Arts & Entertainment New Phonebook's Here! The New Phonebook's Here! Printed phone directories had their place alongside computers back when Sting would show off his dot matrix printer and the Apple Lisa (or whatever) that he used to make music. But now, computers
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Reverend Billy As you walk around and see stores decorated for Christmas before Halloween, it’s hard not to think that consumerism has gone out of control in this country. Unlike other problems, there’s
Arts & Entertainment Francis Ford Coppola's <em>Tetro</em> Screenplay Swiped This is startling: Francis Ford Coppola has a Zoetrope Argentina office. What's more, the other night thieves came in and "tied up employees and took computers, cameras and other valuables" including his screenplay
SF News 'VideoGate' Officer Andrew Cohen Responds To Critics With A 'Call To Arms' SFist recieved two missives from Officer Andrew Cohen, who is best known for being the focal point of the so-called "VideoGate" scandal. As with his responses in our recent interview with him, we
Arts & Entertainment Media Critic Singles Out Chron For Most Likely To Go All-Electronic When we talked to Phil Bronstein, the publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle, a few weeks back, he told us that "the Chronicle will continue to be packed with talented journalists who will
Arts & Entertainment Party In The Junkyard, Dawg! New Jersey-based blogger "Serge the Concierge" has the goods on a pretty cool local party venue -- a junkyard! In line with fulfilling everyone's secret inner childhood fantasy to hang out with Fat
SF News Meet John Nelson Hey everyone, in the midst of all this Ruby Rippey-Tourk madness, guess who showed up for a photo session and interview with the Chron? That's right -- Peter Ragone's best friend and your
SF News Macworld SF 2007: Steve Jobs Is A Mother----ing <i>Gangsta</i>. Look, the long-desired iPhone. How does Steve Jobs choose to showcase the new phone's music technology? By playing The Beatles' "Lovely Rita, Meter Maid." That's so . Why? This staged moment is Steve's announcement/
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork Talks to Lisa Congdon, Organizer of the Kim Family Auction. San Francisco wasn't the only place moved by the Kim family tragedy. People around the world followed the tragic story with bated breath as the events unfolded. For most of us it's hard
misc San Jose to Clean Up Libraries Yep, San Jose wants their libraries to be Spank Free. Or at least by decree of San Jose's mayor-elect, Chuck Reed. Reed was shown a clip of the story KGO ran on all
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Matt Costa What’s the best show you’ve ever played and what made it great? My favorite my favorite was the first show I ever did which was at a party when I was
misc Win Passes To <i>Deathrace 2000</i> at Midnight Mass With Peaches Christ! And Wournov will be at The Bridge to recieve the love of all who attend this Saturday's midnight screening of the film. Will one of them be you? Maybe, so enter below for
SF News SFist is Talking Baseball: Day 3 SFist Chris: The National League West? Holy crap what a mess. There's only room for one Pacific Coast League fellas. Of course it isn't that bad, but the NL West is pretty bad.
SF News SFist Tech Labs: Cat Piss & The Man The story is from the Infinite Loop blog on Ars Technica, complete with dramatic clip art. The human rights violation in question concerns a Dutch MacBook Pro owner who'd posted a Flickr photoset
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Migraine Throbbing Pain Ars Technica is reporting on a new California bill that would ban the use of toxins in the production of cell phones and other electronic devices. If passed, they claim, the
SF News SFist Tech Labs: One Billion Bucks in Their Pocket The reason why we're passing it along? For one thing, they're offering a full 4-year scholarship to a "world-renowned music school" (of Apple's choosing) in the grand prize-winner's name, which is a nice
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
misc SFisting: Our Famous Local Sex Podcasters, For Reals While we loved the SF Bay Guardian's podcasting piece last year, we felt kinda like the Chron needed a pat on the head and a cookie when they ran yet another lame duck
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cafe Organica--Simplicity at its Finest, and More Proof that our readers don't steer us wrong. Last week, we posted our 'Fistie awards for best coffee/cafe in town. A few of the people leaving comments mentioned Cafe Organica at 562
SF News Is the IT Guy Stoned or Something? Berkeley may have a reputation for cannabis tolerance, but that hasn't penetrated to the city's public education establishment. A few days ago, Cal NORML received a call from a Berkeley High School student
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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gettin' Wild at The Civic Center, Trimethyldioxypurist-style Jury duty. Ack. While we won't get into the specifics behind our general reluctance in doing our civic duty, we were glad for the opportunity to revisit one of our favorite coffee joints
misc A Better Butter Battle After the jump: godliness, the gays, a moustache, and the triumphant return of the Internet.
SF News SFist at SXSW: Part Two -- Bloggie Nights For those of you who were wondering, yes, we are actually here for the panels. Kind of. We're also here to get drunk and make out. But only after discussing copyright reform, comment
Arts & Entertainment The Odd Couple Now you may be wondering why the Christian Coalition is taking such an interest in people downloading illegal Beck mash-ups or musical Buffy goodness, but the reason is fairly obvious in that one
