Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Theater: <em>No Parole</em> At an efficient 90 minutes, Peruvian-born D’Amore seamlessly breaks down (in more ways than one) his trajectory from wide-eyed, Italian/Latin-American kid in 1980s Peru to neurotic adult living with his too-brilliant
Arts & Entertainment What Immigration Means To Us: KQED Documentary Examines Impact On Bay Area Economy With all the recent hoopla regarding national immigration legistlation, now might be a great time to get a perspective on immigration here close to home. We're not sure how many SFist readers are
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up, let's say the San Jose Metro. Hillary Clinton is not doing very well fundraising in Silicon Valley. Eco-trendiness is getting kind of old. What exactly does it mean to be a
SF News Davis College Republicans Experimenting with Totally Faggy Performance Art Oh, what's become of our good old-fashioned hard-hearted conservative Republicans? What's next, long hair? Berets? Drapes and doilies? Irish cuisine? The Davis College Republicans are sponsoring some sort of symbolic art-game today (Tuesday)
SF News Reactionaries React to Gavin's Reaction First up, Screamin' Lou Dobbs who broke Godwin's Law in envoking Nazis to describe Gavin's statement. Said Lou: "They might as well work for Hermann Goering, I mean, they're running so much propaganda,
SF News Immigrant Song What's been happening is the INS has been cracking down on immigrants throughout the Bay Area. It seems to be really willy-nilly to as they've been pretty much sweeping people up in nets
misc It's a Hard Knock Life in California To determine all this stuff, the people behind the study, the nonprofit Editorial Projects in Education Research Center (got that?), factored in things like level of income, types of families, language and education.
SF News SchwarzenWatcher: Big Mouth Strikes Again Now why would somebody running for office say something so dumb? After all, rule #1 of running for an election is to try and not piss off people whose vote you want. Well,
misc East Bay: Animals Gone Wild Contra Costa Times columnist, Sarah Jacobson, writes about a raccoon cocktail party on the front porch of her Pittsburg home in the wee hours of the morning.And while we would disagree with
SF News Political Junkie: Sanity Alert! We are very sad to report to you that Chris Daly is in the Chron today -- but not for hauling off and hitting anyone, or yelling at someone so loud that the
SF News Happy May Day It warms our red hearts to see workers marching here at home and around the world on International Workers' Day, otherwise known as May Day. Protests and demonstrations happened from Berlin to Indonesia,
SF News Protestor Watch: Oakland Immigrant Protests SFist Melissa went to today's immigrant rallies in Oakland, and was kind enough to pass along these awesome pictures of the event. Over 1000 people marched for 7 miles in Oakland, while several
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Chinese Restaurants: Latin Passions</i> Long-time SFist readers will remember that we were so inspired at last year's SFIAAFF by "Chinese Restaurants: Three Continents" that we gave it our prestigious Best Film We Saw On SFist award for
misc More Redevelopments In J-Town San Francisco Japantown's seen a lot in the last 100 years -- from the influx of Japanese-American immigrants after the 1906 earthquake and the development of an ethnic community, to its forced displacement
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Figs But we just like the taste. Back in August, only a few farmer's market stalls had them, but now it seems like everyone's got some on display. Figs flourish in this state, which
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.
SF News The Great Building Inspector Brouhaha of '05 During the hearing, O'Donoghue and his allies went out of their way to say they weren’t being sexist and that the Irish love their women, it's just that, well, Lee might have
