Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: Opening Night! On our tightly-packed MUNI ride to the Castro to the opening night festivities for the San Francisco International Asian-American Film Festival, we were squooshed next to three thrilled Asian-American film lovers eagerly listing
SF News Naked People to Speak for the Trees This Saturday, between 10 in the morning and noon, Fine art photographer Jack Gescheidt will take pictures of naked people in the trees. But done artistically, of course so don't expect glossy photos
Arts & Entertainment Pop That Collar, Bro Orange Photography just posted these pictures of Gavin putting on a green tie for the Irish National Day Flag Raising Ceremony at City Hall. We love how he goes back to his preppy,
Arts & Entertainment Still Not Married We found this picture of Gaviffer looking cute, boring, and not married at the Google party last weekend. Thankfully, he left the blue tie at home, and we hope she left that weird
Arts & Entertainment Photoshopping Gavin & Han Shin Now, we're no Photoshop experts, but a reader who is sent along the following thoughts: The light on Gavin's face is coming from over the photog's right shoulder. So there is a shadow
SF News The Return of The Dog Mauling Case As entertaining as the Gavin years have been, SFist always kind of wished they were around for the Dog Mauling case, you know the one where a couple of Presa Canario dogs killed
Arts & Entertainment Gavin Shoots Back The folks at NBC 11 gave Gavin Newsom a camera, and asked him to take photos of his life for their "Moving Pictures" series. During the promos, we started cracking up because there
Arts & Entertainment Vivienne Westwood At The DeYoung We weep tears of gratitude every time Drew Altizer sends along his pictures -- they're always so good, and he's always having such a fun time in the city! Last Saturday, Drew was
Arts & Entertainment Gaviffer Do Cinequest Big G took a break from his busy thunder-stealing schedule on Sunday to watch his lady friend, Jennifer Siebel, act her heart out at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose. The movie
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to WonderCon SFist Jim took in the action at this week's WonderCon and took these photos. We'll have a report on WonderCon from Rain sometime tomorrow. More pictures after the jump
SF News Mark Leno Kicks Things Off Today, at the Yerba Buena Gardens, officially Mark Leno kicked off his "Stick it to Carole Migden" campaign. In attendance were such notables as Phil Ting, Kamala Harris, and the Ma-ster. Leno is
SF News Happy Birfday, Alex Tourk If Alex Tourk had a MySpace page, he would have moved Gavin from the #1 spot on his Top 8 after he heard about the affair, and deleted Gavin as a friend. So
SF News Asian-American Embarrassment: An Update Okay, first up -- what's the latest with Gavin Newsom's stalker, Mr. Purple Gloves? Well, persistent reporters at the Chronicle managed to get Han Shin on the phone last night, where they had
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Our Composite Picture! From yesterday's Chronicle article about Newsom stalker Han Shin: Inside [Shin's car], police found a map of San Francisco with the location of the mayor's building highlighted and a line following streets from
Arts & Entertainment Blog Heaven! Okay, so let's see, what do we have here... a 1) Catherine Bigelow-penned blog entry featuring 2) Britney Spears's bald head grafted onto the bodies of 3) local politicians and 4) Pac Heights
SF News Leno v. Migden: It's On! Gavin, Schmavin -- bored now. Call us when a shorn-headed Gavin goes bananas outside Kimberly Guilfoyle's house and starts whacking an SUV with a bright-green umbrella! (Maybe Britney was just looking a little
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Sonoma's VinOlivo Festival SFist spent last weekend luxuriating in the unseasonably warm weather in Sonoma doing what one does in Sonoma-- drink lots of wine and eat super-yummy food. The occasion? Sonoma's VinOlivo Festival. Last Saturday,
Arts & Entertainment New And Improving Thomas Adding to the SFist thrills, we've also profiled the man who shot the cover of the book, named Merkley. Here's Merkley's flickr shots of Hayes's book cover (the rest of Merkley's pictures are
Arts & Entertainment We Read the Glossies With Rita's blessing, we bring you a brand new column called "We Read the Glossies." It's just like "We Read the Weeklies" only with monthly glossies. Here we review the February issues of
SF News Political Junkie: The Om--- ? Okay, this has been killing us all afternoon. So we were checking out the pictures from Gavin Newsom's reelection campaign kickoff rally from Sunday on his campaign website's "Brian Blogs," and it looks
misc Around The -Ists Valentine's Day is only a few days away, and we here across the Gothamist network wanted to express would like to tell you, in the spirit of the holiday, just how much we
Arts & Entertainment Wild Hogs And The Year Of The Pig SFist's beloved A-list photographer Drew Altizer sends along the pictures he took from today's "Wild Hogs"/ Chinese New Year event. We haven't heard a word about this movie before, but it apparently involves
SF News Wonks Win A reader passed along a picture from today's press conference with City Treasurer José Cisneros and City Assessor-Recorder Phil Ting, where they bragged about how they collected $24 million more than expected in
SF News The Stuff They've Got In The Oven (Local Politics News, Non-Newsom) --The Board of Supes held hearings yesterday about whether to accept the Google/Earthlink citywide wifi plans. We must confess we're still very vague on the pros and cons of the proposal (all
SF News The San Francisco-New York Neighborhood Comparison Table Quick -- which one of those pictures above is of Valencia Street in SF and which is of Williamsburg in Brooklyn? Bay Area blogger Overstated has put together his list of what New
