Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Sunday: Michelle Visage Launches Her Book In SF While the beloved reality competition television show RuPaul's Drag Race has always been suspiciously stingy with SF love, that doesn't mean the show's greatest tertiary character, the legendary Michelle Visage, shares in that
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: Mapworks, Caterpillars, And Costumes This weekend, take in some art made from maps, celebrate a 45-year-old caterpillar, and get yourself some amazing clothes for as little as $1! Friday: Opening Reception for UnTethered: Drawing With Scissors SF
Arts & Entertainment Chronicle Books Summer Warehouse Sale, 8/4-6 Clear your schedule later this week so you can get first dibs at Chronicle Books' Summer Warehouse Sale, which runs this Thursday through Saturday. Hundreds of sweet titles by the beloved SF-based publisher
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Happy Holidays From Chronicle Books This adorable holiday video illustrates just how incomparably fun, cool, and clever locally-based publishing gem, Chronicle Books, is. It also goes to show that the Chronicle staff is full of some darn good-looking
SF News Digging MySpace's New Digs The sexy cats over at ValleyWag have the fresh MySpace office shots that you want. Or not. Formerly the home of LookSmart, the new space will be able to call other fresh, hip,
misc SFist Giveaway!: <i>Make Your Own Sex Toys</i> Crafting meets, uh.... in today's giveaway, which has instructions not only for a variety of tube-shaped objects, but also how to make certain electric accessories, a knitting pattern for a sensitive male organ,
Arts & Entertainment Giveaways! Win A Copy Of <i>Build This Bong</i>! Namely, we've got a copy of the book to give to one lucky winner, randomly selected by the '-ist contest machine -- you can learn how to build a bong or hookah out
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
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Rob Reger Now meet the man who started it all 13 years ago, Rob Reger, after the jump. SFist Christina Loff contributing
Arts & Entertainment Win a Copy of Patrick Roddie's <i>Hips</i>! Photographing people shouldn't be intimidating for the photographer -- or the model. San Francisco based photographer Patrick Roddie explains how to put your subjects at ease, find the best light and come away
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Jill Bliss Bliss answered the question that most artist get all the time, “so, uh, what are you going to DO with that” by starting blissen.com. Blissen is an online boutique where you can
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.
