Arts & Entertainment Old School, New School: The SFist School Board Interviews Introduce yourself, and tell us what you currently do. For the last seven years, I have been an independent contractor with the City and County of San Francisco Juvenile Probation Department. My title
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Gary Carr Gary’s interview does an excellent job of reminding us that we’re all in it together in this town, no matter what we do in our free time. Homelessness is an enduring
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Amandeep Jawa, Flashdance Boss Dust off your dancing shoes, San Francisco! You DO have dancing shoes, don't you? No, your galoshes don't count. Wait, have you been wearing those since Folsom? Eww. Aaaaaaaaanyway, this Saturday, at 8pm
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Joe Mangrum When he’s not attempting to get every single resident of the Mission to fight him, Joe makes art (maybe you’ve been lucky enough to see some of his stuff around the
Arts & Entertainment Dark Side of the Cop's Marco Panella New bands are always getting compared to other bands. Most of the up-and-comes suffer by this comparison. In rare cases, it may be helpful. Such is the case with Panella’s band, Dark
Arts & Entertainment Annalee Fery from Monsters are Waiting Put yourself in their shoes, you’re really busy and you haven’t been in LA long, but you really want the kind of internet superstardom that only an SFist interview can confer—
Arts & Entertainment John Ringhofer of Half-handed Cloud John recently underwent the grueling SFist interview process and has produced the gem below. In it you’ll find instructions on how to be a good fan to your favorite up and coming
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Matt Nathanson Best show you've ever played and what made it great? It's hard to pick just one but if I have to... my 6th grade talent show. I played 'message in a bottle', 'twist
SF News Everybody Hates Chris: The District 6 Interview Summary Fear not! SFist has thoughtfully put together a table of everyone's answers to our deeply-incisive District 6 Interviews, to make your decision-making that much easier. (Just so you know, we gave everyone the
Arts & Entertainment Caila Thompson-Hannant of Shapes and Sizes World events got you down? Sometimes wonder if American citizenship is worth all the grief? If you’re considering marrying a Canadian to escape it all, we’ve got one more reason to
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Barb Traub Barb Traub has been going to Burning Man for a long time. Her book, Desert to Dream: A Decade of Burning Man Photography, chronicles a changing festival over the last decade. If you
Arts & Entertainment Om's Al Cisneros When was your best show ever? The last time we played NY which was a couple of months ago. It felt to us that people were finally seeing this (Om) as its own
Arts & Entertainment Craftster's Leah Kramer Leah Kramer is the mastermind behind the craftster forum. She’ll be in the Bay Area this week to promote her book, “The Craftster Guide to Nifty, Thrifty, and Kitschy Crafts”, and SFist
Arts & Entertainment Larry Clark on <em>Wassup Rockers</em> While at times funny and entertaining, the movie seemed to shy away from the provocative sensationalism of his earlier work, which may have something to do with Clark's difficulty getting US distribution for
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
Arts & Entertainment New Contributor Interview: Chris Johnson I wanted to be an SFist contributor because I needed the structure. Name The TruthMaker. My glass is always half empty, deal with it. Age and Occupation Youngish late thirties. Laborer. Home Town
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
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Nathaniel Ford, Part Six Eve Batey: While we're on all these initiatives, how about TransLink? What's going on there? Nathainel Ford: Okay. I guess Translink has had its challenges. It’s a new technology. I’m part
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Nathaniel Ford, Part Five Eve Batey: What about Transit.511? Nathaniel Ford: Okay. Now I’ve heard about some challenges we’re having with Transit.511, and that in some cases it’s not giving as accurate
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Nathaniel Ford, Part Four Eve Batey: Well, this is going to kind of put you on the spot, and, frankly, I don't know how honest you can be, but I have to ask: Is the Central Subway
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Nathaniel Ford, Part Three Eve Batey: While I’m asking what you’re going to do for money now, of course I also want to know – Nathaniel Ford: Increase patronage! EB: Well, yeah! NF: Increase our patronage,
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
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 SFIFF: <i>Jonestown: The Life And Death Of Peoples Temple</i> Anyone who's interested in San Francisco history must see this movie. Director and MacArthur genius grant recipient Stanley Nelson (who previously directed the Emmy-award-winning ) has put together a sensitive and thoughtful history of
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
