SF News The Heartbreak Of Reply-All There are so many good reply-all stories: the person in the office who accidentally distributes their snide response to an office-wide email; the fun-loving fake email sent to #ALL PERSONNEL from the computer
SF News Getting Around Town About $6 million's going to Muni, the Karl Pilkington of transit agencies, to continue work on the 3rd Street Light Rail. That's sure to go well. We'll be getting $91,000 in bike
Arts & Entertainment The Self-Contained Adventures of the SuperFisters Sounds great, right? Yeah, we were totally into it up until the last three pages. You know that feeling you get at a movie, where you know the closing song is playing but
SF News Springtime In February A large portion of Western literature doesn't make sense to California kids. Specifically, we don't get all those poems about springtime, because it just doesn't feel like that big a deal. This is
SF News SFist Tech Labs: Sometimes When We Touch The rumor that started circulating last week is that Apple's new for-real-no-really-it's-happening-this-time-we-swear video iPod is going to have a larger (3.5-inch) screen that will incorporate a "virtual" click wheel on the screen
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: S-T-A-G-E-F-O-G, Stage Fog at Post Street Theatre For those of us who have ever been terrorized and traumatized by school spelling bees, or who couldn't get a grip on "i before e except after c," this
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: <i>Yokai Daisenso</i> We acknowledge that it's a good movie, and that the violence isn't completely gratuitous. It makes a solid point about the objectification of women and the consequences of treating people as means to
Arts & Entertainment Insert High-larious Joke About the Gong Show Here Hey, did you see the Falun Gong protestors at the Chinese New Year parade? They were barred from marching in the parade -- organizers say it's because F.G. is too political --
misc The State Department Not Feeling the Whole Brokeback Thing According to the State Department, one of the groups in question, the International Lesbian & Gay Association, was once associated with NAMBLA. Years ago. And expelled them. And haven't been associated with since.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What Strikes Gastronomique's Fancy. We are titled Gastronomique, and have to once in a while live up to the quiet sophistication of haute cuisine. So we went to the Fancy Food Show with great expectations. These were
SF News Fast-Food East Bay First up is Oakland which is thinking about taxing certain merchants a few extra bucks to help clean up the messes left by customers, something that is apparently becoming a problem. The legislation
misc SFisting: Our Famous Local Sex Podcasters, For Reals While we loved the SF Bay Guardian's podcasting piece last year, we felt kinda like the Chron needed a pat on the head and a cookie when they ran yet another lame duck
SF News SFist Checks Out the 510: The Space-Faring Edition Out in Sacramento -- classified as "Bay Area" for KQED's fund-raising purposes, anyway -- the Discovery Museum will be holding a memorial for the astronauts, then turning the focus toward continued space exploration
Arts & Entertainment SF360 Revealed! Part Four: Schooled Now, no doubt there are Brugmans among us who recoil at the "private" component of the "public/private partnership," but we're reserving judgement until more details emerge. What is clear is that if
SF News Root, Root, Root for the Seattle Team The resolution was kind of a half-joking (although one never knows in this city) attempt to help out sports bars which apparently have been hurting this year due to a lack of good
Arts & Entertainment Berlin and Beyond Film Festival: <i>Sergeant Pepper</i> What distinguishes "Sergeant Pepper" from other Films About Children -- it would be a mistake to call it a Children's Film -- is its deft restraint. Sure, there are thrills like a crazy-inventor
Arts & Entertainment Berlin and Beyond Film Festival: Rhythm Is It. A picture of Rhythm Is It graces the cover of the program, so there is no escaping it: you'll see it's about kids dancing. It is a documentary which follows, amongst others, a
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Cole Stratton We should have asked him what he did to attract performers from Mr. Show, The Kids in the Hall, Saturday Night Live, Stella, The State, The Daily Show, Arrested Development, and The Upright
SF News Keep Keith In SF Doesn't anyone in the 415 want a Keith Haring mural? A local SoMA day care center for underprivileged youth puts its Keith Haring mural on the block, with no local takers. Back in
Arts & Entertainment The Affectionate Adventures of the SuperFisters "Loveless" (not to be confused with the Anime series of the same name) is a romance, too, of sorts; set in the post-Civil War south, it's the story of a former Confederate soldier
misc SFist Raves: The Power of Rock Compels You After realizing that we were probably never going to make it past the C, G, and F chords, we promptly gave it up (just like karate, the piano, African line-dancing, and summer school
misc School Credit Give Gavin Newsom a shiny red apple! In an interview with this month's San Francisco Magazine (in blatant disregard of another interview with the Gavman in 7x7, which was optimistically labeled "exclusive"), the
Arts & Entertainment Family Day! Childless curmudgeons, gnash your teeth in anger over another way in which society prefers folks with kids over you! Gavin Newsom and the San Francisco Dept. of Children, Youth, and Families are sponsoring
SF News And What is Tit Play? Chopped Liver? Okay, folks. Here's what we're facing: in the December issue of "Faith: The Bay Area Catholic Newsletter," the editor writes that "if it should be the case that homosexual desires are related to
SF News More Concrete, Please Yeah, San Francisco's nice, we guess. But you know what it REALLY needs? Parking garages. Yeah, get rid of that stupid Yerba Buena garden, and that useless Golden Gate Park, and that , smelly
