Arts & Entertainment The Philistine Operates in the Park. --Friday was the Opera opening night at the opera house, and I was one of the penguins there, in that March of the Penguins. --I read in the paper there was a report
Arts & Entertainment Win Tickets to See AFI Did you know that the band AFI has its roots in Ukiah, California? They've come a long way in the last 15 years, winning a Video Music Award last week for Best Rock
SF News Day Around The Bay (Sunday Edition) --How come Gavin Newsom'll stop a ski jump for Laurie Beijen but they won't do anything about the Bay Bridge closure for the couple that's been planning their Treasure Island wedding for over
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes To The SF Underground Short Film Festival! Aw, yeah! Though the Midnight Mass film series has ended, Peaches Christ isn't done with us yet. This Saturday, she opens the doors of the Bridge Theatre for one last midnight extravaganza, The
Arts & Entertainment Current TV Contest If you're an aspiring filmmaker who has always dreamed of having your work judged by the likes of Melissa Etheridge, Edward Norton, and Margaret Cho, then have we got the contest for you.
SF News I Saw Chris Daly We love a good Chris Daly sighting story! A reader writes in to tell us that Chris Daly is at this very moment hanging out outside the 16th Street BART stop, collecting the
SF News Happy Anniversary, Laurie Beijen! If we ever host a World Series of San Francisco Pop Culture contest, we're totally asking the question "Who's Laurie Beijen?" Ms. Beijen is, of course, the well-connected bride who made Gavin Newsom
SF News What We Would Have Told You About Today ...had the server not been down. (Things look a little better now after hours, but expect further delays tomorrow). Update: Hey! Comments are back! Try 'em so we can see if they're still
Arts & Entertainment It Was A Dark And Stormy Night Yet another reason for Cody's to close -- writing like this! San Jose State University runs the Bulwer-Lytton Bad Fiction Writing contest -- and has announced this year's winner. Bulwer-Lytton is, of course,
SF News What Happened With That? We know you're totally dying to find out what happened with some of the stories we told you about from San Mateo County a week or so ago. Dying! Who won that habanero
Arts & Entertainment Reversal Of Fortune Ain't no better way to celebrate the Fourth of July than by watching the Coney Island Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Competition: our buddies at the mothership Gothamist even liveblogged the whole thing! (yes,
Arts & Entertainment Win a copy of <i>Instant Love</i>! She's reading tonight at Book Shop West Portal (80 West Portal, sorry, no links to this new shop yet) at 7 p.m., and at 7 tomorrow night at Copperfield's Books (138 N.
Arts & Entertainment Win a Copy of Victor Navasky's <i>A Matter of Opinion</i>! Times have changed -- now, we're far more likely to try to pass off the thoughts of Lisa Schwarzbaum as our own, but that doesn't mean our fondness for Navasky has decreased even
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Enough For Ya? What is it with geeks and spicy food? RSA, the computer security company, and Electronic Arts are engaged in a friendly eat-off competition at the Prince of Wales pub in San Mateo to
Arts & Entertainment Free We Are Scientists! You might already know that their debut album, With Love & Squalor, will drive you to do strange, angular dances to the stop-start rhythms, alarm clock guitars and addictive melodies. The 'Scientists may
SF News Your Commute: Steal That Car! Let the ambulance-chasing jokes begin! A Stanford law student has pled no contest to charges that she stole an ambulance and drunk-drove it around town last October. Julia Powell, through her lawyer, claims
SF News Election Scandal Threatens To Undermine World's Ugliest Dog Contest Apparently, someone hacked into the fair's site and erased over 70,000 votes. To rectify this damage, the voting will begin again on May 22, with greater security in place. Of course, this
misc Win Passes To <i>Punk Like Me</i>! Given that Rita spends most of her time in a man hating lesbian funk due to her angry infatuation with our mayor, the fact that this movie could get her to crack a
SF News Fun Pictures Of Gavin What do we at the 'Fist do on slow news days? That's right, run fun pictures of Gavin Newsom! These are the pictures we didn't think were quite good enough for a caption
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: The Air Guitar Championship Last Thursday night we went to go check out the San Francisco Regional of the U.S. Air Guitar Championship. And it was awesome. The competition worked like this-- the first round consisted
Arts & Entertainment Maverick's Hits the Big Time We realize that those of you with Tivo don't have to trouble yourselves with the minutiae of daily television programming, but for you old schoolers with the VCRs and you hard-liners who only
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: SFist Has You Covered In addition to our coverage, we'll be giving away tickets to DocFest screenings, of course. So come back to SFist early and often for all sorts of DocFesty goodness. In fact, let's kick
SF News Bay Area Representatives Representin' In the first round, Pelosi is up against a tough challenger, #1 seeded Cynthia McKinney. McKinney is the Tupac quoting, police beating congresswoman from Georgia who is, for all intents and purposes, bat
Arts & Entertainment There He Is, Mr. Hyphen Magazine We are totally fascinated by the phenomenon of the Asian-American fashion show. In college, the various Asian-American student groups would always throw some kind of runway-themed benefit, featuring the clothing of Armani Exchange,
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes To <i>Art School Confidential</i>! That's right: SFist MiHi, denied entrance to ! Given that we always want what we can't get, that makes this movie hott hott hott in our eyes. Enrage MiHi and enter below to win
