SF News The Warriors: Executives Deciding Badly On June 28, the Warriors have the ninth pick in the 2006 NBA draft. With anxiety over their drafting position now relieved, the Warriors can get down to the business of deciding who
SF News Ma v. Ja: How Janet Reilly Got Kissed, Got Wild, And Got A Health Care Plan We have been totally obsessed with Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan's woes. Every day, we would think, Bostonist is so lucky. Isn't there any connection here to the Bay Area? Well, now we have
SF News Catching You Up With the Joneses -After Gavin vetoed the "Healthy Saturdays" initiative, the Board of Supervisors voted to see if they could override Gavin's veto but couldn't. Once again, the vote came down to a 7-4 vote, not
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Nathaniel Ford, Part Five Eve Batey: What about Transit.511? Nathaniel Ford: Okay. Now I’ve heard about some challenges we’re having with Transit.511, and that in some cases it’s not giving as accurate
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The Journey Is the Destination at Exit on Taylor After a stellar presentation of Suzan-Lori Parks's "Pickling Jar" at its Risk Is This festival last year, Cutting Ball takes on her highly experimental and rarely performed full-length Death
Arts & Entertainment Between the Walls: Southern Exposure Gets Ready for a Major Metamorphosis Arguably one of the best places in the city to see innovative art from emerging artists, SoEx has been a mainstay of the Potrero Hill neighborhood for 32 years and will close its
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Crossing Genres at the Magic Theatre Christmas, in May? Well, yeah. The Magic Theatre rearranged its season a bit. But The Long Christmas Ride Home may be worth the wait. Penned by Paula Vogel as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Sorrel The tapered point of a bright green sorrel leaf stands out at the market, but that leaf's tartnessfrom high levels of oxalic acidstands out on the plate. Take a bite of
Arts & Entertainment Maverick's Hits the Big Time We realize that those of you with Tivo don't have to trouble yourselves with the minutiae of daily television programming, but for you old schoolers with the VCRs and you hard-liners who only
Arts & Entertainment Cutting No Corners: Caesurae Opens at Urbis Artium Normally, we get a little grossed out by work that uses blood (although we admire the chutzpah of the artist) – Andres Serrano and Gina Pane come to mind, but their work was more
Arts & Entertainment Harmon Juices Us Up That's right, Harmon and OJ, sharing the screen. In Harmon's words: Some (let’s call them the sane) would be apprehensive to work with OJ. But I couldn’t pass up the gig.
SF News Palms, Palms, Palms for the Poor We were reading the Chron this morning and read up on their story about the planting of palm trees throughout the city. Let's just say right off we like palm trees. And let's
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Jonestown: The Life And Death Of Peoples Temple</i> Anyone who's interested in San Francisco history must see this movie. Director and MacArthur genius grant recipient Stanley Nelson (who previously directed the Emmy-award-winning ) has put together a sensitive and thoughtful history of
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela</i> Faithful readers, you've probably noticed that this SFist watches the same types of movies over and over again: So we figured we'd mix it up a little bit and go watch something a
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>They Chose China</i> is the relatively forgotten story of a handful of American soldiers who were prisoners of war in Chinese camps during the Korean War. At the end of the conflict they chose to stay
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 SFIFF: <i>Cartography Of Ashes</i> It is to tell people that an outdoor movie screening at the fire station on 19th and Folsom, begins at 8:00 p.m. and to get there early to ensure a seat,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Earth Shaking TV This Week He's gone now, but thoughts of earthquakes still run in our heads, and will soon invade our TV screens. If you're like us, and prefer to partake in disaster nostalgia from the comfort
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Rising, Part Three There's so many 1906 earthquake related events, we've gotta do a third post rounding up your tourism options! Keep sending those events on in! Previous posts here and here. Additional events listings here,
Arts & Entertainment The Small Stake's Jason Munn We first consciously notice Jason Munn in last month’s ReadyMade Magazine where he was featured for the screen printed posters he makes for performances of touring bands at local venues. Then we
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Rising One hundred years ago this month, San Francisco survived an earthquake. You may have heard of it. Well, despite the odds (and the sky-high earthquake insurance rates), people keep moving here, and San
Arts & Entertainment Bar of Contemporary Art Opens with New Works from Nathalia Edenmont The atmosphere inside was pleasant enough albeit a bit stark, but what won us over was the stunning large-format photography of Nathalia Edenmont. Strikingly brilliant in color and equally unsettling in imagery, Edenmont’
SF News -Ist-A-Palooza Phillyist notes a fistfight between local pols that leaves one man down for the count. Jehovah's Witnesses get a Philly contributor out of bed, things get a little geeky with a film festival
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>The Achievers</i> In doing a little due diligence before writing this review, we turned up an entry on the Hyphen blog noting that reviewers are not supposed to reveal any of the plot to this
Arts & Entertainment <i>Black Panther Rank and File</i> Opens At Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Despite our WASPy, suburbanite background (which we go to great lengths to avoid acknowledging except when confronted with it like a speeding train at events such as these) – we walked through an exhibition
