Arts & Entertainment The 2nd Annual George Bush Going Away Party This Saturday night is the 2nd Annual George Bush Going Away Party: An Evening of Political Comedy. The first one was held about this time last year in an attempt to raise money
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: They, Robots The tech lab crew took a field trip to San Jose last week for the RoboNexus international robotics convention. It's the second year of the convention, and it's the largest robotics convention in
misc SFist Rants: Blue Angels We're not afraid to admit it -- loud jets have always scared the crap out of us, and 9/11 certainly didn't help that fear. The Blue Angels are undoubtedly amazing. We have
Arts & Entertainment The Daily Show: Not So Much With The Daly Well, it's come to this. Remember the brouhaha over docking the USS Iowa at Fisherman's Wharf? It was DiFi's idea to send $3 million worth of pork our way. Nevermind pacifist sentiment, the
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>On the Objection Front</i> The "refuseniks" (a term originally used to describe Jews who were barred from leaving the Soviet Union) had pledged to remain in the IDF and continue to serve "in any mission that serves
SF News Hey, Navy: Leave Our Kids Alone The resolution, natch is non-binding and merely puts the city on record as opposing military recruitment. Schools merely have a choice on whether or not to follow it but as federal funds are
misc SFist Cares ... About the Long Weekend Memorial Day is also meant to honour those service men and women who have died in military service to the United States. Memorial Day services will be held at the Presidio, at the
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Czech Dream</i> Vít Klusák and Filip Remunda can thank their lucky stars that at the same time that they were making their documentary about the power of advertising, the government of the Czech republic decided
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: An Imposter This Week The movie in question is Murder at the Presidio, which premieres on USA Monday, May 2nd, at 9 p.m. Lou Diamond Phillips stars as a member of the "Criminal Investigation Division" investigating
SF News Humanitarian Marla Ruzicka Claimed By Violence In Iraq In a terribly tragic irony, Marla Ruzicka, who grew up in Lake County, and worked tirelessly for Medea Benjamin's Global Exchange before founding her own organization, "The Campaign For Innocent Victims of Conflict"
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: 62 Years and 6500 Miles Between First of all, we want to apologize for having to miss the Asian Am Film Fest screening of the Taiwanese comedy on Tuesday -- we got sick. We're totally going to try and
Arts & Entertainment Have You Heard The One About Incompatibility of Military Heroism & Love? Skyler Cooper is one of the most beautiful women in the Bay Area. SFist has been vacillating between envy and infatuation since we saw her in the title role of Impact Theatre's (Full
SF News Tsunami Aftermath in Sri Lanka -- A Personal Experience Friend of SFist Hank Thomas forwarded this story by photographer Wyatt Gallery to us recently. It's a despatch from Wyatt's recent trip to Sri Lanka with friend and fellow photographer Kareem Black (pictured
SF News No Gun For You We must have missed this in the midst of all the Apprentice hoopla, but last week the San Francisco Board of Supervisors did what they do best- passed a sweeping, half-baked but well-intentioned
SF News SFist Cares... About Cold People in Other Countries And now we can put our skills to greater use. Afghans for Afghans is an organization that takes handmade afghans (duh), scarves, mittens and sweaters and distributes them to people in Afghanistan (duh,
Arts & Entertainment In the Navy Now, Fleet Week's cool with the ships and the planes and the firecrackers and all, but SFist's got penciled into our calendar two events of note: the Robot Fighting League Championships at Fort
SF News Blue Angels Blues Fleet Week may only be a little less than a month away, but that still hasn't kept us from already hitting the phones to find out whose friend of a friend of a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Weekend Getaway - Marin Headlands It's hump day, which means it's time to start planning that trip out of the city this weekend. Last weekend, SFist had a car, so we decided to take a trip across the
