misc Week Around the -Ists SFist witnessed a new apartment building tszuj the skyline with spectacular, gaudy turquoise aplomb, the (informal) renaming of the Mission/SOMA neighborhood border, the return of the Maltese Falcon, the Mayor Gavin Newsom
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Comedy, Darling: Sleepover!: Mary Van Note hosts a new monthly underground talk and comedy show, where the stand-up is done in pajamas. Cute! Breaking the hymen of this monthly party is gangbang
Arts & Entertainment Remember: Tonight Is Guy Fawkes Night In SF Wait, remember ? Well, Guy Fawkes and his part in an attempt to blow up England’s Parliament in 1605. Why? Because Guy was an English Catholic and he wanted to ‘splode the Protestant
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Carmen Jones: Based off of Georges Bizet's famous French opera Carmen, the adaptation was made into a successful Broadway musical, and then a '50s film staring Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, and Pearl
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Ross Mirkarimi, sole supe against Clear Channel. [SFBG] -- Out-of-town drug dealers bring their goofballs and china white to SF. [Examiner] -- Stupid TV can't ever get us right, or so says
Arts & Entertainment Tonight: Sex & Song (& Talk) "A must for music lovers, musical comedy lovers, and in fact lovers of any sort," claims the Center for Sex & Culture about tonight's "Sex & Song". And, really, don't they deserve your
Arts & Entertainment Aliza Cohen's <em>Bundles & Passages</em> After living in Shanghai for several years, 27-year-old Bay Area artist Aliza Cohen returns home to boast her new series, Bundles & Passages, featuring work that reflects her feelings of time-honored culture shock
Arts & Entertainment SFistPhoto: Ad Hoc Golden Gate Park Hookah Lounge Now you're up to speed. Try it yourself, if you want.
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Last week's winner, the Bay Guardian. Tim Redmond says the Navy is the gayest armed services branch. Well, sure. Cars are worse than homeless people, says a letter writer. Halloween will suuuuuck. A
Arts & Entertainment And You Thought the Shooting Was Bad Apparently you can't have a port-o-let unless the street's officially closed, and the DPW wasn't willing to recognize that anything remarkable could happen in the Castro on Halloween. The citizens will be appealing
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews András Schiff Someone told us a story of a famous pianist who believed in bringing culture to the people, and went to a factory in Italy to give a lecture in front of a piano.
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Some very sad news: former SFist editor, writer, and gem of an all-around guy, Jeremy Nisen, switched addresses for now. Aw. But never fear, you can still catch his brilliance over at
misc Actually, Mrs. Robinson Was a Lonely, Cheating Slut Wikipedia goes further to say that the grandma group "celebrates [Mrs. Robinson's] character as a symbol of female independence and empowerment for a new generation of married women." Why,because it's fine to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Mail: Stop Using "the" Before Freeway Number I have been enjoying SFist. Thanks for the neat articles, links, etc. As a native San Franciscan, one of the things that I would like you to please consider is how the writers
Arts & Entertainment It's Hard not to be Well-Dressed When Surrounded by Men in Leatherpig Outfits We were alerted to an alternative-alternative picnic happening at the Folsom Street Fair via the Finch Mob, a terrifying local gang of drug addicts. Apparently some folks are going to dress up , and
misc We Read The Weeklies Last week's winner, the San Jose Metro. Alas! They haven't updated their site for this week yet, and we didn't manage to snag a hard copy of the paper, so they'll have to
SF News Day Around The Bay > -- Today's tale about Richmond's campers for peace. [Oakland Tribune] -- Ahmad Rahimi, a 16-year-old Hayward teen, killed by an Amtrak train. [Chron] -- Same-sex marriage stuff. [Examiner] -- Harvey Milk Club
misc Miller Brewing Company Pulls Out Closeted homosexual Journalist Randy Hall of Cybercast News Service got his feathers all ruffled over this not-so-clever Folsom Street Fair (which he describes as a "multi-city block party for homosexuals") ad, which tamely
Arts & Entertainment Is San Francisco Really "Cougar Country"? These days, its primary meaning has shifted - it appears that more often people use the term to refer to an age disparity in dating. Where do cougars hang out in S.F.
Arts & Entertainment Just As You Expected...Pelli Clarke Pelli Wins It Yay! Or boo! Depending on how you feel -- though we personally like it, may it get bigger by the day -- Pelli-Hines' creation will be your new Transbay Terminal. But you already
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up, the Bay Guardian: You know we love Tim Redmond, but we had kind of a hard time following his non-market-based argument about the SF housing market. Can't we get the Freakonomics
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Bans Rich, Smooth, Satisfying Smoking In Public Spaces Today, the Oakland City Council voted to ban smoking in "ATM lines, parks and other public places," which is smurfy, health-conscious, makes the bitch behind you at the ATM line stops her self-righteous
SF News Day Around The Bay -- RIP: Chronicle cartoonist Phil Frank dies. [Chron] -- Busted water pipe downtown = Bay Bridge entrance difficulties. [ABC 7] -- What a good idea! MUNI cop ride-alongs. (Oh, you know you also love
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up, a completely not soaked with alcohol East Bay Express: Hey, we just picked our issue up with the classifieds side up and you can go to LA on a Price Is
Arts & Entertainment Behold: Life-Size Mouse Trap Remember this game? Well, we don't remember the game's competitive aspects -- does anyone? -- but we remember setting up its trap over and over and over until it finally broke. And over
