Arts & Entertainment We Asked And You Delivered! (Obama Edition) Aw, you guys! Have we told you lately how much we love you? We sent out a plea for pictures from yesterday's Barack Obama rally in Oakland and all you awesome readers who
Arts & Entertainment Please Send Us Obama Rally Pictures! We missed the Barack Obama rally in Oakland because we were at the movies, but it sounded amazing -- 10,000 people in front of City Hall, and the unofficial word from the
Arts & Entertainment A Little Bite of This or That? <i>¡Qué Bueno!</i> Small plates are certainly très chic these days (even if our propensity for mixing foreign phrases is not), but usually, the price tag is not quite as nice of a fit. Not that
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: Not Just Film But Music Too The SF Asian-American Film Festival hosts not only ten days of the latest and greatest in Asian and Asian-American film, but two nights of current highlights from the Asian-American music scene too: one
SF News A's Anatomy: Part II - The Corner Infield and Designated Hitter You want wild cards? We’ve got wild cards. Just about every player in this category is a wild card; by that we mean you would have to be an awfully good seer
Arts & Entertainment What’s There to Love About the East Bay: Lots! Next Up: The Troubled Tale of the Speakeasy Theaters But apparently all is not well in the land of discount movies and cheap beer. The Contra Costa County Times is reporting that the new Cerrito Theater is having some trouble trying to
SF News American Football Spectacular: Free Agency 2007, "What's In Your Cart, Oakland?" * Jeremy Newberry, C Now, we here in the Bay Area know Mr. J-New 62; he went to Cal and then became a three-time Pro Bowl center for the 49ers. He was a warrior,
Arts & Entertainment Dinner First, and then TheaterFIRST in Old Oakland There's a little theater company doing some pretty big plays on 9th Street in downtown Oakland AND offering dining discounts at neighboring restaurants for ticket holders. Part philosophical exploration, part 11th-Century Middle Eastern
Arts & Entertainment A New Chef at B Oakland's B Restaurant (or just "B," apparently), promised to be such a place. Since the establishment's doors opened across its refurbished 120-year-old mosaic tile floor in 2005, reviewers have unanimously noted the New
SF News A's Anatomy: WHEEEEEEE!!!! A’S BASEBALL IS HERE!!!! Perhaps you would like a preview of the upcoming season from a totally official source? Well, you’re obviously not going to get that from us, but we are pleased to bring you
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What's There To Love About the East Bay? Lots! First Stop: Van Kleef's At first, we thought the lonely, empty feel of downtown Oakland after Five kind of depressed us. But no longer! Now we're happy to spend our happy hours (and extended happy hours) at
Arts & Entertainment It's Time For the SF Asian-American Film Festival! This is the 25th SF Int'l Asian-American Film Festival, and they're celebrating their silver anniversary this year with a special focus on Chinese-American film, a retrospective of the work of Korean filmmaker Hong
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork Gets Inspired by our Local Magazines ReadyMade, who recently moved its headquarters from Oakland to Berkeley, has had a spot on our bookshelves long before we started seeing copies of it for sale in Urban Outfitters. In classic magazine
Arts & Entertainment The Adventures of the Superfisters: The Dramatic Conclusion I've had a lovely time hanging out at Isotope and writing comic book reviews for SFist for the last year and a half, and it's very fondly that I'll be devoting this last
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Branford Marsalis SFist recently sat down with Marsalis for our first-ever email interview. Q. First off, did you have anything to do with the fact that the top view of the "Braggtgown" CD looks like
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Aim Low Kid Since we happen to be engaged to lead singer Daniel Phifer, we get asked what Aim Low Kid sounds like quite a lot. We usually get frustrated because their sound is pretty hard
SF News We Have a Winner As you can see, the 38 Geary tied with the 30 Stockton in another big of a surprise as the 38 was leading for most of the week. Maybe it was all the
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork talks to Marie Kare of the Sampler We saw our first Sampler two years ago while interning at the ReadyMade offices in Oakland. We looked on eagerly as a big thick envelope arrived stuffed with handmade goodies that included buttons,
SF News SchwarzenWatcher Gets Caught on Tape Anyways, there's some somewhat juicy stuff in there, mainly Mr. Positive saying not so very nice things about Democratic legislators. You know, the guys he's all buddy buddy with. Everybody is saying it's
SF News American Football Spectacular: And A Child Shall Lead Them Kiffin has shown himself to be one of the most skillful tacticians in the National Football League in his 11 seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, helping birth the successful “Tampa 2” zone
SF News Your Commute: One If By Land, Two If By Sea If you were planning on taking the Oakland/Alameda Ferry, officials are recommending you take the Alameda Harbor Bay Ferry which obviously goes to Alameda. Thus the name.
SF News Your Commute: You're Bumming if You're Going Home on the Bay Bridge... Traffic was stopped to make way for ambulances and other emergency related cars. Bay Bridge commuters, we feel for you.
SF News JetBlue Coming to SFO The main problem with JetBlue, though, is that they don't go to a lot of airports. Here, you could get them at Oakland but not at SFO. But not for any longer-- JetBlue
SF News IDs, You Don't Need Our Stinking IDs But no, that's not the fun part, the fun part is that Gilmore, one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a millionaire thanks to being in early at Sun Microsystems,
SF News Political Junkie: Booooo! It's a bad sign when the Oakland City Council (and its participating public -- see notes in the comments below) takes the "worst behaved political activity" award on a day where not only
