misc Condoize It We thought we'd update you on the latest brouhaha being currently ha'ed about in the city which is the Fairmont's announcement a week ago that they were kind of sort of thinking that
Arts & Entertainment Charo-Guitar is Whatever You Say During the week of August first, fans of Charo -- and who on earth isn't her fan -- are in for a treat: the board of supes has designated it Charo Week in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About Drinking for Literacy Artists for Literacy takes a really unique and fresh approach to getting people to read - they do it by using all kinds of media, not just the written word, to get people
SF News Zero Hour As that big clock at 5th and Mission ticks its way to 6 tonight, the Media Workers Guild will start to assemble to vote on management's insulting offer to the union. We here
misc SFist Rants: Where Have all the Riders Gone? Of course, we could point out that maybe more people would ride it if, say, they fixed the routing problems at the airport so there wouldn't be fifteen minute delays just outside the
Arts & Entertainment Three... Is The Magic Number 22 movies were screened in total, with Adam Davis' Runner taking the first place trophy. Jeff Cleary's Searching For Billy Ocean Volume One finished second, and Jen Hoenigsberg's Slinky rounded out the top
misc SFist Raves: Secret Bathroom Spot So there you are, wandering around one of San Francisco's bountiful neighborhoods when all of a sudden you get that calling from nature. You start to look around for a place to go
Arts & Entertainment Hey, Who's That Gringo Mariachi? Last night Melanie and I went to Pancho Villa for the award-winning deliciousness. As you may know, it's not unusual for somebody to be standing in the back playing a guitar. However, the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Reruns This Week Like 2002's "Firefly." (2002?! Did they even have cars back then?) The Sci-Fi channel is re-running the Joss Whedon series that Fox cancelled before it even got a chance to finish (thus leading
Arts & Entertainment Local Kids Make Good TV Sometimes, video games journalists seem vaguely Colbert-ish: earnest, confident, utterly out of touch. (Case in point: G4's "Judgment Day," with the slogan "all verdicts are final" -- oooh, the are final, OMG, they're
SF News Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth Err, no. This is San Francisco after all. During a vote on whether or not to accept it, possible soon-to-be City Assessor Geraldo Sandoval kicked it out to the Rules Committee because, we
Arts & Entertainment Simnuke Report The directions read: Take the next left at the shot-out sign that used to read "Susanville" (the not as badly shot out cross sign reads "Gerlach"). The car hurtled across desert paths, over
SF News Every Single One of You Owes Us a Beer Now, surprisingly, we're not sure that from the start we even knew we'd last this long. But after so long, we're finding the idea of doing anything else kind of hard to fathom.
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Dava Guthmiller Tell us aboutPow.wow? In 2003 I got a stuck in a rut, personally. I was lacking motivation and realized I didn't have much of a life outside my office. So, what better
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Now 4: The Scene First off, the crowd was huge. Our sources tell us the event was oversold. Hundreds with tickets had to wait outside, and hundreds more waited to pick up tickets from will-call. We ran
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Indecision 2005 Duelling gossips in today's San Francisco media! On the one side, we have the Chron and Leah Garchik's TIC column, reporting that the Newsom and the Guilfoyle are now officially kaput as of
SF News Could the Message Be Any Clearer? We'll we've got an update in the oh-so-exciting negotiations between the Media Workers Guild and the management of the San Francisco Chronicle (as you should know by now, part of the Hearst publishing
SF News How the Mighty Have Fallen Spending a day watching crappy television, we caught their new 'Faithful' ad, which was apparently being developed . Basically, the ad is an older character actor (we can't place him for an IMDB link,
Arts & Entertainment Blah...Blah...Harry Potter...Blah... In order to provide you, dear readers, with the best content we can provide, SFist occasionally has to delve into things with which we might not want to delve into. Case in point
SF News Hey, Navy: Leave Our Kids Alone The resolution, natch is non-binding and merely puts the city on record as opposing military recruitment. Schools merely have a choice on whether or not to follow it but as federal funds are
SF News <b>BREAKING: SANDOVAL FOR CITY ASSESSOR</b> Sandoval is alerting people to the fact that he's running for Assessor. The election will be in November; if there's an incumbent, it will be an appointed incumbent, as Mabel Teng has resigned.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Almost No TV This Week Don't watch "Big Brother 6". We got sucked into it, and we're afraid we won't be able to break away, and we don't wish this fate on anyone else. This season, the house
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Theater for People Who Hate Theater We met a guy at Thee Parkside after the ill-fated SFist/Wired softball game who asked us, "What's playing now that I should go see?" Now, when we meet people at bars and
SF News The Crab Revolution Will be Televised But that's not the juicy bit of the story, oh no. Turns out, Fox Sports Bay Area wanted to cover the protest before the game but were told not to by Giants officials.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sorry, You'll Have to Leave, As You're Not a Member You know, we really wish there was some place in San Francisco to go that was stylishly exclusive. Really, we'd go out more, but everytime we go to some club we're surrounded by
