Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight The Asian Art Museum's monthly throwdown, Matcha, kicks off around 6pm with DJs, tours, workshops and cocktails. The Live Action Cartoonists, a performance troupe that combines comics and theatre, will perform highlights from
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today Other events: --The Fillmore Jazz Festival continues all day today (10-6) on Fillmore (duh), between Jackson and Eddy. Lots of bands and lots of booths! --The Jim Henson movie festival continues at the
SF News We Liked to Watch The Muni security camera site may have gotten locked away, but we can still remember those few glorious few hours of spying which we were able to enjoy. In case you missed it,
Arts & Entertainment Pirate Cat Radio Benefit Corporate radio still sucks! Strike a blow for independent community airwaves and stop by Pirate Cat Radio 87.9 FM's benefit concert this Friday at the Elbo Room. The beloved low-power radio station/
SF News The SF Board Of Supes Clown Show An old crank's written a piece for the SFGate today either decrying or praising (we must confess we can't quite tell) our current crop of city supervisors as "a clown show." A clown
misc Top 5 Comments of the Week: Oh, Behave! The signal to noise ratio, frankly, went to s***. We believe that our soon-to-be-implemented new comments system will be a big help, and most of you stayed within bounds and were a great
SF News New Coke: The Chris Daly Fallout --Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier is going to reintroduce a code of conduct for behavior before the Board of Supes. You may remember she introduced a motion to censure Daly for saying "f*** off" at
Arts & Entertainment SFist Finds: '80s Wedding Send your Bay Area finds to found - at - sfist - dot - com or tag them as sfist on Flickr! Tell us where and when you found the items, plus any
SF News SFist Blotter Police chase last night in the Mission: around 7 p.m., the SFPD started chasing one or two guys in a blue Cherokee at around 26th and Harrison. The Cherokee got on 101
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City "Scratch your name into the fabric of this world before you go." - Noisettes Let Noisettes show you the future tonight at 7pm for free when they perform at Amoeba. Singer Shingai Shoniwa's
SF News Coz Every Girl Crazy Bout a Sharp Dressed Man Nolan had wanted to wear a suit since becoming the Niners coach to honor his father but ran afoul of the NFL's licensing rules. You can't have people just wearing clothes all willy
Arts & Entertainment 3 Questions For Digg's Kevin Rose You know who Kevin Rose is, right? He used to be on television quite a bit. Now, he's all over the podwaves, co-hosting, behind the scenes, and making guest appearances. And he's the
SF News Free Bulbs So what does this have to do with Gavin? Why's he suddenly pushing a Yahoo ad campaign that's disguised as greeniness but is actually just a trick to get us to use their
Arts & Entertainment 3 Questions For Megan Morrone You may remember Megan Morrone from TechTV -- or you may have heard her filling in on a podcast here or there. We've recently become reacquainted with her works through Jumping Monkeys, her
SF News Do You Dare Say No To The Yes Men? It wasn't a cheap stunt to produce, and their next one won't be, either. So they need your help. They're asking for PayPal donations, which seems a bit sketch to us -- you
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Cafe in Need is a Cafe Indeed He writes, In the past, we’ve tried comedy, live music, wine events, family nights, and various “get-something-free” promotions. ... In our perfect world, we’d find some sort of evergreen event that is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink All The News You Can Booze For many of us with standard 9-5 jobs, a long weekend is coming up. Naturally, our minds turn to libations (take a look to the left for some insight into our personal plans)
SF News Bay to Breakers Approaching; Bring Your Rollerskates in Case You Can't Catch a Bus Remember how effed-up Muni was at last year's Bay to Breakers, with no signs and riders vomiting and drivers getting lost and nobody having any idea how to get anywhere? Yeah, it's probably
Arts & Entertainment James Elkington of The Zincs Best show you've played and what made it great? Vienna in Austria - I broke the PA with my classical guitar. The best fans are: Zincs fans. Favorite Venue? The Doug Fir Lounge
Arts & Entertainment Three Questions For SFist's Founding Editor It's mostly this guy's fault. Jackson West, who was the first editor here at SFist, got the ball rolling with this post, "The City that Knows How." He helped to grow the site
SF News Microsoft? Deal Or No Deal? As of yesterday, people were abuzz that Microsoft had reopened merger talks with Yahoo over the past few months in the wake of the Google-DoubleClick purchase and the news that Google is now
Arts & Entertainment APE Escape 2007 Part 3: The Storytellers--Traditional, With A Twist The last of our slightly less-than-timely coverage of the Alternative Press Expo, which took place last weekend, focuses on folks telling their sequential art stories in a longer form. Ted Naifeh, a Western
misc World Still a Potentially Scary Place What's the price of a free society? Lunatics running around loose: online threats have lead UC Hastings to shut down, just for today. What are the threats? Who's responsible? We don't know. What
SF News Blind Items Which flack-loving, actress-addicted wonk might be getting hitched as early as June? Too bad he forgot to tell the printer of the invitations to keep it a secret from certain highly reputable sources,