SF News Folsom Street Fair 'Ask First' Campaign Rankles Some Photographers On the Saturday morning before this year’s Folsom Street Fair, while most of us were still blacking our boots or rigging our pony carts, a social media skirmish broke out regarding the
misc ALL OF THEM: West Portal Ave & Ulloa ALL OF THEM: West Portal Ave & Ulloa -- David Letterman after the final McCain/Obama debate via the absolutely critical at-these-times politicalirony.com. This one's from inside the venerable Eezy Freezy Market
SF News From 100 To 97 Well, the bad news is still that we've hit a 12 year high for homicides in the City and County of San Francisco, with two weeks left to go in the year. On
SF News American Football Spectacular: A Level Of Sadness Akin To Elliott Smith Reporting from the snow-dappled streets of Chicago, it's your American Football Spectacular preview for this Saturday night's battle at The Stick as The Queen City's feline football franchise comes to town. * Cincinnati vs.
Arts & Entertainment The Bold Hat Makers' Swell Sample Sale Former SFist editor Jackson West boasts that at the "last sample sale [he] came away with five hats for forty bucks." You don't get better testimonial than that, folks. Also, heads just look
Arts & Entertainment The Onion's Joe Randazzo What is the dumbest thing in the world? I am tempted to say nationalism, for the way in which it rallies people around a symbol they believe to be inextricably linked to their
SF News Behold: Last Night's Yelp Day Party By Dianne de Guzman Although it took awhile, we've finally recovered from the Yelp holiday extravaganza at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. As to be expected Yelpers know how to throw
SF News American Football Spectacular: Kill The Head And The Body Will Die Joe Frazier was once quoted as sayin' "Kill the body and the head will die." For an NFL offensive unit, the opposite is the case. And here comes the context: it's your American
Arts & Entertainment The Rake's Progress The patrons were willing to entertain an oil well and a 1950s Americana re-setting that dramatically differs from Stravinsky's original 18th Century,even though they were a tad skeptical. At first. After all,
SF News American Football Spectacular: One Up, One Down Reporting from spa-side in Santa Ana, it's your American Football Spectacular preview of the next rung of pain on the agony ladder that is the 49ers' '07 season. * San Francisco vs. Arizona Sunday,
SF News Gus Van Sant Hates Us Well, he does not care for our image, but still: same thing. Well, we went to this last Saturday's open casting call for Gus Van Sant's latest project, Milk. (Based off of the
Arts & Entertainment The Colbertese Falcon Applause to John's Grill owner John Konstin, who decided to put some money into the arts. When the Maltese Falcon replica displayed in the restaurant was stolen earlier this year, Mr. Konstin offered
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews... Maroon 5's Easy Listening Tunes In the end: Maroon 5 is decent, safe KOIT music. Nothing more, nothing less. Check out more pictures (and two videos) after the break...
Arts & Entertainment A Tale Full of Vile Sounds, Weird Fury So foul and poor a play we haven't seen. At least, not during this San Francisco Opera season. That is, until now: behold, the vile production that is Macbeth. It's easier to count
SF News American Football Spectacular: This Test Ended Before You Arrived It's been a mighty tough season to be a 49er fan; what with the bevy of broken expectations, the death of Bill Walsh -- and this week -- the passing of former Head
Arts & Entertainment Touched by an Angela: La Rondine at SF Opera. Now, Angela has some redeeming qualities: one could excuse her for her behavior; being diva in the truest operatic sense of the word, that's her job after all. Plus, she brings excitement to
Arts & Entertainment Sfist Reviews... The Hives Chris Dangerous (Christian Grahn), the drummer, took the stage first. With his face, but mostly his eyes (Tyra Banks would be proud), Dangerous would look at different spots in the audience and give
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Eugene Robinson By Frances Reade Eugene Robinson has been the leader of S.F.'s most dangerous art-rock band Oxbow since 1989. We don’t mean Oxbow is "dangerous" as in "Tipper-Gore-no-likey." We mean "dangerous"
SF News Photos: Cosco Busan Oil and Water Don't Mix But, and we hate to admit it, they sure do look pretty together. (The image above has been set as our desktop background!) But as attractive as oil and water looks on rain-soaked
SF News Hey, Pictures Of Famous People! We this picture of *NSYNC's out memoirist Lance Bass at a Halloween party at the Clift Hotel - love love love love love!!! (Are we the only people mildly interested in reading his
misc Week Around the -Ists This past week, Phillyist got a little naughty, snapped a few pictures of Bigfoot (or maybe it was just a skinny bear...), and sized up the Sixers (the short version? Maybe next year)
SF News American Football Spectacular: At The Bottom And Still Falling "Do you remember bein' promising?" -- Trouble by Engine 88. Continuing the tour of pain through the ex-members of the NFC West, this week the 49ers visit the the wreckage that once was
Arts & Entertainment They've Done It Again Instantly the audience responded positively to the well-blended vocals, perfectly crafted pop-hooks and the organic-sounding drums played by NYC Subway musician, Shakerleg. You can not deny that these two Australian brothers, Issac and
Arts & Entertainment Contest: Sia @ Fillmore 10/25/07 If you fell in love with Sia when you were bawling your eyes out about the Fisher family then Thursday's night concert is for you. Sia, our favorite Australian pop singer, is coming
Arts & Entertainment SF Opera: the Magic Flute The set, originally designed for the 92-93 season of the LA opera, and seen for the first time in SF, is build around a massive pyramid: Mozart was a Mason when he composed
