misc Reality TV Looking for Camera-Ready (Medical) Marijuana Smokers This Craigslist ad caught our eye. A Hollywood production crew is looking to throw down "free school tuition, nice housing, money for living expenses, and per diems" to one lucky mary jane fan
misc From the SFist Inbox: <del>Buy Our Pants</del> SWF Looking Luring us in with "just the kind of quirky San Francisco event that SFist readers would be interested in," a PR company sent us word today of a zany pre-Valentine's Day activity that's
misc SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV We've got another local to root for on reality TV, as Yau-Man Chan has returned to "Survivor"-land in a new season called "Fans Vs. Favorites." Now, there's little doubt that Yau-Man is
misc Week Around the -ists Gothamist was amazed after the Giants won the Super Bowl, the city went wild, and it witnessed a ticker-tape parade. Barack Obama drew 20,000+ ahead of Seattle’s Saturday caucus. Londonist had
misc The Philistine Has An SFist Polyphony We had a little San Francisco Polyphony of our own on our way to the SF Symphony concert yesterday night to see Gyorgy Ligeti's shimmerily-dissonant orchestral piece of the same name -- the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Doug Benson: How he didn't win the last season of Last Comic Standing is above and beyond all logic. Then again, competitive reality TV makes little sense at times. (See: Banks, Tyra)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV It was Meet the Parents week on "The Bachelor" which is always good for a laugh. Or a cringe. And Brad's visit to Walnut Creek to meet Sheena's parents was mainly in the
Arts & Entertainment It's Time For DocFest! We love documentaries -- they're like reality TV, with a popcorn stand! So you know we're totally psyched for SF Indiefest's sixth annual Docfest, which starts up tomorrow and goes through next week!
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Fall TV Premieres Tonight Speaking of slim, if you'd like to watch a bunch of overweight Americans work out and moan about their diets instead, there's always "The Biggest Loser" at 8 p.m. on NBC. (It
Arts & Entertainment Former Vallejo Councilman Is <i>That Much Closer</i> To Being Whipping Boy Why on earth would an almost 60-year-old former city councilman from Vallejo want to be on Hell's Kitchen? To be continually called a "donkey" ("don-keeeeeh!") on route to embarassing himself on national television?
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV Now, "On the Lot" is a show with a lot of problems. It probably would have been cancelled a long time ago, but since Steven Spielberg is one of the producers, it's been
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV There were a lot of locals in the world of reality TV this week! "America's Got Talent" included an audition from an East Bay music teacher named Michael Strelo-Smith. He had an OK
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV This time around, she showed up right away, dissing John, the exotic scientist dancer who was cast adrift last episode. Not much happened during the first 20 minutes or so, which just gave
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV Tonight Of course, we've never understood the tremendous popularity of NASCAR racing, so we'll admit we aren't the demographic for this, but even if we DID enjoy watching cars driving around in circles for
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV Like "Pirate Master" for instance! This show screams executive pitch: "It's 'Survivor' meets Pirates of the Caribbean!" But being that we're only (semi) fans of one of those (the one without Johnny Depp)
SF News Son Of BART Employee Wins Spelling Bee! And the Bay Area dominates your reality TV scene YET AGAIN!!! Danville's own Evan O'Dorney, sponsored by the proud-as-punch Contra Costa Times, wins this year's spelling bee on the word "serrefine," which is
Arts & Entertainment What the Puck? Another <i>Real World</i> Tryout Coming To San Francisco Hey check THIS out. Tryouts for MTV's are nigh. You guys have until Monday, May 7th to see if you'll be the next to fill the shoes of Pedro, Puck, or Judd . . . and
Arts & Entertainment DJ AM's Birthday Party Photographer Drew Altizer goes to all the good parties! Drew reports in from Saturday's birthday party for DJ AM (Adam Goldstein, former fiance of Nicole Richie and just-dumped boyfriend of Mandy Moore) at
Arts & Entertainment Ready For The SFIAAFF? Kwon and Hammer will be kicking off a week and a half of the latest and greatest in Asian and Asian-American film -- a week in SF (at the Castro, 1000 Van Ness,
SF News Let it Ride At last night's meeting, they talked about ways to make up the budget shortfalls. Proposed ideas are the usual ones: lots of fee increases (parking, license and tickets) and selling residential parking passes
SF News New Poll! Pick Your Favorite Gavin Date! It's been awfully quiet on the Gavin Newsom dating front, hasn't it? Well, if our mayor won't create gossip for us, we'll have to do it ourselves! So we're announcing the official Favorite
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: Miscounting Calories; Discounting Viewers (Let us state up front: it's only because this show can be, is often, and should always be so freaking good that these missteps get to us). Let's give credit to some of
SF News Political Junkie: Hair Of The Mayor That Bit You Yes, folks, it's true -- the floppy-haired Matt Gonzalez look sported by Mayor Gavin Newsom was for one day only. Awwwwwww! We're back to the swept-back, visible-comb-lines-through-the-front (scroll down), crunchy-gelled 'do you all
misc Photoshop Gavin Contest! Where was Gavin Newsom last week? a) On the playa at Burning Man; b) On a date with a barely-legal model; c) On a date with a C-list reality TV star; d) Trying
SF News What Happens When Gavin Stops Being Polite -- And Starts Getting Real Oh, Gavin. Is it that hard to find love while running a major American city? Here's our mayor at the SF Opera opening with reality TV star Erin Brodie. (Brodie apparently created a
