Arts & Entertainment Smile, Baby: Protesting Child Protesters Looking over everyone's favorite site to get all Cathy over, Zombietime, in order to find shots of last week's not-so savage anti-Savage protest, we came across something disturbing: adolescent protesters. Sure, children are
SF News Sixth Street (Between Mission and Market Streets) Closed Due To <del>Possible Bomb</del> Munitions Shell Threat Alarmists of SF: We just received an word via AlertSF that: 6th Street between Market and Mission closed to all traffic due to police activity. Do NOT call 911 for information regarding this
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- End of Summer Slam Jam for Teens: Are there words prettier than "back to school"? Maybe. But when we start seeing back-to-school commercials and such, we get ever so giddy. And although
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Cubs 5 Giants 1- And so it was that the Enchanter was dealing: eight innings, no runs, seven Ks and most amazingly, only eighty eight pitches thrown. He was breezing so free and
Arts & Entertainment Bring Out Your Drag Kings: 12th Annual Drag King Contest In the tradition of Mona's 440 Club, where dames dressed up like fellas and had a gay old time -- before they got thrown in the slammer for doing so, that is --
SF News We Have a Weiner! So why Brooklyn? Well, it's a little bit of a non-sequitor and we like non sequiturs. Also, because baseball is about tradition and the passing of baseball lore from father to son and
Arts & Entertainment Savage Jew On July 5, after Savage predictably asked that students undergoing a weeklong fast for immigration reform (and, bonus, to slim down a few sizes) "fast until they starve to death," Sandoval went into
misc Ask SFist: Any Good Gymnasiums? Hey guys I was wondering what is the best gym to go workout at in San Francisco? Which offers the best amenities and a friendly staff? What gym should I avoid at all
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- KrOB'S Film Farm -- Faust (1994): Jan Švankmajer's version of Faust, using Goethe's and Christopher Marlowe's tales as well as heaps of surrealism, screens tonight at 8 p.m. at Chez Poulet,
Arts & Entertainment Hey, Who's He Calling 'Fat Ass'? Fun video: A San Francisco-based officer from the Federal Protective Service gets mad at skaters. Now, granted, this thing was probably highly edited and we certainly only get one side of the story
Arts & Entertainment Is It Music or Just "Human Behavior"? Oh Björk! You quixotic Icelandic vixen, you. You dancer on the tongue-tip of the art vanguard. You lucky multi-million-dollar musician. Unlike mere mortals who don't have the clout or funds to access such
Arts & Entertainment "Following Sean" on POV "I smoke grass," was the shocking line uttered by precocious 4-year-old Sean from Ralph Arlyck's 1969 short-film documentary "Sean," which was set in a Haight Ashbury flat that housed Sean's large family and
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>Sidewalk</i> SFist Mihi warns you that this preview clip above may be dull. Sidewalk, the documentary we saw at the Roda Theatre in Berkeley on Sunday for the SF Jewish Film Festival, was billed
Arts & Entertainment Happy Hour 3 = Film + Theater + Kookiness (Ticket Giveaway!) Do you like film? Do you like theater? Do you like film and theater mixed together? Also, do you like happy hours and after-parties? Then you might be inclined to check out Happy
Arts & Entertainment Final Harry Potter Book Tranforms Noe Valley Into Diagon Alley We hate lines and we shy away from new things -- we're definitely a second- or third-generation adopter for tech, and a wait-for-the-paperback guy for books. But we guess this Harry Potter and
SF News Day Around the Bay -- PSA of the day: never forget your BDSM safeword, kids. [Chron] -- Alt-Weekly Death Watch returns. Yikes is right! [AWDW] -- Matthew S. Bajko says the gays and their bills are drawing
SF News News From SFO This morning, SFO crews found a dead body lodged in the wheel well of the nose of a United plane coming in from Shanghai. It might have been a stowaway. A woman was
SF News Roisin Isner Update Just passing along the latest news on Roisin Isner, the 17-year-old drummer hit by a firecracker in Dolores Park on July 4. The 17-year-old boy the SFPD arrested has been released by the
Arts & Entertainment The Blog Post Too Hot for <em>SF Weekly</em>? Having co-founded the now-defunct Deek Magazine, talented Matt Stroud was plucked from the other coast to act as web editor at VVM's SF Weekly to spearhead their nascent blogs. Yesterday, it seems, Stroud
Arts & Entertainment Merola's Cenerentola Schwabacher sadly passed away in the middle of last year’s edition, but the new kids (mostly in their 20s), they are all right. His legacy is safe and secure. We saw last
Arts & Entertainment Gwen Verdon's Hip Hop Moves It looks like it's going to be a song-and-dance kind of day around here, kids. Gwen Verdon's dance to "Mexican Breakfast" (choreographed by Bob Fosse, which you can see here as to how
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Chocolate Salon at Fort Mason If you like learning about and consuming chi-chi/artisan/premium/hand-made chocolate in all its forms, there's lots to love at the Chocolate Salon, taking place today and tomorrow in Building A at
Arts & Entertainment Symphony In The Park It's the magic of music! The San Francisco Symphony comes back to Dolores Park for the fifth consecutive year for a free performance as part of their Summer In The City program. This
Arts & Entertainment We Came, We Saw, It Kicked Our A** We passed the LONG LINE of people waiting to pick up their Will Call tickets and grabbed our press passes from a separate window (lucky us) to enter what is probably the nearest
