SF News Handing in Guns to See the Guns Now you can already see the problems with this, can't you? First up, GnR ain't really big in the hood. The second thing is that they're not that big with anyone anymore. Oh,
Arts & Entertainment The Genre-Faithful Adventures of the Superfisters Shirley you must know the premise: a heroic masked man gallops about the West, righting seemingly-insurmountable wrongs with the aid of a whip-smart ally Tonto and his horse Silver. In issue one of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Gun Show Yes, we went to the Crossroads of the West Gun Show at the Cow Palace this weekend. Why? Aren't we supposed to be virulently anti-gun? Shouldn't we hate not just guns but people
SF News Down Goes Tower The reason for Tower going under is they got bought by Great American Group who decided to liquidate and sell of the company, something that makes no sense to us, that being buying
Arts & Entertainment Big Ass Book Sale! So, when we hear statistics like "400 volunteers, 7,000 boxes of books, 300 tables and 200,000 books in over 50 categories", we might ordinarily have to reach for the NoDoz, but,
Arts & Entertainment Local Publisher's Graphic Novel Highest Placer on USA Today List? BELIEVE IT! Viz Media is a local publisher that, among other things, imports all sorts of great Japanese comix ("manga") and cartoons ("anime"), translates them, and distributes them to the U.S. markets. Naruto Volume
Arts & Entertainment It's Gonna Bring You Down.... Huh! Given lead singer W. Axl Rose's notorious, errr, let's call it "unreliability," when it comes to concert appearances, though, make sure you save your receipt. The site we found this info on cautions
SF News SFist Officially Breaks Up with the Giants Deep down we knew this team sucked from the early goings, but we had problems dealing with it. We finally dealt with it. In fact, you can look at our postings over the
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 30: <i>101 Must-See Movies for Gay Men</i> Saturday's screening of "101 Must-See Movies for Gay Men" was like a clip show of gayish movies -- presenter Alonso Duralde made a few quick introductions, and the rest was a whirlwind of
Arts & Entertainment Three Gorges Project At The Asian Art Museum Chinese artists have been painting the Yangtze River valley and its famous Three Gorges canyons for millennia, adhering to the tradition of painting not just what the valley looks like physically, but also
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Send in the Divas DivaFest at Exit Theatre Exit Theatre's DivaFest features female artists who actually have talent to back up their diva title. (Though you may find a transvestite in the mix.) Leading the festival is
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Aqueduct White guys rapping! Ganster rap? The most instantly lovable band SFist has encountered is Aqueduct, who do, in fact, mix in a little of the rap into their set. It takes a certain
SF News Fox News Hearts San Francisco The big show was Tuesday night when Hannity & Colmes not only had our very own Gerardo Sandoval on their show to be lamb to the slaughter and discuss the possibly earth-shattering news
Arts & Entertainment Not Rocking a Million People So it's time for bloggers' powers to activate. On the way into work, we were reading the Chron's Peter Hartlaub's highly enjoyable piece on used CDs and how they can reclaim one's cheesy
SF News "The Daily Show" Takes on the Perils of Pelosi Yes, our beautiful city and it's congressional representative once again made the "Daily Show." Yay! And could we be more provincial? Anyways, the bit was on latest political meme being that despite all
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 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
SF News SchwartzenWatcher Cries Freedom! Last week, the Governator put an abortion loving lesbian in charge of his Administration. The Right was not amused (neither was the Left, but that's neither here nor there in terms of this
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.
misc Happy Holidays From SFist: Win a Copy of Smoke and Guns! As part of our big fun December, we're giving away lots of stuff, including review copies of materials previously discussed on the site. Why? Because we like you! For example, do you remember
Arts & Entertainment The Incendiary Adventures of the SuperFisters (Prologue) It was a day like any other, we recall, when Isotope Comics suddenly fell into our lap -- and then, in a blur of capes and shotguns, we were off on the wildest
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 Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Battle Thai Part II A short PSA: yesterday we (aka. SFist Sam) investigated the food of Provence. Since no one has done more for the PR of the Provence area than Peter Mayle -- except maybe for
Arts & Entertainment The Art of Advertising Once, a long time ago, we worked at a film production office in New York City. The crappy part was labelling tapes, getting coffee for people and waking up at 5am to assist
SF News Edgar Winter Group Expresses Dismay Today's Examiner announces Muni: Free rides to be a thing of the past. Well, duh -- should they even be a thing of the present? Political statement makers aside (maybe), we'll admit to
