misc Week Around the -ists Torontoist spent its week uncovering who was behind mysterious ads for a drug called "Obay" that popped up across the country (Scientology? Frank Shepard Fairey?), first tracing them to an advocacy group called
misc 2008 Chinese New Year Parade in S.F.: Year of the Rat Photos of nunchaku, Superman, pageant winners, and a guy unafraid of a little rain after the jump.
misc Muni's Guide to the Weekend: The Chinese New Year Isn't Done With You Yet Good grief, this Chinese New Year business sure does go on for a long time. This weekend, it's a New Year Parade and a New Year Community Fair that'll be tying up traffic.
misc Muni's Guide to the Weekend But it's not all blocked onramps and gas stations this weekend! There's also some bus reroutes, courtesy of the delightful YMCA Chinese New Year Run on Sunday at the Chinatown YMCA (855 Sacramento
Arts & Entertainment The SF Symphony Rings In The Year Of The Rat However -- those of you who fear Chinese opera, take heed! The and the guzheng will be played. The concert is on Sunday Feb. 10, 4 p.m., at Symphony Hall, with tickets
SF News Barry Bonds' 756th HR: The SFist View From Center-Left Last night out in the center-left bleachers, each time Barry Bonds came to bat, the crowd rose giddily to their feet. The stands brimmed with grins and shouts of encouragement and nervous energy.
Arts & Entertainment 2007 Chinese New Year Parade: Year of the Boar. Here's some extended coverage of the last night's successful Chinese New Year Parade in San Francisco. We've captioned the photos of a few of the more interteresting entrants. If you've never been, you
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Refrigerate Your Moon Cakes? Did you know that Chinese New Year is celebrated for 15 days? The last day, March 4, 2007, is the Lantern Festival. So, we're not too late in getting this crucial holiday food
misc SFist Treasure Hunt Contest Here's the particulars. It starts on Saturday, March 3rd at 4:30 PM and begins at Justin Herman Plaza. The hunt will take you through Chinatown, Telegraph Hill, and North Beach. You get
Arts & Entertainment Spend Chinese New Year With The SF Symphony The SF Symphony rings in the Year of the Pig with their annual East-meets-West lunar new year afternoon concert on Saturday, Feb. 24 -- this year's performances feature works by local Asian-American composer
Arts & Entertainment Wild Hogs And The Year Of The Pig SFist's beloved A-list photographer Drew Altizer sends along the pictures he took from today's "Wild Hogs"/ Chinese New Year event. We haven't heard a word about this movie before, but it apparently involves
Arts & Entertainment The Falun Gong Show: SFist Goes To The NTDTV Chinese New Year But a computer-animated backdrop showing a angel flying down to Earth to rescue a dancer portraying a Falun Gong meditator being beaten senseless by Communist goons, together with a song proclaiming, "The Falun
SF News Political Junkie: Lucky For Us No Buckshot Was Involved Man, there isn't Bay Area connection to Dick Cheney shooting that 78-year-old guy in the face? We're so jealous of DCist and Austinist right now. Well, we gotta content ourselves instead with reporting
Arts & Entertainment Insert High-larious Joke About the Gong Show Here Hey, did you see the Falun Gong protestors at the Chinese New Year parade? They were barred from marching in the parade -- organizers say it's because F.G. is too political --
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Bruce Campbell Alert! (Well, no, not really.) No big intro this week -- let's just get on with the picks, starting with something we just know you'll want to see: at the Off-Market Theater You guessed it: Evil Dead: Live
Arts & Entertainment Snapping the Parade Hey photobloggers! Since you're bringing the digital camera downtown on Saturday anyways to defend your First Amendment rights on MUNI, don't forget to stop by and get some shots of the Chinese New
Arts & Entertainment <i>Xin Nian Kuai Le</i> (Happy New Year) And a and/or Gong hay fat choi, depending on your dialect, to you! It's Chinese New Year's! Lunch is on your Asian-American friends, who should be flush with red envelope cash today.
