Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews Upright Citizens Brigade: A.S.S.S.S.C.A.T. at SF Sketchfest The show was frickin' great. The cast was on, barely breaking a sweat throughout their performance, and almost completely in-synch with each other. Every bit that they did was brought to an almost
SF News Root, Root, Root for the Seattle Team The resolution was kind of a half-joking (although one never knows in this city) attempt to help out sports bars which apparently have been hurting this year due to a lack of good
misc SFist Holiday Gift Guide: Lotta Jansdotter If you're like us, you're doing a lot of your holiday shopping today and tomorrow. God! Why do we do this to ourselves? We're freakin' hungover from too much "holiday cheer", and with
Arts & Entertainment From Wessels to Wodka The decommissioned Alameda Naval Air Station isn't just where the nuclear wessels used to be kept -- it's now home to plenty of businesses who are taking advantage of all the space the
misc The 'Fisties: Freaky Geekery 5th Place — Neogentronyx: As first reported by CNet, Carlos Owens is an Anchorage steelworker who moonlights as a designer of larger-than-life robots, known as Mech (or Gundam Mecha, if you're an otaku like
SF News The Perils of Pelosi So we have a political party, the Dems, in a Catch-22: don't propose anything and get criticized for not having a plan only to then come up with a plan and get criticized
SF News SF Murder Rate 2005 Well, the 2005 body count in SF is now up to 92, after a man was found strangled to death in a SoMA hotel, making this the worst year in SF for murders
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Would You Like Some Cicciolina With That Wine? An advance edition due to the upcoming holiday. Happy Thanksgiving to you all! We cannot find a link to it, so take it with a grain of salt, but we read recently that,
Arts & Entertainment The Daily Show: Not So Much With The Daly Well, it's come to this. Remember the brouhaha over docking the USS Iowa at Fisherman's Wharf? It was DiFi's idea to send $3 million worth of pork our way. Nevermind pacifist sentiment, the
SF News Something's Fishy So, yesterday the a Board of Supervisors committee approved a proposed ordinance Monday that would require seafood restaurants to post English, Spanish, and Chinese signs warning of the dangers of mercury contaminated fish.
SF News Supervisor Shouting (Not Daly) We suppose the subject matter trumps the supervisor, as even a Daly-free meeting about condo conversions descended into shouting and gavel-pounding yesterday. Supervisor Bevan Dufty (pictured at right) had proposed that we give
SF News Political Junkie: The Daily Daly Show This is going to be a great day. First Tom DeLay gets indicted, and now this! The Examiner reports that Tom Ammiano and Chris Daly !!!!! OMG! OMFG!!! OMFG!! You know in those segments
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Ian Lendler Today's victim of the SFist interview has only been in our fair city for a couple of weeks, but that doesn'r mean we're going to take it easy on him! His new book,
misc SFist Rants: Burning Man Look, we have nothing against the idea of Burning Man. We like the idea of going to some desolate place, getting all decked out in costume, and partying. We've done our fair share
SF News The Crab Revolution Will be Televised But that's not the juicy bit of the story, oh no. Turns out, Fox Sports Bay Area wanted to cover the protest before the game but were told not to by Giants officials.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Hangs out In Clarion Alley On our way to work a few weeks ago, we noticed a group of punk kids painting in the alleyway around the corner from Community Thrift on Valencia Street. They were painting bunnies
SF News Free Crazy Crab! We would give your weekly Giants report, but we've noticed that ever since we've flailingly tried to replace the Essefficist in doing this, the Giants have been doing nothing but suck the big
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: Peaches Christ at the Castro and her Tran-ilogy of Terror The exact content of the films isn't really crucial; there's a lot of makeup, and trashy jokes, and screaming and drinking and running around and falling down and a particularly gory scene involving
SF News Frameline 29: <i>Crustaces et Coquillages</i> Okay, okay, the 'English' title (and the one on the program) is , but this is the first time we can remember that a distributor actually chose an alternate title in the same language
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rise To Vote, Sir (With Your Trimethyldioxypurist) Palindromes are fun. From small ones ("Anna") to big ones ("a man, a plan, a canal -- Panama"), something that runs the same from front to back can provide minutes of sheer entertainment.
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: SFist Unscripted (the Drinking Game) Those of you who read SFist Watches have probably deduced that your Junkie's TV viewing habits consist solely of KRON 4 News at 11 and Animal Cops SF. (It's not true -- sometimes
Arts & Entertainment (Yet) Another Hole in the Head: Sunday We can't even begin to tell you how tired we are, but it's a great tired, like we're running a marathon, if they had marathons where you're sitting down watching blood go everywhere
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Another Fine Trimethyldioxypuri...Oh, Never Mind. So, yeah, we flaked last week. Holiday weekends are always a good excuse, right? We've always been of the opinion that people who do an excess of reviews (movie critics, people employed as
SF News Shilling Schwarzenegger The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights slammed the ads and has asked Arnold to return the money he received from the advertisers. You can also bet dollars to doughnuts, whatever that means,
Arts & Entertainment Impact Briefs 7: The How-To Show Last weekend, we hit the East Bay to witness SFist Cheshire's on-stage debut in Impact Theater's . There we sat in the basement of La Val's Subterranean (1834 Euclid in Berkeley) drinking our beer
