misc Week Around the -Ists * Torontoist discovered their city's most ridiculous holiday lights setup, with 80,000 lights and two––two!––synchronized music routines. Naturally, they snagged a video. * Chicago tragically loses one of its most
misc SFist Reviews... Vampire Weekend The incredibly crowded space was crawling with an audience that was brimming with excitement. Their excitement had been curtailed while Grand Ole' Party and San Francisco's own, Still Flyin'
misc Pardon Our Dust: Comment Fix In the Works In the meantime, please don't repost your comments. Even if you do get an error message that says your comment did not go through, it is in fact being posted just
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Cinewhores Present Midnight Cowboy (1970): Although tame by today's smut-filled standards -- oh, you heard right! -- Midnight Cowboy has the distinction of being the only X-rated film to have ever
Arts & Entertainment "Dirty Country" Sneak Previews at Yerba Buena Tonight Tonight, for one night only, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts will be featuring two sneak previews of Dirty Country, a highly entertaining documentary about the underground world of raunchy music, directed by
SF News NYC vs. SF? It's a strange debate, one that gets bandied about during drunken bar conversation all of the time. Strange because who moves here thinking they'll reside in a compact version
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers: Not only does this "Basie-esque" outfit perform lush jazz and blues tunes, but the chanteuse is pretty funny in between songs. Check
Arts & Entertainment We're Number One! San Francisco Is Top City For Singles Hey, all you singles in San Francisco/Oakland, looks like you live in the right place. Our fair city was tops in Forbes 7th Annual Best Cities for Singles Report. The magazine made
Arts & Entertainment SFFW Doesn't Want Bloggers' Coverage Beloved Jennine from The Coveted writes here about how this year’s San Francisco Fashion Week denied her and other bloggers precious invitations to cover the event or (worse) any of its VIP,
misc Week Around The -ists This week ended with the launch of the seventh and final Harry Potter installation. But while the world was consumed with Pottermania, it's important to remember that there were more serious
SF News SF Almost the Best Place for Yuppies Coming in at a respectable number two, Forbes Magazine named San Francisco the second best spot to park your yuppie ass. As if you didn’t already know that. (Although we’re puzzled
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight But brace yourselves for tonight's edition: an "honest" look at the (dying? dead? necessary?) state of print publishing. Such inky icons as Ben Fong-Torres (from Rolling Stone), Lynn
Arts & Entertainment For Your Viral-Marketing (Dis)Pleasure: <em>Cloverfield</em> The cherished Scott Beale brought to our attention the following bit of, well, awesomeness. We know, we know -- we’re no longer supposed to fall for ultra-annoying viral marketing bullshit. And producer
SF News Yahoo Maps Digging A Little Deeper Into SF According to an article on PC World, Yahoo's mapping product is undergoing some improvements. The company is switching from a third-party data provider to an in-house platform that it
SF News American Football Spectacular: Capsulizing the 2007 NFL Draft's First Round It's time for American Football Spectacular's capsule reviews of the 2007 NFL Draft. Adventure, excitement,! All hard information was culled from NFL.com's pretty excellent draft tracker
Arts & Entertainment APE Escape 2007 Part 2: Cute, Cool, And Arty Hey, Folks, welcome to part two of our APE coverage. The Alternative Press Expo was this past weekend, and there was so much fun stuff we had to break our coverage into several
Arts & Entertainment The Complexity Of Kids' Music: We Talk To Juno Baby's Adam Adelman Last Wednesday, we told you our quick take on Juno Baby's line of educational entertainment products for kids (the long and short: cute, cool, and engaging). Adam Adleman, one of the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Get Your Fat On Some cities in California have already taken it upon themselves to ban trans fats including –yes- America’s first Trans Fat Free City, our own Tiburon, California. Sure the annual income of Tiburon
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Smells Like Faux Cookies Have the agency folks ever tried waiting for a 14 Mission or 45 Union bus, or even done that routine lately? Itís never, ever about comfort, but maybe thatís the ad folks point.
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Opposites Attract at San Jose Center for the Performing Arts Hell yeah, we'd trek all the way to San Jose to see Molly Ringwald! What self-respecting John Hughes-fanatic/thirty-something would
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
Arts & Entertainment Maverick's Hits the Big Time We realize that those of you with Tivo don't have to trouble yourselves with the minutiae of daily television programming, but for you old schoolers with the VCRs and you hard-
Arts & Entertainment The Art of Advertising Once, a long time ago, we worked at a film production office in New York City. The crappy part was labelling tapes, getting coffee for people and waking up at 5am to assist
SF News Always a Few Years Behind You know how all those 'hott trends' seem to start in New York, and float out here fanned by the butterfly wings of fashion and lifestyle magazines? Well, this summer, the
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: Citizen Cope When we met Citizen Cope, a.k.a. Clarence Greenwood, back in our New York City days, we thought he was handsome, mysterious and reserved. In other words, a little unnerving. We soon
