Arts & Entertainment SFist Today It's the Fourth of July! Streamers! Bunting! Brass bands! And in San Francisco.... the opening of the hotly-anticipated SF Mime Troupe production in Dolores Park! The acidly-political theater group (note: , though it would
Arts & Entertainment Opposition To The War At The Berkeley Edge Fest This year, the Edge Fest is featuring a musical theater piece by Paul Dresher called , based on a short story by Italo Calvino, about a king that clings to power for fear of
SF News SFist Blotter A gay African-American high school English teacher at the private Urban School is recovering from three stab wounds he received a few weeks ago while eating at the Taqueria Cancun down near Mission
SF News Chimpanzees For Peace! We don't even know where to start with this news item -- we had to read the article like three times before we figured it out. Who has a pro-war protest in San
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Peter Morgan and <i>The Deal</i> We'd been wanting to see ever since we saw The Queen, and it did not disappoint! We're grasping for analogies here! It's like the Godfather, only about politics! It's like Amadeus, if Salieri
SF News Walnuts McCain Goes To Google! From the Daily Show to the Googleplex -- Republican presidential hopeful Walnuts John McCain, struggling in the polls and in fundraising, gamely stopped by Mountain View yesterday afternoon for an hourlong forum with
Arts & Entertainment Arrivederci Hans, das war der letzte Tanz. Friday will be a farewell: it is the last "Friday 6.5 show" of the season, a last dance of sorts, if only to make sense of our title. The performance is at
SF News Now the Entire State Hates Our Freedom Laugh now, but when we hand over the state to Osama, we'll see how things go. Just envision Disneyland turning into Talibanland and having Space Mountain become Jihad Mountain where animotronic Mullah's throw
SF News War is Over if The Board of Supervisors Want It And look, it might be working too-- today the Senate is actually considering a resolution on having a phased withdrawl starting in 2008. We wonder if Harry Reid was finally moved to get
SF News What About Bill? Hillary is in town to give a speech at one of the housing projects in Bayview to talk about the importance of lifting people out of poverty. Nah, we're just joking-- she did
SF News She's Leaving, On a Jet Plane, Of course, there's much more to the story, mainly that a lot of it, if not all of it, isn't true. It is true Nancy gets to fly a plane back east but
SF News Get Your Puppets Ready We don't know what the protest will include, but we're guessing lots of chanting in rhymes, big-ass puppets, a few Free-Mumia signs and Frank Chu. Can't forget Frank Chu. Actually, some of the
Arts & Entertainment MLK Day in S.F.: A Day On, Not A Day Off Speaker Nancy Pelosi shows off her new gavel at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Breakfast in San Francisco this morning. This was Pelosi's first time back in her home district after
misc Lafayette Crosses Go Neon The reasons for the new sign is because of last night's little speech that the President gave. Activists behind the crosses are calling it a "panic button" or "stop sign" and hope that
SF News Crosses Vandalized The crosses have been a source of controversy since they were put up months ago. Despite it being said to be "in memory" of all the troops killed in the war, it's seen
Arts & Entertainment Insert U2-related Pun Here Unfortunately, despite all the fawning attention Ms. Nancy seems to be giving to Bono, Bono didn't leave the meetings happy, saying that the new Democratic leadership weren't very helpful as they were unable
Arts & Entertainment It's In the Vault Wolfgang's Vault is one of those online stores where you can order your vintage rock t-shirts and other cool stuff. 'Cause you know, nothing says cool like wearing tees for bands you've never
SF News The Homeless. Again. Here comes the numbers (mostly compared to 2004), according to the Mayor: -4,800 less homeless people -2,600 homeless individuals were put in supportive housing -87% reduction in people claiming cash payments
Arts & Entertainment Freedom of Speech? Basically, what the story is about is this guy who is hanging a figure that looks like an arab (he says it's not an arab but a "terrorist" for which we are all
SF News Where Oh Where Will Barry Go? Because stat-heads can figure anything out (we're awaiting some guy with a calculator to figure out how to get out of Iraq), a columnist in the NY Times got together with the Baseball
SF News The Warriors: Now we're cooking with gas! Memo to David Stern: Start the playoffs right now, baby, the Warriors are ready to make a run! What is it with this team? Just when Warrior nation was about to write them
SF News Nancy's Rough Start The rise to Speaker didn't go without a hitch, however, as Pelosi's choice to replace her as House Majority Leader didn't go so well. Pelosi backed John Murtha, the big bear of a
SF News The Warriors: Oracle Sez . . . On Friday, the Warriors announced their biggest signing of the year so far, agreeing to a 10-year, $30 million naming rights agreement with free agent multinational software corporation Oracle. The new name of
Arts & Entertainment What Else is Going on For Litquake Well, if you want to check the schedule of events, go here. There's plenty to choose from and it seems like something is going on everywhere at all hours. Everyone's favorite event is
SF News Bush Ter Down! This is part of an international 190-city protest against the Iraq War (with 70 of the cities are in states that voted for Bush in 2004). They've been organizing on MySpace, and distributing
