Arts & Entertainment Wanted: Drag Queens. Reassignment Surgery Optional. [] So our friends at Beau Bonneau Casting are at it again. This time they're not looking for skinny hipsters, but for 'drag queens.' There are few casting calls that SFist would really
SF News Yahoo May Have Already Bought Flickr Google and Yahoo want to buy it outright, while venture capital firms are flooding it with all kinds of creative proposals. "We get four or five calls a week from VCs," says Stewart
Arts & Entertainment Wanted: Penises. Pubic Hair Optional. BoingBoing's David Pescovitz recently posted a call for models by his friend Richard Hansen. And when we say "models" we mean "people with penises," since Richard is working on a book project about
Arts & Entertainment Damn, It Feels Good To Be An SFist! Special thanks to Noisepop for their ongoing support of SFist’s coverage of the festival. SFist has a hard time making it to opening bands. General tardiness, and memories of suffering through openers
SF News SFist Rants: We Want to Drink More and Later Imagine one of those "from the past" montages like thay have on "Cold Case". Some early 90s dance music (maybe Rhythm is a Dancer) plays in the background as a thinner, younger, and
Arts & Entertainment Reminder: 'Shoot-In' Tomorrow We would like to sincerely thank everyone who has offered their stories, thoughts and support in this matter. We were honestly expecting maybe half a dozen people to show up tomorrow, but now
SF News A Suggestion From Seattlest Our man on the PNW sport beat, Seattlest Seth, has a modest proposal that could be just the thing to turn around the fortunes of the Golden State Warriors, and it has nothing
Arts & Entertainment Muni Photography Ban: Update To follow up on our previous story, we're not sure whether the Muni photography ban is the biggest threat to our personal freedom, but we have a feeling that if we don't blow
SF News Homeland Insecurity: Photo Ban on Muni? We've been a bit remiss in keeping up with all our blog reading, or we would have caught this story on BoingBoing ourselves. But it was big enough to have been forwarded to
Arts & Entertainment Has Ribity Gone Too Far? Art critic and photographer Claudine, who has been something of a modern-day Chalfant or Ahern by cataloging photos of graffitti pieces throughout the city, left a comment in our Get Ur Geek On:
SF News Barry's Bum Knees If Giants fans are looking a little more nervous these days than they already were, it’s because it was reported today that on Monday, Barry Bonds went in for his second knee
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Does Anybody Read 7x7? Sam Breach of Becks & Posh bravely opened up a copy of 7x7 magazine (San Francisco's answer to society mag New York Magazine) only to find her own name in it! Of course,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Whodunnit TV SFist celebrated a birthday yesterday and was unable to post. Apologies. But the little gap in posting also gave us time to think some about the current state of television, and the conclusion
SF News Tsunami Aftermath in Sri Lanka -- A Personal Experience Friend of SFist Hank Thomas forwarded this story by photographer Wyatt Gallery to us recently. It's a despatch from Wyatt's recent trip to Sri Lanka with friend and fellow photographer Kareem Black (pictured
misc Inside the Hotel Vitale Mark over at HotelChatter tipped us off to some anonymous photos taken from the inside of local hotelier Joi de Vivre's new boutique hotel on the Embarcadero, Hotel Vitale. While the project was
Arts & Entertainment We've Got Big Balls The gala begins at the Opera House where there will be cocktail receptions, seated dinners, and a gala performance of among other things “Romeo and Juliet.” For the celebration, the Opera House will
Arts & Entertainment JPG Magazine Debuts You can now purchase the first issue of JPG Magazine, created by local bloggerstars Derek Powazek and Heather Powazek Champ. This is an actual, printed book of beautiful photos culled from dozens of
SF News Bay Blogger Thursday A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away (okay, it was a Cole Valley coffee shop in August), we met an enterprising photographer who wanted to start her own photoblog. Her
Arts & Entertainment Hope On a chilly but still night on Ocean Beach, SFist and HiMY SYeD joined interested passerby in sending a message of hope to the victims of the Tsunami, assembling HiMY's message in luminaria
SF News Doing More Shortly after the terrible tsunami in the Indian Ocean, SFist Mary-Lynn put together a great SFist Cares feature. But as the extent of suffering has begun to become fully apparent, we felt that
Arts & Entertainment We Come for the Art...But We Stay for the Greased-hog-catching Contest The Stephen Wirtz Gallery is located at 49 Geary St, third floor; and if you feel as through you absolutely must visit their dreadfully framed website, fine, here it is.
Arts & Entertainment New Meatspace URL for Six Apart In honor of our favorite local blogging empire, we're giving away some MT schwag: a lovely metallic Movable Type charm thingy that can be used to adorn a keychain or, if you're insanely
Arts & Entertainment SFist Listens What are the folks at SFist listening to in anticipation of the BIG party? SFist Krissy has got the following on rotation: Jolie Holland - "escondida" (a.k.a. the recent Guardian covergirl)
misc Bad Santas If you happen to see a bunch of drunken Santa's running wild through the streets of the city this Sunday, rest assured it's not a Bad Santa fan convention. Nor is it Happy
SF News Medical Marijuana Case Goes to the, uh, Highest Court; Massachusetts Gay Marriage Case Doesn't Meanwhile, the Court will hear arguments today in , a medical-marijuana case that started right here in the Bay Area. In 2002 Angel Raich of Oakland, who suffers from an inoperable brain tumor (among
