SF News Swells by the Numbers SFist Rita is out of town for work, so we are donning our tiara and gown for this weeks Swells analysis. Tra-la-la! Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column:
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City The Mission Creek Music Festival is still going strong and shows continue through Sunday. Although MCMF's press folks hadn't ever heard of SFist ("Is this a radio station? We're only giving tickets to
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Fog City Mavericks</i> -- Can You Feel The Love Tonight? Sunday night, the SF International screened the world premiere of the film Fog City Mavericks at the Castro Theater. There were shades of Sundance as many of the films featured filmmakers and actors,
Arts & Entertainment Fill Your Belly at Full House Café To tell you the truth, we were hesitant to share this restaurant review with you, because we were worried that you would swarm our favorite neighborhood breakfast place and extend our wait for
SF News What Would Mike Brady Think? The types of buildings were listed in five categories: religious, residential, commercial, historic, and civic. To decide the winners, the AIA had a secret meeting in a dark tomb somewhere and drew lots
SF News A Little Piece of the Puzzle The little part of the story involves the ex-Prosecutor Kevin Ryan and his replacement, Scott Schools. Now Ryan was one of the eight attorneys let go in the purge, although there doesn't seem
SF News Family In The City The articles profiled a couple who live on Guerrero Street and their two kids (5 and 1) -- on the one hand, an affordable area because of the high-density housing and street traffic,
SF News Josh Wolf, Free at Last. <strike>We Think</strike> Update: everyone probably knows this already, but Wolf was released today after 7 1/2 months in prison. The final deal allows him to release the uncut footage (look for it on his
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
misc Ist-travaganza! We'd like to start this week's run-down by wishing a very happy birthday to parent blog Gothamist, which turned four on Friday. If it wasn't for them, the rest of us wouldn't be
Arts & Entertainment Josh Wolf Breaks a Record If you want more background to the story, click here and here but long story, short-- Wolf videotaped a bunch of anarchists get with the anarchy, a cop was hurt, Wolf showed it
SF News She's Leaving, On a Jet Plane, Of course, there's much more to the story, mainly that a lot of it, if not all of it, isn't true. It is true Nancy gets to fly a plane back east but
Arts & Entertainment At The Ballet The evening started out at a gala Spanish-themed reception at City Hall and the Chron breathlessly reports that "[t]his was the most dressed-up Ballet gala in history. If the ladies pulled out
SF News Pelosi Strikes Back What seems to be going on is a case of "I Dare You." The Democrats are making noises of fighting the new policy and the White House is saying we dare you, and
SF News It's Friday-- Do You Know Where Your Football Team Is? As any Raider fan would tell you, if a team wants to move to another city, there's really nothing the NFL could do about it. It's Al Davis' favorite rule. The reason why
Arts & Entertainment The Falun Gong Show: SFist Goes To The NTDTV Chinese New Year But a computer-animated backdrop showing a angel flying down to Earth to rescue a dancer portraying a Falun Gong meditator being beaten senseless by Communist goons, together with a song proclaiming, "The Falun
SF News There Ain't No Party Like a Pelosi Party If the sun is shining a bit brighter and the birds are chirping a bit chirpier it could only be because today is a big day-- as of this posting, our little Nancy
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews <em>Curse of the Golden Flower</em> Which brings us to Curse of the Golden Flower, Yimou's latest epic sword and kung fu flick. Will it blow us away or will it bore us? The answer, actually, is somewhere in
Arts & Entertainment Insert U2-related Pun Here Unfortunately, despite all the fawning attention Ms. Nancy seems to be giving to Bono, Bono didn't leave the meetings happy, saying that the new Democratic leadership weren't very helpful as they were unable
SF News Happy Paper Trails Now, all of this would be easy to fix if there was a paper trail but, alas, those whacky machines don't have a paper trial. Nothing, Nada, Zilch. Which means there's no way
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews Beach House at the Hemlock Sharing the bill with Beach House was Over the Atlantic, also on Carpark Records and local band The Parish. We really wanted to like Over the Atlantic, in part because they have a
SF News Nancy's Rough Start The rise to Speaker didn't go without a hitch, however, as Pelosi's choice to replace her as House Majority Leader didn't go so well. Pelosi backed John Murtha, the big bear of a
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Monologue at Berkeley Repertory Theatre Never underestimate the power of silly. Besides, not all theater has to be Theater. Geoff Sobelle and Trey Lyford mix Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton and Samuel Beckett's existential
SF News Short Coattails Take Doug Chan in District 4, for example. Newsom was the conservative (for SF) Police Commission member Chan's go-to guy -- Newsom showed up at Chan's kickoff rally; he walked the Sunset with
SF News Everything Else Results National They called the race for Feinstein like 5 minutes after the polls closed in California. Pelosi is not only going to win, she's going to be the next Speaker of the House!
