SF News Seeing Stars at the All-Star Game We love seeing these games on TV for reasons already spelled out, mainly because it's a great way to show off the city and our little jewel of a park. And while watching
Arts & Entertainment Harry Potter and the Smooth Chest (Non-Baseball Event) Anyway, check it: The purple triple-decker Harry Potter Knight Bus will be parked outside the Main Library (Grove St. side) from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on Wednesday, July 11, and a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Other events, for the non-baseball inclined: --It's the Zeitgeist Int'l Film Festival! Short films in the backyard. $5, 199 Valencia (x Duboce), doors at 8, movies at 9. --We know, we always give
misc Top 5 Comments of the Week Hey folks, we're back again with our favorites amongst the comments and opinions you, the readership, made about SFist's stories that ran the week of July 1. Despite the weird holiday schedule, there
Arts & Entertainment SFist Today Other events: --The workers united -- have a whole month to celebrate! July is Laborfest month, and you can celebrate today at a poetry reading about growing up working-class at City Lights (5
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Padres 4 Giants 2- The Matt Cain suicide watch is in effect again as Cain once again pitched a stellar game only to get tagged with yet another loss. This time it wasn't
SF News Day Around The Bay --Who owns the new East Bay Express? [the EBX's 92510] --Oh, Newsom's all for foot patrols. [KCBS.] --The Bike Coalition and Ross Mirkarimi want lights at Fell and Masonic. [Examiner.] --Wanna pay someone
SF News Ask a Muni Security Guy Ok, here's my question... .why would 2 fare inspectors, in uniform & orange vest, be wandering INSIDE ATT park on Tuesdya night during the game? Looking for future fare evaders? It just seemed
SF News SFist Blotter Well, that was a grim Daily Californian homepage yesterday. The top six stories: pedestrian hit by car on Telegraph; Berkeley summer camp evacuated due to Tahoe fire, body found near the Berkeley Marina,
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
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV There were a lot of locals in the world of reality TV this week! "America's Got Talent" included an audition from an East Bay music teacher named Michael Strelo-Smith. He had an OK
Arts & Entertainment Quenching our <i>Thirst</i> at Another Hole in the Head Well, it was no or Lost Boys, but we did get a few laughs out of The Thirst this week at the Another Hole in the Head Indiefest film festival. The Thirst thrust
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Epicugenerous There's a bunch of activities around National Hunger Awareness Day, but we would like to mention one: a fund raiser organized by epicurious.com at Farallon tomorrow (Friday). Proceeds benefit the Second Harvest,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Presidio Terrace, S.F.'s Gated Community The specific reason at the time was the prevention of members of the "Mongolian race", meaning people of Japanese or Chinese heritage for the most part, from "invading" the area. Racial covenants might
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 When Kids Invade Muni The above photo of the adorable little ones on their way to the Symphony was taken by Flickr user Alie Slavin. The expression on every face pictured is priceless, especially the adults' in
misc Week Around The -Ists Seattlest has a talk with the photographer from last week's "Segway Mom" and then experiences some dissension in the ranks over the question of wine vs. beer. It's not West Side Story, but
SF News Oh, Armando After games like last night, Sports Talk radio can kind of be essential listening. Misery loves company after all and there's a lot of misery out there in Giants Land. Yes, the baseball
Arts & Entertainment L.A. Times Covers The Haight "Punk kids have invaded the Haight, they're mean, it's not what it used to be, etc, etc." Yeah, that's old hat for those of us that have been in the city for even
Arts & Entertainment The SF Black Film Festival One of the best things about living in San Francisco is all the film festivals! We thought we were on top of them, and then we just found out this weekend that the
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Mets 5 Giants 4- Man, we don't even want to talk about this game. In a tight, dramatic, overstuffed games that felt like a playoff game, the Giants finally took the lead in
SF News East Bay AIDS Program For Kids Suffers From Its Own Success The Oakland Trib has an extremely depressing story about a pediatric AIDS study that's had its funding cut. A combined effort of UCSF and the Children's Hospital and Research Center Oakland had been
Arts & Entertainment Jolene Garcia of Penny and Maude Why'd you start your own company? Because I want to be able to work my own hours while my kids are little. Favorite items? I love Super Chick and all the bobbi pins
Arts & Entertainment Sfist Photo: San Francisco Bay to Breakers results Yes, it's another Bay to Breakers. Pretty good weather and a good time for all. But, first of all kids, they've been lying to you all these years. Is the highest point of
