SF News And They're Off Since yesterday's kickoff, the web's been awash in AIDS Ride coverage. There's a day-by-day photo rundown on the official site (with, unfortunately, lousy navigation) and a slew of unofficial pix on user-friendly Flickr.
SF News Day Around The Bay --Barack Obama was in town. --Santa Clara would like to have the Niners, but it'll be expensive. --Airport news: there was an emergency landing in Oakland, and a guy with measles came through
misc Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse All across the Ist-A-Verse (or at least the American parts thereof), writers and editors are in the midst of enjoying their three-day weekend. But after the week we've all had, we feel like
misc Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big -- really freaking big
misc Week Around The -Ists The nicer the weather gets, the busier we get across the Ist-A-Verse. But we like being busy. Here's a peek at what we've been up to since last week! Chicagoist had an interview
Arts & Entertainment Bald Britney's (Maybe) Coming To Town You gossip mavens probably already know that Ms. Spears performed lip-synced a brief but dance-intensive 15 minute set in San Diego and LA earlier this week, under the name "the M+Ms." Well,
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
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>A Few Days Later...</i> Okay, we're not going to lie. When we read the description of the Iranian movie in the SF Int'l Film Fest guide as "a gorgeous minimalist portrait of a woman crushed by indecision,
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Heavenly Kings</i> The North American debut of Heavenly Kings for the SF Int'l Film Festival premiered at the Castro Theatre Friday night and it must have been a sweet moment for Berkeley-born, Bay Area-raised, local
SF News Could a Skirt Have Saved Xiao Feng Deng's Life? Would skirts have helped? From some accounts, the victim was hit by the side of the bus as it turned, and pushed under the wheel. That certainly sounds plausible; we personally witnessed, a
misc Local Gays Make Good, But Stay Local "Are SF days as a gay mecca over? Or is the list biased to LA, DC and NY media types?" Cedric asks. Excellent questions! The answers are no and yes, respectively. Readers, of
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Mark Mulroney Artist Mark Mulroney lives and makes art in Berkeley but hails from Dutton, PA. He came over to the Bay to teach at the San Francisco Art Institute and participate in an economy
SF News A-Rod a Giant? Sure, Why Not? Essentially, this is all happening because Rodriguez has an opt-out clause in his contract. That means that even though he still has years left in his ten-year contract, he's allowed to say sayonara
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Shanghai Kiss</i> The world premiere of played on Saturday night at the Castro Theatre and the house was packed. One of the themes running through the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival last year
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews The Love Movement The Love Movement are having an art show called "Love Conquers All," a collaboration with the Love Bandits, on Saturday night at the fabulous Space Gallery. They will be giving away free art,
SF News Today in Cadavers The bodies in the mortuary were moved to another mortuary in Novato. Also in cadevar news, two men were arrested for taking cadvers from UCLA and selling them. Man, we just aren't checking
Arts & Entertainment Much Better! Gavin's BFF, Vanessa Getty, looked fabulous at artist Damien Hirst's show in LA last Thursday. This is a signature look for Vanessa -- vintage-looking dress, simple jewelry, and metallic clutch -- but it
SF News Everybody (Still) Loves Gavin ABC 7 is the latest people to do a survey on Gavin and all the recent Gavin news and found out that the dude is still pretty popular in town, all to the
Arts & Entertainment Not So Fast, Chronicle The revelation that the leaker was defense attorney Troy Ellerman might have gotten Williams and Fainaru-Wada off the hook, but it put the Chronicle on it. See, the problem is that the leaker
misc Ist-travaganza! We'd like to start this week's run-down by wishing a very happy birthday to parent blog Gothamist, which turned four on Friday. If it wasn't for them, the rest of us wouldn't be
SF News An LA Caption Action They got the usual level of "that's hot" Paris references and obscure "I'd like to join YOUR LA school board" inside-politics commentary, but, entertainingly enough, look who else got invited to the Villaraigosa-Hilton
SF News SchwarzenWatcher Gets Caught on Tape Anyways, there's some somewhat juicy stuff in there, mainly Mr. Positive saying not so very nice things about Democratic legislators. You know, the guys he's all buddy buddy with. Everybody is saying it's
Arts & Entertainment LA to SF in Three Minutes Flat Thanks to our sister site LAist, we present this cool YouTube clip of a group of friends travelling from LA to San Francisco in three minutes through the magic of editing. It's kind
SF News Virtually Gavin Hey, Dan Noyes, here's a gotcha technique to consider -- cyberspace! Gavin took a break from Davos to do a virtual interview with the Second Life news center. Alas, there are no chicken
SF News Who's Attacking Newsom Now! So... who's on this week's list? Let's bring 'em out! --Aaron Peskin and Ross Mirkarimi!: Luke Thomas at Fog City Journal reports that Supervisors Peskin and Mirkarimi decided to take advantage of Gavin
