Arts & Entertainment Win Passes To <i>Frankenstein!!</i> The music, played by the traditional orchestra doubling on a battery of toy instruments, ranges from the deceptively tuneful to the mildly berserk, like a Looney Tune score imagined by Mozart. This is
SF News North Beach Is Italian For No Booze Oh wait, there's going to be no booze allowed this year? Nevermind. Apparently, some people have been complaining about the drunken hordes of frat boys, Marina girls, and aging alcoholics who have descended
SF News Saturdays In the Park Yesterday, the Board of Supes approved by a 7-4 vote a measure to close off part of Kennedy Drive on Saturdays just as it is on Sundays. Well, for a "six-month" trial run
Arts & Entertainment 3 to the 3rd: Varnish Fine Art Celebrates Three Years of Giving Us Culture and Getting Us Drunk The trio of artists chosen to exhibit their work at this milestone show was a diverse group, featuring cast metal sculptor Brian Elliot, intaglio printmaker Kevin Evans and ceramicist Liz Orleans. At first
SF News Mr. Bush Goes to Palo Alto SFist loves a good protest as much as the next person. Especially when it’s on a sunny Friday afternoon. Accordingly, we headed out to see W’s reception at Stanford. Although Stanford
Arts & Entertainment Three Gorges Project At The Asian Art Museum Chinese artists have been painting the Yangtze River valley and its famous Three Gorges canyons for millennia, adhering to the tradition of painting not just what the valley looks like physically, but also
misc SFist Whines & Dines: Babies and Dogpatch Saloon The dot on the “i” in this transformation may well be the name of a popular store catering to dogs – Babies on Gough in the Hayes Valley. There are no clothes for children
SF News Beer And Movies Eventually At The Red Vic The Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi-penned ordinance goes into effect immediately, but the Red Vic still had several hurdles to leap. We spoke to the Red Vic's Martha Beck, to see if we could be
misc SFist Wants You To Find A Friend: Arnie, From Grateful Dogs Maybe you can go meet Arnie, who has a rescue story very similar to SFist Franny's. Shy dogs of the world unite! They say the eyes are the window to the soul. And
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: Why Can't You Set That Monkfish Free? SFist is back, trying to wet your whistle with another short recap of Bravo's delightful Top Chef, a reality competition for people with knives that takes place here in San Francisco and is
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Memories In The Mist</i> Hey, we scored a free fan! NBC 11 was giving out free handheld fans to SFIAAFF-goers attending last night's screening of Bengali movie . We're not really sure what the fan had to do
Arts & Entertainment <i>Black Panther Rank and File</i> Opens At Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Despite our WASPy, suburbanite background (which we go to great lengths to avoid acknowledging except when confronted with it like a speeding train at events such as these) – we walked through an exhibition
SF News Our Freedom of Speech is Freedom or Death In a 3-0 ruling, the court based their decision upon a 1969 ruling by the Supreme Court, which ruled that a 15-year-old girl had the right to wear a black armband to protest
SF News Political Junkie: Cut His Mike! What is it with Chris Daly and MSNBC? Flush from his success on Countdown and the Situation, District 6's own got himself a tourist visa to Scarborough Country -- where it sounds like
misc SFist Whines & Dines: Elixir Bar Almost 800 years later, those dogs on the other side of the pond that bark with an accent are about to get their own Magna Carte. Following in the footsteps of San Francisco’
SF News Fourteen-Year-Old-Men and Other Faithful Logic Awhile back, we somehow found our way onto the mailing list of "San Francisco Faith: the Bay Area's Lay Catholic Newsletter." Though we have no particular beef with Catholicism, we just can't quite
misc SFist Whines & Dines: Bender's Bar and Grill Welcome to the Year of the Dog. To celebrate and honor this year, we will keep our paws to the ground and our nose in the air to uncover all the best places
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’
SF News SchwartzenWatcher Goes Broke What happened to all the gobs of money he raised last year? They all went into the Very. Special. Election, which shows just what a crazy, kamikaze-like move that last election was. He
SF News Fast-Food East Bay First up is Oakland which is thinking about taxing certain merchants a few extra bucks to help clean up the messes left by customers, something that is apparently becoming a problem. The legislation
SF News SFist Checks Out the 510: The Space-Faring Edition Out in Sacramento -- classified as "Bay Area" for KQED's fund-raising purposes, anyway -- the Discovery Museum will be holding a memorial for the astronauts, then turning the focus toward continued space exploration
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: For Great Justice The story is of interest more in terms of its precedent than for any actual privacy concerns. The data cannot be traced back to any personal information of individual users, and Google's objection
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
