Arts & Entertainment SFWFF: Youth Films Yes, we’ll admit we went to the ‘youth shorts’ with some preconceptions about youth films (maybe we were picturing our own painful camcorder films from years ago). But what we saw from
SF News Our Bumblebee Is Back! In this interview, Jennifer Siebel rambles on and on about how she only went to business school to please her parents ("a pattern for much of my life"), cries a lot, says she
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
SF News Mass Mess Day II- The Reckoning. According to bikers who saw the whole thing going down, Susan Ferrando, the driver of the mini-van didn't just slowly glide towards the intersection but hit the pedal to the medal and ran
Arts & Entertainment Wind Bag Wants Your Plastic Bag What Beck wants to do is start up a campaign where his radio listeners and TV audience (all five of them) will send in their paperplastic bags and he'll then he'll get a
Arts & Entertainment Boo Friggin' Hoo: Food Critics Want To Take Their Ball And Go Home The Chron ran an article on Sunday that we really, really wanted to write some commentary on after reading it. "Food bloggers dish up plates of spicy criticism"; subhead "Formerly formal discipline of
SF News The Presses: Stilllllllllllll Stopped. Can you believe we're going to be on the teevee AGAIN? It's CBS this time, tonight at probably 5:30, 6:30, and 11. The lesson here: if you want a ticket to
Arts & Entertainment Dan Noyes vs. Matier & Ross Somehow, Andy Ross got his hands on Dan's e-mails to Benefits Magazine head honcho Tim Gaskin and then contacted Dan to get a comment. Which Dan did and then to show he's got
Arts & Entertainment Local Zine Scene: Ker-Bloom! Local zine Ker-bloom! never fails to supply a light meditation on various topics (love, gamer culture, mid-life crises and more) – the latest issue, #63 deals with topics of forgiveness. Each issue is gorgeously,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink <i>Survey Says</i>? 'Who Cares!' (Or, Please, No More News About McDonald's Coffee!) (Though we recommend you read The Shot's take on it, and all things coffee, of course) The type of person that goes to fast food places for coffee is generally looking for caffeine
Arts & Entertainment Kenneth Eng, Fair And Balanced ...Personally if I'm racist then so is Sofia Coppola. And more importantly I'd like to talk about the philosophy of "," which tells a story about cyborg dragons fighting in the Middle Ages. [....]Well,
Arts & Entertainment Gavin Shoots Back The folks at NBC 11 gave Gavin Newsom a camera, and asked him to take photos of his life for their "Moving Pictures" series. During the promos, we started cracking up because there
Arts & Entertainment Green Dragons And Purple Gloves The Green Dragon first: A reader passes along the tip that the publishers of Kenneth Eng's sci-fi masterpiece (about dragons armed with machine guns) have pulled his books off the shelves (scroll down)
Arts & Entertainment FunCheapSF Goes Beta With New Site Good news! SFist fave FunCheapSF is emerging from its Yahoo groups format and has started a much slicker and more useful Web site. Check it out for FunCheap's usual excellent tips and listings
Arts & Entertainment Asianweek Fallout We've heard the self-proclaimed "Voice of Asian America," and it's apologizing profusely. SFist Jim stopped by yesterday's NAACP press conference with Amos Brown (.mp3 of his comments) and a shell-shocked Asianweek editor-at-large Ted
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop Interview: Lyrics Born Lyrics Born + The Coup-- Thursday March 1 @ The Fillmore... AA, $23, doors 8pm Best show you've ever played There have been so many, that's tough. I always love playing Austin, Sydney, Portland, London,
SF News Today In Purple Gloves They found Shin at his parents' house, hiding in a closet. Once caught, Shin reacted violently to the arrest, hitting one officer in the nose. Before being taken in, though, he called a
SF News Cycling: Stage 6 Belongs to CSC Levi Leipheimer successfully defended his gold leader's jersey yesterday in Stage 6 of the 2007 Amgen Tour of California (TOC), but it was Team CSC that commanded everybody's attention. Refusing to concede a
Arts & Entertainment Tim Goodman's On The Podwaves Consider this a favor, fans of television, from SFist to you: Tim Goodman, superb TV critic from the San Francisco Chronicle, has a podcast. He's calling it The TV Talk Machine. If you've
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
Arts & Entertainment It's Time For the SF Asian-American Film Festival! This is the 25th SF Int'l Asian-American Film Festival, and they're celebrating their silver anniversary this year with a special focus on Chinese-American film, a retrospective of the work of Korean filmmaker Hong
Arts & Entertainment Josh Wolf Breaks a Record If you want more background to the story, click here and here but long story, short-- Wolf videotaped a bunch of anarchists get with the anarchy, a cop was hurt, Wolf showed it
SF News Had A Bad Day Okay, to start things off, that's a YouTube clip of Daniel Powter's Had A Bad Day. Play it as you read this post! Gavin Newsom started off the first day of the rest
SF News Today, On <i>As The Gav Turns</i>... First off. Alcoholism is a serious problem and we hope Gavin Newsom (.pdf) gets help and support. Second of all. Blue tie alert! (see picture from this afternoon at right.) We're tag-teaming in
Arts & Entertainment Of Montreal Brings Lots o' Fun Unfortunately, Gold Chains' set on Thursday night lacked everything we love about Gold Chains. The bad-ass, masculine beats and lyrics of "I Come From San Francisco" were replaced by what sounded to us
