Arts & Entertainment Author Events Roundup: June is Jam-Packed! Cody's Books - We'll start with the soon-to-close Telegraph Ave location. Wednesday, June 7 - 7:30 p.m. Nando Parrado talks about his experience as a member of the Uruguayan rugby team
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>The Great Happiness Space: Tales of an Osaka Love Thief</i> goes inside a popular "host boy café" in Japan to examine the lives of both the patrons and the employees. Think of these cafes as kind of like strip clubs but the roles
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: And Then There Were Two Okay, folks, first let us apologize for not reviewing the delightful "chef reunion show" a few weeks back. Part of us wanted to, but we opted out because, honestly, who the hell wants
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: Whole-a Whole-Lotta Lamb Ahhh parrots, lambs, and pepper monkeys -- welcome back to our review of the Top Chef animal farm. Another Top Chef episode in the can; the season will be over shortly, so watch
SF News Don't Pee on Pooh This LA Times piece asserts that, among other things, proudly Christian Kinkade "heckled illusionists Siegfried & Roy in Las Vegas, cursed a former employee's wife who came to his aid when he fell
SF News Suspect in Fat Tone Murder Captured Andre "Mac Minister, Choppa, Chop" Dow, the prime suspect in the Fat Tone's murder was captured yesterday in a San Francisco apartment, by SFPD SWAT and FBI agents. There was a standoff for
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes to <i>Gambling</i>! A man goes on a desperate journey through the Las Vegas night in search of a his girlfriend who has mysteriously disappeared - and discovers that he is under surveillance and is the
Arts & Entertainment SF Weekly To Issue Correction Once again, SFist is here to stick up for ol' Harmon, as he's run into controversy yet again in his most recent SF Weekly Infiltrator column, "Dieter Gone Wild." In this episode, Harmon's
SF News American Football Spectacular: To A Frontier Town... There Came A Bowl Game. As pointed out by American Football Spectacular's religious consultant Ms. No, Mormons aren't supposed to gamble. Further, according to the BBC's write-up on Mormon ethical practices, "Gambling in any form is condemned as
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Last Call Save some room on your social calendar, because, like 2005, these cool shows are expiring around January 1. Besides, if you’re feeling a little Grinch-like, there’s nothing like a holiday show
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: an American Tragedy We saw the Met's new production on Monday, and one thought sprung to our mind: there is an East Coast-West Coast divide that would make the gangsta rappers proud. Oh, we are not
SF News R.I.P., Pat Morita Best known for his role as Mr. Miyagi in , Pat Morita passed away yesterday at his home in Las Vegas. A look at his bio, however, makes it clear that Morita was much
misc SFist Rants: Stand to the Right, Walk to the Left, <i>Honey</i> Seriously, people. We recall being in the Las Vegas McCarran International Airport a few years ago, when a rather snappy gentleman uttered the above phrase ("Stand to the right, walk to the left,
SF News Men in Tights For the last seven years, bike racing has relied on Lance Armstrong's star power to draw new fans to the sport. And gauging by the size of the crowd yesterday at the Barclay's
SF News A's Brand Baseball: The A's . . . Lose? The A's have lost four games in a row, to the Minnesota Twins and the Baltimore Orioles. They were defeated by A's Brand Baseball's two favorite Orioles, (in order) SS Miguel Tejada and
SF News Fat Tone Killed in Possible Retaliation So far, the most popular post here on SFist has been, by far, our coverage of Mac Dre's funeral. Fans and well-wishers have left dozens and dozens of comments full of praise and
SF News Smoky Halls and Kidneys Battered Until They Bleed With the preponderance of world class gyms and fighters in the Bay Area, SFist has always wondered why the San Francisco Golden Gloves has evolved into more of a fighter friends and family
Arts & Entertainment R.I.P Hunter Thompson Gonzo journalist and counter-cultural icon Hunter S. Thompson died today of an apparent suicide. Thompson was the author of the classic , a book that inspired multitudes to take lots of drugs and go
SF News Don't Send Your Loved One's Remains to the Southland As if we didn't have enough to worry about already (sex offenders in Cupertino trying to hit on you, insane criminal clowns), UC officials have admitted that they have been less than diligent
SF News Last Minute Activism What are you up to in the next five days? If you've got some spare time and you're itching to do something worthwhile, maybe you should get yourself hooked up with Driving Votes.
SF News Gaming the System As the days to the November 2nd elections wind down, many folks are getting anxious over the potential for impropriety at the polling stations. After the debacle in Florida in 2000, many people
SF News Oakland Panda-ring to China Chang has just returned from a trip to Chengdu, Sichuan province, where he traveled with representatives from architecture firm Y.H. Lee Associates - who were there to examine the local panda research
Arts & Entertainment Sussing Out the Fuss Few bands can believably be compared to Joy Division, the Cure, Duran Duran, and Echo and the Bunnymen. Especially if they are from Las Vegas. Yet The Killers, the newest indie dance sensation,
SF News Missing Person A 27 year old San Francisco woman is missing after a road trip to Las Vegas. Kellie Phillips is a 5'8" African-American woman weighing approximately 140 pounds and was last seen driving a
