Arts & Entertainment Who Wants To Be A Non-Local Superhero? So the premise of is that Stan Lee, of Spider-Man and Fantastic Four and X-Men fame, is picking the best action hero character, and the winner gets a comic book issue dedicated to
Arts & Entertainment Gastronomique Smells Fishy. Panel members were moderator Patricia Unterman, chef and owner of Hayes Street Grill and Examiner food critic as well; Steve Fitz, a salt-of-the-earth Half Moon Bay sand dabs fisherman; Tom Worthington, from Monterey
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>Russian Dolls</i> The 20somethings have progressed (or regressed depending on your take) into nearly 30somethings for , and are now somewhat spread out among Paris, London, and St. Petersburg. It opens with Xavier (Romain Duris), the
Arts & Entertainment Kathy Griffin: Dishing and Swishing Last Friday night, Kathy Griffin, star of the Bravo reality show "My Life on the D-List" and heir apparent to the Sandra Bernhard/Joan Rivers style of snark and dish comedy -- without
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink You've Got To Cool It Now: Heat Wave Edition SFisters are forced to lighten up our menus as the warm weather continues. The burning questions on what to eat and drink looms large. Our answers: Eat it: blender soups, savory or sweet.
SF News Yeah, It's Always Sunny in San Francisco-- What Of It? This morning while drinking our coffee and surfing the Web, we went to Deadspin and saw this little blurb about Giants' fans treatment of Phillies pitcher Brett Myers. Myers was cited for taking
SF News Do You Have Prince Albert In A Can? Har har! We were going to post about this yesterday too, but forgot until today. Some wag managed to do an entire interview with KTVU Tuesday night about that fire near the Altamont
Arts & Entertainment Why We Call it 'The Comical' Geez, we all know about Gavin's struggle with dyslexia, but even SFist wouldn't be mean enough to make fun of it, much less in a one-inch front page headline. Photo by Stacy Wong.
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Live on the Edge at Intersection for the Arts Choreographer Erika Chong Shuch is one of the most exciting younger artists San Francisco has to offer, and has blown our mind with her past two shows. This
SF News Our Extreme Makeover You astute readers have probably deduced that something's afoot at the 'Fist, what with all these newfangled layouts and buttons and whatnot -- along with some weird problems with comments and post uploading
SF News Tora, Tora Taxi Commission Nevermind. So, then what is it we keep hearing about the SF Cab Commission? Why has this usually obscure governmental backwater suddenly become the latest source of gossip, intrigue, and petty name-calling? Well,
Arts & Entertainment The Sticky Adventures of the Superfisters You can't go two panels without reading a swear, so some folks label this series "mature." But we don't know about that -- aside from bad words, the book's pretty light-spirited and gentle.
SF News A Frontier We Won't Cross If you never saw Flight Attendant School, it was a six-week reality show following 40 candidates training to attend flights for Frontier. While the intention of the show was to renew the public's
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Peaches Christ But when we got a release on This Year's Midnight Mass Film Series (which runs at midnights every Friday and Saturday from tonight until mid-August, see the complete schedule here), we knew we
SF News Bumpwatch! A super-duper tipster forwarded this pic of our city's expatriate, Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom Villency. (Your fun-loving Us Magazine readers at the 'Fist added the arrow and message our very own selves!) Wrap up
Arts & Entertainment Win a copy of <i>Instant Love</i>! She's reading tonight at Book Shop West Portal (80 West Portal, sorry, no links to this new shop yet) at 7 p.m., and at 7 tomorrow night at Copperfield's Books (138 N.
SF News The Warriors: Trading Places Unlike the Toronto Raptors, the Warriors have kept their plans for draft day close to the vest, which means they either have something up their sleeves or they still haven't figured out what
misc Unskinny Bop This is actually part of a long standing battle in the city over the private booths. Critics have called them exploitive as club owners make it so the women who work in the
SF News Political Junkie: Since We Been Gone We're back from vacation -- and it's to get caught up on two weeks of news! Why didn't anyone tell us San Jose mayor Ron Gonzales got indicted? Over a garbage-services contract, no
SF News We Won't Let The Fire Be Started Just in time for Summer Solstice, there's a new No Fun fracas going on. See, there's this tradition where people go to Ocean Beach and do the bonfire thing. It's like Burning Man
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Convenience, Choice, Coffee . . . Still Craving Cafe Ponte This is a tale of warning; we're sharing the very start of what's already an addiction... A few weeks ago, we attended an annual event in our neighborhood -- a sidewalk sale where
Arts & Entertainment How to Get the Guy: First, Stand Uncomfortably Close to One Ahhh. Beautiful San Francisco! Apparently our "little city by the bay" is full of single woman who "just can't seem to find love on their own." Yay! These two love coaches are going
SF News Seersucker Sashay Chante Our own Dianne Feinstein continues to put her own stamp on Congress' annual "Seersucker Thursday" tribute to Southern style. Not since the last "Jeans Day" at their local Catholic High School has this
Arts & Entertainment Asian Art Fun For Free All day (well, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.) this Saturday and Sunday, admission to the museum is free, with the bonus of all sorts of celebratory events. See their calendar here
SF News Going to the World Cup With Fabian Núñez Hey, we just found out a way to go-- just give tons of money to Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez? He's taking some of his biggest fund raisers to Germany to watch the Finals.
