Arts & Entertainment Coming Attractions: Cinequest 2005 The San Jose Film Festival is in its 15th year (The gift for that is crystal by the way. I'm sure they'd appreciate it.) and once again is bringing a jam-packed lineup of
SF News Barry Meets the Press Oh sure, he played the usual cards. He denied ("I don't know Canseco, besides 'hello' and 'good-bye'), stonewalled (a moderator stepped in any time the Grand Jury testimony was mentioned), changed the subject
Arts & Entertainment Save the Gizmos! The Electronic Frontier Foundation is hosting an event tonight to highlight "endangered gizmos," or technology products that are on the cutting edge of innovation but that could fall prey to increasingly more restrictive
Arts & Entertainment "Hi, this is Gavin. Leave a message." We know that you're recently single. And okay, we can accept that the hot, SF-appropriate love affair we were hoping for between you and Matty G just isn't in the cards. Still... PARIS
SF News Photogs Of The World: Unite! The question of the day was, "Did we win?" By all indications, that answer is "yes," although the difficulty in declaring victory will be in proving the negative -- how will we necessarily
SF News Let's Go Out To The Court-Room... Spring is in the air -- can you smell it? It's that intoxicating mix of grass, red clay, pine tar and chaw. That's right -- pitchers and catchers report in just a few
Arts & Entertainment Muni Photography Ban: Update To follow up on our previous story, we're not sure whether the Muni photography ban is the biggest threat to our personal freedom, but we have a feeling that if we don't blow
Arts & Entertainment SFist: En Français? ¿En Español? In English? Por favor. Nosotros buscamos a escritores excepcionales. [email protected] es el contacto de corréo electronico. Nosotros amigos en la Mission, el condado de Alameda, la valle de San Jose y en todos
Arts & Entertainment SF Indie Fest: Born in a Barn We bring this up because, for much the same reason, it's so easy -- even for us permissive, enlightened San Franciscans -- to look askance at an adult who likes to dress up
Arts & Entertainment SF Indie Fest: White Skin But first, a word from local filmie Tom Pankratz, whose short film precedes White Skin. Tom's been making films in the bay area for several years, and we like him -- at a
Arts & Entertainment Emerging Technology Conference: New Media Sticking It to Old Media. But How's the Food? Of course our first mission was to find Yahoo News Editorial Director Bill Gannon and his loyal band of editors who were nice enough to take SFist out for a drink and give
Arts & Entertainment SF Indie Fest: Munch on This The high point of this collection of short animations: "Petunia," a simple, lovely story about a moody guy and a flower; if it was CG rather than hand-drawn, it would be the sort
Arts & Entertainment Dance Review: Facing Mekka [] In restless anticipation we sat staring at the stage, waiting to see the dance performance acclaimed by so many. Yerba Buena Center for rhe Arts Theater was hosting the first of three performances
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: The Dry Spell Hey, have you heard? Apparantly men and women are very different, and at times they have problems connecting romanically! Who knew? Somebody ought to make a movie about that. Ha ha ha, we
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: Double Feature We signed up for the screenings that Larsen Associates offered credentials to but weren't already claimed by fellow 'Fisters. Which means we were given New York productions. Granted, we're the least removed from
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: SFist has you covered See the complete schedule of films here, buy tickets here, and we'll see y'all there! SF IndieFest logo from their site. Thanks to SF IndieFest and Larsen Associates for making our coverage possible
Arts & Entertainment Please Abandon Us As Well Our theory is this: American Idol is like sex, in that it's freakin sweet when it's going on, but a few minutes after it ends you've forgotten most of it. We know, it's
Arts & Entertainment Deconstructing Leah: Paris Hilton at the SF Ballet Gala Since some of you may not be as thoroughly addicted to gossip as SFist is, we would like to present to you a primer on how to interpret Leah Garchik's column. You see,
Arts & Entertainment The Examiner Spawns Another Paper In 2000 when the Examiner and Chron merged and the Examiner sold off, everyone was sure that the Examiner was not long for this newspaper world, especially after its disastrous beginning. Now, almost
Arts & Entertainment Gridskipping This is sort of like if the native Americans in Mission Bay had noted on their blog Ohlonist in 1776 that some crazy dude named Junipero Serra was having a party for his
misc Not Looking Good For Apple... ...and this time, at least, that's what we want to hear. John at the Legal Reader points to a piece quoting Terry Gross, partner in San Francisco-based Gross & Belsky LLP, who contends
Arts & Entertainment All-Star Game Reach a hand across the blogger/print media divide and get your weekly buzz on at the Indie Mag All-Star party this Saturday from 8-10. Locally-published magazines Kitchen Sink, Bitch Magazine, Other Magazine,
SF News Talks Begin Between Guild, Chron Guild negotiators said their members have been skeptical about recent management claims that labor concessions are needed to put the newspaper on a more solid financial footing. In particular, [Writer's Guild Executive Officer
Arts & Entertainment Scribes Snit at Sundance [] Tiburon's Robert Redford was busy wining and dining indiewood out in Utah at his Sundance Film Festival this weekend. Netflix Film Critic and blogger James Rocchi (who recently attended a panel organized by
SF News Ballin' Bay Bloggers to be Beset with Bling The ghost of Malcolm Gladwell has come to haunt Silicon Valley tastemakers. You know those schwag-bags you're always hearing about on Defamer? It's all part of massaging the 'Connectors,' the folks of
