Arts & Entertainment The Philistine: Transformations Conrad Susa, who was in attendance and seemed quite pleased afterwards, wrote Transformations in 1975, on a commission of the Minnesota Opera, based on a libretto of Anne Sexton, itself based on her
SF News The Tonga Room We can't stop reading these articles about the drag racer who killed the Tongan royals! (and yes, you've seen that picture before; our pictures continue not to load on this server.) Today's news:
SF News Today's Service Delays So all of you commenting today, just remember -- even though the site looks like it's not accepting your comments, it is. And if you see multiple comments saying the same thing, it's
SF News Pictures Of Gavin You know we love our pictures of Mayor Gavin! This one's from those lovable scallywags over at the SFPartyParty, who confronted Gav at Golden Gate Park about his veto of the car-free on
SF News SFist Watches the World Cup So naturally, we went to Belden Place. Why not? We were rooting for les Bleus and the idea of being surrounded by people screaming "Sacre Bleu" or "Zizou!" with non-ironic French accents warmed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Fishing on Craigslist Walk around the corner, and you'll be at Market and 14th. You'd imagine the hustle and bustle to propagate half a block away. But it's almost like the video rental place with the
Arts & Entertainment Win a Copy of Victor Navasky's <i>A Matter of Opinion</i>! Times have changed -- now, we're far more likely to try to pass off the thoughts of Lisa Schwarzbaum as our own, but that doesn't mean our fondness for Navasky has decreased even
Arts & Entertainment Philistine: the Marriage of Figaro Now, we all know where we are going with this: the last Figaro on the SF Opera stage was Nathan Gunn, in the Barber, a role he'll take again this Fall. Nathan is
Arts & Entertainment The Doomed Adventures of the Superfisters It's a beautiful, mournful look back at a miserable 1987, wherein a boy's emotions are repeatedly chiseled away by a world that doesn't care that he has any feelings at all. Nobody cares
misc Elsewhere In The Ist-A-Verse LAist is flashing a sad peace out to their editor Carolyn Kellogg with one hand and bumping knuckles with their new head typist L.A. blogger king Tony Pierce with the other. Where
Arts & Entertainment Philistine: Joan of Arc The ghost of former general director Pamela Rosenberg was hovering above when a man dressed in a gray business suit was the first to come on the stage. We feared for a second
SF News Your Daily Gavin What?? More pictures of Gavin Newsom??? Keep sending them in and we'll keep running 'em. This one's from The Party Cow's Flickr Study of Gavin's facial expressions -- well worth checking out. After
SF News Ketchup Girl We'll be straight with you -- we're having a hard time following the whole "is Annemarie Conroy qualified" debacle that's been afoot for the past few days -- something about a report being
SF News Fun Pictures Of Gavin What do we at the 'Fist do on slow news days? That's right, run fun pictures of Gavin Newsom! These are the pictures we didn't think were quite good enough for a caption
SF News The Guilfency! A very enthusiastic "HER MOTHER AND I DO!" of support to the genius tipster who passed along the Exclusive Details about the impending Kimberly Guilfoyle-Eric Villency (hereinafter, "the Guilfency") Memorial Day nuptials in
Arts & Entertainment Bedbugs, Bedbugs, Whatcha Gonna Do? But by the morning of the 27th, my arms, legs and other parts of my body were full of bug bites (I took some pictures of the bites). As I was sitting on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Zuni West That's seven, right? There are definitely worse models to emulate, we surely will not complain. We had a dinner there the week after the restaurant opened, and had they stumbled, we would not
SF News Castro Car Fires Wow, this is pretty awful. Yesterday around 6:30 p.m., a guy running the red down the Castro hill across Market drifted into the northbound lane and slammed into a BMW turning
SF News Go Team Fisters! The story behind it is this: back in February, GE was soliciting Flickr users to submit pictures of themselves doing "healthy" things for use in a GE ad campaign. We didn't care what
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Opening Night Party During the post Q&A, our companion dropped our gift-bagged Skyy Vodka bottle. Oh, how sad we were as we listened to it roll down the angled floor of the Castro to
SF News Bush In Town Hey hey, ho ho, George W. Bush is at Cisco. Yep, ol' 43 himself is in town, down in the South Bay. He's landing at Moffett Field this morning (where he fired all
SF News Just So You Don't Think.... ....that we only post the hilarious pictures that we find of Gavin Newsom, we've got your equal-opportunity hilarious Flickr pictures from all over the San Francisco political spectrum! Unfortunately, we can't find any
misc SFist Caption Contest! When we were putting together that photo montage of fun pictures of Mayor Gav yesterday, we came across this picture in the Mayor's Photo Gallery section. (Can we earmark more of our city
Arts & Entertainment April 18, 2006 As promised, we completely slept through the 5:14 a.m. bells and sirens commemorating the 100th anniversary of the big quake -- but some of you more diligent San Franciscans didn't, to
SF News Gavin Newsom Eats A Child! You know, they have some pretty awesome pictures of Hizzoner Mayor Newsom in the "Mayor's Photo Gallery" page on sfgov.org. We've been dying for an excuse to use this picture for weeks
