SF News Not at the Fore Front For all of the rhetoric surrounding San Francisco as some sort of liberal mecca, one has to remember that we are the first city on the left coast, and not in a political
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdropping on Troubled Youth Middle school girl #1: I wish I was skinnier than my boyfriend. Middle school girl #2: We all feel that way. -- Yvesdropped on by Jackson, on the 22 Fillmore at Chestnut Tween
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Jantine B. Jantine B does. Apparently such inborn knowledge leads to a love of radio, roller skates, Emperor Norton, and weed. Maybe also a lifelong fear of falling off this peninsula into the Pacific when
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Charles Siegel There are few things as beloved as chocolate--it can change moods, please crowds, make an otherwise forgettable event suddenly memorable. It's magical. And it can concern us sometimes, as with recent local chocolatiers
Arts & Entertainment You Gotta Play To Win, Still Remember when we were nagging you to get off the couch and make some damn art, already? Well, we have a couple more shots at the big auteur target in the sky for
SF News Before the Apres-Ski The hydrants don't hook up to the hoses, there's fighting over Treasure Island, there's corruption in the Housing Authority -- and what are we all still talking about? This afternoon's Cow Hollow ski
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Ian Lendler Today's victim of the SFist interview has only been in our fair city for a couple of weeks, but that doesn'r mean we're going to take it easy on him! His new book,
SF News SchwarzenWatcher Watches Arnie & George When we last saw our favorite Republican bigwigs, Arnie and George, they were having a bit of a problem getting together. Twice, during the President's extended and ill-fated vacation, he visited our fair
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV This Week - Part Two Don't worry. We're confused too. Let's just look at what tonight has to offer. First off is NBC's "My Name is Earl," which premieres at 9 p.m. Despite Jason Lee's disturbing affiliation
SF News Cinema 21 Saved? Our friends over at SocketSite alerted us to a Sunday Examiner story regarding the fate of yet another of our besieged local movie theaters. The former Marina Theater (most recently known as Cinema
Arts & Entertainment A Mighty Ruckus at Islais Creek If you haven't bothered to click on the banner ad we've had running all this month for A Mighty Ruckus at Islais Creek, we will happily bring the scoop you you! Brought to
SF News Google's Next Stop: The World Word on the street (Fine, we actually just got an email from a friend. We can't lie -- our relationship with the street is a strained one, at best) is that Blogger parent
misc SFist Wants You To Find A Friend: Ricky, From Grateful Dogs This week's adoptable pet (he'll be featured on SFist all week long on the right side of the site, below the ads) comes to us from Grateful Dogs Rescue. Now, say it with
Arts & Entertainment An Evening with The Paris Review It sure is a literary week here at SFist, with our Andrew Sean Greer interview and giveaway on Monday, the Picador Birthday event and book giveaway (you can still enter to win today!
Arts & Entertainment Extremes In fact, with the help of his friend and websmaster Carl, Thomas is online-novelizing his newly peaceful, conformist lifestyle. The book is titled , and despite being only available in lousy PDF, it's a
misc SFist Cares: Special Edition - Katrina We're a week on from when Hurricane Katrina hit the gulf coast of the US and still rescue efforts are continuing. . They're not over by a longshot but the progress that's been made
SF News Save Crescent City! Though New Orleans was spared the worst of Katrina, it doesn't mean that's it's all coming up roses for the Big Easy. A levee has broken, folks who evacuated may not be able
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Myleen Hollero And yet, Myleen, for various reasons has moved to the -ist down south, LA! Understandably, we begin our questioning of her there: What has been the hardest thing about moving to LA from
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rock Out with Eight Guys Out In the two years that the company's existed, feedback has been positive (such as two guys who met through 8 Guys Out, then paused their membership to focus on pursuing each other), and
SF News SchwarzenWatcher: The Feature Because there's so much going on with Herr Governator, we thought we'd need to turn it into a weekly feature. Yay? First last week's big story about the mistress and payment and the
SF News Homeland Insecurity: The Hits, They Keep a'Comin! Well, even though the DHS has lowered the threat level to sunny 'yellow,' BART's staying tough in the War Against Global Extremeism, so they're sticking to 'orange.' But they did open
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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Cafe For The (Accidental) Soccer Mom? You Bet! Strange weekend. We're almost exclusively pedestrians, but every so often we're forced to go through the hell that is renting a car. While we hate driving, we were more than happy to make
SF News SFist Rants: The 12 Inch PowerBook From 2004 You know how your Catholic friends are all "Sure, I f**k around and take the pill, but dude, how cool is St. Thomas Aquinas?" Okay, maybe those are only Catholic friends. But
SF News SchwarzenWatcher: These Boots Were Made for Walkin' Edition The Governator is sinking in the polls like a ton of steroid-abusing bricks -- in fact, he may not bother to run for another term. The movie star is actually dodging cameras when
