Arts & Entertainment The Hastily Assembled Adventures of the Superfisters We also enjoyed the genre-experimentation of "Doc Frankenstein," a series of books set in a universe in which Frankenstein's monster survived and evolved into a mercenary, a liberal activist, and an enemy of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Overdosa Since Sam wrote such a great review, we eschewed our second visit, and will just give some quick notes of our first impressions. Overall, we were quite pleased with the place. The hostess
SF News Arnie in Accident On Sunday, the Governator was rushed to the hospital after a motorcycle accident in Brentwood. Everyone involved is okay, but the Governor now has himself a big, fat lip and fifteen stitches. What
Arts & Entertainment The Affectionate Adventures of the SuperFisters "Loveless" (not to be confused with the Anime series of the same name) is a romance, too, of sorts; set in the post-Civil War south, it's the story of a former Confederate soldier
SF News Prop H On Hold Funny, we've never heard of the NRA a waiting period before. San Francisco and the NRA have agreed that the city will voluntarily delay enforcement of Proposition H for two months to allow
misc The 'Fisties: Most Ineffective Activism But all those totally unsuccessful efforts pale in comparison to 2005's greatest activism-loser: the Muni fare strike. Because it could've been so awesome, if it had worked. There is no organization more loathed
Arts & Entertainment Gays Love Cowboys? Who Knew! We hate to admit it, but all this modern mania for has simply passed us by. At this point, we're dreading the inevitable trip to the Embarcadero to watch the damn thing, borne
SF News Pistol Packin' Pardners Piss on Prop H In 2002, nearly 10 in every 100,000 Californians died at the hands of a firearm, for a totaly of 3,410 deaths according to the Center for Disease Control and Injury Prevention.
Arts & Entertainment An Excuse To Read Some Funnybooks--Al's Comics In The Mission In Trouble Recently Al's Comics has run into a bit of financial trouble, it involves landlords, tax collectors, zap gun wielding lizard men from another dimension, the city; in short, the usual suspects. He could
SF News eNRAged Good ol' Chris Daly -- in an interview with the NY Times about Proposition H (reduces swelling), he said about the anti-H forces, "I'm crazy, but they're crazier." (Special bonus quote from the
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Tumbleweeds Howdy, folks! It's been a powerful slow week for tech news, so in honor of the Fry's in Palo Alto, we'll take the "roundup" in the title literally and rustle us up a
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Ambulance Ltd. Our interview adventure began as we tracked down the tour handler, Freekshow (that’s not a typo, really, that’s what he likes to be called and how he spells it). Freekshow proceeded
misc SFist Raves: Fleet Week Yeah. We're gonna say it: We love Fleet Week! While we never really understood the whole "Airshow Practice" the Blue Angels traditionally hold on Thursday and Friday afternoons, (are we not supposed to
Arts & Entertainment Condoms Suck. But They Keep You Safe. The film was introduced by Bridge manager Joshua, who told the audience, "If you find any of the gays to be tired, just stick with it. ...They all pay." Well, "tired" is putting
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: As the Fall TV Season Begins One of the names on everyone's lips this Fall TV season is "Martha," and it's a tribute to her growing fame (or more appropriately, infamy) that she no longer needs the "Stewart" at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: You Can Ride Our Tail Any Time Last week’s roundup covered quite a few places in the Mission: Pizzeria Delfina, the resurrected Window, the Thai-French fusion at Baku, dim-sum at Big Lantern, and Crazy Sushi. We thought it was
SF News Settle Down! Duane Baughman, you're our big winner! The political consultant is getting $15,000 to resolve the lawsuit that Supervisor (and newly-announced candidate for assessor/recorder, courtesy of the Sentinel) Gerardo Sandoval filed against
Arts & Entertainment Movietime with Debra Saunders This might get us in a bit of trouble, but we actually like the Chron's token conservative columnist Debra Saunders. Yes, we don't usually agree with her, but we like the fact that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sorry, You'll Have to Leave, As You're Not a Member You know, we really wish there was some place in San Francisco to go that was stylishly exclusive. Really, we'd go out more, but everytime we go to some club we're surrounded by
Arts & Entertainment Bummer, Dude After thirty-five years, Alameda County sheriff's investigators have finally closed the murder of Meredith Hunter at the Rolling Stones' Altamont concert 35 years ago. Apparently, they’ve been looking for the semi-mythical "second
SF News Fat Tone Killed in Possible Retaliation So far, the most popular post here on SFist has been, by far, our coverage of Mac Dre's funeral. Fans and well-wishers have left dozens and dozens of comments full of praise and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV While in Denial This Week So, yeah...April 18th, 1906? What was that again? Image of a possible disaster bigger than the '06 quake, from The Smoking Gun.
SF News Drinking With the SFFD The second-in-command of the San Francisco Fire Department, Deputy Chief Fred Sanchez, stepped down yesterday due to controversy over his actions involving a drunk battalion chief. Some people just can't take the heat,
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: Slow Jam King A friendly crowd greeted Filipino-American filmmaker Steven Mallorca at the San Francisco screening of his labor of love, for the Asian-American Film Fest -- about three rows of seats were reserved for his
Arts & Entertainment SFist Plays Matchmaker For The Broken Hearted We here at SFist don't want to get ourselves in the middle of anything (ha!), but we can't help but think of our favorite recently single public figure, The Mayor Himself (we love
