Arts & Entertainment Can You Loan Me Twenty Bills? A Chance To Bid On Grateful Dead Stuff A bunch of stuff formerly belonging to a longtime road manager of the Grateful Dead's, Lawrence "Ram Rod" Shurtliff, will be up for auction starting today. Rudson Shurtliff is selling his father's guitars,
SF News Shipwreck'd At Ocean Beach Every now and then, when the sand moves, you can see the remnants of shipwrecks on the shore of Ocean Beach -- and yesterday, folks enjoying the warm weather at low tide caught
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Peter Morgan and <i>The Deal</i> We'd been wanting to see ever since we saw The Queen, and it did not disappoint! We're grasping for analogies here! It's like the Godfather, only about politics! It's like Amadeus, if Salieri
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Profs Wrote Some Good Books The Commonwealth Club's 76th Annual California Book Awards have been announced, and two Cal faculty members are big winners this year: Ishmael Reed for "New and Collected Poems, 1964-2006," and journalism professor Michael
SF News The Warriors: Moving On, with Authority! Go ahead Bay Area, whoop it the hell up. Call in sick to work, pick up a twelver at the corner store, order some team gear online, call your boys over, and replay
SF News GAHHH! Frontier Airlines Flying Right Outta Town It's "all airlines, all the time" here on SFist. After the lukewarm-to-good news of JetBlue flying out of SFO, we're greeted with some bad news: Frontier Airlines is vacating the premises--no more "commuter
SF News American Football Spectacular: Capsulizing the 2007 NFL Draft's First Round It's time for American Football Spectacular's capsule reviews of the 2007 NFL Draft. Adventure, excitement,! All hard information was culled from NFL.com's pretty excellent draft tracker site. Proceed. * Selection # / Team (trade info)
SF News The Warriors: Just Livin' the Dream Warrior Nation, can it get any better? Seriously. After Golden State's tenacious, gutty, and spirited come-from-behind 103-99 victory over the Dallas Mavericks Sunday night in the O-rena, the Warriors have taken a 3-1
Arts & Entertainment Sloan's Patrick Pentland Best show you've played and what made it great?: Osaka, Japan, 1998. Playing our first show, so far from home, not knowing what to expect, and having the crowd go from sitting politely
SF News Of Course We Were There It is not often that an event we attend simply blows away its billing. Friday night, however, we managed to procure tickets to the single greatest game in the last 13 years of
SF News The Warriors: Meltdown to a Reality Check That huge farting noise you heard last night wasn't Mark Cuban sitting on a whoopee cushion, it was the sound of the air going out of the Warriors playoff fantasy balloon. In a
Arts & Entertainment It's a Blog War! So a bunch of bloggers had a few drinks last night, or as someone on the Wall and SF Junto put it "some lame meeting of whiney bloggers at a hipster bar” when
SF News Why all the Bill Romanowski Love? Now, here's the thing about Romanowski-- he might just be the biggest douche in football history. Among the incidents on his rap sheet: spitting on JJ Stokes, kicking a kicker in the head,
SF News The Three Face of Giants fans Editor -- Peter McGowan should pass an edict that all vendors at AT&T Park must take a knee when Barry Bonds comes up to bat, as nothing gets my ire up
Arts & Entertainment Gearing Up For the SF International Film Festival To celebrate their gold anniversary, the SFIFF is not only presenting the always-dazzling film festival itself, but hosting a huge array of events as well: from tributes to Spike Lee (and a screening
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Eric Allen of the Apples in Stereo In the spirit of full disclosure SFist has got to admit that we tend to find bass players awfully cute. Maybe it’s their aloofness, or the way that the bass line provides
SF News College Basketball: How Was Your Weekend? The first weekend of the men's and women's NCAA basketball tournaments is in the books -- are you still alive in your office pool? Not if you took the Road to the Final
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>The Cats Of Mirikitani</i> What started out as a project about the drawings of homeless SoHo street artist and cat-lover Jimmy Mirikitani turned into a quest to save a man from his present and from his past
SF News Your San Francisco Giants Season Preview Part Two Yesterday, we tackled the issue of what to expect of this year's team. Today, we'll take a look at whether we should be happy with the expectations of this year's team. SFist: So,
Arts & Entertainment The Bathrobe You may recall that the Guardian ran the picture in this week's issue of their alternative-weekly paper, saying they'd gotten it from a good source who said the picture was from Shin himself,
SF News Cycling: Stage 2 Delivers Capitol Thrills Let's face it, in the peloton of American spectator sports, cycling got cracked off the back on the first climb out of town and is just now working its way back into the
SF News Peter Ragone By The Numbers We've learned so much about mayoral communications director Peter Ragone from this article in the Sunday Chron! Since it's a Sunday (and there's no Swells today), we're naturally giving it the SFist By
SF News Chron Reporters Not Going Up the River It looks like the Chronicle's two BALCO reporters, Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, will not be joining Josh Wolf in prison as they're no longer on the hook. The main reason being the
Arts & Entertainment IndieFest: <i>The Ballad of Greenwich Village</i> and <i>Mischief at 16th and Florida</i> The two SF Indie Fest films we watched on Friday night at the Victoria Theatre made for a very thought-provoking juxtaposition. The short film Mischief at 16th and Florida captured the rich history
Arts & Entertainment Wait, Wait -- Well, this sounds like fun! A reader who went to yesterday's live taping of the NPR news game show "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" writes in to report that the game show's "special
