Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight What happens when nearly 30 local artists create works of art made entirely from reclaimed and recycled materials? Head over tonight (or sometime this month) to find out at the Market Street Gallery
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV Tonight First off, if you haven't read The Road by Cormac McCarthy yet, drop everything and do it. It's a fast read. It's also one of the most amazing books we've ever encountered--don't let
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine: Don Giovanni Was it, as this Berkely Daily Planet op-ed conjectured, due to the new media suite, which will record every performance on high definition from this Don Giovanni on and thus will put some
SF News Political Junkie: Any Questions? That's right: if Mohammed won't come to the mountain, the mountain will come to Mohammad -- Supervisor Chris Daly's gone and started the process of putting a new proposition on the ballot for
Arts & Entertainment SFist Encore: <i>The Prodigy</i> Almost two years ago, an action movie fan who at that point went by the moniker "SFist Eve" gave a rave review to a little indie-noir film called The Prodigy and subsequently managed
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City The Mission Creek Music Festival is still going strong and shows continue through Sunday. Although MCMF's press folks hadn't ever heard of SFist ("Is this a radio station? We're only giving tickets to
SF News Day Around The Bay --It's San Francisco Cocktail Week! Drink specials galore. --One of the Google founders got married. In a swimsuit. At David Copperfield's house. --In other Google news, you may have noticed they've redesigned the
misc SFist Contest: David Gordon's Pick Up Performance- Dancing Henry Five Anyways, enter away if you want to go-- we'll announce winners on Thursday. Good luck!
Arts & Entertainment Miniview: David Best So, witty and erudite readers, this one is up to you. We’re pretty sure that you could win commenter of the week by interpreting the cryptic responses below. What is Best not
Arts & Entertainment 'Wait. I've Got It. <i>This</i> Time The Lawyer's A Prophet!' There was that one a few years ago by David Kelly with the three nice looking young ladies, "Girls Club." Lasted for very few episodes in 2002. Well, there's a new pilot that
SF News Testimony In Gonzales Case Says Maybe San Francisco AG Deserved It? You've undoubted heard by now of the controversy where AG AG (That's Attorney General Alberto Gonzales) fired a bunch of people for apparently less than above-board reasons. Well, maybe he had a good
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <em>The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music</em> We're not unique in becoming slightly obsessed with The Anthology, and this film, which combines talking head interviews with live performances from a series of tribute concerts, is proof of that. And yet,
Arts & Entertainment David and Edie Ichioka, Makers of <em>Murch</em> What was the most surprising thing to you about Walter Murch Walter is a true renaissance man. His areas of expertise are varied and surprising. Not only is he an Oscar winning editor
SF News The "No Duh" Story of the Day The study looked into the idea of creating bus only lines, either the center lane or outside lanes. One scenario envisioned would consist of two lanes towards the center with an island dividing
SF News David Halberstam Killed in Car Crash Halberstam gained fame for his coverage of the Vietnam War, especially the book "The Best and the Brightest", a book that echoes so many things about today that it's scary. In later years,
SF News The Cry of the Fishmonger Playoff Fashion Tip: Never Mix Teal and Mustard The Predators had a quietly outstanding season this year, going 51-23-8 for 108 points, despite playing to sparse crowds at home, and wearing Grey Poupon-colored uniforms. Their trade-deadline deal for Peter Forsberg added
SF News Now the Entire State Hates Our Freedom Laugh now, but when we hand over the state to Osama, we'll see how things go. Just envision Disneyland turning into Talibanland and having Space Mountain become Jihad Mountain where animotronic Mullah's throw
SF News Instant Recall (District 1 Edition) The recall campaign, which is spearheaded in part by one of the six candidates who ran against McGoldrick for the Board of Supes seat and lost (David Heller), is focusing primarily on McGoldrick's
Arts & Entertainment It's Rabbit Season Inspired by Santarchy and Bad Santa, a bunch of people have started up their very-own Easter themed bar crawl, the Bad Bunny Bar Crawl. For those of you who missed it (including ourselves
Arts & Entertainment SFIAFF: <em>Air Guitar Nation</em> Long-time readers of SFist will know that we love (love!) all things Air Guitar, both for its obvious silliness and its devotion to the rawk. So when we heard that Air Guitar Nation
Arts & Entertainment We Love The Pretty Maps The map to your right (from this analysis) is the percentage of people ranking more than one choice in the supervisorial races in November -- but we just think it's awfully pretty. We
Arts & Entertainment Phil Ting kicks off the S.F. Solar Task Force Standing atop the Moscone Center this afternoon, S.F. Assessor-Recorder Phil Ting announced the creation of the San Francisco Solar Task Force. It plans to issue a set of recommendations to assist San
Arts & Entertainment Cycling: Papa! Papa! The Italians, They are Coming! That's right Cutters, the Italians are coming, along with the French, the Spaniards, the Americans, the Germans, the Dutch-- yeah, even the Dutch. They're all going to be in the City this weekend
Arts & Entertainment History, Oh Damaged History: IndieFest '07 Showcases Films Inspired by the "Greats" Bookending 07’s SF IndieFest are two great pix promptly bound for distribution IndieFest’s opening night feature is David Lynch’s first self-distributed film: Inland Empire. A ghostly tale dealing with the
misc SFist Ticket Giveaway: Closing Night of SF Sketchfest The performers will be the Kids In the Hall's Bruce McCulloch and will feature both music and comedy. Also performing will be Craig Northey, Hard 'n Phirm, and Dragon Boy Suede. Yes, that'll
