Arts & Entertainment Interview: Peaches Christ But when we got a release on This Year's Midnight Mass Film Series (which runs at midnights every Friday and Saturday from tonight until mid-August, see the complete schedule here), we knew we
SF News Catch A Wave and You're Sitting On Top of the World How this thing would work is that the turbine put near Ocean Beach would convert the energy given off by waves into electricity. The other one would go somewhere under the Bay Bridge
SF News Political Junkie: Since We Been Gone We're back from vacation -- and it's to get caught up on two weeks of news! Why didn't anyone tell us San Jose mayor Ron Gonzales got indicted? Over a garbage-services contract, no
Arts & Entertainment Vloggercon 2006 Video geeks are descending on San Francisco this weekend for Vloggercon 2006 (or 'video blogger conference' if you're not a fan of tech neologisms). It was inspired by Webzine and the original Vloggercon
Arts & Entertainment Interview: SFist hearts Voxtrot Now that SFist has signed year books, been told to stay “cute ‘n cool” about five thousand times, updated facebook with our new school, and has promised to NEVER change, we’re all
SF News Everybody Hates Chris: In Memoriam It's a melancholy Everybody Hates Chris column about the District 6 election: this week's episode -- Everybody Hates Death. We were sorry to read in the paper that one of the candidates that
Arts & Entertainment Free We Are Scientists! You might already know that their debut album, With Love & Squalor, will drive you to do strange, angular dances to the stop-start rhythms, alarm clock guitars and addictive melodies. The 'Scientists may
SF News Was It All Just A Dream? It's so weird, but we could have sworn we heard the CSI half of the late, great CSI: Plumpjack in an interview discussing Gavin in a VERY friendly way. Granted, we missed the
SF News Catching You Up With the Joneses -After Gavin vetoed the "Healthy Saturdays" initiative, the Board of Supervisors voted to see if they could override Gavin's veto but couldn't. Once again, the vote came down to a 7-4 vote, not
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>Fired!</i> There's no question that getting fired, canned, axed, rif'ed, or booted SUCKS. We were back at one of our favorite SF theaters, the Roxie, for the SF debut of Annabelle Gurwitch's at Docfest
Arts & Entertainment Everybody Hates Chris: The District 6 Election Interview So we've moved up a notch on the news scale -- instead of just reading anti-Chris Daly position papers on the internet, we actually reached out to the candidates we could find with
SF News Interview: Nathaniel Ford, Part One Nathaniel Ford: Thanks for coming in. Eve Batey: Oh, thank you for having me. NF: By all means. I guess this will be an opportunity for you to get to know me and
Arts & Entertainment Mike Taylor from The Court and Spark One word to describe The Court & Spark: Affable. One word to describe your music: Shady. What's it take to get a gig in this town anyway? Other than the belief that what
Arts & Entertainment The Headlight's Erin Fein's Guide to Champaign-Urbana Erin Fein, keyboardist and singer of Headlights, submitted to the interview process mid tour. If you haven’t heard of Headlights yet, don’t sweat it. They just have one EP out right
misc Dear Mr Ford: Good (Kind Of) And Bad It wouldn't be Dear Mr Ford without an adventure with SFist Matt, would it? I must begrudgingly give Muni high marks for customer service today (even as I give it low marks for
Arts & Entertainment Henry Rosenthal, producer of "The Devil and Daniel Johnston" Enter director Jeff Feuerzeig whose film “The Devil and Daniel Johnston” played at Sundance 2005 and won Feuerzeig the best direction award. SFist was lucky enough to catch the film at the San
SF News Elsewhere in -istville Seattlest saw a house party get senselessly attacked with a shotgun and end in seven dead. A local senator is debated and their version of the big dig is investigated. To truly get
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Aqueduct White guys rapping! Ganster rap? The most instantly lovable band SFist has encountered is Aqueduct, who do, in fact, mix in a little of the rap into their set. It takes a certain
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Bing Ji Ling Bing Ji Ling is a San Francisco musician with the best pedigree we've come across: His dad was a musician who met and married his mother here in the '60's. ahhhhhh. This may
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: John Vanderslice Hopefully you're the lucky winner of the Feist tickets tonight so that you can catch John Vanderslice opening. This interview first ran last August, and SFist is republishing it to enhance your Noisepop
SF News -Ist-A-Palooza Phillyist notes a fistfight between local pols that leaves one man down for the count. Jehovah's Witnesses get a Philly contributor out of bed, things get a little geeky with a film festival
Arts & Entertainment Rock Star Auditions Get your leather pants and best rock caterwaul ready, because Jason Newsted will be attending an open-call audition today here in San Francisco: "Rock Star: The Series" Casting March 21st Rockit Room 406
Arts & Entertainment SXSW: You Will Never Find a More Wretched Hive of Scum and Villany As far as we know, SFists Jackson and Krissy continue their tear though Austin, Texas at SXSW, but who the hell knows? We haven't heard from Krissy since yesterday (which might be an
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Tyrone Davies The Bay Area has its fair share of web celebrities, but sometimes something surfaces that stands out for its awesomeness. After both VH1’s Web Junk and BoingBoing featured this clip, we knew
SF News Political Junkie: Cut His Mike! What is it with Chris Daly and MSNBC? Flush from his success on Countdown and the Situation, District 6's own got himself a tourist visa to Scarborough Country -- where it sounds like
