Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: TransGeneration It would be easy to associate the subjects of the documentary with the people in other docs about self-reinvention -- the realness-craving drag kids of Paris is Burning, for example, or the folks
SF News SchwarzenWatcher: Commencemental Inside the stadium, the drone from hundreds of rowdy protesters threatened to drown out the governor's voice at times. Many in the crowd erupted in boos when a police officer pulled down a
Arts & Entertainment Basketball Jones The San Antonio Spurs and Detroit Pistons have Wednesday off, and the And1 Mixtape tour has come and gone. San Francisco basketball fans, though, have long needed to seek a June hoops fix
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Jacob Leland Hometown team loyalty and keen insight into local's seasonal wardrobe? You may have noticed the Oakland pride creeping into new SFist contributor Jacob's posts. When he's not cyber heckling the Red Sox Jacob
Arts & Entertainment SF DocFest: <i>Call It Democracy</i> This was our first time at the Li'l Roxie, and we hope it won't be our last! (Please, please, say the rumors aren't true!) We squeezed past the teeny-tiny hallway and into a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes Back To (Art) School As an incoming student to California College of the Arts' grad program, we hopped on the chance to meet and greet while scoping out the competition, by infiltrating CCA's MFA Thesis Show opening
SF News New Book Links Computers With Counterculture Yesterday on Slashdot was a review of local NYT tech correspondent John Markoff's new book, "What The Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry." Quoting the review: Most histories
Arts & Entertainment A Touch of Class At the SFIFF’s super-special ritzy glamorous hoi-palloi Brad-Bird-Meet-And-Greet last week, Brad was surrounded by such a large gaggle of pleased society-types, you could’ve been forgiven for not realizing he was there
Arts & Entertainment Ho U The classes are part of the 4th Annual Sex Worker Film & Arts Fest, Sex Worker, of course, being the nice, politically correct term for a hooker (SFist, being the essence of politically
SF News Your Commute: A Tale of Two Transits Maybe it's just because snazzy bullet trains are cooler than wheezy buses and screeching light-rails, but Caltrain rides on so much better goodwill than poor beleaguered MUNI. Both agencies are facing massive budget
SF News Your Giants: Breeding Lilacs out of the Dead Land Let's just come right out and say it: the Giants, now 8-10, had a crappy week. They went two-and-five against teams that, even without Barry Bonds (whose return is still shrouded in steroid-enhanced
misc Re-Assessed Breaking news: Mabel Teng has resigned as the San Francisco assessor. After a sunny start as the face of gay marriage, Teng was facing increasing scrutiny over her, um, unorthodox hiring procedures in
SF News Smoky Halls and Kidneys Battered Until They Bleed With the preponderance of world class gyms and fighters in the Bay Area, SFist has always wondered why the San Francisco Golden Gloves has evolved into more of a fighter friends and family
Arts & Entertainment SXSW Music Wrap Up For those of you who aren't familiar, SXSW is the biggest music festival in the U.S., happening over five days and four nights each year in gorgeous Austin, Texas. More than 1,
SF News Cal Faculty Board Faults National Merit Process In the ongoing debate between those who support a blanket meritocracy in school admissions versus a weighted approach that considers race, class and gender, the Faculty Board of Admissions and Relations With Schools
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Springy TV This Week What? Did we hear someone say "Boo! Bad segue!"? Fine. How's this? On Sunday on CBS at 9 p.m. you can catch the awesomely titled made-for-TV movie Spring Break Shark Attack. We
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: Slow Jam King A friendly crowd greeted Filipino-American filmmaker Steven Mallorca at the San Francisco screening of his labor of love, for the Asian-American Film Fest -- about three rows of seats were reserved for his
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares Special: Hordes of Boards So do you think your a leader with good judgement? Do you have a lot of professional qualifications but feel that you could be using those skills for the betterment of humankind? Well
SF News SFist Rants: We Want to Drink More and Later Imagine one of those "from the past" montages like thay have on "Cold Case". Some early 90s dance music (maybe Rhythm is a Dancer) plays in the background as a thinner, younger, and
Arts & Entertainment R.I.P Hunter Thompson Gonzo journalist and counter-cultural icon Hunter S. Thompson died today of an apparent suicide. Thompson was the author of the classic , a book that inspired multitudes to take lots of drugs and go
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About Pirates Well, yeah, smarty-pants? Put your time where your quick to comment fingers are and volunteer at 826 Valencia. Their online form for applying to become a tutor is genius. Let us know if
SF News Let's Go Out To The Court-Room... Spring is in the air -- can you smell it? It's that intoxicating mix of grass, red clay, pine tar and chaw. That's right -- pitchers and catchers report in just a few
SF News Burning For School So apparently the San Francisco school board held some public meetings to decide on the start of the new school year. Before Labor Day? After Labor Day? Decisions, decisions, decisions. Everyone was pretty
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Dema Grim So how did Dema qualify for the rarefied crew that makes the SFist interview list? Well it wasn't just because we love her clothes. It's because Dema is a one woman encapsulation of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Closing Time Assemblymember Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) tried to get similar legislation passed several years ago, with the approval of the Board of Supes, but used an economic argument instead. His idea was that if
