SF News I Want My GOTV Those of you who look down when you walk may have seen the sidewalk graffiti for www.indyvoter.org. Indyvoter.org is encouraging younger people who previously haven't voted to actually get to
Arts & Entertainment Putomayo, Eat Your Heart Out For those of you who like your ethnomusicology less with the pan flutes and more with the non-Western modalities, the San Francisco World Music Festival is presenting a number of innovative programs for
Arts & Entertainment Sing Like an Egyptian So what are you doing this weekend? SFist is going to catch the Oakland Opera's performance of "Akhnaten" with The Standing Room. Philip Glass writes the minimalist music that drove you crazy in
Arts & Entertainment Dancehall Dustup Reggae in the Park! A fun event sponsored by Global Exchange, where college kids can wear multicolored hats, bob their heads arrhythmically to the beat, and support their favorite anti-gay artists! Well, maybe
Arts & Entertainment Academy Fight Song The Star-Spangled Banner was written by Francis Scott Key during the War of 1812 on the back of an envelope as he saw with pride that the American flag still flew over Baltimore's
Arts & Entertainment Ha Ha Giggle Giggle! SFist is always looking for an excuse to laugh. This being so, we wonder why we don't go to comedy clubs very much! Well, Sarah Silverman is the perfect reason to stop by
misc Housing Bubbles Is it just us, or is it just sort of hilarious that a two-bed one-bath condo on 18th Street is being offered at $737,000 and a single-family house in Pacific Heights is
Arts & Entertainment The Circus Comes to Town Well, it's that time again: The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the self-proclaimed Greatest Show on EarthTM, is coming to the Cow Palace tomorrow and staying until next Monday. Then it's
Arts & Entertainment You're Hired, San Francisco! Boo yeah! San Francisco's repping large on this season's Apprentice -- with not one, not two, but three 415 area contestants vying for the affection of Donald Trump. So John is a 2003
SF News Oh My iPod "Well, HP wants a digital music player as part of their new line of media products for the home user." "Hmm. Over at Apple, we want to distribute our products to people who
Arts & Entertainment Let's Go Out To The Lobby! SFist is worried that our a faithful readers will begin to think of us as the cinephile equivalent of a rice queen, but we promise we don't discriminate. It just seems like every
Arts & Entertainment Attack of the Flying Tomatoes The city of Bunol, Spain hosted its annual Tomatina festival on Wednesday. 20,000 drunken participants wore goggles {insert beer goggle joke here} in preparation for the onslaught of 130 flying tons of
Arts & Entertainment Welcome to the Family As a short note, we wanted to welcome our new friends DCist to the Gothamist family. SFist has a bunch of talented friends from art school who graduated from Duke Ellington School for
Arts & Entertainment Move Over Halle Berry Just when SFist thinks they have seen it all, something else crazier shows up. Keeping with our recent cat theme, "Cat Man" is a man who actually believes his ancestors are cats; he
Arts & Entertainment Sit Back and Relax, Enjoy The show So, you're saying that you want to see a movie in San Francisco this weekend, but you don't feel like braving the faux-Vegas splendor of The Metreon or the many many escalators of
SF News Oye, Futbol! Things aren't looking good for professional sports in San Jose. It seems that because of dismal attendance and the lack of a new stadium, the Anschutz Group is looking to sell the San
Arts & Entertainment Rental Coup One of the many great things about living in the Bay Area is the number of great places from which to rent movies. While folks in the fly-over are stuck with Hollywood, Blockbuster,
Arts & Entertainment There is Only One Thing That Can Kill The Movies, And That is Education This is the part of SFist where we talk about movies that are opening this weekend, but we're just so thrilled we can barely type since this weekend sees the opening of Alien
Arts & Entertainment 22 Fillmore SFist has fond memories of waking up early on Saturdays to eat oversugared cereals and watch cartoons. SFist also deeply enjoys watching vaguely formulaic cop shows. With these two criteria in mind, plus
Arts & Entertainment I believe I can Fly Ever since SFist started bartending school, we have looked at bartenders a bit differently. We have always respected service professions after having worked plenty of them in the past. However, since we have
Arts & Entertainment There Are no (Film) Fans in Hell SFist has already made it clear that we are down with the 4 Star. And that's why we're so psyched that tonight marks the opening night of the 8th Annual Asian Film Festival,
Arts & Entertainment Too Cool for School Man, the entire Bay Area publishing community seems to be jumping on the DJ instruction phenomenon. First it was the East Bay Express with their "School of Scratch" feature. The next day the
misc The Sweet Science Andre Ward, born and raised in Oakland, is currently in Athens, Greece getting ready to take on the world in the boxing ring. America's best shot for gold as a pugilist, he is
Arts & Entertainment Kind Hearts and... At the risk of sounding like a total freak, SFist admits that we'll see all sorts of crap if it's playing at the lovely Coronet theater. Like so many other theaters in the
Arts & Entertainment TiVo-Lution Three thumbs up! Alviso based TiVo has gotten approval to allow subscribers to email recorded shows. Various entities in the television industry objected, as usual - you know, blah blah blah, proprietary rights,
