Arts & Entertainment Caution: Puzzle Solver Crossing Keep an eye out for groups of people doing weird things all over the City on Saturday. No, no. Different weird things. The company behind Perplex City has organized a major live event
Arts & Entertainment Negative People: SFist's Bread and Butter The party's happening this Saturday, the 12th, from 7:30pm to 10. It's at the 540 Club, mnemonically located at 540 Clement Street (near 6th Ave). On the agenda are screenings of some
Arts & Entertainment Rationalize Through Yvesdropping Submissions go to yvesdroppings - at - gmail - dot - com. And! This is new! If you think you might forget your Yvesdropping, you can just call our special new Yvesdroppings voicemail
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: It's All Meta at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts This is our pick for most anticipated show of the season, and the season's barely started. This multimedia performance by The Builders Association and dbox played
Arts & Entertainment Regifting -- East Bay Public Art Edition Public art is often the butt of jokes and viewed with contempt, along with performance art and washed up aging rockers on the county fair circuit. Whatever your feelings are about the role
SF News SFist Helps Gavin Get a Date This made us sad. After all, if a rich, good looking, Mayor often referred to as the Future of the Democratic Party can't get a date, what hope do we have? We're just
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique Writes Stinking Prose...Wait, Stinking Praise. Having garlic infused drinks, garlic spread on your bread, garlic appetizer, garlic entree and garlic ice cream: we fancy all these once in a while. But stringing all these into a meal sounds
SF News Your Commute Update So MUNI claims that your morning commute from the Sunset should be okay today, after yesterday's debacle in the Twin Peaks tunnel. Turns out there was indeed a derailment (of an L train,
misc SFist Rants: When the Olympics Committee Comes A-Calling We’re considering booking our dream vacation now if the Olympic Games will be in San Francisco instead of Los Angeles or Chicago in 2016. Maybe it's a chance to try apartment or
Arts & Entertainment Mick LaSalle Blows It Again (Surprise!) When this SFist attended a recent press sceening of the animated feature Monster House, something wonderful happened. A writer we've always respected made a pointed crack about "movie reviewers from the dailies", which
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Information Overload A Sneak Peek at the Fringe at Exit Theatre Talk about advanced publicity. The SF Fringe doesn't open until September 6, but on August 9 the Exit throws its doors open to theatre
SF News The Travails of Tristan Of note is the resignation of the interim Taxi Commissioner and BFF of Heidi, Tristan Bettencourt. Tristan resigned after stories of past transgressions with the law were made public. In fact, Tristan seems
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Movies at Dolores Park Behind us was Film Geek guy who spent the entire night dazzling his fawning girlfriend with his amazing ability to discover plot holes. In front of us was some woman who just couldn't
SF News American Football Spectacular: Meet Your Oakland Raiders 2006 Draft Picks, "Mr. Irrelevant" With training camp opened and the whir of footballs in the air, SFist is going to take a look at some of the people who'll be hitting tackling sleds in ninety degree weather.
SF News 21 Jump Street, Oakland We're kind of intrigued by this story -- remember that ill-fated anti-war protest at the Port of Oakland, where Oakland cops shot a bunch of people (one in the face) with wooden pellets?
SF News Muni Makes Us Drink (But This Time It's Free!) First, come out for the Richmond Town Hall Meeting with Mayor Newsom and Supervisor McGoldrick, this Saturday, July 29 from noon to 2 at Presidio Middle School (450 30th Ave between Geary and
Arts & Entertainment Castro Halloween Cancellation Update! We've been closely following this strange attempt by Bevan & Friends to put a stop to Halloween parties in the Castro -- including private house parties. Check out the coverage of Bevan's Wednesday
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
SF News Life Of Reilly Interestingly, the only local news source that seems to be covering the story about Clint Reilly's attempt to stop McClatchy Co. from buying the Mercury News are the McClatchy Co-affiliated papers (which include
Arts & Entertainment Screw It, We're Moving To Busy Town Our pals at Shanghaiist tipped us of to David Friedman's blog, Ironic Sans. We already had an internet crush on David from his site on GameBoy camera photography (a not so secret obsession
SF News Still Going for the Gold If you're waiting with baited breath to see if we become an Olympic city, don't. The USOC will decide first whether to even put together a bid in the fall (they're not sure
Arts & Entertainment Gastronomique Smells Fishy. Panel members were moderator Patricia Unterman, chef and owner of Hayes Street Grill and Examiner food critic as well; Steve Fitz, a salt-of-the-earth Half Moon Bay sand dabs fisherman; Tom Worthington, from Monterey
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <em>The First Zionist Bunny</em> The movie basically follows the contestants who try out to be the host of the brand new Israeli Playboy channel. This apparently was a big deal but we get no sense of just
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog Goes to Ashland on the Elizabethan Stage A sort of poor man's As You Like It, Two Gents covers the same terrain as many of the Bard's comedies. A couple of young men travel from Verona
