Arts & Entertainment The Falun Gong Show: SFist Goes To The NTDTV Chinese New Year But a computer-animated backdrop showing a angel flying down to Earth to rescue a dancer portraying a Falun Gong meditator being beaten senseless by Communist goons, together with a song proclaiming, "The Falun
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Oliver Chin What's your favorite thing about them? Collaborating with fantastic illustrators and artists to give people worthy alternatives to the cookie-cutter commercial widgets that permeate our culture. What's on your holiday wish list? Please
Arts & Entertainment Treasure Hunt: Spring Steel Boning 321 Linden Street in Hayes valley is home to a spectacular corsetiere and her custom and ready wear corsets can give an hourglass figure worthy of Marilyn Monroe. The large showroom in front
SF News Wait, Isn't He Supposed To Be In Jail? So we're reading this morning in the Chronicle about the "Frozen Bun Run" on Bethel Island in Contra Costa County, where fun-loving polar bears go water-skiing on the Sacramento River every New Year's
Arts & Entertainment Happy New Year's We came across this video on GooTube for Propaganda New Year's Eve Party at Laszlo, featuring SFist fave Brittanie Mountz doing what she does best. Love the stunna shades, Brittanie! No confirmation on
misc Bay Area Wanderer: The First Morning * Bay Area Wanderer: Balboa and 42nd Ave, San Francisco Homeward-bound down Balboa, the first morning looks like a success. Blue overhead and crisp to the skin. A foghorn sounded off in the distance.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Have An "Art Shell" For American Football Spectacular This New Year's Eve The Art Shell drink works like this: * Drop a shot of Jagermeister into a pint of O'Doul's. * Toast to Art. * Slam it. * The drinker of the beverage must then hold a stoic Art
SF News The Warriors: Breaking News (And It's All Bad) New year, same crap. Actually, it's still 2006, so maybe the Warriors are just clearing their pipes of the last dregs of bad karma before starting a new year and a new franchise
Arts & Entertainment What's Up For the New Year So with that in mind, what is there to do tomorrow night? Well, we don't know actually as it's looking like it'll be movie night, but for those of you looking to go
SF News For Whom the Bridge Tolls The toll increase won't affect some of you out there as people who have a FasTrak will get an amnesty as it were and won't see the toll increase until February. The reason
Arts & Entertainment Lake Tahoe: Open for Business Olympic Valley, home of the Squaw Valley Ski Resort, showing a dusting of snow. After getting off to a slow start, it seems the ski season at the Lake Tahoe area is finally
SF News SFist Rita's 2006 From the Starbucks (not really a) bomber in January to the opening of the Daiso in December, it was certainly one heck of a year, wasn't it? There was BUSH TER DOWN; the
misc A SFist Holiday Gift Guide Do Over It's a book by author Oliver Chin and illustrated by Jeremiah Alcorn and part of the author's Tales of the Chinese Zodiac series. The book is described thusly: "2006 is the Year of
misc Holiday Gift Guide Reminder What exactly are these things? Well, they allow you to ride free on BART for New Year's Eve and parts of New Years Day. Pretty cool, n'est pas? No drunkenly fumbling for your
SF News Why Does Google Hate America? You know what this means, of course? That while the rest of us think Google is a once cute tech company now about to take over the world, full of fresh faced engineers
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Norooz Mobarak The Iranian New Year is traditionally celebrated on the vernal equinox, which was this Monday. San Francisco, though, always fashionably late, is throwing its Norooz party tonight at City Hall. Iranian-American Ross Mirkarimi
SF News Political Junkie: Lucky For Us No Buckshot Was Involved Man, there isn't Bay Area connection to Dick Cheney shooting that 78-year-old guy in the face? We're so jealous of DCist and Austinist right now. Well, we gotta content ourselves instead with reporting
Arts & Entertainment Insert High-larious Joke About the Gong Show Here Hey, did you see the Falun Gong protestors at the Chinese New Year parade? They were barred from marching in the parade -- organizers say it's because F.G. is too political --
SF News SchwartzenWatcher Goes Broke What happened to all the gobs of money he raised last year? They all went into the Very. Special. Election, which shows just what a crazy, kamikaze-like move that last election was. He
SF News SchwartzenWatcher's Got Nothing So, this week we're going to operate on the principle of giving people what they want. And what do they want? Skeletons from Arnie's prodigious closet. Like this video of him in a
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Pepito Pea For everyone who is working on MLK day (and who isn’t really), we suggest taking a five-minute personal vacation to watch this video. Pepito is a former member of The Clarendon Hills,
SF News Goodbye, 104.9 Was that San Jose radio station Channel 104.9 the "new music alternative" because they played alternative new music, or were they the "new music alternative" because they played something other than new
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Brussels Sprouts Brussels sprouts are one of those love-em-or-hate-em vegetables, and we hope you'll use the comments to share your opinions on the little cabbages. We used to be firmly in the hate-em camp, but
Arts & Entertainment Come On And Take A Free (Or Cheap) Ride Driving can be a real pain, as we're expected to retain a level of alcoholic responsibility while everyone else on the road appears to be hammered into oblivion. Taxis can be hard to
SF News American Football Spectacular: Bowl-tastic LIBERTY BOWL Fresno St vs. Tulsa Saturday, December 31, 2005 Fresno has been all slumpy since nearly upsetting USC in a monstrous toe-to-toe battle. Tulsa used to be in the same conference with
