Arts & Entertainment Hey, That Rhymes! There's an advantage to this -- if you don't like one page, just look to the next for something completely different. But it's also a little numbing after a while; how many times
misc SFist Rants: Kids In Public Boy, do we feel like a grumpy old man writing this. According to a recent AP article, only 14.5% of the population in San Francisco are children under 18. This is the
Arts & Entertainment (Yet) Another Hole in the Head - <em>Satan's Playground</em> We were thinking a lot about that snake during the short "Human No More," mainly because the film tested our nerves after the first eight minutes or so, and our minds began to
misc SFist Raves: Ding! Every year it rules -- the Scripps Howard spelling bee. Is it that whiff of old world middle school mores? Is it the adorable freaked out word-geek kids, too young and frightened to
SF News Shilling Schwarzenegger The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights slammed the ads and has asked Arnold to return the money he received from the advertisers. You can also bet dollars to doughnuts, whatever that means,
SF News All Over for Le Chateau The neighbors have spoken, and it's all over for the kids at Cal Berkeley's Le Chateau co-op (called an "Animal House" in the East Bay Express). Friend of SFist Patricia Johnson penned a
Arts & Entertainment Punk Farm Then he emailed us about his newest opus, . He told us, "I'm especially excited about it, so any plug that you could give it would be so appreciated (Ed note: Ask, and ye
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes Back To (Art) School As an incoming student to California College of the Arts' grad program, we hopped on the chance to meet and greet while scoping out the competition, by infiltrating CCA's MFA Thesis Show opening
Arts & Entertainment Stuff To Do If You're Bored We already mentioned this in our interview with Craig Newmark, but the cool kids (read: blog nerds) will be at the Citizen Journalism meet-and-greet at the Varnish Gallery at six and then yukking
Arts & Entertainment Still Independent After All These Years One of the mothers of all intellectual crack dens - Kepler's Bookstore - turns 50 this year. Fifty years of social consciousness (Roy Kepler was an anti-violence activist) and social unconsciousness (this is,
misc A Bear By Any Other Name What the what is that the San Francisco Zoo has gotten themselves in a bit of a pickle over the naming of two new grizzly bears that they rescued from Montana. The zoo
SF News Gap Announces New Brand "Forth & Towne" -- Snark Now, Or Forever Hold Your Peace How anything the Gap Empire was up to escaped our attention is beyond us, but Chicagoist let us know that Gap, Inc. will be test marketing their Talbot, J. Jill and Lane Bryant
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Mad Libs Hey kids! Are you looking for a quick and easy entry into San Francisco District 6 civic participation? Do you long to get an angry email response from Chris Daly like this lady
SF News Crotchmas Comes But Once A Year Our favorite Bay Area funnyblogger and jazz musician, Ian over at Wrapped Up Like A Douche, is staging a pledge drive -- kind of like fellow funnyman Jerry Lewis. Except instead of exploiting
misc A Better Butter Battle After the jump: godliness, the gays, a moustache, and the triumphant return of the Internet.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Rants: Why No Top 40? You know.... why we have a top 40 radio station?? Ever since the death of the beloved Z 95.7 (for a classic rock format, which was then later changed to country), there's
Arts & Entertainment Current TV Kickoff Party We overheard an officer say that the SFFD was prepared for 3,000 folks but the event promised 5,000 spots. So if you have a ticket, get down here now if it's
Arts & Entertainment For $200, that Dinner Better Come with a Happy Ending The Human Rights Campaign, one of America's most strident gay-civil-rights orgs, cordially invites you to lay down $195 (or just $125 with student ID -- those lucky kids, what a steal!) for the
SF News Political Junkie: Fareskipper SFist Jon's got a new companion in city graft, as Supervisor Chris Daly gets busted by Matier and Ross for sneaking on a MUNI train without paying. Chris, was it not enough to
SF News Anarchy Out The EssEff Here in The City, hordes of anarchists are as mundane as hordes of shoppers at Union Square or crab-cracking tourists at Fisherman's Wharf. But in the rest of the country -- particularly over
Arts & Entertainment Tools With Tools If last night's show inspired you to pick up a power tool, then head on down to Home Depot this Saturday (there are two in Colma! Just a BART ride away!) to partake
SF News Jessica Coen For A Day Speaking of creepy aging British rock stars with a habit of philandering, SXSW Music keynote speaker Robert "Whole Lotta Love" Plant dropped by to say hello. At that very moment, the baby boomer
misc California Highways Still Safe for Porn Last week, the legislature defeated a bill by Assemblyman John Benoit (R-Palm Desert) that would have made it illegal to watch porn from the comfort of your car. The problem with watching porn
misc SFist at SXSW: Part Four -- Subterranean Homesick Blues Sorry to plagiarise the title, but there's something about Austin that makes us think of Dylan, both the good parts and the bad. If Austin were a person, we have a feeling that
SF News Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord. The quality of San Francisco's eavesdropping has never really impressed us -- the character of our overhearings always seemed more like disembodied one-chuckle quotes from "Kids Say The Darndest Things" than anything having
