Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: '13 Assassins,' Humorist Roy Blount Jr., and Pecha Kucha FILM: The epic 13 Assassins takes place at the end of the samurai era in 1844, featuring thirteen swordsmen who are enlisted to assassinate a sadistic lord, who rapes and kills with impunity,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Countess Katya Cabaret, Bike From Work Party, and Good Magazine's Good Design SF Competition CABARET: It's opening night of The Countess Katya Smirnoff-Skyy's Katya Takes You Home, a comedic romp around the world with "San Francisco's favorite Russian countess opera diva turned Macy's cosmetic counter lady," who
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: Sister Spit co-founder Michelle Tea and lesbian author Ali Liebegott host the Sister Spit: The Next Generation, an all-gendered and trans-inclusive national tour, in other words "a vanload of multimedia, queer-centric brilliance"
SF News Park Life's Balloon Dog Bookends Selling Like Hot Cakes, Thanks To Jeff Koons It just doesn't get any better than this. Remember those balloon dog bookends at Park Life that threw artist Jeff Koons into such a PR tizzy last December? The $55 bookends, which had
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: SF Cinemateque celebrates both the late filmmaker Curtis Harrington and the late, great Dennis Hopper in Remembering Dennis Hopper, featuring Harrington's first feature film and Hopper's first leading role, Night Tide (1961)
misc Gap Returns to Squareness, Restores Original Logo Well that didn't take long. After last week's Internet backlash, San Francisco's favorite khaki maker* has reverted back to their classic logo. Gap president Marka Hansen apparently changed her mind about how "contemporary
SF News What Has Gap Fallen In To? by Andrew Dalton Local mega-brand Gap ditched their iconic logo, known for sufficiently capturing the brand's tasteful and unpretentious character, in favor of a slick new helvetica-laced number this week. Which brings them
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: In Yatterman, Takashii Miike "takes the audience for a wild ride of robotics and animation in an adolescent battle of good vs evil with some cheeky elements of young lust tossed in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Style: Trashy Pretty Thing Please welcome Chloé Harris, SFist's new Style Editor. Why Harris, you ask? Because she has an awesome wardrobe, isn't a slave to flats, and doesn't dress like a 25-year-old Missionite who looks like
Arts & Entertainment Behold This Year's Burning Man Ticket Designer: Arin Fishkin "Creating this ticket is more or less equivalent to printing money, since each one is valued over $200," notes San Francisco-based graphic designer Arin Fishkin, who created this year's Burning Man ticket. "Security
Arts & Entertainment Eye Candy at Gallery 16 For a slice of sophisticated, playful eye candy, head on over to Gallery 16 near South Park this month and check out a fantastic new show of artwork from Emigre, the independent type
misc Literary Map of San Francisco Jeff Hunt of Muni Diaries forwarded us this beautiful map adorned with literary quotes that have shaped our beloved San Francisco, which was created by Ian Huebert. We love the whimsical typography and
misc Introducing San Francisco Crimespotting Stamen Design, the folks behind Oakland Crimespotting, have just launched a companion site, San Francisco Crimespotting, which is a sleek, user-friendly interface that blows SFPD's clunky Crime Maps out of the water. Users
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: It's a double feature at the Castro with cult classic Repo Man, starring Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton, and Model Shop, about an American who receives a draft notice for the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight DANCE: Get a free beginner salsa lesson at Salsa in the Square, a salsa music and dance festival happening every third Wednesday through October. Immediately following the lesson, test your skill to the
misc New SIMs-like Autodesk Service Allows Users to Design Rooms in 3D San Rafael-based Autodesk released a new web service called Project Dragonfly that lets users build virtual rooms, fill them with virtual furniture and appliances, and ultimately view them in three dimensions. “We discovered
SF News Cesar Chavez Redesign Workshop Tonight Sir Allan Hough I has word that tonight is the night to voice your feelings on making Cesar Chavez Street not suck. And while we know many a Missionite is adverse to change,
SF News Old Navy Sued Over Pine Tree-Shaped Air Freshener Shirt Design The maker of those little tree-shaped air fresheners you find dangling from rear view mirrors have sued Gap Inc. over Old Navy's use of the iconic image in a t-shirt, emblazoned with the
misc Tiger Attack Update: No Slingshots? Oh my God, you guys, no way. Get this: the New York Post was wrong. What's next: Intelligent Design? Celebrity weddings? Our meth-induced epiphanies that the CIA, in cahoots with the Norteños, are
Arts & Entertainment Let Your Curiosity Shop If you haven't made it to the Curiosity Shoppe yet, what are you waiting for? It's one of our new favorite shops on Valencia Street. After having an e-commerce site for a year
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV At the beginning of the episode we were put through the always boring selection-of-the-models ritual. This could be a more entertaining aspect of the show if the models were given the chance to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews... She Wants Revenge Judging by the audiences' volatile reactions, She Wants Revenge did everything in their power to give the audience what they wanted: a spectacle (with some music). About half-way through their hour and a
SF News You're Out: Coast Guard Commander Replaced After screwing up mandated drug tests and failing to report the severity of the oil spill in a timely fashion, as of this morning Coast Guard Captain William Uberti is out. And an
Arts & Entertainment Three Questions for Willo, Designer Extraordinaire 1) Most of your work since we've known you has been Web and Graphic Design for corporations and small businesses, so what prompted the move over to the apparel, jewelry, etc? What's your
