Arts & Entertainment Interview: Casey Smith We like to think that SFist interviews with locals are like catching little glimpses in to parts of the city you don’t know as well. For today’s interview Casey Jex Smith
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: A Guide for the Guides The guide book which got us waxing nostalgic about the internet bubble was Chowhound's guide to the San Francisco. Chowhound is one of our favorite places to waste time on-line, and an iconic
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Shake your Dufty Well, we still don't know what he's listening to on his portable music player, but ouuu-ouuu-ouuu-OUUUUUUUU!! Supervisor Bevan Dufty's modeling in his skivvies for the AIDS Legal Referral Panel! The ALRP's holding its
SF News Winos Rejoice Over Supreme Court Ruling Okay, guess that should read "Wine Connoisseurs," or "Oenophiles" as the Supremes did not rule that food stamps could now be used to purchase Thunderbird, Cisco or Night Train. Instead, they ruled that
Arts & Entertainment Punk Farm Then he emailed us about his newest opus, . He told us, "I'm especially excited about it, so any plug that you could give it would be so appreciated (Ed note: Ask, and ye
SF News Dan Gillmor Makes His Move The promise of the Internet was simple, but incredibly powerful: to be a medium through which we could connect and collaborate, for mutual benefit. It's happening. As the Net matures, we are learning
Arts & Entertainment SF DocFest: <i>Pop-aganda</i> All the culture jammers said hey (haaaa-yeeee) on Friday night at the Women's Building, for the first SF DocFest screening of by Pedro Carvajal, and the film short Fridge by Brian Perkins and
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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Dan Leone, Part II Any changes to the Top 5 places from the list you gave for the 10th anniversary last year? Dan Leone: Um, I’ve since discovered a soul food place called Your Neighborhood Restaurant
SF News Why We Lurve Nerds and Geeks But Michael Doeff emailed us a link to Geobloggers.com -- which is less practical but infinitely cooler. Some folks from the UK have figured out a way to add lattitude and longitude
misc Get Stuffed: Mifune But where to go when there was no sponsored vittles in the hospitality lounge? Critics can not live on beer and cheesecake alone! Okay, maybe Roger Ebert did for a few decades, but
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: the iRoss It's never too late to let us know what you're listening to, local politicos! You may remember that we posted just last week something gently mocking our mayor's middle-of-the-road musical tastes, and that
Arts & Entertainment SFist Rants: Sweet, Nothing You're out with your best buds at a hip brasserie, savoring that contented feeling of good friends and good eats. The conversation's buzzing and the mood's high -- but you also notice, out
SF News Tourist-Baiting The Examiner's in the middle of a week-long article series about San Francisco's tourism industry, where Examiner reporters try out various tourist services. Yesterday's Nellie Blys took cabs from various locations around the
SF News Frank Chu Sells Out In a move sure to shock the world of San Francisco advertising, Frank Chu has left his current sponsor, Barbary Coast Consulting for Adidas. Yep, first there was Mars Blackmon, then L'il Penny,
Arts & Entertainment <i>I'd Kill For A Parking Place</i> Back in the 1970s, everyone was talking about Traffic Commissioner Jerry Levitin. Commish Levitin, a former criminal defense attorney, spent the decade of stagflation reducing or just outright vacating over 200,000 tickets,
SF News Stizzem Cizzells in Sucka Free, Boyee! After a selection process that left many of the participants wondering if the voting was being done completely objectively, San Francisco has been crowned the next American Id...oh, wait, never mind. We
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Palindromes</i> Back on April 13, Gothamist published this great interview with director Todd Solondz. At the time, we wondered if he'd be screening his new film, , at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Sure
Arts & Entertainment Political Junkie: Go Ask Alice So Coldplay tickets apparently sold out in less than one minute on Sunday, huh? And there was tons of borderline-illicit craigslist bartering for wristbands, right? But -- come on, Gavin Newsom calling into
Arts & Entertainment SFist Gets <i>The Skinny</i> SFist loves local magazines, from to Other to Dwell. (And before all you "Wavefans" from the same IP address write in, the answer is "no".) We're so happy to welcome The Skinny, a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Rants: We Are Beautiful, No Matter What You Say SFist has lived in San Francisco for a long time and has been to our fair share of parties. We've been to hoity toity parties, arty parties, everyone tripping their balls off parties,
SF News Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright! In the forest of last night, we got an email from SFist's main man in Texas, Austinist Ben. Seems he's ginned up a widget! And not just any widget, but (after a few
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Youth Voices and Visions So far SFist has been covering the San Francisco International Film Festival as a spectator, but SFist Paolo has graciously agreed to offer his perspective as a festival participant. His short, "Elements" appears
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Film Society Awards Night Keep reading past the jump for bona-fide celebrities and how we almost lost our sh** with one of them!
misc A Bear By Any Other Name What the what is that the San Francisco Zoo has gotten themselves in a bit of a pickle over the naming of two new grizzly bears that they rescued from Montana. The zoo
