Arts & Entertainment The Bay Area Is CopyFighting So a bunch of anarchist yutzes from the suburbs decided to protest G8 at that hotbed crossroads of capitalism, 23rd Street and Bartlett, and in the melee, threw a hammer at a cop's
misc Animal Roundup: Dog Daze in San Francisco Was it not enough that we broke Dogster? (Get well soon, SFist Ted! We need you to cover the upcoming heat wave!) We've got even more bad dog news to report. Local animal
SF News Fire on 16th Street Six people were injured, and around 64 people are homeless, after an early morning fire destroyed the apartment building across the street from Mission Dolores on 16th Street. The firefighters rescued two women
SF News London Calling Yes, that's what we are doing after receiving word of the terror attacks on London's subway system. Our dear friends at Londonist are providing minute-by-minute coverage of the crisis, and we have to
SF News I Make This Look Good Seriously, is the only good Sucker Free City entertainment gossip coming to us via KRON-courting mayors past and present? When Gavin isn't giving Phil Matier the scoop on , Willie Brown is confiding to
SF News Gavin in Ought-Six? Well, Randy Shaw apparently got the news that the Gavster's strategists are looking into the possibility of running for the Democratic nomination for the gubenatorial race next year. He writes in Beyond Chron:
Arts & Entertainment Mighty Annie Apparently what Potrero Hill (or is it called SoMissPo now?) has needed all along is a slick Marina-style club that specializes in alterna-lite of the 80s! We were at the club Mighty to
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Michael Maxfield Color of America? Red, white, blue! Color of the Giants? Orange! Color of San Francisco? Hot Pink! Wearing a Unitard! Way back when SFist self-interviewed, we shared a special San Francisco moment that
Arts & Entertainment A Gay Cable Channel in SF? That's Crazy Talk! We wrote about the City's crappy cable TV service a few weeks ago, so this news comes as no surprise. LOGO, which is owned and operated by MTV networks, will be available to
misc SFisting: Practice Your Rolls While we can think of about fifty places in the Mish to practice your Downward Dog without even trying, it's nice to find places where we can practice our favorite set of postitions
Arts & Entertainment In the Groove: In your Face! We here at SFist fondly remember the days of our relative youth (past the "kids under 12 eat free days" and before the "SENIOR CLASS OF 2004 SAN DIMAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL RULES
SF News The Lines are Drawn While you're worrying about how you're going to get to work next week if there's a strike on the BART, we're worrying about our friends who toil for Hearst over at 5th and
Arts & Entertainment Piedmont Bird Callers Do Letterman Piedmont is known for being full of seriously nice houses -- we always joked that the city's raison d'etre is so that rich folks wouldn't have an address in Oakland (okay, we bear
SF News Rally for Sandoval Our super-secret SFist sources have notified us that Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval, repping the eleven for the Excelsior, is holding a rally today at noon, on the steps of City Hall. , you ask. Is
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Wendy McClure We've loved Wendy McClure almost as long as we've loved the internerd, from her appearances on the late, great Hissyfit site, to her recaps at what we now call Television Without Pity, to
misc Something to be Proud of There were tons of lovely floats; one of our favorites was for Wells Fargo, which gets extra gay points for incorporating a showtune (but also loses gay points for it being a showtune
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Jeffrey Anderson Worst movie of all time: Too many people dump too much abuse on horror and sci-fi movies when the real horror comes in the form of "Forrest Gump" -- truly the most monstrous
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: Tammy Faye: Death Defying Tammy Faye was present for Frameline's screening of the new documentary, and the audience ate her up. She got a standing ovation just for walking into the house before the movie started (is
SF News Supremely Choadly Well, if you're trying to create the next generation of digital content distribution, put down that laptop. Maybe you're an industrial designer working on a piece of hardware that would make it easy
Arts & Entertainment Public Space; Keep Out Well, thanks to intrepid blogger (and friend of SFist) Michael, the chain link fence is finally down. Michael gets huge props for actually Getting Something Done -- a rarity in this town --
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: TransGeneration It would be easy to associate the subjects of the documentary with the people in other docs about self-reinvention -- the realness-craving drag kids of Paris is Burning, for example, or the folks
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 Wave That flag, Wave it Wide and High With the inmates running the asylum known as the 109th Congress, it's always great to know that we here in California, the Blue-ish of the Blue states, have representatives to act as a
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: Scary, Mary! We've only seen an audience turn ugly once, but it very nearly happened at Monday night's showing of at the Roxie. Our previous ugly-audience experience was at an attempted comedy in the Indie
Arts & Entertainment A Critical Look at Current TV Josh Wolf, a local vlogger, posted the following recently on his "The Revolution Will Be Televised" blog about Current TV's new rights agreement and payment schedule for content submitted to Current: Under the
