SF News Le Sour de France: Pissing Away the Championship Sigh. A couple of weeks ago we were lamenting the end of the 2006 Tour de France, wishing it could continue indefinitely. Wish granted, unfortunately. On July 27, the International Cycling Union (ICU)
SF News Terrorize This Luckily, reports have been coming out saying that yes indeed, the Bad Guys have been looking our way and plotting some terror. A new report that was released by the California Department of
SF News Le Tour de France: Who's Watching Who? After a day off, the 2006 Tour de France is heading into its second week today, unbeknownst to most Americans. According to the Chronicle, only 280,000 Americans watch the Tour on TV.
SF News Gavin Goes for the Gold Actually, the Mayor has a plan. See, the key isn't necessarily to pass muster with the US Olympic Committee, but the International Olympic Committee since they are the one's who have the final
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 30: <i>George Michael: A Different Story</i> In messaging that seems very tightly controlled by the Michael machine, GM and the filmmakers lead us through his initial success with Wham!, his solo career (which emerged nearly concurrently with his realization
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 30: SFist Has You Covered It all starts with tonight's 7:30 screening of at the Castro (where else?), followed by the 30th Anniversary Opening Night Gala at the San Francisco Design Center. We're not just showing up
SF News Alien Duck Update They came in peace, they asked to be taken to our leader -- and it looks like our leader is online casino GoldenPalace.com. Remember that awesome picture of the duck with the
misc In A Duck, No One Can Hear You Scream The truth is out there -- in Cordelia, outside Vallejo, at the International Bird Rescue Research Center. A technician x-raying a male mallard duck with a broken wing looked down at the x-ray
Arts & Entertainment 10th Annual Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival Sunday kicked off the 10th annual Mission Creek Music and Arts Festival featuring over 170 music acts, most of them local but some of them national (Vincent Gallo) and international (Ane Brun). The
SF News The Guilfency! A very enthusiastic "HER MOTHER AND I DO!" of support to the genius tipster who passed along the Exclusive Details about the impending Kimberly Guilfoyle-Eric Villency (hereinafter, "the Guilfency") Memorial Day nuptials in
misc Local Coffee Guy Takes A Fall; Coffee Community Helps Him Back Up Some time ago, we met Steve Ford, who, among other things pulls a great shot of espresso. We met him during his tenure with the stalkerriffic Blue Bottle Coffee Company; since our encounter,
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,
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Favela Rising</i> Arriving at Baycat, the Bayview Hunters Point Center for Arts & Technology, about forty minutes prior to the San Francisco premier of "Favela Rising," we hadn’t banked on the sellout crowd. Fortunately,
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Drawing Restraint 9</i> While mainstream America's attention has been focused on TomKat's recent offspring and Brangelina's pending progeny, we joined San Francisco's arthouse hipster crowd at the Kabuki late Wednesday night for the local unveiling of
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF Opening Night: <i>Perhaps Love</i> Such was our feeling at last night's opening of the San Francisco International Film Festival, which kicked off with the North American premiere of . The marathon began with San Francisco Film Society Executive
Arts & Entertainment The San Francisco International Film Festival: SFist Has Got You Covered From tonight's opening night gala and screening of , to a projection of Cartography of Ashes against the firefighter's training tower at the SFFD Fire Station #7, we'll be reporting back to you with
SF News Kabuki Theatre Sold to Sundance Cinemas Expected to become "a state-of-the-art independent movie house", Sundance plans on beginning renovations to the theatre in early May, following the San Francisco International Film Festival. This fall it'll reopen as the "Sundance
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 3.14159 Day What are you doing today, March 14, at 1:59 p.m.? Celebrating irrational numbers, we hope -- that's when the Exploratorium, San Francisco's science museum, will be kicking off their 18th Annual
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares: It's a Motherf***ing Walk-Off! Oh snap! Someone's already done it. The St. Vincent de Paul Society challenged fashion design students from SFSU and FIDM to do just that and the results are really incredible. Take that Santino!
SF News SchwartzenWatcher Goes to the Human Cockfights Our Governor is SO not like your Governor. This particular match is between Team Gracie and Team Hammerhouse and kicks off the "Arnold Martial Arts Festival," which is part of the whole Arnold
SF News SFist Tech Labs: Un-American Activities Fitting in with the internet theme of the proceedings, Lantos invoked Godwin's Law and compared the companies' compliance with the Chinese government with IBM's compliance with Nazi Germany in World War II. (Link
Arts & Entertainment The Tour Comes to Town Now that the San Francisco Grand Prix is no longer, this race offers Bay Area cycling fans their only chance to see the best road cyclists in the world battle it out on
misc The State Department Not Feeling the Whole Brokeback Thing According to the State Department, one of the groups in question, the International Lesbian & Gay Association, was once associated with NAMBLA. Years ago. And expelled them. And haven't been associated with since.
SF News Terrorist Threat at San Jose Airport It is not reported how someone came to read his journal (new NSA spying program?). Nor what it was in context to. All we can say is our old writing journal with the
