Arts & Entertainment Fred Korematsu, 1919-2005 The Asian-American civil rights community has lost a hero with the passing of Fred Korematsu yesterday in his daughter's home in Marin. Korematsu, an American citizen and Bay Area resident, was 22 years
Arts & Entertainment Watch Deadwood, You F**king C**ksuckers Of course SFist is of the opinion that The Sopranos is the only good thing that's been on television in the last decade or two. Sure, there's stuff that's entertaining all over TV
SF News Game, Set And Match Granted, we get lyrical on days like yesterday, when the rain clouds clear and the sun shines over The City. But the ancient game of tennis has made the tales of no less
SF News Gropinator 2: Judgment Day A British reporter's claims that Arnold Schwarzenegger first sexually assaulted her, then libeled her in the press when she told the LA Times about the incident, survived a first round of review by
SF News One Hundred Blogospheres Anil's gone and put together a bunch of observations on how individual blogospheres mutate and evolve, as well as interact with existing blogospheres. Remember that weird program "Life" on your Tandy? Or how
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: 62 Years and 6500 Miles Between First of all, we want to apologize for having to miss the Asian Am Film Fest screening of the Taiwanese comedy on Tuesday -- we got sick. We're totally going to try and
Arts & Entertainment Star Wars, Nothing But Star Wars With the third and final Star Wars movie mere months away from premiering, we're about to find out the answer to that old zen koan: if Lucas releases a Star Wars movie after
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wide Awake in North Beach: Mario's Bohemian Cigar Store Mario's Bohemian Cigar Store is a small, intimate cafe in North Beach, right on the corner of Columbus and Union. Both bar seating and small, round tables are available; plenty of large windows
SF News Interview: Jeff Chang Tell us all about your new book It's a 500+ page love letter to hip-hop and an alternative cultural and political history of the last three decades. Um, it's actually a lot more
Arts & Entertainment I Got The Ice Cream... and You Don't Have... oh... And while they have a very interesting little retrospective feature on their website (dudes, The Spot is !?) let's ignore that for a moment and focus on something really important. There is free ice
Arts & Entertainment Drinking with the O'Essefficist After soliciting answerable questions from myriad colleagues and cohorts, the Essefficist has some doozies to work with this week. (But don't let that stop you from sending in some of your own.) Having
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Movies This Weekend Oscars Special SFist enjoys the who big-ass spectacle that is the Oscars, but we have to admit that we've always been really bad at seeing the nominated movies. They all just look so, we don't
Arts & Entertainment The War Memorial Code Philippines Founding Father Emilio Aguinaldo, while in exile from Spain in Hong Kong, conceived the flag. The flag incorporated various components of other Filipino flags and was designed to represent the Filipino rebellion
Arts & Entertainment Dredging up the Past with the Essefficist Welcome back to the wonderful world of the Essefficist, where no amount of steroids could possibly help us answer your questions any better than we already do. But could help us answer your
SF News Robb Retires Making official what was probably obvious for the past two years, Giants relief ace Robb Nen quietly retired over the weekend. Nen played a huge part in recent Giants history, in pitching against
Arts & Entertainment Springfield's Winter of Love Well, add "inspiration for an episode of the Simpsons" to the Gavster's resume. Apparently "Springfield is for Gay Lovers of Marriage." Thanks to Bart pranking a Matt Lauer-esque perky morning show host, who
Arts & Entertainment The Jewish/African Diaspora It's black history month and we're ashamed to admit that all we've done is buy James Baldwin stamps and curse Condoleezza Rice. So we were glad to receive a tip from a reader
SF News Gavin Goes on the Offensive After being blamed for the re-election of W., made a virtual pariah in the Democratic Party, and befriended by Angelina Jolie all for letting a few gay people marry, you would think that
SF News Steve Young Enters the Hall of Fame Being from Philadelphia, SFist always thought 49ers fans had it too easy. After all, their team won Super Bowls, they had the model franchise, and they had the Sainted Joe Montana at Quarterback.
Arts & Entertainment Gridskipping This is sort of like if the native Americans in Mission Bay had noted on their blog Ohlonist in 1776 that some crazy dude named Junipero Serra was having a party for his
SF News Arguably, January's Second Most Important Birthday The fulltext of David Pogue's nifty and semi-hard-to-find 1997 article, "It's a Wonderful Mac," follows after the jump.
Arts & Entertainment A Children's Book About Ganja? We weren't even stoned and we had to laugh. But after we had a chance to read an advance copy of It's Just a Plant: A Children's Story of Marijuana posted online by
Arts & Entertainment Fair fa' your honest sonsie face, Great Chieftain o' the puddin' race And for a good list of Celtic music events related to Burns Night, go here
Arts & Entertainment Eyes on the Rightsholder's Prize Just a few minutes ago, Boing Boing's Cory Doctorow published an excerpt and link to a Toronto Globe and Mail article that describes how a classic documentary on the civil rights movement, Eyes
SF News Monday Morning Quarterback Well, we're damn glad this season is over. Best performance of the year goes to Cal, even if they did get upset by Texas Tech in San Diego last week. Fact is, this
