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
SF News Haggling With Comcast The concerns over The City's new franchise agreement with Comcast have been bubbling under the surface for a while now, but things are just starting to get nasty. Gerardo Sandoval, in a Bay
misc SFisting: That Burning Sensation When reminded of the upcoming event known by insiders as "Burning Man", San Francisco denizens will have a variety of associations come to mind when evoking the costly desert Bacchanalia. Lube caked with
Arts & Entertainment <em>Graffiti: Urban Scrawl or Artistic Freedom?</em> Discuss Amongst Yourselves. We visited the Commonwealth Club for their most recent session of Inforum, a division of the Club that aims to “inspire debate around civic issues” for people in their 20’s and 30’
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Poketo! Best selling product? People love our wallets because they are so unique. I feel the artists we work with are underrepresented, but, I feel so strongly that the artists that have Poketo'ed are
SF News Explosion at the Crocker Galleria There's been an underground explosion at Post and Kearny, right outside the Ralph Lauren store at the Crocker Galleria. At around 10 a.m., people said they heard an explosion and saw the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rock Out with Eight Guys Out In the two years that the company's existed, feedback has been positive (such as two guys who met through 8 Guys Out, then paused their membership to focus on pursuing each other), and
SF News A's Brand Baseball: The A's . . . Lose? The A's have lost four games in a row, to the Minnesota Twins and the Baltimore Orioles. They were defeated by A's Brand Baseball's two favorite Orioles, (in order) SS Miguel Tejada and
Arts & Entertainment The Next Person to Carry On a Secret Affair With Paula Abdul Could Be YOU! Image of an actual San Francisco auditioner (auditionee?) from TVRules.net. American Idol Auditions Thursday, August 18, 2005 Cow Palace 2600 Geneva Avenue
SF News Homeland Insecurity: The Hits, They Keep a'Comin! Well, even though the DHS has lowered the threat level to sunny 'yellow,' BART's staying tough in the War Against Global Extremeism, so they're sticking to 'orange.' But they did open
Arts & Entertainment SFAFF: Rice Rhapsody (<i>Hainan Ji Fan</i>) Dang, it was cold waiting outside the Four Star for the doors to open for the San Francisco Asian Film Festival's premiere of ! And can we just say, the movie that screened right
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Niffer Desmond How did you get into puppet making? Actually that’s an odd story. When living in Santa Cruz I used to come up to SF with my friend Caitlyn for good times. Occasionally
misc SFist Rants Encore Edition: What the F**k is Wrong With People? And when we say "people", dear readers, we don't mean you (especially those of you who have donated to fight animal abuse already, for which we thank you). We mean these bastards who
SF News Not Quite Ready for Some Football Let the record show that we have serious issues with anything related to exhibition pre-season football. We hate how hyped they are, hate how seriously they're taken, and we especially hate how they
SF News SFist Rants: The 12 Inch PowerBook From 2004 You know how your Catholic friends are all "Sure, I f**k around and take the pill, but dude, how cool is St. Thomas Aquinas?" Okay, maybe those are only Catholic friends. But
SF News Firings at KNBR On Monday, Felipe appeared on ESPN’s "Outside the Lines" and referred to Krueger as a "messenger of Satan." In response, KNBR’s morning show aired snippets of Alou's Satan comments and parodied
Arts & Entertainment Spelling Counts Har! Remember Maria Alquilar, the lady who misspelled the names of the geniuses on the mural she was installing for the Livermore library? (or maybe Albert always spelled his name "Eistein," you never
SF News The Neon Lights They Shine So Bright On Market We've been wondering when, if ever, we'd see a "CSI: San Francisco". Now, before one of you clever commenters points out that part of the "CSI" formula involes cops actually solving crimes (seriously,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Porchlight Third Anniversary Good thing we got to the Swedish-American early for Friday night's Porchlight Third Anniversary storytelling evening -- even 45 minutes before the show, the rush ticket line was snaking all the way down
Arts & Entertainment Much Ado About Green Day You might have heard that after a long relationship with Oakland's Lookout! Records, Green Day recently decided to take back their pre-Dookie releases due to concerns over unpaid royalties. If you want to
Arts & Entertainment Downhill Fillmore Boy, have we got some bad Cow Hollow ideas for you! Have you guys been following the whole "turning Fillmore Street into a ski slope" thing? So Icer Event Management has decided to
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>On the Objection Front</i> The "refuseniks" (a term originally used to describe Jews who were barred from leaving the Soviet Union) had pledged to remain in the IDF and continue to serve "in any mission that serves
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>Campfire</i> What we got instead was the story of an Israeli woman, Rachel (Michaela Eshet), who is somewhat in mourning a year after her husband's death from cancer. Rachel tries to uproot her daughters,
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Paula Kamen We can say that with some assurance because she's had a headache for over a decade now. For most of us, the idea of suffering from a headache for more time than it
Arts & Entertainment BlogHer Summed Up Here's the problem with BlogHer. We've spent the better part of today trying to document what happened, what we think it all means and what impressions we got from the event. Okay, fine.
