Arts & Entertainment Tippi Hedren, <i>Birds</i>-Free at the SF Zoo Drew Altizer does it again! Here's his pictures from Friday's annual SF zoo fundraiser, ZooFest, featuring special guest Tippi Hedren, star of Hitchcock's and mother to Melanie Griffith. Also, some pictures of Chris
Arts & Entertainment APE Escape 2007 Part 3: The Storytellers--Traditional, With A Twist The last of our slightly less-than-timely coverage of the Alternative Press Expo, which took place last weekend, focuses on folks telling their sequential art stories in a longer form. Ted Naifeh, a Western
Arts & Entertainment APE Escape 2007 Part 2: Cute, Cool, And Arty Hey, Folks, welcome to part two of our APE coverage. The Alternative Press Expo was this past weekend, and there was so much fun stuff we had to break our coverage into several
SF News Wanna Edit SFist? So hey, we've got some sad news. SFist is sorry to report that our beloved sports guru and fun-loving grammar anarchist Jon Shurkin is stepping down as editor. We're going to miss him
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Kevin Robinson Photo by Joey Bellville Best Show ever and what made it great? The last one we played - because it WAS great. Every show trumps the one before it. Best venue? Tie between
Arts & Entertainment 4FQT: The Retouched Pictures! Thanks for everyone's help in the 4FQT comments on fixing the light levels on our pictures from Gavin's 4th Fake Question Time townhall meeting! As readers suggested, we downloaded the Gimp (we're too
Arts & Entertainment Muscle Cars Will Rule The Skies: Larry Young Talks AiT/PlanetLar's High-Octane Comics The Alternative Press Expo is this Saturday and Sunday, and hot damn we're psyched. We've covered it the past two years for SFist; this time, we want to spread the luurve ahead of
SF News "Ask a Muni Driver" Bids You a Farwell If anything, we hoped to show that not every Muni driver is bad and that they're well aware of the problems with our transit system. There are bad drivers out there, but there
SF News Oh The Drama Of It All The Sunday Styles section of the Chronicle does it again! Not content to rest on its laurels after watching poor Jennifer Bumblebee Siebel decimate herself, Styles next turns its gimlet eye on two
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies (A Little Late) Sorry for the delay in reading your alt-weeklies this week; there was a comical mixup in our attempts to implement the weekly switchoff between us and SFist Sarah L. We'll try again in
SF News Treasure Hunt- What the Jesuits Have Done for You Lately. The Koret has an Olympic indoor swimming pool, two batting cages, several racquetball courses and state-of-the-art weight and cardio rooms graced with natural daylight. More importantly, it is open for drop-in to non
SF News Our Bumblebee Is Back! In this interview, Jennifer Siebel rambles on and on about how she only went to business school to please her parents ("a pattern for much of my life"), cries a lot, says she
SF News Political Junkie: Chicken Or Jerk? We gotta say, we got chills watching this video. Entitled "Walkaway Mayor," GavinWatch has compiled a collection of all the times a certain city official refuses to answer direct questions from the press.
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Mark Mulroney Artist Mark Mulroney lives and makes art in Berkeley but hails from Dutton, PA. He came over to the Bay to teach at the San Francisco Art Institute and participate in an economy
SF News Ask a Muni Driver Suppose I start at 11AM. When the bus that I take over arrives 15 minutes late, I have to play catch up. I am essentially doing my "follower's" (the bus after you) job.
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Eric Allen of the Apples in Stereo In the spirit of full disclosure SFist has got to admit that we tend to find bass players awfully cute. Maybe it’s their aloofness, or the way that the bass line provides
misc Juno Baby Is More Than Just Cute: Children's 'Edu-tainment' With A Bit More Soul The Bay Area is home to many intriguing small businesses. Still, color us surprised that we've found in Juno Baby a local purveyor of high-quality children's educational products that manages to encapsulate what
SF News From the Editor's In Box "I had the most satisfying experience the other night...a huge-ass SUV with an over-sensitive car alarm that had been tormenting us for hours...GOT TOWED!! I'd never seen that before...so immensely
SF News Political Junkie: Watching The Watchers As the political season starts to heat up, there's so many bloggers monitoring politicians' activities that we're thinking we need to start a new column, the _____Watch. There's so many people needing to
Arts & Entertainment Please Send Us Obama Rally Pictures! We missed the Barack Obama rally in Oakland because we were at the movies, but it sounded amazing -- 10,000 people in front of City Hall, and the unofficial word from the
SF News SFist Is The Culprit: The Comments In all seriousness, thank you guys for keeping the conversation in the comments relatively civil (snarky, but civil -- our favorite!). We always knew our readers and commenters were the best and this
SF News Not A Girl's Kind Of Girl Here's the full quote from the article: "I shouldn't say this, but there are two sides to every story,'' she said in an exhausted tone. "If people did research into the scandal
Arts & Entertainment The Bathrobe You may recall that the Guardian ran the picture in this week's issue of their alternative-weekly paper, saying they'd gotten it from a good source who said the picture was from Shin himself,
Arts & Entertainment Photoshopping Gavin & Han Shin Now, we're no Photoshop experts, but a reader who is sent along the following thoughts: The light on Gavin's face is coming from over the photog's right shoulder. So there is a shadow
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop Interview: Bart Davenport of Honeycut Best show you've ever played MacDonald's at 7 in the morning in Rochester NY. I knew I had finally made it. Favorite venue? The Rickshaw Stop Where are the best fans? Spain Dream
