SF News Spies Like HP Another thing they tried was sending out e-mails with encrypted software that would track back and report to HP where that e-mail was forwarded. So, they'd send someone a
Arts & Entertainment The Blah Adventures of the Superfisters is a collection of three stories, told simultaneously and finishing with an unexpected cross-pollination: one is a cute retelling of Journey to the East (with some slightly distracting Christian imagery sprinkled in)
SF News So You Think You Can Dance (Gavin) Well, look who's in imminent danger of violating the curfew for the kids under 13! Here's a picture of Gavin Newsom cutting a rug at District 4 candidate Doug
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Melting Pot at Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts TheatreWorks revives its 1992 production of David Henry Hwang's deconstruction of Puccini's Madame Butterfly--even bringing back some of its stars.
Arts & Entertainment It's Gonna Bring You Down.... Huh! Given lead singer W. Axl Rose's notorious, errr, let's call it "unreliability," when it comes to concert appearances, though, make sure you save your receipt. The site
misc SFist Raves: Ranch 99 Fry Your Own Fish Our vegan co-editor and labor-activist editor-at-large are going to kill us, and snide food snobs are already saying, "It's ," but our parents call it Ranch
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>They Chose China</i> is the relatively forgotten story of a handful of American soldiers who were prisoners of war in Chinese camps during the Korean War. At the end of the conflict they chose to stay
Arts & Entertainment The Miniature Adventures of the Superfisters We're suckers for any story about the Monkey King, and we also love the cozy art and fierce personality of Oakland-resident Gene Yang's "American Born Chinese."
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: We Stalk Matt Dillon We decided to while away the hours between the two movies in the press room watching a documentary on a personal monitor but through our headphones we could hear distressed SFIFF workers whispering
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
SF News Elsewhere in -istville Seattlest saw a house party get senselessly attacked with a shotgun and end in seven dead. A local senator is debated and their version of the big dig is investigated. To truly get
SF News -Ist-A-Palooza Phillyist notes a fistfight between local pols that leaves one man down for the count. Jehovah's Witnesses get a Philly contributor out of bed, things get a little geeky with a
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Red Doors</i> Lee's first feature film, played on Saturday and after seeing Grain in the Ear boy were we ready for something completely different. Red Doors is the director's vaguely autobiographical
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>The Achievers</i> In doing a little due diligence before writing this review, we turned up an entry on the Hyphen blog noting that reviewers are not supposed to reveal any of the plot to this
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Chinese Restaurants: Latin Passions</i> Long-time SFist readers will remember that we were so inspired at last year's SFIAAFF by "Chinese Restaurants: Three Continents" that we gave it our prestigious Best Film We
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>No Sleep Til Shanghai</i> The crowd at the Kabuki Theater on Friday night had more hip-hoppers than usual, as SF Int'l Asian-American Film Fest attendees eagerly lined up three-deep for the sold-
SF News SchwartzenWatcher Goes to the Human Cockfights Our Governor is SO not like your Governor. This particular match is between Team Gracie and Team Hammerhouse and kicks off the "Arnold Martial Arts Festival," which is part of the
SF News The Warriors: Get a Move on Already The War-bloons have basically been treading water for the last couple of months, and like a small-time sucker playing conservative bets at the $5 blackjack tables in Reno, the house odds
SF News Can You Hear the Drums, Gerardo? Doing some damage control, Gerardo wrote an editorial in Monday's Chron trying to explain what he meant when he said he didn't think we needed a military. What he
SF News SFist Tech Labs: Un-American Activities Fitting in with the internet theme of the proceedings, Lantos invoked Godwin's Law and compared the companies' compliance with the Chinese government with IBM's compliance with Nazi Germany
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
misc Good one, Judy. A trainload of subway riders was startled and a little starstruck Saturday afternoon when Assemblymember Mark Leno stepped on board at Civic Center heading toward Embarcadero. "Look who it is!" yelled
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
misc SFist Tech Rant/Roundup: Finger-Pointing Leander Kahney of Wired News got some flak for his commentary about the relative merits of Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates. He says that the popular perception of Gates as evil monopolistic robber
SF News SFist Tech Labs: Google China and Spin Control The issue now is Google's decision to censor search results on its Chinese site. In an interview with Reuters (vectored via CNet news.com), Sergey Brin acknowledges that the decision will
