Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes Black Tie We were as surprised as anyone when we received media accreditation to attend this Saturday's San Francisco Symphony's Black & White Ball, described as "one of the world's most extravagant black tie parties.
SF News Best By the Bay! We've gotten shout-outs from some local media types who we really respect since we've been around -- Annalee Newitz, P.J. Corkery, Bill Picture (hey, we love gossip) and the staff at the
SF News Best. Picture. Evar. We love you too, Gavvy-Gav! Stay funky! Photo by Matt Cohen of 1115.org -- and there's more Gavvy goodness on Flickr. And SFist totally reserves the right to use that title again.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Another Fine Trimethyldioxypuri...Oh, Never Mind. So, yeah, we flaked last week. Holiday weekends are always a good excuse, right? We've always been of the opinion that people who do an excess of reviews (movie critics, people employed as
SF News Wanted: New MUNI Boss Burns was hired from Philadelphia after the "MUNI Meltdown" in 1999. As much as we love to kvetch about MUNI, we do have to admit that it has gotten better since he took
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 Kimberly Guilfoyle Hemmer? Court TV's Kimberly Guilfoyle — who moved here in January after filing for divorce from her workaholic husband, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom — recently met CNN anchor Bill Hemmer, sources say. The two have
SF News Behold, the Power of Ambivalence "There is something to be said about coming from an 'apathetic' or non-judgmental viewpoint," he told us via email-interview -- too often, he says, discussions of important issues become "either a shouting match
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Casey Smith We like to think that SFist interviews with locals are like catching little glimpses in to parts of the city you don’t know as well. For today’s interview Casey Jex Smith
misc SFist Cares ... About Yer Snappers SFist knows our readers are already super cute. But we'd be remiss if we didn't let you know how to get cuter and help a good cause at the same time. This Saturday
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Trimethyldioxypurist Hits A Downtown Sweet Spot While some time ago, we advised using corporate coffee houses in a pinch when you're in a strange town, we're beginning to believe that French bakeries should be our new default places to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Review: "All Tomorrow's Jokes" at the Hemlock Tavern SFist checked out the All Tomorrow's Jokes event last Friday and learned something valuable. Mainly that just because it says "tommorow" (sic) on the press release doesn’t necessarily mean it's supposed to
Arts & Entertainment SF DocFest: <i>Steven Tobolowsky's Birthday Party</i> Um, anyway, so that's what bugged us about . (Well, that and its anamorphic distortion; the movie was shot in 16:9 but that wacky Women's Building projected it in 4:3, which meant
Arts & Entertainment Indie Rock <em>Believer</em> The June music issue of The Believer will come packaged with a CD compilation of pure indie rock gold. We hear that local do-gooder and author extraordinaire Dave Eggers is behind the compilation,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink We Have a Finger! Breaking news! Breaking news! OMG, breaking news!! They figured out whose finger was in the Wendy's chili!! The San Jose cops announced that they've positively identified the finger that Anna Ayala "found" as
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Teresa Williamson Regardless of its etymology, Tango Diva is a great service for women travelers. Plus it’s rife with inspiring quotes about life, love and the like—really, Tango Diva should be in the
Arts & Entertainment SF DocFest: <i>Mana: Beyond Belief</i> It was the usual scene outside the Roxie during a film fest -- odd groups of people clumped in odd places on the sidewalk, frantic-looking pedestrians just trying to get into Truly Med,
SF News Why We Lurve Nerds and Geeks But Michael Doeff emailed us a link to Geobloggers.com -- which is less practical but infinitely cooler. Some folks from the UK have figured out a way to add lattitude and longitude
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: The Truth This Week "Britney and Kevin: Chaotic" premieres Tuesday May 17th at 9 p.m. on UPN and man, we can hardly wait. Be sure to visit the show site and watch the preview. If the
misc Get Stuffed: Mifune But where to go when there was no sponsored vittles in the hospitality lounge? Critics can not live on beer and cheesecake alone! Okay, maybe Roger Ebert did for a few decades, but
Arts & Entertainment SFist Rants: Sweet, Nothing You're out with your best buds at a hip brasserie, savoring that contented feeling of good friends and good eats. The conversation's buzzing and the mood's high -- but you also notice, out
misc The Trimethyldioxypurist Gets Sentimental Your overwhelming response from the survey last week pretty much indicated that you are happy to have your Trimethyldioxypurist continue to serve as the rudder on this ship. In other words, thanks for
Arts & Entertainment Attack, Revenge, and Return Of course we can't disclose anything too super about the film that isn't out there already (for that matter, we can't even disclose the stuff that out there already). But we can say
SF News Has Flickr Lost Its Baring? Without a doubt one of the most useful web applications around and the single best photo sharing doodah out there, Flickr really is in a league of its own. And we love Google
