Arts & Entertainment A Little Wonder, a Little Con WonderCon has come, gone, and left us a little sad. For some reason, the magic we felt last year was lacking this time around. Maybe it's because we're just plain tired of the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Tries WineParty It's not hard to figure out the appeal. You get a bunch of people together in a friendly environment with a half-dozen or so bottles of wine, and people get to unearth new
Arts & Entertainment SF Indiefest: <i>Sidekick</i> Michael Sparaga (the writer/producer) set out to make a realistic indie superhero movie, in which superpowers are complicated afflictions with repercussions and consequences and, you know, smartypants stuff. It's a bumpy ride,
Arts & Entertainment Interview with <i>Sidekick</i> Writer Michael Sparaga In a departure from most superhero movies, is told from the point of view of, well, the sidekick. "I think the sidekick, in some ways, is Canada," says Michael "It's not purposeful, but
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Love Edition If you haven't booked your Valentine's Day restaurant reservations yet, you're in trouble. Lucky for you, our local theater companies have shows much more unique than prix fixe menus anyway. From improv to
Arts & Entertainment IndieFest Special Screenings Announced We called our friends at Larsen Associates, and got the scoop: February 13 and 14 are devoted to TBA screenings and Indiefest favorites. Well, we're ready T A the lineup, right now! Monday,
SF News SFist Blind Item(s): Their Staff Meetings Are Better Than Ours But, oh, to be a fly on the wall of a recent staff meeting at a local daily publication. In a sort of St. Crispin's Day for the newsprint set, their reptile-vanquishing leader
SF News SchwartzenWatcher Goes Broke What happened to all the gobs of money he raised last year? They all went into the Very. Special. Election, which shows just what a crazy, kamikaze-like move that last election was. He
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes To <i>Trudell</i>! A documentary telling the life story of Sioux Tribe member John Trudell, this film begins in the sixties with his 21 month occupation of Alcatraz Island with group Indians of All Tribes, an
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes To First Fridays After Five! This month's event, entitled "Chocolate Caliente!", features "hot salsa music, cool drinks, and gourmet chocolates. Warm up on the dance floor with Orquesta Universal, then travel through time on a gallery tour featuring
SF News Sarah Tucker, 1979-2006 We saw the saddest obituary last week in the Chron, for the death of Sarah Tucker, a 26-year-old Mission resident who was killed in a hit-and-run bicycle accident on Polk and Geary Street
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Naked Babies at SF Sketchfest It turns out Corddry isn’t the only famous or semi-famous member of Naked Babies. Also part of the group is Brian Huskey, one of the Snarking Heads on VH-1's "Best Week Ever.
Arts & Entertainment Harupin-Ha: Not Your Parents' Butoh Dance Company Our friends at the Asian Art Museum continue their tradition of cool events with this Thursday's 7pm performance by Butoh legends Koichi and Hiroko Tamano and their dance company, Harupin-Ha. Credited for bringing
Arts & Entertainment Berlin and Beyond Film Festival: <i>Sergeant Pepper</i> What distinguishes "Sergeant Pepper" from other Films About Children -- it would be a mistake to call it a Children's Film -- is its deft restraint. Sure, there are thrills like a crazy-inventor
SF News Search For Jerry Tang Continues On January 7, the Financial District, North Beach, and SOMA were canvassed based on a December 16 possible sighting by a security guard in the 1 California area. In that sighting: (A) security
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes to the SF IndieFest Benefit Party! Musical acts Potion, Teenage Harlets, Tom Jonesing, and The Sermon will be performing, festival previews will be previewed, advance IndieFest tickets will be sold at a 10% discount, and there'll be drink specials
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings, this Time with Feeling Submissions go to yvesdroppings at gmail dot com. Girl 1: "Wow, I've never been up this high!" Girl 2: "I've never even been in this building before. Well, I've been to the bar
SF News Helen and David We're getting a creepy Harold and Maude vibe here -- what else are you going to think when a 30-year-old man enters into a suicide pact with a 109-year-old woman in San Francisco?
SF News Help Spider Davila Spider was on his bike at the corner of 20th and Florida in the Mission at about 12:30 p.m. a.m. on December 17, making a cell phone call, when a
Arts & Entertainment SFisting: Red Hot Cinema at the Red (Hot) Vic We're starting to think that the Haight's Red Vic Movie House, a worker-owned theater with comfy couches and yummy popcorn, is hitting that age (you know that age) when they think about sex
Arts & Entertainment Family Day! Childless curmudgeons, gnash your teeth in anger over another way in which society prefers folks with kids over you! Gavin Newsom and the San Francisco Dept. of Children, Youth, and Families are sponsoring
Arts & Entertainment Ring In The New Year At The Asian Art Museum Tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. they're having their 20th Annual Japanese New Year's Bell Ringing Ceremony, which is free to atttend with paid admission to the museum. "Based on
misc Happy Holidays From SFist: Win a copy of <i>Stories For Airports</i> Enter below by New Year's Eve to win a copy of judy b.'s book, which she discussed so eloquently in the piece below.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Does It Up Right We're not going to list all the awesome folks who came because we know we'll leave someone out and look like jerks. But thank you to all who came, thanks to Otis for
