Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Multigenre Edition Theater isn't just theater anymore. Throw in some dance, circus, puppetry and even a bit of some horror and comic books, and you've come a long way since, say, Neil Simon. Women on
Arts & Entertainment Family Day! Childless curmudgeons, gnash your teeth in anger over another way in which society prefers folks with kids over you! Gavin Newsom and the San Francisco Dept. of Children, Youth, and Families are sponsoring
SF News SFist Rita's 2005 Well, I already told you my favorite news posts of the year -- but what about the other stuff? So here goes: Best movie I saw for free for SFist Reviews: It's so
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Aren't Fooled Submissions go to yvesdroppings at gmail dot com. Whoo. Dude With Huge Sunglasses: "Hey Marty." Marty: "Oh! Hey! I didn't recognize you because you're disguised as an Italian." -- North Beach Mom, trying
misc SFist Raves: Chinatown Sidewalks The days of being bopped on the shins by little old Chinese ladies carrying pink and white striped plastic bags and suspiciously poking the flesh of fresh fish may be numbered, as DPW
SF News Sister City-hood Is Powerful Sister sister -- Shanghai and SF affirmed their 25 years of friendship as Gavin and Shanghai mayor Han Zheng totally touched their cut pinky fingers together to affirm their sister city status. Gavin
SF News Who Reads Yesterday's Papers -Worried about mercury levels in fish? So is the Board of Supervisors! This week they approved an ordinance that will call for restaurants to post warnings, in English, Chinese and Spanish, about mercury
SF News Something's Fishy So, yesterday the a Board of Supervisors committee approved a proposed ordinance Monday that would require seafood restaurants to post English, Spanish, and Chinese signs warning of the dangers of mercury contaminated fish.
SF News It Had to be Said It must be 中途ハンパ written in a wrong way. Embarassingly wrong. 中途半端(chew-toe hamper) is the orignal form. 半端 sometimes is written in katakana, thus 中途ハンパ. 中途ハンパ means half-way, unfinished, incomplete, uncompleted. Somewhere
Arts & Entertainment Wednesdays, the New Apocalypse Wednesday: Get all in the Wednesday SFist Reads mood with a cavalcade of options: Barbara Ehrenreich at Clean Well-Lighted (7:00), a Dr. Atomic discussion at City Lights (7 p.m.), Caroline Kennedy
SF News Protestor Watch Where's Frank Chu these days? Maybe at one of these protests: Over 800 hospital workers walked off the job at Cal Pacific this morning, to protest their lack of input on appropriate patient
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Tour of Anchor Steam Brewing Ah, yes, beer. It fuels our bodies and quenches our thirst (well, our thirst for beer and tipsy hijinx anyway). Say what you will about the Egyptians, but having been largely credited with
SF News Political Junkie: Meet The Assessor We're so excited! We've never actually someone we've written about in the Political Junkie column before! Usual Suspects is reporting that 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place is abuzzzzzzzz with the word that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink I to Zed SFist can't even begin to recall the number of times it has aimlessly wandered past the Imperial Tea Court in San Francisco's Ferry Building Market Place and wondered why it appears to be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: C'est quoi, Koi? Ooops, maybe the Outback people did not know that the week-end dim sum crowds park in their lot. Maybe they look back and forth at the dining room and the lot and think,
misc Get Stuffed: Jade Cafe An ex used to work around the corner from Jade Cafe, and even after we broke up, we'd still meet there and have a grand old time. It was one of our better
SF News The 49ers Gone Wild Ace public relations director Kirk Reynolds, pictured in the photo still of the video, created it and stars in it. Surprisingly, he is now currently looking for a new job and for the
SF News Ewwwwwwwww! Okay, SFist was already a little grossed out by the very idea of "The Universe Within" show at the Masonic auditorium. Leave it to some German dude to come up with a way
Arts & Entertainment Watch Deadwood, You F**king C**ksuckers Of course SFist is of the opinion that The Sopranos is the only good thing that's been on television in the last decade or two. Sure, there's stuff that's entertaining all over TV
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: </i>Chinese Restaurants: Three Continents</i> The scene at the Kabuki for the last night of the Asian-American Film Festival was jam-packed, with three movies all starting at the same time, and people dressed to the nines for the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gourmet de l'Ouest: Andy's The Richmond and Sunset is more than just the place you drive through on your way to the beach--it's home to some great, if overlooked, restaurants. We hope you're inspired to try new
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.
