Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Earth Shaking TV This Week He's gone now, but thoughts of earthquakes still run in our heads, and will soon invade our TV screens. If you're like us, and prefer to partake in disaster nostalgia from the comfort
Arts & Entertainment Reel SF: <i>San Francisco</i> There's something vaguely weird in reviewing a movie that came out in 1936 (Who this young rising star Clark Gable? He's going to go far!), but we had a great time at the
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Old Friends (and Old News) Of course, it wouldn't be Apple without that sense of smug self-superiority, so we're glad to see the company got some digs in on the sidebar of its Boot Camp website: accusing Windows
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: At the Pork End Of The Street Yes, folks, that is literally the worst headline ever -- at least until next week. Our horrible headlines are the latest in SFist's effort to induce you to watch what is possibly the
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: You Wouldn't Like Her When She's Angry Hey, folks, welcome back to another recap of the "slow food movement" of reality TV shows, Bravo's Top Chef. It's deliciously vibrant, diverse, and, most especially cool, local! Again, we're recapping last week's
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Craig Wedren tickets! Anyone else a little worn out from all this running around to rock shows? Nothing a little hot coffee and a fresh giveaway can't fix. We highly recommend trekking out to Bernal Heights,
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Feist John Vanderslice may well own the hearts of the San Francisco crowds he plays to, at least it seems that way. Taking the stage at 9:20 (SFist isn’t at all ashamed
SF News Your Commute: Are We SFist Jon Today? Are we SFist Jon today or what? Not only do we feel slightly cranky about this new Bonds on Bonds TV show (it should at least be Barry Bonds talking about low-risk investment
SF News Your Commute: (No) BART Bomb For once, a BART delay not caused by "switching problems" at Millbrae -- those of you trying to cross the Bay this morning probably heard the repeated announcements about "police activity" at the
SF News Your Commute: Fire On The Bart , we thought, as we stared blankly out of our downtown office window this morning. That's an awful lot of cop cars speeding down the street. Then we got an email from SFist Karen,
SF News Free Havarti! The Free Republic? Yep, the Free Republic. As in one of the largest and most notorious conservative organizations in the land. As in an organization that has on its Web site a whole
SF News You Are Here We at SFist are constantly on the search to make life better for you, and what could be better than flying like a superhero through our fave city via Google Earth, or racing
SF News ChronicleWatch Watch -- Day 1000! In Roman numerals, it's the letter M -- ChronWatch hits its very first one-oh-oh-oh of civic inaction, as the Berkeley fountain it first began pestering back in June 2003 remains in the exact
Arts & Entertainment A Tribute to Leacock and Pennebaker Film Festival Sure, we've seen a lot of these movies before, but never on the big screen. And the best part of all this -- all shows before 7:30 are FREE. We love free!
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: W♥WL Chef Daniel Patterson -- whose new restaurant Coi is about to open downtown -- wrote an op-ed in the New York Times, pointing out the influence of Alice Waters of Chez Panisse. Hers
SF News Springtime In February A large portion of Western literature doesn't make sense to California kids. Specifically, we don't get all those poems about springtime, because it just doesn't feel like that big a deal. This is
Arts & Entertainment Design A T-Shirt For The Race Frequently Run Naked While we've never run Bay to Breakers, we've run our share of road races and have the drawer of dorky, lame t-shirts to prove it. That's one of the reasons that though we're
SF News SFist Tech Labs: One Billion Bucks in Their Pocket The reason why we're passing it along? For one thing, they're offering a full 4-year scholarship to a "world-renowned music school" (of Apple's choosing) in the grand prize-winner's name, which is a nice
Arts & Entertainment Interview with <i>Sidekick</i> Writer Michael Sparaga In a departure from most superhero movies, is told from the point of view of, well, the sidekick. "I think the sidekick, in some ways, is Canada," says Michael "It's not purposeful, but
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chicken Wings Champion We were just talking about how much we love food competitions! San Jose's own competitive eater Joey Chestnut has kicked off the Super Bowl in style, winning the annual Wing Bowl competition in
SF News Spies On Us The ACLU is trying to find out why the student's groups were targeted and when, as well as what else is out there. Seriously, if Quakers are targeted, who will be next? The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews Upright Citizens Brigade: A.S.S.S.S.C.A.T. at SF Sketchfest The show was frickin' great. The cast was on, barely breaking a sweat throughout their performance, and almost completely in-synch with each other. Every bit that they did was brought to an almost
SF News Cuba, Yes. Barry No Naturally, the announcement has already spawned speculation as to why. Mainly in that it's a way to avoid the Olympic style steroid testing that the WBC will enforce. Or, to paraphrase a commenter
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: We're Here; We're Queer This week Stage Fog features what's up at the city's best queer theater companies. New Conservatory Theatre Center We've mentioned plays at New Conservatory Theatre Center before, but there's always so much going
SF News Sarah Tucker, 1979-2006 We saw the saddest obituary last week in the Chron, for the death of Sarah Tucker, a 26-year-old Mission resident who was killed in a hit-and-run bicycle accident on Polk and Geary Street
