Arts & Entertainment Bitch Magazine's Arts & Crafts Benefit Auction If you, like us, want to support our local arts community but aren't really interested in buying one of those Hearts of SF -- we're here to help! If you, like us, want
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares Special: Hordes of Boards So do you think your a leader with good judgement? Do you have a lot of professional qualifications but feel that you could be using those skills for the betterment of humankind? Well
Arts & Entertainment Bob Wills Is Still the King "I just hope whoever put the halftime together, they're getting their resume ready. Hey, this is a hip-hop weekend. Y'all think this is a NASCAR race? This ain't no NASCAR race." Now, we
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Christopher Appelgren Although Christopher is way too diplomatic to play favorites with Lookout’s current roster of artists, he does have a few tips to local artists, as well as other ideas about what to
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Kevin Shelley -- Hacked! California politicians are in a state of shock after hearing the news that soon-to-be-former Sec. of State Kevin Shelley's Palm Pilot was stolen from his Glen Park home. "It's crazy! I'm getting emails
Arts & Entertainment Wanted: Skinny Hipsters. Heroin Habit Optional. So Dan Strachota, one of the music writers for the San Francisco Weekly, forwarded a note from Beau Bonneau casting to the SF Indie yahoo group mailing list. Looks like the Rent production
Arts & Entertainment More Paris Hilton Sidekick Fallout So we had to go put our tale of "San Francisco Secret Service" callback woe up on Scott Stereogum's post requesting stories of calling the numbers in Paris Hilton's hacked Sidekick. While there,
Arts & Entertainment Googler Dooced? So we're up late last night, checking Susan Mernit's blog to see if she had already posted on the dinner at Yahoo yesterday, when we catch her post from earlier in the afternoon.
Arts & Entertainment Has Ribity Gone Too Far? Art critic and photographer Claudine, who has been something of a modern-day Chalfant or Ahern by cataloging photos of graffitti pieces throughout the city, left a comment in our Get Ur Geek On:
Arts & Entertainment Because It's Everyone's Dream to Have a Convicted Felon For a Boss NBC announced Wednesday that Mark Burnett will produce a "The Apprentice" spin-off series that will feature Martha Stewart. Production is scheduled to begin in March, after her release from the big house, which
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Fontastic! No theme this week -- just a bunch of plays we thought that looked like they were worth checking out. But despite the lack of theme, the fact that there's a play featuring
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Luna Park Snark Gawker's all hot and bothered that Luna Park, the Valencia street eatery which expanded to hell-ay, is now making the move to the loisaida. That's right, it will soon join uber-good Katz's Delicatessen
SF News I'm Rubber, You're Glue... The event was created two years by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network and we're glad to see that the organization is taking time out of it's busy agenda to save children
SF News Chamois Whammy Seems San Francisco based Pottery Barn Kids is recalling "about 92,000 chamois blankets because the decorative stitching can come loose, posing a strangulation hazard to a young child." The high-markup quality polyester
Arts & Entertainment Bizarre Love Triangle SFist believes wholeheartedly in supporting the local arts, and when those local arts can also make us laugh (intentional or not), well so much the better. Which is why when we heard the
SF News Kos the New Armstrong Williams? Not at all. Armstrong Williams was paid through taxpayer dollars to sell the Administration's terrible No Child Left Behind Act, possibly infringing upon all sorts of anti-propaganda laws and definitely kicking the mangled
Arts & Entertainment Local Band to Tour Libya I mean, when we heard from our musician friends that there weren't enough rehearsal spaces and music venues in the San Francisco area, we had no idea it was this bad. The Heavenly
misc SFist Watches: As TV Looks Back In other news, this week TV offers up the inevitable "Year in Review" programming. Perhaps the best bet is VH-1's The Best Year Ever. If you're a fan of The Best Week Ever,
SF News SFist Cares ... About Islands (in the stream?) Yeah, that was cheesy, we're a little feverish here. Seacology works on projects around the world and in a unique way. They ask the local islanders to make a sacrifice on behalf of
SF News The Bell-Ringer Brouhaha of Ought-Four Could there be more to the story of Salvation Army's bell ringers being asked to leave the grounds of Target stores than what the Chronicle is reporting? Founded over 120 years ago in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Trimethyldioxypurist Holiday Survival Guide Steel Cage Match: Caffeine v. Tryptophan Turkey contains an amino acid called tryptophan, which makes you sleepy. Coffee (thanks to trimethyldioxypurin, natch) perks you up. So one should counter the other, right? Yeah,
SF News Interview: Mimi Zeiger But we digress. Mimi is the editor of a very cool zine about architecture. After stints on the East Coast and even (gasp of horror) LA she returned to the Bay area. As
Arts & Entertainment Bush Street Nervous Breakdown Who knew there was so much money in tribute bands? Local Mick Jagger impersonator Rudy Columbini (he does kind of look like Mick, doesn't he?) has announced that he hopes to buy out
