SF News Shirtless Actor Gallery Whets Appetite for Oscar Sunday What with the Academy Awards happening on Sunday -- the biggest night of the year, period -- the good folks over at The Sword have searched the internets to come up with a
Arts & Entertainment Haiku Giveaway: AMC 2009 Best Picture Showcase Need to catch all of the Best Picture nominees before Oscar night? We can help. SFist is offering one (yes, just one) ticket to a screening of Milk, The Reader, The Curious Case
SF News <i>Milk</i> Nabs 8 Oscar Nominations Gus Van Sant's Milk, the biopic about slain San Francisco supervisor and gay activist Harvey Milk, was nominated for eight Oscars this morning. In addition to a Best Picture nomination, Dustin Lance Black
misc Vandalism Report Card: "I'm a Faggot" With over a dozen or so problems that the above graffiti could have critiqued about this poster advertising the Academy of Friends annual "gala" fundraiser for HIV/AIDS -- such as paying to
misc SFist Tonight Laughing Squid’s Last Minute Unholiday Party: Scott Beale and the gang will be having a most splendid post- and un-holiday party/experiment with social media. Although LS will be "providing some beer
Arts & Entertainment Ingmar Bergman Also Dies It was a deadly weekend to be famous, that’s for sure. As one commenter already pointed out today, famous people tend to die in threes: Bill Walsh, Tom Snyder, and of course,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Giveaway!: Win Passes To <i>Lady Chatterley</i> The movie's won five Cesar awards (the French Oscars) -- plus it sounds like there's plenty of steamy activity as well, given that it's being released without a rating. A perfect third date
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Peter Morgan and <i>The Deal</i> We'd been wanting to see ever since we saw The Queen, and it did not disappoint! We're grasping for analogies here! It's like the Godfather, only about politics! It's like Amadeus, if Salieri
Arts & Entertainment And the Winner Is.... Anyhoo, the winner for best picture is Little Children and no, it's not the prequel to "Little Woman." It's a movie that was out for a bout a week, starring Kate Winslet about
SF News Do You Know Who Else Loves the 90s? The Warriors Do! Look, we love the 90s as much as anyone. We loved the Smashing Pumpkins and the whole grunge thing and we loved Pubic Enemy and watching "BH 9'er" and "Melrose Place" back-to-back and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food Blogger Roundup The food blog world is aflutter over the biggest awards ceremony of the year. The Oscars? Don't be silly. It's all about the food, baby. The 2006 Independent Food Festival and Awards are
SF News We're Betting on iTunes We have a lot of the screeners lying on our desk, gazing at us reproachfully as we while away the hours watching Tyra crap out on stripping and . We're pretty dubious that we're
misc The 'Fisties: Best San Francisco Celebrity We here at SFist like our celebrities like we like our men: insane, rude, dirty, and fabulous. Oh, wait, that's NOT how we like our men anymore (that's 12 years of therapy finally
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Jeffrey Anderson Worst movie of all time: Too many people dump too much abuse on horror and sci-fi movies when the real horror comes in the form of "Forrest Gump" -- truly the most monstrous
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: The After-the-Oscars Edition Well, the Oscars are over, so you can stop your vain attempt to see all the nominated movies -- a disappointing lot of them blew anyway -- and do something more interesting with
Arts & Entertainment Coming Attractions: Cinequest 2005 The San Jose Film Festival is in its 15th year (The gift for that is crystal by the way. I'm sure they'd appreciate it.) and once again is bringing a jam-packed lineup of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Movies This Weekend Oscars Special SFist enjoys the who big-ass spectacle that is the Oscars, but we have to admit that we've always been really bad at seeing the nominated movies. They all just look so, we don't
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: As Hollywood Preps for Their Prom And then there's something called The Academy Awards on this Sunday. Ahh. We kid. (Or pray at the Church of Ironic Detachment, take your pick.) Of COURSE TV is all about the Oscars
Arts & Entertainment A Shining Beacon of Democracy in the Blogosphere It's that time of year again -- time to buy breathmints and hide the carton of cigarettes that you drunkenly told your significant other that you would stop smoking as of New Years
SF News Political Junkie: World Mayor Pretend He's (almost) Miss World, can't look us in the eye -- Hizzoner Newsom announced that he was nominated but did not win in the online World Mayor 2004 contest. (That Giacometti-like figure to
