Arts & Entertainment Chaos at the Chron SFist has been sitting on some insider dope regarding shakeups at the San Francisco Chronicle. It's a delicate situation, because we don't want to compromise our sources, but we want to inform you
Arts & Entertainment FIGHT!!! One of the reasons we read the weeklies is because, thankfully, we live in a town big enough for two of them. They don't always see it that way, however - the relationship
Arts & Entertainment The Soundtrack Alone is Worth Fitty Bones! There are video games that are popular with gamers - Counter Strike, Half-Life, Halo - and then there are video games that become cultural phenomena. The audience is drawn not so much by
Arts & Entertainment Psych! What better way to celebrate the original date of Britney Spears's nuptials than at feminist pop culture zine Bitch Magazine's release party for its latest issue, on the theme of Fake? The party
Arts & Entertainment Open Studio in the 'Town One of the things SFist loves about Oakland in all its post-industrial glory is that it's a great place for young artists to find studios. Take a walk through Temescal, West Oakland or
misc Recycling Old Ideas With the Essefficist Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday, again with the weekly column! Ayyyeeeeeesh! Once again back is the incredible, the rhyme animal, the untypeable E, public enemy number one. This week the Essefficist returns with a question
Arts & Entertainment Where's the Alka-Seltzer? Wow, that was a doozy. Who knew journalism would involve so much drinking? Oh, wait, that was actually just SFist medicating our neurotic anxiety. That's right, we went and listened to a number
Arts & Entertainment SFist Speaking Tonight That's right, we're putting on clothes and emerging from behind the computer to go out in public and speak! We're not sure why we were invited - something to do with being 'citizen
misc Beauty and the Beast We love animals, if you can't tell. All of 'em. Cats, dogs, rabbits. Our sister site Gothamist started it all with their unabashed love of giant pandas. But we're no wusses. Our tastes
Arts & Entertainment Academy Fight Song The Star-Spangled Banner was written by Francis Scott Key during the War of 1812 on the back of an envelope as he saw with pride that the American flag still flew over Baltimore's
SF News Your Kiss is on my List Wow, does it seem like Craig Newmark is suddenly everywhere? His baby, craigslist, has played a huge part in the last few years of our life (our past and present apartments, car, and
Arts & Entertainment Sussing Out the Fuss Few bands can believably be compared to Joy Division, the Cure, Duran Duran, and Echo and the Bunnymen. Especially if they are from Las Vegas. Yet The Killers, the newest indie dance sensation,
SF News Oh My iPod "Well, HP wants a digital music player as part of their new line of media products for the home user." "Hmm. Over at Apple, we want to distribute our products to people who
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Three-fer So whats with the name? As it is explained on the website: Read on for the SF scoop from three of the nicest women weve ever interviewedWhen it's being used as
Arts & Entertainment Photo-Friendly, Photo-Averse Thomas Hawk, local San Francisco photo/blogger, posted an interesting essay on his experiences taking pictures at different private cultural venues around town. SFist found the link on Boing Boing, which often covers
SF News Your Commute SFist hasnt seen "The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3," but after Mondays East Bay BART commute trauma, the flick described as "the Godfather of subway hijacking movies" is definitely moving to the
SF News Love and Human Remains Many of SFist's friends - and some of us at SFist ourselves, have been known to complain about the paucity of eligible straight men in the Bay Area. So we're sad to say
SF News Chuck Johnson, Oakland Original SFist sadly notes the passing of Charles "Chuck" Johnson today. He will be truly missed by friends, family and the larger Oakland community. Mr. Johnson founded Soul Beat TV as a cable station
