy style sets a great wacky tone for the silly, horrifying
Arts & Entertainment SFist Rants: We Are Beautiful, No Matter What You Say SFist has lived in San Francisco for a long time and has been to our fair share of parties. We've been to hoity toity parties, arty parties, everyone tripping their balls off parties,