Arts & Entertainment The Philistine Interview: There Has Got To Be A Twist, S'got Such A Supple Wrist. Still, he keeps coming back to his roots here in the Bay, and will perform this Friday, May 11 at 8pm at the Florence Gould theater and the day after, Saturday, May 12
Arts & Entertainment APE: Crafty Fun Bits Adding to the estimable Alternative Press Expo coverage by SFist Jeremy comes a little more APE coverage, albeit a teensy bit late. (Hey, its been a busy week!) Among our favs of the
Arts & Entertainment APE Escape 2007 Part 3: The Storytellers--Traditional, With A Twist The last of our slightly less-than-timely coverage of the Alternative Press Expo, which took place last weekend, focuses on folks telling their sequential art stories in a longer form. Ted Naifeh, a Western
Arts & Entertainment SFWFF: Youth Films Yes, we’ll admit we went to the ‘youth shorts’ with some preconceptions about youth films (maybe we were picturing our own painful camcorder films from years ago). But what we saw from
Arts & Entertainment Boo Friggin' Hoo: Food Critics Want To Take Their Ball And Go Home The Chron ran an article on Sunday that we really, really wanted to write some commentary on after reading it. "Food bloggers dish up plates of spicy criticism"; subhead "Formerly formal discipline of
SF News Muni Driver Celebrates Bring Your Girlfriend to Work Day Muni drivers, caught on tape! Again! This time, the driver doesn't come off quite so sympathetically. We caught the 33 home last night after hanging out at a high school cafeteria, and what's
SF News Get Gleeful -One of the of the 415 Gang who was charged is in police custody, that being Brian Dwyer who surrendered to the police. He is said to have admitted to kicking one of
SF News Calif. Legislature Wants To Teach <i>Us</i> How To Save Bipartisan legislators introduced a bill in the California Senate Wednesday that would grant every child born within the state a $500 savings account, earmarked for higher education, a home downpayment, or retirement. The
Arts & Entertainment We Read the Glossies With Rita's blessing, we bring you a brand new column called "We Read the Glossies." It's just like "We Read the Weeklies" only with monthly glossies. Here we review the February issues of
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Get Mortified's Scott Lifton What's the most mortifying thing you've encountered in this project? My mother reading my diary entry about me almost stalking a girl in high school How many years must pass before people can
Arts & Entertainment <i>Death Note</i>: Story Of Killer Diary Is Grim, Intriguing, Excellent Entry Into Manga We've long been a fan of Japanese comics, or manga, as they're commonly called. Local publisher Viz, who is responsible for much of the product that American audiences see, sent us a review
SF News How to Comment Without Getting a Billion Error Messages Hello smellos. You may have noticed that commenting has been messy lately. But thanks to some intrepid bug-reporting readers, we think we may have narrowed down the problem. The solution is a bit
SF News What Goes Up Shouldn't Go Down So here's the numbers: in the three years that Gavin has been Mayor and Heather Fong the Police Commissioner, San Francisco has averaged 90 homicides and 23.5 homicide arrests a year. That's
Arts & Entertainment Treasure Hunt: Stop Bitching and Start Stitching Of all the classes we skipped to play fossball in high school, we never though we'd regret cutting Home Ec. But truth be told, after spending yet another $15 on getting slacks hemmed
SF News More on the Yale Choir Story The major source of controversy stems from the police response. According to the Chron, the police went to go check it out but deemed it not that much in a way of a
SF News Rod! Todd! This is God! The women in question, Estrella Benavides, says she doesn't actually hear the voice of God telling her to do something, but instead just gets a feeling of what He wants her to say.
SF News Did the Lawyer Leak? Late last night, Yahoo! of all sites was reporting that the leak in the BALCO case was Victor Conte's defense lawyer. Or at least that's what the FBI is thinking as they've launched
SF News Meet Kevin Laue Kevin Laue is the star center for the Amador Valley High School basketball and a junior. He also has only one hand. Due to complications during pregnancy, his left arm ends right above
misc Fantasy Football: Not Just For Losers Anymore Or so says a professor out there who developed a curriculum on teaching fantasy football to students as a way of learning math. The curriculum was then picked up by a math teacher
SF News Eritrean Community Crime Shocker Murder victims-- who died after being shot via open fire in a third floor apartment-- include a widowed mother named Winta T. Mehari, 28, of Berkeley, her brother Yonas Mehari, 17, who lived
SF News American Football Spectacular: Our Villains Are Bleeding And So Are We * Seattle vs. San Francisco Sunday, November 19, 2006. 1:15 PM, PST. Week 11 The Battle Of The Wounded Hawks Talk about gettin' up after being challenged, in the last two weeks the
SF News Diary Of a Poll Worker I just got home. It took an hour and a half for the sheriff's deputy to come pick up the ballots and supplies. This was long after the parking operations guy had come
SF News State Of The City Address The only two things Gavin Newsom is required to do as the mayor of San Francisco are 1) propose a budget and 2) give an annual speech about the State Of The City.
SF News SchwartzenWatcher Brings Sexy Back Well, maybe there was more to it than that because on Sunday, she sent out a statement apologizing for telling a group of school kids that she wouldn't kick the Governator "out of
