Arts & Entertainment Public Space; Keep Out Well, thanks to intrepid blogger (and friend of SFist) Michael, the chain link fence is finally down. Michael gets huge props for actually Getting Something Done -- a rarity in this town --
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: Kiki and Herb on the Rocks Hey, you know that cabaret-drag performance duo, Kiki and Herb? Oh, you don't? Well, then, you might not really care for , which comes off feeling like a tribute mockumentary laden with in-jokes. Kiki
SF News More More News than You Could Ever Possibly Want to Know --Arnie kicked off the special election campaign with the traditional scaring of the old folks. The claim this time? If the three resolutions he's backing don't pass, Prop. 13 will have to be
SF News Intel: Not Just for Crappy Windows Machines Anymore Of course it's all over Technorati. Trying to dispel the kind of hand-wringing usually reserved for anytime George Lucas futzes with the original trilogy, Jobs let us in on another little secret: Apple's
Arts & Entertainment (Yet) Another Hole in the Head: SFist Has You Covered The fun begins Thursday night at 8 with the launch party at the Rickshaw stop, which includes a screening of . Right after the movie, bands The Formaldebrides, The Godz of Rock, and the
Arts & Entertainment SF DocFest: SFist Has You Covered Usually, we try as hard as we can to avoid the real world, but we'll make an exception for the fourth San Francisco Documentary Film Festival. There are so many unbelievable films to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About Art Sneaking in at the very end of Cinco de Mayo, we want to remind you about the Mexican Museum. It's their 30th anniversary this year and they're also gearing up to begin construction
Arts & Entertainment Stuff You Totally Missed Bonus: Overheard in the ladies room by some fans who were there for the headliner, Rooney: Where are you from? Canada, Yah, we’re here from Omaha. That’s right; people came to
Arts & Entertainment The Gates: West Coast Version Once it's finished later this year, Octavia Boulevard -- that eastern-edge-of-the-Castro strip where once squatted a disused offramp -- will be a sort of lasting, permanent demonstration of SF's long-held disdain for urban
Arts & Entertainment Wake the Dead With Dr. Hunter S. Thompson moving on to bigger and better things, writers, critics, stoners and other hangers-on are organizing tributes around the country and around the world. But we have a feeling
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco A to Zed SFist had to overcome it's own self-acknowledged, inverted form of snobbery to make a reservation at widely applauded Marina District restaurant A16. We accidentally left our passport to Chestnut Street - the fake
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: As Hollywood Preps for Their Prom And then there's something called The Academy Awards on this Sunday. Ahh. We kid. (Or pray at the Church of Ironic Detachment, take your pick.) Of COURSE TV is all about the Oscars
Arts & Entertainment Al Gore INd Bay Area Really, of course, it's because of his new project, INdTV (pronounced "indie TV" -- such clever use of case). INdTV is currently accepting video entries for consideration -- you can register and then
Arts & Entertainment GRAMMY Report: Green Day's Still Blowin' Up We went through the pains of watching Sunday night's GRAMMY Awards telecast so you didn't have to. Ray Charles was unsurprisingly the top winner, but our Bay area homeboys in Green Day made
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About Relaxing Sometimes Rock on. Artists' Television Access is presenting the Amnesty International Mini Film Festival, running this Saturday and Sunday. Films are $5 each, the price just covering the event itself. Cheap and requires no
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
SF News Local Yachtsman Attempts Round-the-World Solo Cruise Tough day at the office, and no time to even read the sports section. So when we finally hopped the Muni home, we were happy to see on the bottom half of the
Arts & Entertainment Green Day's GRAMMY Noms The nominees for the 47th Annual GRAMMY Awards were announced yesterday in Hollywood, with homeboys Green Day earning an impressive six nominations. That's four less than Kanye West, two less than Alicia Keys
Arts & Entertainment Put On Your Yarmulke, Here Comes Hanukkah The big event happening is the annual lighting of the Bill Graham Menorah at Union Square. The fun starts at 5 p.m. and lasts 'til 6 p.m., so for those who
Arts & Entertainment They Want Two States Further amplifying the rivalry between here and there, the San Francisco Convention and Visitors' Bureau has launched a new website, called Not in L.A., supposedly to lure Angelenans up what they call
SF News WWJD? Okay, so SFist isn't always as impartial as we'd like to be. We're bloggers - our prejudices are bound to shine through from time to time (well, okay, always). With all this talk
Arts & Entertainment R.I.P., Mac Dre Mac Dre, the Vallejo rapper shot in Kansas City last week, was laid to rest yesterday at the Mountain View cemetary in Oakland. Unfortunately, the funeral home, which only seats 100, was not
SF News Suffrage For All It's true that the main goal of the Vote or Die campaign seems to be to get celebrities to wear shirts that say Vote or Die on them. But that doesn't mean you
