Arts & Entertainment Frameline 30: <i>George Michael: A Different Story</i> In messaging that seems very tightly controlled by the Michael machine, GM and the filmmakers lead us through his initial success with Wham!, his solo career (which emerged nearly concurrently with his realization
SF News The Vista from the Valley on Microsoft Of course Microsoft is not an empire that will fall quickly. We doubt Ray Ozzie will pull a Nero and set the Redmond campus alight or feed open-source advocates to lions (that's Steve
Arts & Entertainment Vloggercon 2006 Video geeks are descending on San Francisco this weekend for Vloggercon 2006 (or 'video blogger conference' if you're not a fan of tech neologisms). It was inspired by Webzine and the original Vloggercon
misc Craigslist Encounters: No more Craigslist for you! Who wants Craigslist? We do! We do! Unless, of course, we own a bunch of newspapers whose classified ad revenue is falling due to Craigslist kickin' its ass and happen to be an
Arts & Entertainment Bay Guardian Down, But Not Out Maybe there is something to this 6/6/06 numerological weirdness after all. The mood seems dark and sinister for an election day. And it was certainly some devilish characters who have shut
SF News The Warriors: When a Lottery Pick Just Isn't a Lottery Pick On Tuesday, the Warriors walked away from the 2006 NBA Draft Lottery slightly disappointed with the number nine pick. If only they had finished that high in the Western Conference this past season.
Arts & Entertainment Online Journalists 1, Steve Jobs 0 This is a *huge* win! Now journalists can feel safe knowing that they can protect their sources’ identity no matter in which medium they choose to disseminate news (as we argued in our
Arts & Entertainment SFist Unintentional Party Crash: Wired Rave Awards Honest to goodness, we weren't even planning on going to the Wired Rave Awards, much less wandering in uninvited (we've been, it's not all that). We just dropped by to hand off some
Arts & Entertainment Supersize Us Are fast food joints the blight Schlosser and company would have us believe, or are you "lovin' it"? (Incidentally, have you seen that McDonald's commercial where the prone McD's customer slides along the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tech Labs: Because No One Should Have to Go To LA Of course, we're still scouring the internets for any hint of game news. There's plenty of coverage all over the place, in particular GameSpot's media blitz and Joystiq's ongoing blog updates, dealing with
Arts & Entertainment Cutting No Corners: Caesurae Opens at Urbis Artium Normally, we get a little grossed out by work that uses blood (although we admire the chutzpah of the artist) – Andres Serrano and Gina Pane come to mind, but their work was more
SF News Craigslist Encounters: Things We Expect In The News Arrrgggghhh. Sometimes that is the one reasonable response to what people write about Craigslist. Of course we realize that due to network effects Craigslist will reach a critical mass in a city and
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Encounter Point</i> We are accustomed to the typical media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which generally emphasizes the violence and hatred. "Encounter Point," co-directed by Ronit Avni and Julie Bacha, also a co-director of "Control
Arts & Entertainment To Do Lists Wanted Local author Sasha Cagen, of the Quirkyalone movement, sent us the following request for her upcoming project, The To Do List book, which was so nice we said of course we'd ask our
SF News Waiting for Tagliabue: The 2006 NFL Draft As much as we said we were going to avoid the NFL Draft, we found ourselves on a lazy Saturday morning tuning in and getting hooked. In its way, its got that same
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Favela Rising</i> Arriving at Baycat, the Bayview Hunters Point Center for Arts & Technology, about forty minutes prior to the San Francisco premier of "Favela Rising," we hadn’t banked on the sellout crowd. Fortunately,
SF News Ma v Ja: The Update Commenter Seamus! We love the name "Ma v Ja" for our new column about the 12th Assembly District race between Fiona Ma and Tori Spelling Janet Reilly! So, to update everyone on the
Arts & Entertainment Are We Too Old To Be Part Of The Digital Generation? Find Out Tomorrow Night. A panel including New Jewish Filmmaking Project's Sam Ball and Klaira Markenzon, Youth Sounds' Erica Eng, and TILT's Tina Bartolome (TILT) will discuss how "media, culture, and education influence the way youth tell
SF News Off To The Village Voice Our secret boyfriend is breaking up with us! The Village Voice media juggernaut has just announced that our WRTW crush Rob Harvilla is taking over the New York flagship alt-paper's music editorship, replacing
Arts & Entertainment The San Francisco International Film Festival: SFist Has Got You Covered From tonight's opening night gala and screening of , to a projection of Cartography of Ashes against the firefighter's training tower at the SFFD Fire Station #7, we'll be reporting back to you with
Arts & Entertainment Backfence Moves Into Our Backyard A new neighbor has moved into an old house in the 'hood, renovated the place and promises to be part of the community -- going to PTA meetings, Little League games, community centers
Arts & Entertainment KRON Needs Cash Money Note to local spas or Australia tourism board-- if you want SFist to do a special investigate pieces, feel free to drop us a line. We've always wanted to go to Australia and
SF News A's Brand Baseball: Opening Day 2006 You still the man, Rick . . . You still the man. A bold prediction from A's Brand Baseball: By the time "One Shining Moment" ends on Monday night, Barry Zito will have thrown the first
SF News Elsewhere in -istville Seattlest saw a house party get senselessly attacked with a shotgun and end in seven dead. A local senator is debated and their version of the big dig is investigated. To truly get
SF News Your Commute: And You Thought Your Job Was Bad Man, whose job do we not want this week? BART spokesman Linton Johnson's. Poor Linton had to do yet another round of ritual apologies after a massive computer failure crashed BART for about
