Arts & Entertainment The Blah Adventures of the Superfisters is a collection of three stories, told simultaneously and finishing with an unexpected cross-pollination: one is a cute retelling of Journey to the East (with some slightly distracting Christian imagery sprinkled in), another
SF News The SFist NFL Preview: We Break the Season Down a Day Late And a Dollar Short There's usually two ways we go about doing this. One of them is to compare something in sports to something in pop culture. Like "What Member of the 2006 Yankees is Like a
Arts & Entertainment The Elusive Adventures of the SuperFisters Waiters: is there any greater enigma in life? What mysterious beings they are, with their neck ties and platters and ability to pronounce the names of foreign foods. Never before has the public
SF News World Peace, One Stomach At A Time Destination Dinners officially opened for business just about a month ago. Lisa runs it from her home. She's a big thinker with ambitious goals that go beyond the scope of typical business objectives
Arts & Entertainment Ten Years To Bitch (Extra Bonus: All Female Zeppelin Band!) Happy 10th birthday, Bitch Magazine! Back in 1996, local writers Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler kicked up a furor with their provocatively-named zine about feminism and pop culture -- and ten years later,
Arts & Entertainment Cheech Marin Conjures Up ‘Chicano Visions’ at the De Young We have to admit, there’s been a lot of hype about his show and we were worried it might fall short of our expectations, but oh, were we wrong. The show is
SF News Man Dies At Marathon Apparently it's not totally uncommon for racers to die in marathons -- two men died during the LA Marathon in March, and in 2003, a 28-year-old died of dehydration during Bay to Breakers.
Arts & Entertainment Kathy Griffin: Dishing and Swishing Last Friday night, Kathy Griffin, star of the Bravo reality show "My Life on the D-List" and heir apparent to the Sandra Bernhard/Joan Rivers style of snark and dish comedy -- without
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
Arts & Entertainment Whoa, man! Cosmic Wonder Opens at YBCA It’s obvious there has been a sudden resurgence of psychedelic art making its way through the contemporary art scene. On our last trip to Chelsea in New York, we certainly saw our
SF News Do You Have Prince Albert In A Can? Har har! We were going to post about this yesterday too, but forgot until today. Some wag managed to do an entire interview with KTVU Tuesday night about that fire near the Altamont
SF News Thou Dost Protest Too Much The bill actually came up for a vote but Sandoval pushed it aside to a committee, claming that he can't really support the bill because even he's having trouble speaking English, Shakespeare style.
SF News Ole! Ole! Ole! Ole! Ole! Ole! The final this year should be a real humdinger of a game as it involves not only two storied teams who have played some great and stirring soccer, but because it features two
Arts & Entertainment See Jon Blog As we mentioned earlier, our own SFist Jon is spending the day at our favorite sports blog, Deadspin, liveblogging this afternoon's Austria vs Croatia game. Join him as he recounts the game in
SF News The Vista from the Valley on Microsoft Of course Microsoft is not an empire that will fall quickly. We doubt Ray Ozzie will pull a Nero and set the Redmond campus alight or feed open-source advocates to lions (that's Steve
SF News Aidin Vaziri Over The Balcony! We've always wanted to be mischaracterized in a bullying fashion by the Chron's Pink Pages writer Aidin Vaziri! So Vaziri, on the SFGate's Culture Blog, pokes some gentle fun at us for posting
Arts & Entertainment MATCHA! The first MATCHA event runs from 6-9 Thursday night, and features electronic artist collective Dhamaal. Admission is free with Museum admission, which is $5 after 5 p.m. See their site for upcoming
SF News SFist Tech Labs: Hot Aluminum Roof It also reminded us how Apple is the quintessential San Francisco company. The products are expensive. They're not quite as fast as the others, but make up for it with style. There's constant
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Last week's winner, the East Bay Express: Vote for SFist in the EBX Readers' Poll! We love the chicken holding a sword with its foot in this week's Dream Comic. A company that
Arts & Entertainment Are We Too Old To Be Part Of The Digital Generation? Find Out Tomorrow Night. A panel including New Jewish Filmmaking Project's Sam Ball and Klaira Markenzon, Youth Sounds' Erica Eng, and TILT's Tina Bartolome (TILT) will discuss how "media, culture, and education influence the way youth tell
Arts & Entertainment The Chron In the Blogosphere Anyways, first they started off by letting some of their hipper writers-- Peter Hartlaub, Mark Moford, and Aidan Vaziri (for the record, we're pro-Vaziri)-- let loose on the Culture Blog. That was
Arts & Entertainment The Small Stake's Jason Munn We first consciously notice Jason Munn in last month’s ReadyMade Magazine where he was featured for the screen printed posters he makes for performances of touring bands at local venues. Then we
Arts & Entertainment Chappelle Sightings Continue I just heard from a bunch of my co-workers that they saw Dave at the Sportsclub/LA gym last night around 5:00. He wasn't really working out, just kind of checking out
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Something for Everyone, Again at Berkeley Repertory Theatre Who said interactive theater is uncool? One of the coolest things about Culture Clash's production of Zorro in Hell is that you can download your very own Zorro mask
