misc Get A Job Time for your weekly nag to get a new job/selfishly direct site traffic to our job board. Really, it's a win-win. And some of our exciting new career opportunities -- please excuse
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>Gorgeous! (Comme T'y Es Belle!)</i> We headed to the Castro on Sunday evening for the SFJFF's Gorgeous! (exclamation included in the title), sort of a Desperate Housewives meets Sex and the City, featuring four women, some single, some
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: You Should Know About Dan Carbone Why? Because the stuffed-animal slinging, falsetto-singing, universe-weaving, Dada-referencing, Bay Area playwright and theater artist (and good friend and muse of seminal filmmaker George Kuchar) is all that -- and he's just been nominated
misc Week Around The Ists What with Paris Hilton's release earlier this week and the upcoming celebration of American Independence (sorry, Londonist!), we've been thinking a lot about freedom. Freedom to vote, freedom to choose, and most importantly,
misc When The Lights Go Down In The City Our friend Will who runs New & Used Records is celebrating a CD release this week for The Passionistas. God's Boat, produced by Kelley Stoltz, may sound lo-fi, but the band isn't afraid
Arts & Entertainment Interpol Invite You To BFD Live 105's annual BFD Festival this Saturday brings 25 bands (check out the full lineup) to Shoreline Amphitheatre, but Interpol has ponied up two spots on the guest list for one lucky SFist
misc Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big -- really freaking big
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
misc Local Gays Make Good, But Stay Local "Are SF days as a gay mecca over? Or is the list biased to LA, DC and NY media types?" Cedric asks. Excellent questions! The answers are no and yes, respectively. Readers, of
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Mark Mulroney Artist Mark Mulroney lives and makes art in Berkeley but hails from Dutton, PA. He came over to the Bay to teach at the San Francisco Art Institute and participate in an economy
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Matt & Kim It was a show of nonstop manic glee, as cuddle-pop indie couple-duo Matt & Kim returned to San Francisco to play Noise Pop at the Bottom of the Hill Thursday night. So much
misc Ist-travaganza! We'd like to start this week's run-down by wishing a very happy birthday to parent blog Gothamist, which turned four on Friday. If it wasn't for them, the rest of us wouldn't be
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Jennifer Koh. To drive the point home, SF Performances is inviting Jennifer Koh to perform this Saturday at Herbst theater. Jennifer Koh is an outstanding violinist who is totally committed to an exciting, modern, living
SF News The NBA: Brawlin', Round 2 Ding-ding! NBA fans, lehhhhhhhhht's get ready to ruuuuuummmmm-bbbbllllllllllllle -- again. Saturday night in Madison Square Garden, the most famous boxing arena in the world, the NY Knicks and Denver Nuggets set upon each
Arts & Entertainment Spem in Alium: There is Hope in Our Soul. You had to stay in your squeaky pew last night, at the performance of the same 40 part motet by actual live human beings, the singers of the Schola Cantorum and of the
misc Craigslist Encounters: Jobs are Expensive One of the reoccurring problems with Craigslist is that once it becomes popular many of the sections lose their usefulness as spammers, solicitors and other nefarious elements sick their claws into that once
Arts & Entertainment Shara Worden from My Brightest Diamond Shara has completed the arduous SFist interview process and, among other things will inspire you to go to Coney Island, if not the rest of NYC. If you haven’t managed to secure
SF News News Items Too Long To Be Summarized For Day Around The Bay We try to keep our new feature Day Around The Bay pretty short -- so these three longer items we found in our relentless scouring of local news sources have been relegated to
misc East Bay: Animals Gone Wild Contra Costa Times columnist, Sarah Jacobson, writes about a raccoon cocktail party on the front porch of her Pittsburg home in the wee hours of the morning.And while we would disagree with
Arts & Entertainment Om's Al Cisneros When was your best show ever? The last time we played NY which was a couple of months ago. It felt to us that people were finally seeing this (Om) as its own
Arts & Entertainment We're So Proud of our Hometown Whore Even though she once made fun of our blog's name (and who hasn't) we've always loved that lovable scamp, Peaches Christ. So we're pleased as punch to hear that the queen's finally hitting
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>No Sleep Til Shanghai</i> The crowd at the Kabuki Theater on Friday night had more hip-hoppers than usual, as SF Int'l Asian-American Film Fest attendees eagerly lined up three-deep for the sold-out showing of No Sleep Til
SF News More Concrete, Please Yeah, San Francisco's nice, we guess. But you know what it REALLY needs? Parking garages. Yeah, get rid of that stupid Yerba Buena garden, and that useless Golden Gate Park, and that , smelly
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Ted Weinstein Ted Weinstein is a fierce proponent of the Bay Area’s literature scene. He is also good at getting the authors he represents to finish their manuscripts. His methods are a trade secret,
Arts & Entertainment Daly On TV (Not Shouting) Hey, no one told us Hothead Supervisor Chris Daly was going to be on Countdown with Keith Olbermann last night! About O'Reilly, of course. We're so bummed we missed this! (Usual Suspects, will
