SF News So Long, Woody Today, we come to praise Kirk "Woody" Rueter, not to bury him. For yesterday, the Giants gave the long-time Giants pitcher and winningest left-handed pitcher in franchise history his walking papers. We knew
Arts & Entertainment Much Ado About Green Day You might have heard that after a long relationship with Oakland's Lookout! Records, Green Day recently decided to take back their pre-Dookie releases due to concerns over unpaid royalties. If you want to
SF News Your San Francisco Giants Get Winn But Not A Win When we last left your San Francisco Giants they were busy pondering their '05 existence: whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of a season's outrageous fortune or
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog 'Round the World From Milwaukee to Israel to Australia, you can visit them all from the comfort of your theater seat right here in SF. We've got three shows and one festival for you this week,
Arts & Entertainment Trouble In Paradise: I'm No Angel Of I'm No Angel (1933), which screened Sunday at the Pacific Film Archive, film critics like to write that if star Mae West had spoken only one line in her career--"Beulah, peel
SF News Could the Message Be Any Clearer? We'll we've got an update in the oh-so-exciting negotiations between the Media Workers Guild and the management of the San Francisco Chronicle (as you should know by now, part of the Hearst publishing
SF News High 72, Low 51: Fog Scattering by Mid-Morning We keep lookin' and expectin' to be living in fog blanket city but the white menance is already breaking by the time we're done with our beignets at Just For You. (Holla back
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: SF Mime Troupe Right before the first scene of the San Francisco Mime Troupe's which opened on the Fourth of July weekend in Dolores Park, a trouper walks onstage holding a sign up for the audience:
SF News Free Crazy Crab! We would give your weekly Giants report, but we've noticed that ever since we've flailingly tried to replace the Essefficist in doing this, the Giants have been doing nothing but suck the big
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Peaches Mmmm. Peaches. Repeat after us. Mmmm. Peaches. We've been slurping down sample slices at various farmer's markets stands, and we were drawn to the Gold Dust heirloom peaches from Frog Hollow. Sure, it's
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria Gays don't always have the best grasp on their activist history (which may be why they think that picketing a lame bar is the best use of their resources), but you couldn't ask
Arts & Entertainment Stand Up Guys Okay, we see why Gothamist loves Todd Barry. But local boys Ryan Stout and Jim Short made good last night, too. If you haven't been to the Purple Onion yet, it really is
misc SFist Cares ... About Immigrants The International Institute has nearly 90 years of experience in helping immigrants to the U.S. through the process - both the paperwork and the day-to-day realities of living in a new country.
Arts & Entertainment Pop Parody: Ron English at Varnish Fine Art Known as the father of "agit-pop," English juxtaposes a highly critical political sensibility with modern advertising techniques, using his message to alter their meaning. Aided by an extended family of subverts, the artist
SF News Your San Francisco Giants Beat L.A.! When the Giants signed Benitez, the thinking was that a closer stabilizes things in the bullpen. Everyone knows their roles and so everyone can concentrate on doing what they need to do-- bullpen
SF News Fight to Rename Berkeley's Jefferson Elementary The issue was brought to the school's attention by parents and community activists. In an uncredited editorial in the Daily Californian, it's pointed out that the city is named after George Berkeley, who
Arts & Entertainment Still Independent After All These Years One of the mothers of all intellectual crack dens - Kepler's Bookstore - turns 50 this year. Fifty years of social consciousness (Roy Kepler was an anti-violence activist) and social unconsciousness (this is,
SF News Tourist-Baiting The Examiner's in the middle of a week-long article series about San Francisco's tourism industry, where Examiner reporters try out various tourist services. Yesterday's Nellie Blys took cabs from various locations around the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Raves: Cinco de Mayo Before we moved to the Bay Area, all our knowledge on Cinco de Mayo came from our time spent at our local Chi-Chi's, (which played host to a perennially broken sign reading "17
Arts & Entertainment Ho U The classes are part of the 4th Annual Sex Worker Film & Arts Fest, Sex Worker, of course, being the nice, politically correct term for a hooker (SFist, being the essence of politically
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pull My Finger Things just keep getting worse and worse for Ms. Anna Ayala, the woman who purportedly bit into a fingertip in her Wendy's chili last month. So not only was her house raided, it
SF News SFist Est Amicus Curiae Well, SFist got our legal history off to a good start -- we're involved in a court case, and we're not the defendant! Nor are we the plaintiff -- though if you don't
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Julie Tucker Along with her partner, Jennifer Elias, Julie has packaged crucial information about the simple pleasures of life (chocolate, food, wine, sex) into decks you can buy, read, and then regurgitate at parties like
Arts & Entertainment Oh For The Gossip Of It All Our New Yorker finally made the arduous trek from the Conde Nast building and across the high Sierra mountains to our little hinterlands mailbox, exhausted. We opened it up, and to our shock,
SF News Sophie Maxwell Pisses Off The Blogosphere Well, when we suggested that Sophie start a blog to help counter some of the diatribes by critics in her constituency, we were only partly joking. Sure, we were jealous that our friends
