SF News Solid, Liquid, Gas The three forms of water, in your daily news! Solid: Authorities continue to be baffled about a huge piece of ice that fell from the sky over Oakland, landing in Bushrod Park by
Arts & Entertainment Dispatch from Noir City: NoirQuake! In 1950, the great mystery writer Raymond Chandler wrote of the contemporaneous critical response to his stories and those of James M. Cain, Dashiell Hammett, et. al. that: It takes a very open
SF News Who is Kaiser Soze? On Wednesday we relished reading Matier and Ross's column about a brouhaha involving the San Francisco Film Commission. Seems that while shooting days in The City are up, all is not well between
SF News Sean Penn: Hero For the Day Instead, the dude saw what was going on with the flood, flew out with a bunch of people (including a photographer), got himself on a boat and rescued a bunch of people. Gave
Arts & Entertainment Sean Penn in Iran; SFist Struggling To Care Look, you've probably noticed lots of other people talking about this, and look, it's not like we don't care about the Middle East or Iran or anything (hey, we read both Persepolises, we'll
Arts & Entertainment Not-So-Guilty Pleasure: <i>The Aristocrats</i> It's here, it's finally, really here! We've been waiting for to publish our review of The Aristocrats since catching a preview screener. Drumroll please... If you like to laugh until it hurts, go
misc Political Junkie: Gossip! Whew, it's been such an eventful posting day that we've only just now gotten to the big political gossip news! According to PJ Corkery's Examiner column, remember when Kimmie and Gavin went out
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: Kiki and Herb on the Rocks Hey, you know that cabaret-drag performance duo, Kiki and Herb? Oh, you don't? Well, then, you might not really care for , which comes off feeling like a tribute mockumentary laden with in-jokes. Kiki
SF News Dan Gillmor Makes His Move The promise of the Internet was simple, but incredibly powerful: to be a medium through which we could connect and collaborate, for mutual benefit. It's happening. As the Net matures, we are learning
SF News Remember When I Said I'd Kill You Last? I lied. Clemency has been denied in the pending excution of death-row inmate Donald Beardslee, and the first execution in California since January of 2002 should go on as scheduled tonight at 12:01am. The
misc Let the Grievances Begin Today is, of course, Festivus. And with Festivus comes the traditional airing of grievances. Not to mention acknowledgement that we stole the idea from the Daily Quickie column on ESPN.com’s Page
SF News Fox Jocks to Rock De Anza Sean Hannity brings his Fox News ventriloquism act (look, Hannity's lips hardly move when Alan Colmes is talking!) to De Anza College's Flint Center for the Performing Arts tonight. Topic: Why godless liberals
Arts & Entertainment Sean Penn Brings It But that's really not where the action is. Not even close. Sean Penn, in fact, just might have set off one humdinger of a Celebrity Spat as it also involves Matt Stone &