misc Kenneth Eng Around The Web Also: why did the Chronicle's editorial page call him "Richard" Eng in the hard copy of the paper (corrected online)? At least Bad Reporter got Eng's name right. --- Okay, okay, we know
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop Interview: Lyrics Born Lyrics Born + The Coup-- Thursday March 1 @ The Fillmore... AA, $23, doors 8pm Best show you've ever played There have been so many, that's tough. I always love playing Austin, Sydney, Portland, London,
Arts & Entertainment Interview Redux: John Vanderslice Hopefully you've gotten your ticket to check out John Vanderslice at the Independent tonight as part of the Noise Pop festivities. If not.... get it now. To help remind you of why you
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Our Composite Picture! From yesterday's Chronicle article about Newsom stalker Han Shin: Inside [Shin's car], police found a map of San Francisco with the location of the mayor's building highlighted and a line following streets from
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Kevin Arnold Noise Pop is here again! Rainy days working for the man mean nothing knowing you are going to be seeing so many awesome bands. This year’s line up includes Cake, Lyrics Born,
SF News Treasure Hunt: Claymate of the Month Tucked away in the Yerba Buena Gardens, the multimedia arts and technology museum with the sweet name of Zeum (pronounced "Zee-uhm") is a heaven of creativity and fun. Its digital studio, music production
Arts & Entertainment Blog Heaven! Okay, so let's see, what do we have here... a 1) Catherine Bigelow-penned blog entry featuring 2) Britney Spears's bald head grafted onto the bodies of 3) local politicians and 4) Pac Heights
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Modern Alchemy: Jim Woods And Mateveza Yerba Maté Ale We've seen some hideous examples of what can happen when a product attempts to combine several things into one. We've also seen some pretty good examples. Well, now there's a pretty stellar one:
SF News Papercut's Jason Quever Papercuts open for Grizzly Bear at GAMH tonight show starts at 8 pm. Best show you've ever played and what made it great? The Independent: really nice sound people. Best venue in the
Arts & Entertainment We Read the Glossies With Rita's blessing, we bring you a brand new column called "We Read the Glossies." It's just like "We Read the Weeklies" only with monthly glossies. Here we review the February issues of
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Get Mortified's Scott Lifton What's the most mortifying thing you've encountered in this project? My mother reading my diary entry about me almost stalking a girl in high school How many years must pass before people can
SF News An LA Caption Action They got the usual level of "that's hot" Paris references and obscure "I'd like to join YOUR LA school board" inside-politics commentary, but, entertainingly enough, look who else got invited to the Villaraigosa-Hilton
SF News Make Your Own SFist T-Shirts! Anyways, if Pat's shirt inspires you to make your own personalized SFist gear too, check out our Spreadshirt.com shop, which should be in the middle of the left-hand margin column. You can
SF News Political Junkie: The Om--- ? Okay, this has been killing us all afternoon. So we were checking out the pictures from Gavin Newsom's reelection campaign kickoff rally from Sunday on his campaign website's "Brian Blogs," and it looks
SF News The San Francisco-New York Neighborhood Comparison Table Quick -- which one of those pictures above is of Valencia Street in SF and which is of Williamsburg in Brooklyn? Bay Area blogger Overstated has put together his list of what New
SF News SFiS By The Numbers SFiS -- more than just SFist minus the T! We give the new glossy advertorial section of the Chronicle our patented By The Numbers treatment below. (Warning -- SFiS only appears in .pdf
SF News Swells By The Numbers More balletomania! We've read so much coverage of the 74th SF ballet opening night gala, we're starting to expect to see ourselves in these pictures! Number of people pictured in this week's Swells
SF News Naomi Campbell's In Town Drew Altizer generously passed along some pictures he took of Naomi Campbell, who was in town yesterday (maybe also today, we can't find any information about her itinerary online). Man, Gavin is kicking
SF News SF Ballet Gala By The Numbers Hip, hip, HOORAY! Hip, hip, HOORAY! Catherine Bigelow, the Chron society columnist, is back from vacation, and here with a special report on Wednesday night's SF Ballet Opening Gala! Number of people pictured:
SF News Gavin Defends Screw Tops The article isn't online, but it's a piece called "All You Really Need To Know About WINE" and Gavin's on page 138, as "Plumpjack Winery Founder and Mayor of San Francisco." It's accompanied
Arts & Entertainment Bodypainting At The Westfield Mall Cool, in a Demi Moore/silver guy in Fisherman's Wharf kind of way! Thanks for sending these on to us, Drew! More pictures after the jump (and even more at Drew's website.)
SF News I Saw Gavin Newsom It seems like the trick for getting something into this column is to hang out at Tosca's -- check out the following story we got passed along. Thanks, gentle reader! Last night our
Arts & Entertainment Blue Tie Alert! SFist Jim snapped this picture of Gavin Newsom swearing in the latest batch of city commissioners this afternoon. SFMike has his usual tart lowdown on the actual event -- along with more pictures
SF News Chicken Is As Chicken Does Angela Alioto got the biggest applause line of the morning at the Gavin Newsom Fake Question Time townhall meeting last Saturday when she roared out, "Instead of sitting around in chicken outfits, what
Arts & Entertainment Your Commute: Riding The T Third The T-Third is running in beta from now until April 1-- it's only running on weekends and every twenty minutes (though we waited about 45 minutes), but it's free if you get on
