misc SFist Holiday Gift Guide: Jewish Fashion Conspiracy We've already stated our fondness for the Chanukah Bush thong, and are seriously considering a Happy Madonnakah t for some of our requisite holiday self-gifting. But our current must-have is the rhinestone-studded Gelt
SF News Finally! We've been looking forward to the opening of a Bay Area H&M like it's the damn Rapture or something, especially since it seems like they're everywhere else in the country already.
SF News The Golden State Warriors: More Groucho than Karl On a special promotional page of the Warriors' official website, Bay Area students ages 7 to 12 are encouraged to "write a 300-word essay to Baron's grandmother telling her about the most influential
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About These Events For those of you in the east bay: "Beyond Borders: A Benefit for the Victims & Survivors of the South Asian Earthquake". Local performers will be taking the stage Berkeley's Wheeler Auditorium starting
Arts & Entertainment CineKink: <i>S/M at the Movies</i> and <i>The Best of CineKink</i> The crowd at was about 90% men, and of them, well more than half were in leather. Presenter Thor Stockman, himself a practicing sadist, described how Hollywood's attitude towards perverts has always been
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Movies This Weekend, Sexxxy Film Festival Edition There are a lot of film festivals underway this weekend -- and we're going to most of them! So, stay tuned all next week for SFist reports from the trenches, but that doesn't
Arts & Entertainment Shameless Yvesdropping Send submissions to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. Woman #1: Those are cute. Where did you get them? Frugal Woman: Payless. Woman #2: No kidding... [Several minutes later, approached
Arts & Entertainment Go Nuts This Weekend Have we ever mentioned how much we love the Primitive Screwheads? Our infatuation began when we attended their final performance of , and we've been slavering to see what they'd do next. They'd mentioned
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Fashion Week: Friday Night Being a blogger by day and fashion correspondent by night is freakin' tiring. While we didn’t make it out to the Palace of Fine Arts Thursday night, we were back and ready
Arts & Entertainment SF Fashion Week Boutique As we sat secretly praying that we hadn't made a grave mistake, Kimberly gently talked us through her process which began with powdering our skin before applying wax. The wax removal felt like
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Fashion Week: SFist Has You Covered All day long, our colleagues at our day job have been asking why we look so nice today. Ignoring what this implies about our usual appearance, and marvelling at what a difference a
SF News Always a Few Years Behind You know how all those 'hott trends' seem to start in New York, and float out here fanned by the butterfly wings of fashion and lifestyle magazines? Well, this summer, the 'buzz' isn't
Arts & Entertainment Stuff To Do If You're Bored: Fashion Edition We'll admit it, we love "the Cut". Every time Tommy Hilfiger banishes another contestant by sniping "You're out of style", we hope and pray that the banishee will reply "and you're not?" Until
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: Esthero Esthero hit the stage with a fantastic, albeit gigantic, backing band (horn section, drums, guitar, percussion, keyboards, two backup singers and a flute player). She was decked out in a black bustier, black
Arts & Entertainment SFist Infiltrates the Flaunt! Fashion Show Last week's Flaunt! fashion show, presented by f.r.e.s.h. (Fund-Raising Events to Spread Hope) had a lot going for it. First, it's for a great cause: all proceeds went to
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria Gays don't always have the best grasp on their activist history (which may be why they think that picketing a lame bar is the best use of their resources), but you couldn't ask
Arts & Entertainment Stand Up Guys Okay, we see why Gothamist loves Todd Barry. But local boys Ryan Stout and Jim Short made good last night, too. If you haven't been to the Purple Onion yet, it really is
Arts & Entertainment SFist Paints The City Black and White The atmosphere was festive even as we rode the N towards downtown, the usual Saturday MUNI crowd of metal-lyric quoting beach residents and squirmy tweens replaced by Dom-toting fashion plates. The balmy weather
Arts & Entertainment SFist Rants: Body Dysmorphia and Goofy-Looking Genitals And that's why it is so completely aggravating to take a trip to the northern bulge of Baker Beach -- you know, the part with the naked people -- even though, on this
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Alice Wu If the interview below isn't enough of Alice, make sure to check out her movie, Saving Face which you can check out beginning June 3rd at your favorite Landmark Theater. Heck, SFist liked
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Shake your Dufty Well, we still don't know what he's listening to on his portable music player, but ouuu-ouuu-ouuu-OUUUUUUUU!! Supervisor Bevan Dufty's modeling in his skivvies for the AIDS Legal Referral Panel! The ALRP's holding its
Arts & Entertainment No Suit For You We have no idea if Mike Nolan will be a good coach or even if he can win with the 49ers, but he's already gotten on SFist's good side. Last week he petitioned
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Sarah Lefton What’s in a name? Depends on the name. As far as names go, the Jewish Fashion Conspiracy says a lot about the proprietor’s sense of humor. So does the company motto:
Arts & Entertainment SFist Rants: We Are Beautiful, No Matter What You Say SFist has lived in San Francisco for a long time and has been to our fair share of parties. We've been to hoity toity parties, arty parties, everyone tripping their balls off parties,
SF News A's Brand Baseball: Do We Hear Three in a Row? Here at SFist, we think a win is a win is a win and we’ll take those two. We’ll also take it if the Seattle Mariners, in town for three games