Arts & Entertainment The Alien Adventures of the Superfisters This week's comic books bring us, Sherpa-like, into two worlds we know relatively little about: comic book conventions and Mormonism. If only there were a way to combine them. We find it difficult
SF News SFist Tech Labs: Deconstructing a Burgeoning Internet Phenomenon Apple Fires Employee For Having a Sense of Humor Apple once again shows how it "thinks different" by firing one of its customer service representatives for doing just that! An employee was fired
SF News Frank Chu Is Looking For Love Anyways, because it's always fun when the Gawker gang posts online dating profiles of various celebrities, we thought we'd post Frank's even though his profile, at this point, is pretty nothing. We do,
SF News Things Fall Apart Now that worrying about infrastructure is so 2002 Strokes hot, everyone's starting to worry about the state of SF's infrastructure. We know that our streets are a mess, but that's not the half
Arts & Entertainment We Want Freedom From 8-11 pm hit YBCA (701 Mission at 3rd Street) for short films about the Panthers and live music from Sok the Virgo, Mr. Rath & Descry (Subkrew), DJs Pink Panzer, Paul Paul
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Say It Isn't So! No one can really replace Patty, but making a very impressive effort, we find Marcia Gagliardi of the TableHopper newsletter. It comes out on Tuesdays, cutting the grass under the feet of the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beach Blanket Babylon <i>Again</i>? Wow, Gavin Newsom must really like big hats. (Yes, commenter Matt, we know you like big hats too.) Leah Garchik reported in yesterday's The In Crowd that when CSI: Plumpjack made their triumphant
Arts & Entertainment The San Francisco Asian American Film Festival: SFist Has You Covered We're going to be seeing a ton of the movies, as well as hitting parties and other fun stuff like this Friday's and Saturday's Directions in Sound music events (we love Kero One!
SF News What's Going On At SXSW 2006? Our pals at Austinist have been busy with all sorts of fun at this year's South by Southwest conferences and festivals. Let's see what they'be been up to: In film, Austinist Bre went
SF News Why We Love College Basketball It's March, and that means all eyes are upon the sport of college basketball. And why not? College basketball is primal, peppy, loud, fun, historic, goofy, social, exciting, unpredictable, decisive, brave, clean, and
misc This Just In -- Self-Heating Coffee! (Is Awful! Shocker.) So, while for the most part we're very into doing coffee the "right way" (grind just before brewing, etc etc), there's a part of us that's super susceptible to gimmickry. We always want
misc Name That Couple! Brangelina..... TomKat.... Bennifer 2.... Filliam H. Muffman -- every celebrity couple of the moment has a fun blended name! So help SFist come up with the it name of the moment for our
SF News About Those Photographs, Pictures Of.. What is there to say about the Barry in Drag photos that hasn't already been said? Like everyone else, our first reaction was "what the..?" followed quickly by "that's pretty funny" with a
Arts & Entertainment The Feminine Adventures of the Superfisters Especially after the introduction of the suave Captain Claudio, "PatP" might have been a heady bodice-ripper. But Polly's age -- she's 12 -- keeps things innocent and fun, with Polly relying on her
Arts & Entertainment Jerry Rice Retiring Again (Probably) Okay, we didn't watch Dancing With The Stars last night because we were watching ladies' figure skating, but we understand that the inevitable is about to come down on our boy Jerry Rice.
Arts & Entertainment The Sputnik Legacy At this rate, we're totally going to beat the Soviets to the moon! The Randall Museum is sponsoring the 24th Annual San Francisco Middle School Science Fair (scroll down), where middle schoolers in
SF News The Heartbreak Of Reply-All There are so many good reply-all stories: the person in the office who accidentally distributes their snide response to an office-wide email; the fun-loving fake email sent to #ALL PERSONNEL from the computer
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Swearing Festival It did. Unfortunately, while the concept was brilliant, the execution wasn't. The problem wasn't in what was scheduled; it was in how long it took for what was scheduled to take place. Long
Arts & Entertainment Rain On, Ride On So what's a fat tire to do in the Bay Area for a little wet-weather action? You could brave the conditions and hit the trails anyway, or you could look for some lower-impact
SF News Red Staters Welcome! See that guy over there on the right? That's Barry Goldwater, accepting the Republican nomination for president in our fair city back in 1964, in the same venue where we now try out
SF News Football is Dead, Long live Football Instead, what you'll probably get are a bunch of not-so Big Boys battling to get added to the World Cup roster, guys like Taylor Twellman who got a hat trick in the last
misc SFisting: Your 'Fisty Valentine For instance, this Friday you could meet legendary "Happy Hooker" Xaviera Hollander at the Center for Sex and Culture, where she'll be answering questions and telling us all about the happy hooking. On
SF News The Rich Get Richer in Real Estate Although the closest the WSJ gets to the Bay Area is Los Angeles -- which saw an 88% surge in inventory compared to a year ago -- a little digging around reveals that
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
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
