Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Tom DiCillo’s <i>Delirious</i> " The Centerpiece film at the San Francisco International Film Festival was the satirical romantic comedy Delirious. Steve Buscemi is a down on his luck paparazzo who takes in a homeless wannabe actor played
SF News Your Commute: "People Love To Talk About MUNI" Guess who's back talking about MUNI for the ABC 7 I-Team?????? (4:33 on the video). Since Gavin hasn't done anything outrageous lately, Dan Noyes turns his attention to the perennial favorite of
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>On Fire</i> A few minutes before the movie started there was a strange buzzing coming from the front of the theatre and we noticed an older man fiddling with his hearing aid. That's when we
SF News Population of Richmond Reduced to Just 24 "We, the people of District One," the manifesto modestly announces, "demand the recall of Supervisor Jake McGoldrick." Except it's only signed by 24 people. We don't have the census in front of us,
SF News Rescue Geary As always, the project's being held up by a one or two critics who insist that nobody wants to move any faster on Geary than they already do, and that people who ride
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 SFIFF: <i>Cold Prey</i> We’ll start off this review by saying we love Stella Artois…or more specifically the free Stellas we had at the mini-beer garden before the midnight horror movie screening of at the
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Private Fears In Public Places</i> We knew very little about the SF Int'l Film Fest's Private Fears in Public Places but were intrigued by the title. Turns out the play is based on an English play by the
SF News Microsoft? Deal Or No Deal? As of yesterday, people were abuzz that Microsoft had reopened merger talks with Yahoo over the past few months in the wake of the Google-DoubleClick purchase and the news that Google is now
Arts & Entertainment Conan the Triumphant Conan O'Brien's week in San Francisco came to a close today with his final taping at the Orpheum Theater, and the line to get in reached from the front of the theater, all
SF News Happy Birthday, Care Not Cash In honor of the anniversary, Team Gavin has launched a full court press showing that despite appearances, things have improved. Question: what is the proof? Answer: according to Trent Roher, about 1,800
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Artist Paul Madonna In artist Paul Madonna's weekly comic series All Over Coffee, San Francisco architecture—and coffee—seem to be the main characters. Beautifully detailed drawings of SF scenes, combined with disembodied voices that almost
Arts & Entertainment What the Puck? Another <i>Real World</i> Tryout Coming To San Francisco Hey check THIS out. Tryouts for MTV's are nigh. You guys have until Monday, May 7th to see if you'll be the next to fill the shoes of Pedro, Puck, or Judd . . . and
Arts & Entertainment Nic Dillon from Casados Best show you've played and what made it great? Heather and I have played a lot of shows. Our favorite shows are the ones where we can tell people are really listening and
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>The Twelve Labours</i> We were pumped to be headed to the SFIFF again this year with our friend, Liana, who’s from Brazil. We’ve seen several Brazilian films together at the festival over the years,
SF News Testimony In Gonzales Case Says Maybe San Francisco AG Deserved It? You've undoubted heard by now of the controversy where AG AG (That's Attorney General Alberto Gonzales) fired a bunch of people for apparently less than above-board reasons. Well, maybe he had a good
Arts & Entertainment Your CRT monitor is now obsolete Sure, your bulky old monitor still works fine. But it's obsolete anyway. Here's how we can tell: perfectly good CRT monitors abandoned on sidewalks and streets of San Francisco are now getting tagged
SF News Nice Leather Seats For Your 11-Hour Wait SFist will throw in your lunch for the plane ride over if you go dressed as either Gothamists Jen or Jake and you send us your picture! --- Those of you who want
SF News Apples Now Slightly Less Sinful Our friends to the south have come under some uncomfortable scrutiny lately for all the toxic junk they dump into landfills. Greenpeace in particular has been pretty critical of Apple's use of mercury
SF News Maze Update: Faster Than The Chron Expected! Is anyone else deeply enjoying the tonal shift from hysteria to sulky that the Chron's bumper-to-bumper traffic coverage of the MacArthur Maze collapse has taken? From the "Monday Morning Commute Will Be Terrible!
Arts & Entertainment Don't Blame Us, We Voted For... John Kerry! The former presidential candidate was in town the other day -- and how things have changed. Before, he was greeted by Bruce Springsteen, roaring crowds representing about 48% of the voting
SF News Students Struck by SUV It's not quite clear what caused all this, but one of the eyewitnesses said it looked like the driver was asleep.
Arts & Entertainment Arrivederci Hans, das war der letzte Tanz. Friday will be a farewell: it is the last "Friday 6.5 show" of the season, a last dance of sorts, if only to make sense of our title. The performance is at
SF News Barkley vs. the Bay Area We somehow missed this, or more like didn't care, but Charles Barkley has now become Public Enemy #1 here in the Bay Area. This is because during the NBA Playoffs, Barkley has said
