SF News Feinstein Tells Crowd Of San Franciscans To Expect Four Years Of Trump, Gets Booed Feinstein stuns San Francisco crowd: Trump 'can be a good president' via the @FoxNews App https://t.co/qUI4VNjSLe— 👠Micee🇺🇸 (@SanMateogirl11) August 30, 2017 Senator Dianne Feinstein had a Commonwealth Club stage conversation
Arts & Entertainment Kim Kardashian Commonwealth Club Event Moved To Castro Theatre Tonight Celebrity eyeroll-inducer Kim Kardashian West and her team of publicists have been trying to legitimize her as she tours the country promoting her new book Selfish which is (I am not joking) a
SF News Rick Perry Has Nerve To Come To S.F. And Compare Homosexuality To Alcoholism Governor Rick Perry, who may or may not be toying with another presidential bid, let it be known last night at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco that he's still very much an
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink In Conversation With Coffee On Tuesday, May 28, purveyors of the city's — nay, the world's! — finest coffee will come together to discuss why their cafes refuse to make iced espresso for your SFist editor. Ideally. But in
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing Tonight: Discover The History Of A-holes With A Linguistics Professor Tonight in the Commonwealth Club's Blue Room, UC Berkeley Linguistics professor Geoffrey Nunberg will give a talk on the "Ascent of the A-Word" from its roots with GIs in World War II, up
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Listen & Eat: Commonwealth Club 'Meet & Eat with SF's Hottest Young Chefs' The Bay Area's continuing sanctification of chefs (what in heaven's name do you think Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham would say regarding this trend of placing cooks on such high pedestals?) goes
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Mayor Jean Quan Talks Occupy At Commonwealth Club, 12/15 Next Thursday, December 15, controversial Oakland mayor Jean Quan will come to our side of the pond to take part in a panel discussion at The Commonwealth Club called Occupy: What Now, What
Arts & Entertainment FBI Director Robert Mueller at Commonwealth Club: 11/17 Ever wanted to know more about the illuminati? The black helicopters outside your window that only you can see? Whether or not to open your own boutique militia compound? Or why that microchip
SF News Michele Bachmann to Talk in S.F. on October 20th For those who've been looking for a chance to ask Republican Presidential Candidate and Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann some questions about her enlightening views on HPV vaccinations and race without contributing their hard-earned
Arts & Entertainment SFist Attends Inforum's Future of SF New Media Panel We attended our first Commonwealth Club event last night, which was put on by Inforum, a hip, young division of the club. The topic was about how San Francisco is setting the stage
SF News It's Got to Be the <strike>Morning</strike> Afternoon After Here's a few sports stories to get you through the bleakness of the Rox/Sox World Series -49ers QB Alex Smith will definitely be the starting QB this Sunday, somewhat of a coincidence
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- New Pornographers: Yay, the New Pornographers! We heart them ever so. Seriously. Heart them yourselves tonight as they perform along with Lavender Diamond and Fancey at 8 p.m. at the Warfield,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- End of Summer Slam Jam for Teens: Are there words prettier than "back to school"? Maybe. But when we start seeing back-to-school commercials and such, we get ever so giddy. And although
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Other events, for the non-baseball inclined: --It's the Zeitgeist Int'l Film Festival! Short films in the backyard. $5, 199 Valencia (x Duboce), doors at 8, movies at 9. --We know, we always give
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight We could've gone with a YouTube clip of the video for Love Is A Battlefield (totally one of the best videos ever), but we went instead for the Benatards doing "Hit Me With
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight --You've got Tara from in a straight-gay love affair and a movie about Tibet, both at 7 p.m., at the Roxie. --Microcinema screenings at 111 Minna, on the topic "Is Perception Reality?
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight --At Intersection for the Arts, an evening of performances, readings, and conversations with formerly-incarcerated youth in The Prison Project, their year-long artistic exploration of the California penal system. $5-15, 7 p.m., 446
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Other events: --The Stars and Garters Theater is throwing a fundraiser party, complete with trapeze artists, short films, the Robber Bridegroom band, burlesque performances, and a raffle, to raise money for its upcoming
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight The acclaimed French-trained Guinean contemporary circus troupe Circus Baobab makes its US debut as part of the SF Int'l Arts Festival, performing The Jumping Drum, a fable about globalization and family, complete with
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Profs Wrote Some Good Books The Commonwealth Club's 76th Annual California Book Awards have been announced, and two Cal faculty members are big winners this year: Ishmael Reed for "New and Collected Poems, 1964-2006," and journalism professor Michael
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Rising One hundred years ago this month, San Francisco survived an earthquake. You may have heard of it. Well, despite the odds (and the sky-high earthquake insurance rates), people keep moving here, and San
Arts & Entertainment <em>Graffiti: Urban Scrawl or Artistic Freedom?</em> Discuss Amongst Yourselves. We visited the Commonwealth Club for their most recent session of Inforum, a division of the Club that aims to “inspire debate around civic issues” for people in their 20’s and 30’
misc Bay Blogger... Friday Jennifer over at Life Begins at Thirty spent last week blogging about food. Of course, lots of people do that, including SFist. But what made this exceptional is that it was as part
SF News Busy Day Marcia, Marcia, Marcia -- oh, we're just the good ol' reliable Bay Area in Election 2004, no one cares about us -- no one's wooing us, no one's filling up our airwaves with
