Arts & Entertainment Dispatch from Noir City: NoirQuake! In 1950, the great mystery writer Raymond Chandler wrote of the contemporaneous critical response to his stories and those of James M. Cain, Dashiell Hammett, et. al. that: It takes a very open
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: A Nano In Your Pocket Not everybody has love for Apple in their pants — a new update to iTunes was released and bloggers are outraged. The issue is a new MiniStore panel underneath the library view. As you
SF News SFist checks out the 510: The One City, One Book Edition Or maybe we'll just head back into the bookstore for a copy of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's The Mistress of Spices. It's the inaugural selection for Oakland's "One City, One Book" campaign. Oakland Library
SF News SchwartzenWatcher Redux: Stuck in the Middle With You This week he got rid of his previous Chief of Staff, a Republican, and brought in one of Gray Davis' old aides, Susan Kennedy. The move has gotten conservative's panties all in a
misc Please Hammer, Do Hire Us Tuesday, November 22nd between 7pm - 9 pm Film Arts Foundation 145 Ninth Street #102 San Francisco, CA We are holding an audition for two Hammer music videos, which will have national distribution.
Arts & Entertainment Yvesdroppings Should See A Doctor Crusty Bum #1 pointing at leg of Crusty Bum #2: "That's not crabs that does that. Lice don't do that neither." -- From Marty / Outside Civic Center Library Frat Dude on Cell: "Yeah,
SF News The SFist Guide To Election 2005: The State Propositions The 70s! A decade of stagflation and Republican corruption? Or a number span covering some mighty temperate climates? Or a solid C on the grading scale? But for you, faithful voter, the 70s
Arts & Entertainment One City, One Book Maybe this is just stemming from a misplaced nostalgia for our fourth grade class, where everyone was required to buy the exact same edition of The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander, but we
SF News How Berkeley Can YOU Be '05 Quick! Name an event that can combine politicians, naked folks (ok, just a few), Klingons, hippies, bunnies, art cars, and cheerleaders on a Sunday afternoon. Only the Tenth Annual How Berkeley Can You
Arts & Entertainment SFAFF: <i>Arahan</i> You can tell we were excited to see the SFAFF movie Arahan Friday night, because we crossed the Tordesillas Line of Market Street and actually ventured up to the (gasp!) Marina -- where
SF News Live Blogging The Gavster: Municipal Wifi Gavin is set to announce his plans for Municipal Wifi today at 2pm. Rumors are a-swirlin' already as to who's going to be responsible for deploying it. Google has been making apparent moves
Arts & Entertainment Spelling Counts Har! Remember Maria Alquilar, the lady who misspelled the names of the geniuses on the mural she was installing for the Livermore library? (or maybe Albert always spelled his name "Eistein," you never
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Nathalie Roland Gallery you'd most like to show in? There are so many interesting galleries in the city that I enjoy visiting like Tinhorn Press, Low Gallery, Receiver and pretty much any one on this
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Owen Linderholm The bloggers are: Stephanie Lucianovic, The Grub Report, of San Francisco, Guy Prince (aka Dr Biggles, featured in a Chron article with SFist Sam), Meathenge, from Albany, Ellen Ferlazzo, Chronicles of a Curious
Arts & Entertainment SFist Raves: SFGTV Channel 26 Okay, we're a little late to the party on this one (what? We thought your party started at 9, not 7! Our bad!) -- but our new favorite TV channel's got to be
misc SFisting: Porn by the Bay San Francisco holds many distinctions you'll never find touted in the latest "best of" issue of a certain magazine, but while one of those unique experiences is surprising pairs and trios of men
Arts & Entertainment In the Groove: In your Face! We here at SFist fondly remember the days of our relative youth (past the "kids under 12 eat free days" and before the "SENIOR CLASS OF 2004 SAN DIMAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL RULES
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Wendy McClure We've loved Wendy McClure almost as long as we've loved the internerd, from her appearances on the late, great Hissyfit site, to her recaps at what we now call Television Without Pity, to
Arts & Entertainment Current Mood: Live, Local, Latebreaking About a hundred folks showed up (though only 60 or so RSVPed -- naughty bloggers!) and included folks from Craigslist, Technorati, Six Apart, Wordpress, Feedster, Blogger, and so forth. Mark Tamayo, aka SFist's
SF News Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright! In the forest of last night, we got an email from SFist's main man in Texas, Austinist Ben. Seems he's ginned up a widget! And not just any widget, but (after a few
Arts & Entertainment 81 Albums of Jessica Simpson On The Wall You probably remember that brouhaha about the CD price-fixing antitrust case, where that judge was going to give everyone who'd ever bought a CD from 1995 to 2002 around $14.99 if they
SF News The Littlest SFist OK, not yet, but we have high hopes. Until then, big ups to SFist Amanda for what was not the easiest labor ever (but your hair looked good throughout), and our best wishes
SF News Where's The Wifi? Well, it seems that the laptop-carrying set at San Francisco's Academy of Art University are stuck for quick, handy wireless internet access. Around three weeks ago during the school's spring break, some h4XX0r
SF News Woe Is Wordpress There's been another kerfuffle on the internet, and this time it involves a Friend of SFist -- namely, Matt Mullenweg of Wordpress. Unfortunately for him, it happened just as he started in on
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads or Something SFist Rain makes a good point today when she reminds us that our friends at the San Francisco Public Library have more to offer us than just the printed word. You can also
